The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-22
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In conclusion he re-
tsyradFto General Grant, as follows
itTbe great danger into which We are
drifting isthe great ton Of ls68-the
most momentous election that has ever
taken plaee-probably that ever will
take place ON this continent, and one
that viii perhaps decide, so far rs goY-
ernments can decide, the welfare ofthIs
generation aud the next. Who shall
hold the helm the next four years7 The
business of the seaboard seeks its old
channels, and when that one Presiden-
tial election is over, the seaboard and
the trade of the West will say. give Us
the old channels, no matter what the
RED its candidates will submit. Who
ever holds the helm Of State In that
four years, his voice will have q most
momentous influence on the future. If
a Democrat holds it, We shall lose two
thirds Of the results of the war; II a
halfway Republican holds Il, we shall
lose one half; If man Of the nerve and
will Of Thad! Stevens IS chosen, we
shall gain ninety mine per cent. To-
day the election drifts needless
" into the Presidency of the great
soldier. No. name IS on the peo-
pies lips but the hero of Vir-
ginia; but when you ask what are his
political ideas, there is not a man that
treads the continent who can undertake
to tell You what General Grant thinks.
The only utterance his friends make is,
that he has no ideas-he is in safe
hands, but, oh, the incubus under
which we groan to-day was once in
good hands. Let us not trust In that
way a second time. The nation ago.
nizes for its existence. It Is passing
the most critical moment in its life.
We can not affsrd to make q mistake.
And yet IL you ask a Republican, why
do you not nominate General Grant, be
answers, If we don't, the Democrats
will. In this moment, when parties are
loyal and the other traitor, the loyal
party proposes TO take the Swiss, and
10 do so because II they don't secure
him he will go TO the other side. Sup
pose, in tariff days, some Wing had
been asked why he nominated Harry
Clay, and replied that If he didn't do so
the Free-traders wouldl And to-day
on question to which the tariff
is mole-hill, We propose to
put Gen. Grant into the Presidential
chair TO save him from traitors. The
| man VINO ELAIu away lEOLu N6W OEkSaAs
that his absence might enable the Pres.
ident to battle the streets of the city
with loyal blood-the man who went L
Baltimore to assist the President in
putting loyal men under his feet-tha
man is not neutral. 1t is false claim
What is General Grant, He Is the
nigh constable OF the nation, and thu
right arm OF Its police power, trustee
and paid twenty thousand dollars {
year to make the flag protect Unionisn
wherever afioat-to make the streets o
New Orleans as safe as the streets o
this city for loyal men to tread. Tha
city belongs either TO us or to JEFF
Davis. Tito us, 1t is the duty of Ulys
SEES Grant to makeit safe for Unionism
But Thomas J. Durant has we'll writ
ten, "no soldier" over the record o
this man; for either Ulysses Grant can
not make those streets safe, or he won't
and you believe the last. I know it ii
said that Grant wanted to keep peace IL
New Orleans, and the Presiden
wouldn't let him. Suppose the Presi
dent had mustered him out, or sen
him of on tyetsewhere, what woulC
Congress have done with the President
Why, Ben. Wade would have been il
his place in thirty days.