The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-05
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
From washtngton 20 Grant.

EVUTWTY WUTIUB
tests occurred we're marked by many changes IN
the external conditions a. well as the internsl
policy OF the country. From the eleCtlon ot
Nashingi ion-the father OF our instItutons--to
the death OF Liucolu, their preserver, wero
many epochs, each one OF which witnessed
hardly contested struggle before the issues 81
stake could be settled. But all we're finally
determined even the question of slavery, whico
thrice attempted, and once well-ngh accom-
pished the destruction OF Tue Government
itself. On Tuesday the last oil the great Issues
the social and political reconstruction OF
the South, was also determiued, and we may
now look forward to lorg era OF peace aud
prosperity. The Republic, which was first en-
shrned in the hearts of the people under
the Presidency of our earliest military leader
will receive new lease OF life aud vgor from
the strong hand aud brave heart OF our greaIest
military hero. While many of our statesmen
the eloquent Clay the ponderous wooster, the
subtle Calhoun, the bold and chivalric Douglas,
not to mention the names OF atleasttWo eminent
living men-Were disappointed OF the Presi'
dency to the military cheitaIns IL has been
generally accorded aud Washington. Jackson,
Harrison, Taylor, and Grant are the bright ex-
amples o. tue nations gratitude.
In the first election Tor President, aud in the
twenty.dtst, are mauy striking points OF rese m
blauce Both Washington and Grant were the
people's choice. Neither sought the Off je, and
both would gladly have ESCAPED from the cares
and respor slb litles OF that high station. Anda
the cne inspired no hopes that he did not CRAFTY,
so the other made no pro misses that he ialled to
fulfil The records OF both were simple lesson
of patIio. aud unswerylng fidelity to duty.
They land aside the swords girt about them IN
glory 10 uphold in sincerity the modest sceptre
OF peoples will; aud as they were the only
Americans who ever attained to q full generashipf
in the Army OF the Republic, so the one was
swayed in the administration of civil affairs by
the principle which IS the motto of the other:-
'Let us have Peace"
Washington was twice elected Presid ent, aud
each time by unanimous vote in the Electoral
College. In this oay when parties have &C
Quired such age and strength that even dead
Issues have their devotees, the same unanmty
is impossible; but the vote that General Grant
received is remarkable, when it is remem-
bered that but recently oue-half of the people
were arrayed in hostile battallons against the
other half. and that the nation Is still IN the
throes of restoration. And the party over which
these dead issues have most control Is the party
formed s0Ou alter Washngtous accession to
Office, in opposition 10 the principles of his
administration. But it is creditabie to the
people OF the United States that, though parties
were formed early in the history of the GoVern-
ment and before the beginning of his second
term were exceedingly rancOrous in their
hostility and nearly equally divided, towards
Washington himself kind tOrbearanCe was
manifested, aud that the second time ne was
the choice OF all parties, as ne had been the dr5t
time of the whole people. At the hrst Presideu-
tial election, Washington received sXtynine
votes in the Electoral College, and at the second
1872 yo,es, being the whole vote cast. Hts cleo
tod as President was announced to him at his
seat at Mount Vernon, on the l4h OF April, 1889,
and on the 3Oth OF the same month be was nau-
gurated ia New York city. Perhaps the grandest
one that most displayed the overfo wings of
popular adection-unless the reception of
the remains Of the late President Lincoln
equalled it in the outpouring of the love of the
peopDe-was the reception accorded him by
our forefathers, on the day of his arrival
here, the 2lst of April, 1888. He lie Eliza
bethport at II O'Clock, in barge covered with
an awning hung round with red moreen cur
tains, woven in fesoons, and attended by
packets and barges also handsomely decorated.
As he touched the wharf, thirteen gus, eq lal
in hort m hn rot uyara Hrad nd ~ ION 4.
ing the dLck by carpeted stairs, he was received
with accldmations by men, crowned with
flowers by the women, aud welcomed in songs
by the children, Tue Inauguration took place
on the balcony of the Senate Chamber-then
the City Hall in Wall street, at the head of
Broad-when the oath OF office admins
Tered by Chancellor Livingston, He delivered
his inaugural address in the Senate Chamber,
and then attended divine service in st. Paul5
Church, stnl happily standing as monument
OF that proud day which God had vo1chsated
to the American people. be was inaugurated
the second time at Philadelphia, on the 4th of
March, 1898.
At the third election for President General
Washington was earnestly solicited to be eau
dIdate Tor reelection, but he positively declined
in his ever memorable Farewell Address," and
retired, loved and honored by his countrymen.
1t may be some compensation to the friends of
General Grant to know that the men who sought
to sully his well-earned fame by words of de-
traction were members of that same Demo-
cratic party which sought near the close OF his
career to diminish the confidence of the country
in Washington himself. As soon as it was
ascer aimed that Washington would not be
candidate for reelection, the two great par
ties-the Federalists and the Democrats
arfayed themselves against each other on the
question OF his successor, John Adams being
the candidate OF the one and Thomas Jefferson
OF the other. The contest was a spirited one,
and the result SO close that early in November
it was i'm possible to determine which way the
scale would preponderate., OF the l40 votes
Adams came 10 the Presidency in a stormy
time. The French Revolution had just reached
the highest point OF its feverish delirum, aud
the American people, fresh from struggle for
liberty for themselves, liberty which France
had assisted to achieve, were too ready
have led to disaster, perhaps to ruin.
While the election was still pending,
but too late to expose the artfulness of the trick
one OF those articles was tried to affect the
result which have often been put into practice
since, sometimes with more success. Mr. Adet,
the French Minister, wrote letter to the Sec
retary of State, which was also printed in the
newspapers charging the Federal Administra.
tion with a violation OF the treaties that had
secured the Independence OF The United States,
and with iDgra,itude to wards France, by which
the treaties were made in our own time of
nom this artidce, 1t had no perceptible effect
upon the result, but it deserves to be remem-
bered as the first trick OF party which is now
under the domination of a 'TammanY ring"
AT the fourth Presidential election the candi-
dates were again Mr. Adams and Mr.. Jefferson,
Charles Coaesworth Pnckney aud Aaron Burr
being the candidates for VicePresident The
two parties in Congress had selected the candi-
dates IN caucus, but, as the electors were not
CHOSEN by the States in the same popular manner
as Low, the contest had a more varied interest,
ana caused the country to watch with solicit
tude the election of members 70 the State