The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-02
THE TRANSCRIPT.
Gen. Grant and The Presidency.

The Union Committee" OF New
York have formally nominated General
Grant for The Presidency. This "Un-
ion Committee, the Springfield Re
publican says, is not the Republican
General Committee of the city ordered
and formed under the last Union Re-
publican State Convention, but an old
Conservative Committee which got up
the Saratoga Convention and aided
the Philadelphia Johnson Convention.
The fact that General Grant is urged
by such men, and also that he is sup
ported for the Presidency by the New
York Herald in its usual blatant way,
is made to serve as an opportunity by
some of the partisan papers to depre-
cate the nomination of Gen Grant to
this high Office, as though he was to
blame for it. Nothing could be more
unjust Gen. Grant has never sought
or tolerated the support of the Herald,
The "soup committee" of New York, as
the Tribune terms it, or of any other
clique or faction.
There is evidently a strong DISPOSE
ton among the people to place Gen.
Grant IN nomination for the Presiden-
cy, and the action of dozen mispamed
Union Committees" will not affect it
one way or the other What General
Grants aspirations are, we know not,
but we should suppose that his present
high and commanding position would
be more suitable to his taste than the
Presidency.
As contemporary well observes: 1t
is too early for any decided demon
STATIONS respecting the next Union
candidate for the Presidency, although
it is plain to perceive that the indca-
tons in regard to the nominee point
in a particular direction. In the last
Union National Convention the people
were controlling power, and the
schemes of small knots of politicians
throughout the North were frustrated
by the selection of Mr. Lincoln as his
own successor. The plots of design
ing men, having their headquarters in
New York city, to foist upon the Re-
publican party candidate who would
have probably subjected it to defeat,
were well known at the time, and SO
exposed that they utterly failed.
We now hear, occasionally, of the
plottings of some of the same men in
various portions of the country. They
are the busybodies con the verge" of
the Republican party, possessing not
quite as much real Importance as the
fly that alights upon, or fits buzzingly
around, some valuable domestic ami
NAL. They are of no consequence
whatever to the real strength of the
Union organization, which is found in
the devotion to the public good actu.
ating the great masses, and not the
would-be leaders. The latter will have
to acknowledge and submit to the
popular dictation, and will be no more
able to select the Union nominee in
1868 than they were in 1854. If a
distinguished soldier, who wears his
laurels SO modestly. should, in the
view of the great body of the Union
lists, be the best man for its standard
bearer, nothing can prevent his nom
ination, whatever may be its effect on
schemes for the preferment of indivi-
duals, who have been heretofore more
prominently before the public eye as
candidates for the highest elective Of
flee. In word, the choice of the peo-
pie, and not of the active politicians.
Will decide who shall lead the Union
forces IN the next Presidential cam
paign to an assured victory.