The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-17


so many hostile savages from the great lines
oftravel.
The Presidential Question u prisIng OF
the People for General Grant.
From The ". Y. Herald.
Like a dazzling castle in the clouds, the
gorgeous and imposing Presidential structure
of Mr.. Chase and his followers has suddenly
melted away and vanished. From its turrets
to its foundations it has disappeared. The late
emphatic verdict of the people of Ohio against
immediate and universal negro suffrage has,
in a word, set aside Mr. Chase as a Presden-
tial candidate for 1868, and brought the great
soldier and champion of the Union cause con
spicously in the foreground as the central
figure on the canvass, around whom all other
Presidential availables or aspirants are secon-
Diary and subordinate characters.
AS it was with Cesar, so it may now be said
of Mr.. Chase - Yesterday he might have
stood against the world )" but now, looking
to the succession among practical matter-of-
fact men, "there are none so poor as to do him
reverence" Yesterday he had apparently
the game in his hands against all competitors
Standing on the platform of universal negro
suffrage, and strengthened on every side by
his financial system, including his national
banks, holding within his grasp the control
ling machinery of the Republican party,
believing his ruling idea on suffrage foregone
conclusion, and having, as he supposed, neu-
tralized the claims of Grant, Sheridan, Stanton,
and other heroes of the military department,
by iostling their heads together with that of
candy Johnson" the rank and file of the
Republican party were silenced. They said
nothing, because they saw not clearly any
way of escape. Mr.. Chase, to all appearances,
was the coming man. This was his attitude
| on the morning of the Sth of October but
| the next rising of the sun found him in the
| position of General Lee at AppomattOx Court
| House, and Grant the master of the situation.
| What do we now see A general uprising
of the conservative masses of the great Union
| party of the war in the name of General Grant.
| From Maryland to Missouri, from Massachu-
| setts to Montana, from the Delaware to the
Sacramento, public meetings and resolutions
proclaming General Grant for the succession
| are the order of the day. At one of these
meetings at Philadelphia the other day a
| Republican speaker, touching upon the popu-
lar sense of gratitude for pre6minent public
| services in the field of war, said that Grant,
| like Washington and Jackson and Harrison
and Taylor, was sure of his reward. But it
| might have been added that, while the people
| of the loyal States remember that the armies
| of the Union, scattered about over eight hun
dred thousand square miles of territory,
| eclipsed, under Grant, the grandest combina-
tiOns, battles, and victories of the great Napo-
leon, it will be folly to talk of other candi-
dates for the Presidency if Grant is in the
| field.
Nor, in practical statesmanship, has any one
| of the leading politicians of the day proved
| himself the superior or the equal of General
Grant i'll the management, for instance, OF this
difficult business of Southern reconstruction.
In this view, then, as a statesman, on his first
appearance as a Presidential candidate before
the country, he will stand in comparison not
only far above Taylor or Harrison, but much
| higher than Jackson himself; for in the outset
| General Jackson was known in the East only
as the hero of New Orleans, and OF some
Indian fights in Alabama, and of the hanging
of six militia men, and of that fatal duel with
Dickson, and of a bloody rough-and-tumble
fight, pistols and bowie-knives, with Colonel
Benton and other parties on both sides in
Nashville. This was so; yet when put to the
test cold Hickory proved himself more than
match in craftsmanship for Clay, Calhoun,
Webster, and Nick Biddle, separately or COM
bined. Grant presents none of these attri-
butes of the ferocious backwoodsman. He is
quiet, amiable, modest little man. He is a
puzzle to experts in character and to the
keenest politicians, and yet he stands, like
King Saul a head and shoulders above all the
host of mighty men of Israel.
The Republican party has been carrying too
much baggage. Grant is the man to cast it
off and to bring his army into the field in clean
and donkeys, with all the traps and trumpery
of Chase, Stevens, Sumner, Butler, Phillips,
Greeley, and their set, will have to be left be-
hind. The result will probably be separate
camp of the intractable "manhood suffrage, -
Sunday prohibition liquor law, and women's
rights people, and other moral reformers, after
the manner of the old abolition faction in theil
day. Let them go. The people who carried
the country right side up through the lat,
terrible war have their own notions of recon
struction, and Grant is their man. The domi
| nant party in Congress-, and the Republican
leaders outside, must fall into line or clear tn
, track. Otherwise they will be run down anC
destroyed The Democrats will probably con
centrate again upon General Mcclellan, and,
! relieved of Vallandigham, he will serve a
well as any other man to hold the party il
| position in view of the campaign of 1872. TIL
I | preliminary skirmishes for 1868 have swep
out the radical JacObins and their revolution
ary schemes. They must now drop into tn
rear or join the guerillas The vote of NeN
York, in November, will only give a new i'm
| pulse to these popular movements for Grant
so that, with the reassembling of Congress
the fact, we expect, will be recognized in bot
l Houses-that the reign of the radical Jacobin
is ended, that the reign of common sense is q
hand, and that General Grant is the comm
man.
Italy.
From the ~ Y Tribune.