The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09

uIllV5 you sluBBar0s VIII Oe lifted by earn eat |
men somewhere. These men in the south will |
not drift, but they may be elevated. Let the |
world feel by our action in 1868 Let us put |
right idea into the Presidential char, such an |
idea as your Thad. Stevens represents. CAP |
plause.) | don't say the man, don't care any |
thing for man. but use the name Of Stevens as
counter for the idea that he represents; il we
put such an idea IN the chair we will gain
seventy.fve per cent. of what the war has
earned. Put Mcclellan, and you will earn two
and half per cent. Grant, and you will receive
forty per cent, l don't care for the names
merely. use them as symbols of the ideas they
represcnt-all want Is to get what the blood
has earned.
VOICE FROM THE CHICKAHoMNY.
When saw those boys go out of Boston the
young men from colleges and schools, the hus-
bands from their wives sons from their parents
it was sad day; but sadder still when they
came home with weaker ranks and banners In
rags, when ! saw standing about me those who
sat at home and did not record one word or act
word spoken or deed of action to guarantee
the terms earned by their soldiers blood. re-
member the disastrous, bloody defeat at Balls
Bluff-wben the Germans of the 18th Regiment
lost all their officers, and the maglstraoy OF
Massachusetts sent down men there. petition
was sent back by the soldiers, saying:-Tell
them we are here for an idea, and ask that you
should put at our head q man that has an idea
for which we would be willing to die. And,
now, that same petition which these Germans
sent up to the Governor of Massachusetts-th
men that sleep In the swamps OF the OhIcka-
hominy cry out to you to put into the White
House man for whose policy they would be
willing to die.
GRATITUDE TO GRANT.
And now fellow-citizens whom does the voice
of the nation designate as the man who is to
succeed to that position? A voice, "Grant!")
Yes, Ulysses S. Grant, the great General. Let
me say that no man more readily accords HIM
his great military fame than do. Place if you
will among the Wellngtons, Napoeons, and
Caesars of history. Lie down at his feet, and
thank him that by the cannon and the edge, OF
the sword he saved the republic. When he
said to the nation II will fight it out on this
line if it lasts forever" he meant it. Is 1t
necessary that We should ask of such man,
who never quits the line he has once adopted,
''Sir, on what do you intend to carry the ma
| ton ~ He is not man whom you can bring
down by side pressure and mould him. He is
| granite. He is vim. 1t was because he was
granite and vim that he carried us safely through
| Virginia.
Is hrs RECORD BOLD?
But before you sanction for office such an one
/ of iron will, be sure you have the right under
standing But never say-and it is a theory
upon which men have their beliefs-Grant's
| power Is his reticenCe, What is Ii ltis the
| symbol of aristocracy. But these men sit down
| at the feet of man and accept him as a leader,
because he does not tell them where he stands
Is this Democracy or Republicanism-is that
| genuine party interests? What did Calhoun
| say ?-"In this country nothing can be kept
| secret: nothing that could be kept secret is
| worth keeping secret" for the genius of our in
stitutions is publicity and giving it forth to the
world. The American, people boasts now that
| its leader does not condescend to tell them what
| he thinks. There are two reasons why man
| does not talk. One Is that he has got nothing
| to say; that is not good to make President of.
| Another Is that he does not tell what he thinks;
| that is not good timber to make President of.
Every one demands that his candidate for
| Office shall declare himself and the principles
| he maintains, Grant has not made this record
| equivocal. General Grant is the only great
man OF the day every one of whose abilities
| have been fully endorsed through his recti.
| aG il ia m
| not one of whose actions has ever been known
| 10 speak We know where Stevens, Sumner,
| Blair, and those men stand. They have declared
themselves. We want such men-whose re-
cords are bold as the Declaration Of Iudepen
| dence and clear as the North Star. Let him be
| q Democrat, Confederate, Conservative, a
disoyalist in the gulse of a Democrat he
speaks his very actions speak, and we know
where TO find him. Has Grant yet, by word OF
deed, spoken of where he stands, on what side,
or for whom?
WHAT WE WANT IN A CANDIDATE.
am perfectly well informed what it is that is
going TO rule this cOntinent--characte Pledges
do not amount to that; caucuses are unworthy
the record; platforms are only convenient for
certain occasions. What we want must be men
of character, men OF oraius; because in the long
run brains always rule. The divine right OIL
brains, right workings, and a warm heart must
rule; and it Is such men, with such brains, and
such hearts, who should be our leaders. II
should be men carved out of the character o
brains and character of heart, and in this emer-
| BenCy, WQen InlS udblOu uOW lOOhS lOTWdTu u
lS68-that great characteristic will prevail in
| selecting the mana symbol OF great idea to
fill the Presidential chair. If we had known
this in 1864, when we sent back rugged granite
| man home, and went down into the bloody soil
| of Tennessee and took up druukard, we would
| not now have had a national disgrace. We
want man whose bias and learning and un
conscious gravitation is towards that indispen
sable radicalism that have tried to describe,
WHY WAS NOT GRAFT AT NEW ORLEANS?
Take Grant. The President sent him to make
a tour through the South, and kilograms flashed
| back and forth from Washington to New Orleans
| OF a great riot; that New Orleans was the scene
| of slaughter Of patriots, black though they were
| / will not-impute dlshonorable act to Grant OF
| his motives in not going TO New Orleans during
that riot and putting it down, but he ought to
| have been at the 'front.' He should have been
there to vindicate protection to loyalty wherever
it existed. Grants duty was to prove the au'
| thority of the Government, and to make the
| streets of Galveston and New Orleans as safe as
| these. During the great riot the scales hung
| even in the balance. johnson, with the power
of President, in one, aud Sheridan, with the
loyal heart in the other and they hung even.
| Nobody could comprehend why the Lieuteu.
ant-General was not in New Orleans, and putting
| his weight into that scale with Sheridan. he
should never have done as McCellad, go on
board of q steamboat at a safe distance, a dozeT
miles from the battle. He should have gone
into New Orleans, and said to the President
"lnteTfere with me, If you dare (applause);
am military commander of the United States
entrusted and commissioned to make loyalty
rule" Had he announced that purpose, anC
gone to New Orleans, Jobnson's scale woulC
have kicked the beam. Instead of that he wen
to Chicago-Went on a picnic. Think of Wei
nutO md fOlA Of atRaII los