The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-14

scare rs cgss1 nebts Is COT ana re-
store ibe rsls States n tasR practical .
relations When lie pending Coasii- /
iais1nai Amapdmsui pas before Con
gtss&. be waa 80 rs subafssiau 10 tie
people and vhsn i was sahnltled. be
ufged the leading mea q ihc rebel
ssalas "a vote 81 h. adoption After
Is rejection by ihe rebel legislatures
- advised southern men who sought
"a advice. 10 r. consider their action,
adopt Il. and gife suffrage 70 tbs freed
men. t. leading southern men be
said "You must look = Congress,
the Republicans have the power con
suit tham: 30 not seek tho councils Of
men n the North Who opposed ihe
war; de people Will never trust that
class 81 men With power the more you
look Is them for advice. tho more ex-
acting Congress win be and ought 70 be-
tho rejection q the amendment
and the legislation against
tho freedmen Will cause Congress to
require universal suffrage, and You
should 1t once give it. Some Of these
mea were wise enough to accept and
ael upon bis advice, To the Recon
siruetion policy Of Congress the vital
and oyershadowing issue Of the day
Gen Grant gave bis earnest support,
and be has zoalously stryen to carry
Tie legislation Of Congress into effect.
On tho Reconstruction policy Gen.
Grant has been aud now is ii accord
with Congress and the Republican par
ty. So anxious was be TO have that
policy promptly carried into effect that
he urgently pressed upon members Of
Congress the vital importance ESQ ar
ranging the adjournments as to be able
to meet at any time, should the needs
of the country require IT,
Gov Bullock Of Massachusetts, in bis
annual message said: ut is the record
Of history that. in great public crises,
the instinct Of potion points with UNI
erring sagaciiy to some man Of the peo-
| pie whom they adopt at once, in assur-
anee of faith, as their chosen champion
and deliyerer; and, by natural law,
this abiding confidence is through its
own soothing powerthe surest guaranty
Of success,
I'm this dark hour Of national exig.
ency we have need of a leader whose
integrity is interrupted by political
associations and whose patriotism has
has not permitted him
to descend to the arena Bipartisan war.
fare, Of tried leader Of undauntec
courage, who will be swaycd neither BY
popular passion nor sectional prejudice
Of man Of cautious reticence, who has
no inconsistencies TO explain, no poll
cics 70 paintaln no theories to promul
gate; OF leal-- r--i- :, y, ~,
I position and relations Of all sections 0
our common country, and who vii
bring to the administration of publ,
affairs, executive ability, economical
IDEAS, a clear head and an honest heart
at is manifest that it is the sam'
Providence which brought us safel.
through the storm Of war, that moves
this whole people now with a singular
unamity to recognize in plain, unpre
tending citizen him whose energy, dis
erection and exalted patriotism viii res
tore peace and prosperity to discordan
states and distracted land The MAI
for the crisis-the man for the hour
the man for the peoples Ulysses S
Grant Before his prominent fitness
for the high Office to which a greatiu
nation would elevate him, let persona
preferences yield, let faction subside
that peace, good viii and union ma.
once more and forever abide through
out the republic"
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