The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-29
General Grant and the Presidency-sIg.
nifcant Opposition.

Rogersville.
General Grant and the Presidency-Sig-
nthcant Opposition.
From The Herald.
On the same day the Tribune and the World
oppose the nomination of General Grant for
the Presidency and try to write it down.
Never before did mere coincidence in oppo-
sition tell so plain story in a candidates
favor. For what more can be said in praise of
man proposed for high position, than that he
is hated or feared by those enemies of popular
peace and public safety who hang on the ex-
treme of either division of political sentiment,
and express and show the extravaganza of
party tendencies In the days of the war it
was enough in a mans favor with Union
loving voters that the Copperheads assailed
him with an exuberance of abuse and insinua-
ton. But how much clearer is the case when
the opposition comes, not only from one ex-
treme, but from both-when in the same
breath the Cepperhead objects, and the
radical extremist at the other end of
the line objects also When such wide
asunder partisans agree, the only safety
for the nation is in choosing what they
oppose. Hitherto these same extremes have
agreed on several points. They agreed that
secede; they agreed that the war was failure;
they agreed that the existence of the nation
was not paramount to all else; but that rather
than do certain things we should give the
Union up to inevitable ruin. In these points
the people secuted their dangerous and trea-
sonable thoughts. Now they add to their
former points of agreement a united opposition
to General Grant. The lesson the people must
draw from this is an easy one. They know
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know, therefore, what is necessary for the
settlement of the country, for the harmonizing
of those divisions on which the extremists live
for the restoration of national prosperity, and
the destruction of all the factions. The fac
tiOns themselves, with unerring instinct, point
to Grant as the man they dread.
Why do they dread him? Because he is a
strong, honest, fearless, straightforward man,
who commands the respect and has the conf
dence of the whole body of the people, and
who, in virtue of the strength derived from
the people, will reconcile all honest differences,
pacify the country, and destroy the dema-
gogues. In his candidacy there will be not a
shadow of chance for party bargains. The
extreme radicals do not want man to settle
the country; hence they do not want Grant
1t is their policy to keep up division, to keep
up agitation and bitterness, and by means of
these to drive Southern men to new acts that
can be held up as aggression, and so to put
new disabilities upon the South and force
their ultimate purposes of a division of land
for nigger voters, by whom they expect to con-
troll the Government indefinitely. This is the
broad radical objection to Grant; he is too
strong and honest for this plan to thrive if he
is President. Short of the radicals, who OPP
pose Grant for this reason, there is a vein of
opposition from certain Republican party mana
gers. These do not want Grant as a candidate,
because his success is beyond doubt. Party
managers make their games in the region of
doubt and have guaranteed equivalent for
promised support. Such persons see that
Grant is out of their reach. His strength with
the nation is such that he may scorn all
man@uvres, and bargaining with him is thus,
for all reasons, out of the question. On the
other hand the Copperheads know that they
have no chance with man whose whole
record is so distinctly against them, and they
fear that the Republicans should get candi-
date who will leave no possible opportunity
for a division of the national voice. They
know that with Grant up they cannot confuse
the people, whatever they may say. Alto
gether, this simultaneous objection to the great
candidate is a most instructive coincidence.
Never were the games of sharpers so revealed
| by any sudden exposure of cards as the games
Of these political sharpers are by the accident
of their giving vent to their ill-will on the
| same day.