Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-09-06

General Grant, En- glissll
Statement Oils Politics
and Chances fol.thc Pres
idency. -
New roias July 24l cerrespeadence of the
- - London Eews,E
| xA* There has been good deal
of guessing as to Grants political opin-
! ions, and his great reticence made j.
very difficult for long while, even for
enterprising newspaper correspondents
to get at them but they were brought
out very fully i'm his examination be-
fore the Judiciay Committee the other
day He declared himself frankly and
fairly in favor of the policy of Congress,
and expressed strong desire to sec ii
carried out, while lie at the same time
was, of course, anxious to have the
south released from military control at
the earliest possible moment. This
declaration Of his opinions, combined
with the general confidence in his
character, will i have very little doubt,
I'm the absence Of, some unlocked for
change In the meantime, procure for
him the Republican nomination for
the, Presidency. It is quite. true That,
as q general rule, the, more o man is
4
hnnd the less chance there is of his get
ting it, inasmuch as the mere fact of q
mans being much talked of proves that
he Is a very prominent politician, and
therefore has many enemies rs well rs
many friends, and Is likely to be strong
1y opposed as supported, even in the
ranks of his own party. r.s.f .sti,s 3
But General Grant is not politician.
and has no enemies in, the political
arena, and his military fame is, so great
and his services so brilliant that nobody
of any party except Wendell Phillips
ventures to decry him. Wendell Phil
lips abuses him roundly, but, as well as
can make out, it is for not executing
some kind ofcOup d,otdt against John
son and taking the executive power in
to his own hands--a piece of neglect
which, however, is not likely to tell
strongly against him in the eyes of the
public for whom his silence, his ffsod-
esty and his shrinking from all assump-
ton constitutes, his principle attraction.
The Democrats, of course, do not like
him. His success has been the ruin of
their party, and the cause which he
.yindicated has always been detestable
to them but they have never ventured
to attack him. At one time his persis-
tent silence and abstinence from all
participation in political gatherings
led some of the Democrat papers to
hope that he was perhaps secretly hos
tile to Congress and its policy. and
the result was some months of .eu-
logy. .t. 4sast .agiatssgrraa Gf,s ass4tg
/. Even now, when the .delusion Is ex-
ploded, probably none of their papers
or orators will venture to speak disre-
spectfully of him, and If the Republi-
can party should nominate him think
1t is very doubtful whether the Demo-
Gratis would /" run y anybody in oppo-
sition to him. Ofcourse, letting Pres
idential election go by default, as tits
called, would be a formal confession
that the party had ceased to exist; but
the fact is that it has ceased to exist for
all practical purposes, The only hope
of its revival after the war over lay in
the chance that the south would once
more unite with it, as i'm the olden
time, but that hope has, believe. van
ished. The bond between it and the
south appears to be completely broken,
and whatever position southern polite
ians may assume when they come back
into the Union, it seems certain that
they will not take their places IN the
old Democratics franks. They feel not
only that the northern Democrats be-
trayed them, but that they are so weak
that their alliance 10 not worth having.