The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-12-12
RANDOal TIGoUeMTa 10. so.
NJ THE EDITOR.

had heped to be able TO drop the que stion 0
Presidsnt making before this time, as saw re
turning sanity In the papers on the Grant ques
tlon. But the dIsea'e has broken cut 10 frest
place. A monster meeting has been held In New
York City, In the interest Of the Grant movement
Gen. Siekles made speech, in which we find tn,
! following:
mo man need be In doubt as to the scnti
| ments OF Gen. Grant upou the questions before
this country. Ignorance upon matter 90 plain
50 easily aseertalnrd, should, think, exclude I
man from the use Of the ballot, If we had an ed
ueational qualification" Laughterl
suppose that Geu. sckles referred to the re.
cent remark made by Gen. Grant to the Presi.
dent that demngogues might say what they
pleased, but this is q white mans government,
and none but white men must take part in it.
Viewing 1t in that light, Gen SickIes Is correct.
II must also be remembered that Gen. Sickles
was leading Democrat until he got commits
sion in the army He supported all the out
RACES In Kansas, under the administrations OF
Fierce and Buchanan. The New York Day. Book
the great rebel paper, nearly every week, saws
that few years ago the police had to prevent
Gen. sickles and other leading Democrats from
numbering the abelitionists. And the Day Book
thinks it is pity that the Police interfered. Per
haps Gen. Sickles like Andy Moses johnson, iS
going back to bis nrst love.
To throw furherslight upon this New York
Grant movement, l copy the following editorial,
from the Tribune:
''ThS Scareiully-worded platform. whereon Gen.
GRANT was last evening presented at Cooper In
stltute for President, plainly ignores his support
as Republican candidate, or as the representa-.
tive of one distinctlvey Republican idea. In
that platform we find no word of promise. even
that the loyal governments now being organized
In the Southern States shall be sustained, or TINT
the loyal People of those States, who had the
misfortune to be born Black, are to be guaran.
teed any rights whatever. So far as we can see.
almost any lifelong adversary of Republican
principles and ideas might stand on that platform
and be supported thereon as candidate for Pres
ident In the long catalogue of names paraded
as officers Of the meeting we remark, among
those of many good and true men, those of sever
al citizens who can support Gen Grant on the
presumption that, II elected he Is not to be, nor
TO seem, Republican.
We purpose not to hold Gen. Grant in anvwise
IOSPVhsloic lOi INC utJcTuuCe OT tue position of
those who chose TO nominate or to support him.
We assume that he will speak for himself at what
he shall deem the proper time, with the frank
ness Of soldier and the earnestness of patriot
II he Is on the right slde--the side of Humanity
OF Progress bf Equal Rights and Eqnal Laws
he will so declare himself, and vii! thereupon be
renounced by some of the noisiest aud most We.
hement Of his present tsupporten. Ifhe shall see
1T to fulfill the expectations ofsuch supporters as
Montgomery Blair and Gen. Tom Ewing, ir.. he
will render 1t Impossible for sincere Republicans
to support him. II Is idle to hope that the gray
est aud most imminent questions of the hour
may DC blinked, and candidate for President
found, who will satisfy the requirements and Sc
cure the votes at once, of those who hold that all
men were created equal, and of those who. on
the contrary hold that Blacks have no rights
which Whites are bound to respect. The silent
multitude, who do not figure as officers at polit.
ical meetings, but whose votes count heavily in
an official canvass, will be sure that they are not
be.raying principle In subseryience to an Office
hunting expedlency, before they deposit their
ballots"
New York City gives about sixty thousand
Democratic majority, and of course that place is
in good fix to dictate to the great Republican
party of the Union.
This Grant movement Is kind of Phladel-
phia convention movement, and will result In the
same way that that did.