The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-23
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General Grant.

oe course everybody knew denesaII
ca.Sr vae to be nominased by the Radical
,arty Il Chicago. There was 20 much inl- i
pst;enoe amongst members q the eonyens'
i go sns'' sneh irrepressible eagerness
smonrat Individuals, 70 have the eelas Of
nominating the General, shst there were GO, 9
..raot number Of motions made % declare
s;n, the nominee Of the party before the
time when ii Was in order y must have
haan most amusing to SbsePvs the turnkey
lam thus displayed. From the general:
temper Of the body, i 10 plain that any enc
Of these motions would hare been carried,
but that there we're 80 many men Who de-
sired to have the homer and get The expected
REGARD for nominating GRANT that income
Of them could succeed without the concur
renee Of the othersl Thus the matter was
postponed until In order.
General GRaxT ii known BY everybody.
His nomination By the Radicals 10 an event
not anticipated eighteen months since. MI.
JOHNSON then had it in his power to have
made diaerent programme for him. The
process by which he has fallen into the en-
braces Of Radicalism has been quite natn-
raj With man situated as he was, and
having no political principles Of his own.
He has committed some gross indiscres.
tions since the split between himself and
the President. Especially of late, IN nj fhe
violent remarks attributed to him relative
to the conyictiono OF the President. We had
credited him with o little more prudence
and self-possession. BE has undoubtedly
conspired with Congress to shave down the
dignity and power Of the Presidential Office,
and take away the: command Of the army
from his superior officers serious offence
morally, and greater one in . military
sense. It involves him in q gross ineon-
sistency in assisting to degrade the Presl-
dency in o manner that he would not sub
NIT to were he President. Indeed, he will
not accept it unless its constitutional scope
and standing be restored. If elected, he
may, indeed, give Congress . lesson on TINS
subject they do not look for. As we said
on former occasion, when he is President
(should he be), Congress- and,the President
will probably change places Z; Congress be
where Mr.. JOHNSON is, and General GRANT
where Congress is. 4;
Revolutionary parties die with ;'eyolu-
tons and it is not improbable that the
doom of Radicalism is so near at hand that
even General. GRANTS services and mill
tary eclat may not be able to carry HIM N
triumphantly through the campaign as the
standard bearer Of that evolutionary party
whose unscrupulous usurpations and de-
structiye measures are now. sorely trying
the patience and endurance Of the nation.
The party opposed to that now headed : oy
General GRANT viii have powerful auxilla-
ries in those suffering national interests
which have been SO Frustrated by misrule,
and which are threatened with destruction
by the continuation of that misrule. Should
the movements on the chess-board to save
those interests from further disaster, and
bring back the Union to its constitutional
existence, be wise and proper, the party
of outrage and violence which is now rush
ing the nation to ruin must be defeated,
Notwithstanding that it has the support OF
General GRANT in its appeal to the nation
to prolong its existence.