The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
From the Cincinn All Enquirer
Genera, Grant :saG sE,C .'resiGcn


We observe, b. our specia. Washington
dispatch, tEat sahlucl : Cox, with mum
Der CT ssnt.cmcn FROM New York, are in
Washins;on, advising the Democracy to
unite Of. aud nominate General Graut fer
Ike Presidency They Will DO no such
thing. They will sturn the proposal with
Indignant contempt They viii do it fer
good and sufficient reasons. lie has no.
only no sympathy with their organization.
but lie IS one Of lis bttcrc.t and most
deadly opponents lie is notoriously IN
tit for Tie c!.ice. He IS unfit by his wan;
Of s'atemont-l.ke training and education.
The idea IF Mr.. Cox and lis hackers, tia.
the Democracy shall surrender ali their
seiiesPcct, Siye the lie to all their past
history, and cOver themselves with dis
grace. b. laying down their standard a.
The .,et q General Grant, because # Inc Y
90 not the Radical, vii, and thereby o. .
tain him, needs only 10 be mentioned - be
seorued. We are mortified aud a,ton:sh-
ed that Il man Of Nr. Coxs position ana
autecedents, should urge it for O. moment;
Il the Radicals want General, Grant, lei
them take him. Of al tie men in their
ranks he would be the easiest beaten
We hope, by all means, that passing over
the civilians III their ranks. who have Civ
en- them victory b. their ability,
audacity and courage. they viii trout out
General Grant for the Presidential race
The result VIII be another General Scott
1872 aiiair-an utter route to al concern
cd. The nomination would fall upon the
country fat and dead FROM the start. Ii
would awaken no feeling approximating
to enthusiasm, and these who made it
would soon he sick ana disguised with it
Here arc plenty OF soldiers who think
hat General Grant has already been too
highly rewarded iur his nerits, and who
do not believe that all the honors and high
positions should lie carried off by one man
lie now struts about with his three stars
and 800 ,oG0 q year life position, while
thousands Of men who did quite as much
service are reduced to peuury and want
1t IS great mistake % supp Jse that the
Democratic conservative men vino were in
the army are going TO run after General
Grant, III order to pour still more afi'uencc
into his lap and to clothe him with still
higher elevation. lie Will get no votes
from that quarter. There are hundreds
of thousands Of people. Of both parties
who think that some Of these high militia
r. disnitarics, who have been lifted from
obscurity by the fortunate events of the
war, are putting ca altogether too many
ara, and becoming TOO imporiiucnt and
inflated. They do not think tina. all the
Offices are their property for years to come,
and that no language is to be poured into
their ears but un5oundcd fattery aud
eslogy. The common sense Of this peo-
pie, to-, has been Disguised By the extra
ordinary ovat!ons which have been paid
to General Grant, and they have anxious
ly inquired upon what meat hath this Cur
Cesar fed, that he has grown 50 great 2"
liigh Us this military despot is in rank
and vast IS are his pretensions, We are not
afraid TO meet him in popular canvass
and to discuss his merits for the position
of Clief Magistrate Of this Republic
Such bubble can be easily pricked, and
the gas it contains let out.
General Grant is the great champion Of
unbridled and arbitrary despotic power
lie has accepted with alacrity and re-
-. -elessly executed all the monsirous
powers tn. - were placed in his hands by
he military despv;;;;:sm bill. He has sus-
tanned and approved the rHrst excuses OF
Sheridan, Sickles and Schou..d, and
would haze done SO had they been forty
times worse. Arbitrary in disposition,
yindictive in temper, intent only upon his
personal elevation, and utterly ignorant or
regardless of the first principles of our
Government, has been from the beginning
the subservient tool of the leaders who are
lording it over the rump Congress, serving
them in bis sphere as much as Stanton or
Holt, or Detective Baker have in theirs.
This policy, and those who are committed
to it, Will Ie beaten at the coming election.
A grand fight will then be made to restore
the Government to its old basis, and the
Democracy, under that banner. intend to
defeat the supporters Of the present des-
political system, and they can do it more
easily if they (the Radicals rally under
the standard of Grant, thln if they took
any other man.
Before VIC conclude, we would inquire
by what authority from the organization