The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-07-17
General Grant and the Presi-
denCy. 4

are IN washington, auVlslng tne democ'
racy to unite on and nominate General
Grant for the Presidency. They will do
no such thing. They will spurn the pro
posar with indignant contempt. They
will do it for good and sufficient reasons.
He has not only no sympathy with their
organization, but he is one Of its bitterest
and most deadly opponents. He is no.
.toriously unfit for the Office. He is unfit
by his want Of statesman like training
and education. The idea Of Mr.. Cox
aud his hackers, that the democracy
shall surrender all their self.respect, give
the lie to all their past history, and GOV.
err themselves with disgrace, by laying
down their standard at the foot Of Gen.
eral Grant, because if they do not the
Radicals will, and thereby obtain him,
needs only to be mentioned to be scorn.
ed. We ore mortified and astonished
that a man Of Mr.. Cox's position and
antecedents, should urge it for o moment
IF the Radicals want General Grant, let
them take him. OF all the men IN their
ranks he would be the easiest beaten.
We hope, by all means, that passing over
the civilians in their ranks, who have
given them the victory by their ability,
audacity and courage, they will "trot out
General Grant for the Presidential race
The result will be another General Scott
1852 affair AN utter rout to all concern
ed. The nomination would fall upon
the country fat and dead from the start
1t would awaken no feeling approxima.
ting to enthusiasm, and those who made
il would soon be sick and Disguised
with il.
There are plenty Of soldiers who thinl
that General Grant has already been tot
highly rewarded for his merits, and who
do not believe that all the honors ani
high positions should be carried off BY
one man. He now struts about with hi
three stars and $4,000 a year life posi-
ton, while thousands Of men who did
quite as much service are reduced t
penury aud want. II is a great mistake
to suppose that the democratic conserva
tive men who were in the army are going
to run after General Grant, in order Il
pour still more aflgence into his lap
and to clothe him with still higher ele
walton. He will get no votes from thai
quarter. There are hundreds of thous
sands Of people, Of both parties, wht
think that some Of these high military
dignitaries, who have been. lifted from
o%bscurity by the fortunate events Of war
are putting on altogether too many airs
and becoming too important and inflated
They do not.think that all the offices are
their property for years to come, and
that no language is to be poured into
their ears butIundoubted fattery and eu.
logy. The common sense of this people
has been disguised by the extraordinary
ovations which have been paid to Gener-
al Grant, aud they have anxiously in.
quired ''upon what meat hath this our
Cesar fed, that no has grown so great ~
Hlgn as this. military despot is IL rank,
and vast as are his ~pretensions, We are
not afraid to meet him in q popular can
vass and to discuss his merits for the pc.
sition Of Chief Magistrate Of this Re.
public. Such a bubble can be easily
pricked, and the gas it contains let
out.
General Grant is the great champion
Of unbridled and arbitrary, dsspotic pow.
er. He has accepted with alacrity and
remorselessly executed all the monstrout
powers that were placed in his hands By
the military despotism bill, He has
sustained and approved the worst excess
es Of Sheridan, Sickles and Schofeld
and would have done SO had they beer
forty times worse. Arbitrary in DISPOSE
ton, yindictive in temper, intent only
upon his own elevation, and utterly igno
rant or regardless Of the first principles
Of our Government, be has been from
the beginning the subservient tool OIL
the leaders who are lording it oyer the
rump Congress, serving them in biz
sphere as much as Stanton, or Holt, OF
Detective Baker have in theirs. This
policy, and those who are committed Il
it, will be beaten at the coming election.
A grand fight will then be made to re.
store the government to its old basis, and
the democracy, under that banner, in.
tend to defeat the supporters Of the
present despotioal system, and they can
do it more easily if they (the radicals)
rally under the standard Of Grant, than
If they took any other man.
Before We conclude, we would inquire
by what authority from the organization
Mr.. Cox goes 10 Washington to nomin.
ate and select q candidate for the demo.
cratic party? Does he suppose that o
few members Of Congress and Others
who are there on public business are
going to take the whole affair out Of the
hands Of the peoplei Is that his view
Of things2 It would really so appear.
He will find that no side arrangements
that he or any other clique Of politicians
can make at Washington will be binding
or have any effect upon the country.
The democracy are not going to Wash.
ington to look for their candidate, and to
inquire of the time.servers and Office
hunters who they shall select. At the
proper time they will meet ia council,
with delegates chosen from the people,
and they will select the man, fresh and
uutramelled, who Is to be the next Presi.
dent Of the United Statcs.-Enq.