The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-06-04
The Opening Canvass.

The Campaign opens brilliantly. The
response to Chicago shows that the Con-
vention struck the public heart. The
record of Gen. Grant is the most glorious
chapter of our history. Whatever NAV
be his politics, no citizen can be insense-
| able of his merits of the luster of his
name. IN knowing Grant we know our
| selves. Like Tennyscns great Duke, he
stands before us great In saying COM
nonsense and Sin simplicity sublime"
The conquorer of Lee is hidden forth to
conquer Lees remaining allies: and as
the canvass depends and ripens it will be
| found, we think, that our candidate will
| win to his standard large part of the
| party known as "War Democrat" The
leaders of Democracy are sorely distress
! ed for candidate. They have dozen
| in training. Hancock is kept on a fine
ground near Blair's place, in the vacini-
lily of Washington, and is in the hands
OF company Of veteran political trainers.
They watch him as careful as they do Mr..
Coburn ana Mr.. McCoole before entering
the prize ring. He is dieted and made
to take long walks. and to look like a
statesmen. and to sign abstruse letters
which people are to presume he writes.
BY July he will be in trim and we shall
probably have him in the ring. We sug-
gest that Gen. Sheriden capture Satanee
the "big Indian who stole Hancocks
uniform coat, and send him East. All
the party wants is coat with guilt but
tons, and Satantee will commend itself
by his ancestry at the least to the tribes
OF Tammyhall. In the event of Han.
cocks failure we shall have Mcclellan.
or Pendleton, or one of the buried mem
bers of the Adams family Anybody to
beat Grant!
1t will require somebody to make re.
spectacle canvass The meeting at
the Union League shows the charact-
er of the men whose active support
Grant and Colfax command We find
the representatives of the: most Conser-
vative interests of the Republic taking
an active part IN the campaign, These
men feel that success of the Republic
an party means stable government,
Reconstruction, the healing of the
wounds of war, generosity, justice, am
nesty to the repentant, and suffrage to
the worthy They see how sadly and
YEARLY the nation drags its way under
the infamous administration of Andrew
johnson, and they look to Grant and
Our friends from Maine unto Califor
MIA are warm with enthusiasm. Let the
work begin at once. Let this canvass be
be the most thorough ever known. The
enemy will not move heaven and
earth to take possession of Con-
gress or by some means to divide
our forces, or throw confusion 1t is not
enough that we elect Gen. Grant. We
must utterly rout the Copperhead party
and destroy its power for evil. Already
we see the better classes of Democracy
lowering over the negroes and offering
them suffrage With a thorough can
vass we can pole so large majority
that their party will DE abandoned, and
the hateful and bitter spirit which it has
fostered sent to rot with the Torysm of
the Revolution a man will then be
ashamed to say he voted against Grantand
Colfax as our grandfatlers' if they still
lived, would be to confess to having on
n5sed Washington and adams.
York. Tribune.