The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-19
General Grant for President.

From The NJ Y. Times.
We have received great many cOmmuni-
cations touching General Grants political
position, and urging his nomination for the
Presidency. We see no good to be accom-
plished by publishing them. General Grants
nomination cannot be effected by newspaper
pressure, nor by political or party appeals of
any kind-nor ought it, if it could. EIabo-
rate arguments to prove him radical, and
equally elaborate arguments to prove him
conservative, will do him no good, and we
trust they will do him no harm. II he is
nominated at all, it will not be beccuse he is
specially acceptable to any party, nor to serve
the purposes of any faction. 1t will be be-
cause the people feel that he is needed to
serve the country. 1t will be because there is
a great work to be done, and because he is
recognized as prominently the man to do it.
What the country needs now more than
anything else is pdcifcation. We need peace
NOT only in form, but in fact, peace that shall
involve harmony of sentiment, dnity OF pur-
pose and of feeling among the people of the
sections lately at war. Without such peace
as this, nothing else that we may think we
have secured will be worth straw. We may
force negro suffrage upon the South, and main
tain il by the bayonet; but until it is there by
some different tenure than that, it will be a
curse instead of a blessing to all concerned,
and especially to the negroes themselves.
When negro suffrage can be established in the
South with the assent of the Southern people
an assent based on the conviction that it is in
tended for the common good and is not simply
another form of hostile force, ii will consolidate
Southern political society, and contribute
largely TO the good of the whole country. But
this state of things cannot be reached until
Nl, lsrsN g Ill sN. e..
lis restored to the section lately at war. And
the same thing is true of all the changes and
reforms which should follow in the South as
the results of the war. We may force them
upon the Southern States as upon conquered
section. We may maintain them there by
military power. But so long as this is the
only hold they have upon the Southern people,
they will only breed strife and oontention-nOt
contribute to the peace and strength of the
common country. The South will regard
them as simply force in another form.
Inc great mistake in what has been done
since the war was closed, is that it has been
9ohe IN lne spirit and temper OF conquerors
oealhg win conquered people, After a war
Det"een independent nations peace comes ONLY
through treaty! compact to which both are
equal paIties' IL Is not imposed by the victor
without the consent of the vanouisbed ond
maintained by constant display of armed
power. Such close of war Would not 49,
peace. 1t would have nothing of the spirit of
peace. II would heal none of the woands
soothe none of the asperites, allay none of the
hatreds which the war had caused and this 4
far more true of the peace that should follow
war between contending sections of the same
country The terms of peace in such case
If it is to bring with it the fruits OF peace
must be such as the judgment Of botf
parties can approvs and such as boil
can accept without sense of humiliation
The Presidents policy had this feature Il
recommend it at all events. Whether rgh
or wrong in its details, it made the South al
asserting and awilliHg party to the peac
? which 1t sought 10 bring about. And tn
great defect il lie policy Of Congress has been