The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-09
Presidential Outcroppings.

VINO Sha all be the next President! ms
question is rising prominently in all directions
Even the South is awaking to sense of the
urgency and vital Importance Of this question,
and throughout the North, as well as at AL
bany, it begins to agitate the public mind. One
signal proof Of the. interest which it already
excites is to be found in the eager haste, the
violence and folly with which the extreme
radicals have initiated systematic opposition to
General Grant, whom the popular voice has
spontaneously and unanimously nominated as
the chosen candidate of the American people
for the Presidency. The radicals have whis-
pered slanderous insinuations against the pri-
vate character Of General Grant; they have
sneered at his reticence as cloak for paucity
of ideas, and they have described him as man
Of few words and fewer ideas. They dare not
and cannot deny his splendid record as man
of action. But they are wilfully blind to the
sheer impossibility Of his having done SO much
and gone through such tremendous ordeal so
triumphantly without having had q great many
ideas, which his rare genius has translated into
action more eloquent than any words. Grant
is head and shoulders above every other Presi-
Dental candidate who has yet been named by
the press, in popularity, in ability and in
weight of personal character.
The efforts Of the radicals to forestall public
opinion by nominating Chase will only bring
out and multiply the friends Of Grant, and their
name is already legion. As we have more than
once predicted, the million of soldiers whom he
lod m conuuoct and 0IOrv ond tho vn;ll;cra
with whom those soldiers are individually con-
nected. will make this greatest General and
hero Of modern times President of the United
States. The little game Of the radicals has
been to keep the name Of Grant under
a bushel, as It were. until they can nomi-
nate Chase. But the people must be
on the alert and see to it that in
triguers be foiled in their attempt to head of
a candidate whose name rises superior to all
parties and factions. Now is the time for the
politicians throughout the entire country to
move with the people in the matter. The
nomination of General Grant-of the man who
saved the nation in war, and who can save it
again from perils equally serious-would be
an earnest of peace and repose. 1t would
rapidly hasten the process of reconstruction
through which the South is passing, with what
results the future alone can determines; and
the future will largely depend upon the choice
Of our next Presidential candidate. Let the
people primarily put forward their candidate,
dispensing with the corrupt cow ntioa sys-
TEN, which is unknown to the laws q I'd the
constitution, and ought to be abolished. The
attempt Of the radicals to pack conventions
and nominate Chase, Wade or Stanton, will
only unite all, democrats and moderate repub-
licans alike, throughout the land on the Grant
platform. Among the issues which are to con-
troll the next Presidential contest will be an
overhauling and cutting down of our present
Cypress We national bank, credit and taxation
systems, internal and external. We cannot
believe that the people at large are ready to
sacrifice the immense advantages Of q full
restoration Of the Union for the sake of further
ing the pet schemes of Stevens, Sumner, Butler
and Wendell Phillips for Southern con6scation
and for placing the white race of the South in
political subsection to the emancipated blacks.
1t would be far preferable to upset the costly
national banks, even at the risk Of spelling tho
prospects Of Chief Justice Chase as Presi.
Dental candidate Wendell Phillips might be
allowed to empty all the walls Of his wrath il
the nation were once to enter fairly upon the
era OF harmony and prosperity which would
date from the Inauguration of General Grant
as President of the United States Of America.