The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-18

c,e,,eral C,rant,a election we shall regard a.
~ orisia and contamination of the Union
movement which began with the war against
seoession. and which still remains unaccom.
,iiebed He has the confidence OF the whole
aeonntrv-of all the people in all sections aud
of ALI parties. No man can, even in thought,
impugn his patriotism, or doubt his absolute
and complete devotion to the Union cause.
II would, perhaps, be too much to say that
but for him the Rebellion would have
triumphed-for we cannot admit that its sup
preston depended upon any one man-but
certainly no one man did anything like 80
much as he to effect its defeat and overthrow
His services in the war, his faith in the Union,
his steady, unfaltering perseverance in the
measures he deemed essential to success, the
calm self-relance, the undstuTbed equanimity
with which he met reYerses when reverses
came, and prosecuted the war to the glorious
victory by which it was finally crowned, have
given him hold upon the people of the whole
country which no intrigues of party can in the
least disturb. His position on the various
questions which have disturbed and divided
the country is one which will vindioate itself
against malevolent or factious assault from
any quarter.
When the war closed he urged the most
speedy restoration of the Union, consistent
with the principles on which the war had been
waged, and which the victory had established
as essential to the peace and safety of the
country; and he has never ceased, from that
time forward, to press upon the South the
acceptance Of the measures which would con-
duce most promptly to the attainment of that
end. His public views are not, in the slightest
degree, the result of his passion or his resent
ment; neither party feeling nor personal
interest has any share in the formation of his
opinions or the guidance of his conduct: he
acts solely from calm conviction of what is
required for the public good. Neither radical
nor conservative, in his opinions or his acts
so far as those words have acquired party
meaning, he has the confidence of all parties
in the integrity of his motives, the unselfsh-
ness of his views, and the practical, straight
forward character of his mind. His election
would disarm all hostilities, and induce a cor
dial cooperation of all classes and all parties
in the great work of the practical reconstruc-
tien and restoration of the Union to more than
its old harmony and prosperity.
After great convusions like that through
which we have just passed, there comes a time
| when party resentments lose their fervor and
| their force-when the contending seas grow
| calm from WEAKNESS, and when men are glad
| to seek again the peace and rest to which they
have been strangers so long. Great communi-
ties, after long contention, are often glad to
abandon the hope of settling their troubles by
the strifes of faction, and are only too glad to
| put their trust in some one man, who has
challenged their admiration by his ability, and
| commanded their confidence by his fidelity and
unselfsh devotion to the public good. Such a
moment has arrived for us. The people OF
this country, disgusted by the unseemly and
proftless wrangles of the last two years, hope
less of reaching national union through the
violence and bitterness by which they have
been marked, will be only too glad to place
at their head so tried and so true leader as
| General Grant. His administration will dis
solve hostile parties, and lead inevitably to
new organizations and new combinations
| better adapted to the emergencies of the
| times than those which have already outlIyeC
their day, and are rather hindering than aid
ing the great work which the necessities o
| the day demand.