The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09
General Grants Nomination.

From the N. Y. Times
The late elections have made General Grant
the Republican candidate for the Presidency.
This is a result which we have foreseen and
favored for the last two years. We have had
no doubt, since the contest between the Presi-
dent and Congress grew sharp and bitter, that
the country would fall back upon General
Grant to do what neither of the contending
parties could do, restore the Union on basis
of justice, in spirit of amity, and in accord
ance with the principles of self-government,
which are fundamental in our republic.
Making war, and making peace when the
war is over, are two different things. They
require different means as they seek different
ends. Fierce passion, the utmost fervOr of
party and sectional hatred, desperate deter
mination to trample the enemy in the dust
these feelings and purposes re proper and
necessary in waging war. War is thing of
passion, and the hotter and fiercer the temper
IN which it is carried on, the more vigorous
and successful the war will be.
But when the war ends, the passion 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 own affairs without regard
to the other. But after a civil war, when
peace implies not only cessation of hostilities
between belligerents, but the renewal of
partnership, the exercise of common powers,
the enjoyment of common rights, and the pur-
suit of common ends between them, the resto-
ration of peace means something much broader
and deeper in its relations. If the conqueror
is to cherish still all the hatred and resent
ment of the war, and seek the same ends of
humiliation and subiugation only by different
means, peace, in any genuine and hearty sense
A1aV r1 ha ho1 Inyv
silence, submission, subjection; but these in
a republic are not peace.
Party victories, won in heated contests, in
volving sharp points of controversy and inn
posing harsh rule upon the weaker party, do
not establish peace between them. The cleo
ton of Wendell Phillips to be President, with
a 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. woman, and child
silent and submissive to the law. And the
tendency of events for the last two years
has been towards such contest and such a
victory,
The country wants victory which the de-
feated party will not deem degradation, and
in which il will not see its ruin. General
Grants election as President will not be
deemed, by any party or by any section, an
insult OF a humiliation; for all parties and all
sections know that il is not in his temper or
his nature to insult or humiliate any class or
any community. He can reconcile conflicting
feelings, soothe exasperated resentments, medi-
ate between oontending parties, and thus open
the way to a reconciliation full of the spirit of
peace, and involving all its highest and best re-
suits, better than any other man in the nation.
And this not because he is an abler man, or
more experienced statesman or more de-
cided and active Republican, than Chief Justice
Chase or anybody else-but because the deeds
and public services which commend him to
the regard aud love Of his oOUntrymen, have