The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-14


liquors.
GeHeraI Grants Nominations.
The late elections have made Gen.
Grant the Republican candidate for
the Presidency. This is result
which we have foreseen and favored
for the last two years. We have had
no doubt, since the contest between
the President and Congress grew
sharp and bitter, that the country
would fall back upon Gen. Grant to
do, what neither of the contending
parties could do-restore the Union
on a basis of Justice in a spirit of
amlty and IN accordance with the
principles of self-government, which
are fundamental in our Republic.
Making war, and making peace
when the war is over, are two differ
ent things. They require different
means, as they seek different ends.
Fierce passion, the utmost fervor Of
party and sectional hate, a desperate
determination to trample the enemy
in the dust-these feelings and pur-
poses are proper and necessary in
waging war War is thing of pas
sion, and the hotter and fercer the
temper In which it Is carried on, the
more vigorous and successful the war
will be- 1sea 81
But when the war ends, the pas
sion which fed it must end also, or
settled and lasting peace cannot be
had In war of one nation against
another this Is less essential, because
each can manage its Owa affairs with
cut regard to the other. But after a
civil war, when peace implies not only
a cessation Of hostilities between bell
ligerents, but the renewal of a part,
nershlp, the exercise of common
powers, the enjoyment Of common
rights and the pursuit of common
ends between them, the restoration of
peace means something much broader,
and deeper IN its relations, If the
eOnqueror is to cherish still all the
hatred and resentment of the war.
and seek the same ends of humilia-
ton and subjugation only by different
means, peace, in any genuine qand
hearty sense ofgthe word, cannot, be
had. We may have silence, submis-
sion, subsection; but these in a Re.
public are not peace. -. ~ ~
Party victories, won in heated cone
tests, Involving sharp points of con
troversy and imposing harsh rule upon
the weaker party, do not establish
peace between them. The election of
Wendell Phillips to be President,
with Congress in sympathy with his
views and feelings, would not give the
country peace, though every State
should be brought back to the Union,
every District represented, every Office
/ filed and every man, women and child
silent and submissive to the law. And
the tendency of events for the last
two years has been toward such
contest and such a victory.
The country wants victory which
the defeated party will not deem a
deeradation, and in which it will not
sec its ruin. Gen. Grants election as
President will not be deemed, by any
party or by any section, an insult or
humiliation; for all parties and all
sections know that it is nOt1tin his
temperor his nature 10 insult or hu-
initiate any class or any community
Heican reconcile conflicting feelings,
soothe exasperated resentments, me
date between ,eontending parties, and
thus open the way to a reconciliation
| full of the spirit of peace and5inyolV-s
ing all its highest and best results,
1 better than any other man In the ma
ton, Aud this Is not because he is
an ADLER man, or a more experienced
statesman, or more decided and active
Republican,. than Chief Justice Chase
or anbody else-but because the deeds
and public services which commend
him to the regard and love of his
countrymen, have also held him aloof
from the conflicts and hatreds alike
of parties and of sections-because
he is of calm, self-controlling, equa-
BILE temper, welded natucallyiand un-l
conquerably to justice and fair dealt
ing-and because all men know him
to be a jealous, disinterested lover of
his country and CT the principles OF
its government.
Nor do we share in the slightest de-
gree the lTibune's fears that he viii
sacrifice any of the principles of
Liberty, equal, impartial and univer-
sal, on which our institutions rest.
Those who hope for the revival of the
class distinctions of the past-who
look to the fresh degradation of the
4 colored race, to the exclusion from
civil rights and political privileges. of
men for any other cause than lack of
merit, will find no encouragement and
no aid in Gen. Grant, IF the Tribune
has any fear that Gen. Grant will give
eountenance or federation to any
scheme which seeks either to reduce
the blacks again to vassalage or semi
slavery, or to defraud the national
creditors, we are confident it may at
once dismiss them. Nothing 10 his
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