The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-01

Congress after the war, and so hostile was
General Grants report deemed To tbe snirit |
and policy OF that body, and so favorable to /
the immediate admission of the Southern Re- |
presentatves, that MIR. Sumner bitterly de. /
nounced 1t, in his place in the Senate as a |
Whlte-Washlng report, and compared IL 20 |
an odious Democratic document sant 40 c. |
gress ten years before palliating tba tsborSar |
rufnan" outrages in Kansas. General Granite |
personal character is as little in barnaor,, ,tS
the Republican party as is his past I1istorv, |
His cool, imperturbable temperament is Sin.
gularly at variance with the impatient ardor
and hot ebullitions in which the Republicans
resemble all revolutionary parties.
General Grant and his well-wisbers have
reason to suspect something sinister when n
party distinguished for impetuous fauatioisnn
and extreme opinions make proffers to self
contained man of habitual moderation TO be
their standard-bearer. These profers are a
plot to prevent his nomination by the Demo-
Gratis. General Grant has such strong ele-
ments of availability, that the Republicans
dare not advance a step in their arrangements
for the Presidential canvass until he is in
some way disposed of. They perceive that
there are but two ways of preventing his
nomination by the Democratic party
one by nominating him themselves, the
other by tempting him into such political
declaration as would render it impossible
for Democrats to support him. He will be
given to understand that a large portion of
the Republican party desires to make him
President, but that another large portion
without whose cooperation his friends cannot
succeed, cannot be won to his support unless
he will publicly commit himself to the Repub-
lican party. The moment he should do this
he would be contemptuously flung out of
political contemplation. His personal friends
in the Republican party (and he has many
could not save him. The only persuasive argu-
ment they can use to the stauncher Republi-
cans is, eff we do not nominate General Grant
the Democrats will, and his personal avail
ability is so great that enough would go
over from our side to elect him." The
radicals see that if he can be entrapped into
endorsing the Republican policy, this argu-
ment will be deprived of all force. The radi-
cal newspapers are giving him surly Words
but they are careful to raise only political OBJ
jections, and hold out the hope that if General
Grant will make an unequivocal pledge to the
Republican party, they may be induced to
accept him. His Republican friends will pro-
badly advise him to yield to this demand but
they would unwittingly lure him to his ruin.
The moment he should make such declara-
A tiOn, and thus preclude all possibility of his
\ receiving any Democratic votes, the radicals
4 would be masters of the situation. They
! would then insist on nominating some candi-
| date whose principles have always been at
| tuned to their own.
This obvious view will enable us to inter
pret the article on "President-making by
Guess in yesterdays tribune. GA few poll
ticians by trade" says the Tribune 'are intent
| on opening the Presidential canvass, bringing
| forward General Grant as their candidate .
| The sentences which next follow, and indeed
the style of the whole article, clearly disclose
| the hand of Mr.. Greeley. "We neither affirm
| nor deny" continues the Tribune, ''the fitness
of bnin faof af %,
Grants character which incline us to regard
him with favor, especially his magnanimity to
| the eX-Rebels.'' This dexterous hit is at once
defense of Greeley and thrust at Grant. 1t
| strikes the aforesaid politicians by trade"
| (meaning Thurlow Weed and Company
| between wind and water; for they have bran
| dlshed their scalping- knives about the head of
! Mr.. Greeley for the same kind of ''magnanimity
| to ex-Rebels," which he dexterously (and
| truly charges upon General Grant. The
Tribune then proceeds to invite General Grant
to show the Republican colOrs, in this charac-
teristic strain -
Thine may prove that he is the man for the
! place; but the question cannot now be deter
| mined We need TO understand more clearly
! the issues on which that election is to turn,
thereto.
THE people are not in the mood for trying
! any grabbing experiments. They will insist on
having President who FULLY knows his own
| mlnd with regard to the political situation
| ana VINO mas not essentially another mind from
| theirs. They have once or twice taken caudi-
| dales on trust and have not been encouraged
| 10 repeat the venture. And when they see that
| General Grants name is the ShibOOleth of q
number OF the most discredited of the camp
| followers and Shoddy patriots of the late war,
! who barked at the heels of the sorely beset
! republic whenever 1t was constrained to take
! step forward in the course which led through
| emancipation to triumph, they will be more
strenuous in their demands for light than If the
| Ger eral were not cursed by such hackers.
| MANY things are forgiven to party which
| a
| thing is never forgiven, and that is dlstrust of
the correctness and value OF It's own principles.
! The Whg party badly beaten in the de.
| feat OF Clay by Polk in lSi4-sorely to its own
| amaZement and grief yet its vitality 80
| little impaired that IL elected the next House
| of Representatives and the next Governor OF
| New York. -Four years later IL succeeded with
| General Taylor, but lost the House of Repre-
| sentatives chosen along with him, was beaten
| out OF sight In The next one, and never reco-
| Vered its vitality, And the reason was, that in
its contest for Mr.. Clay's election 1t boldly pro
! claimed and defended its convictions asking n
| verdict thereon; while in that for General Tay-
| lor's IL rather concealed and evaded distinct
! issue of principle, trusting for success to fac
| titous appeal and clap-trap instrumentall
| ties.
| "Letus repeat TO repel Misrepresentation that
| do not call in question the fitness OF choosing
| General Grant as tue Republican candidate Tor
| President. We Will consider that point in due
time. What we do say is, that the Republican
| candidate must represent and embody Repub-
| llCan principles, and be neither afraid nor
| ashamed to aVoW his faith in them, and his
| willingness to stand or fall by them. His per-
| sonal qualities and popularity are important
considerations, but his fearless, explicit devo-
ton to Republican ideas is primary and essen
tial requisite"
| We suppose General Grant is not the kind