The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-09
Grant and Curtin.


unanimity the people of the country,
speaking through the press, are coming
up to the support Of Grant for President,
and Curtin for Vice President. 1t is not
only from the Republican Press that we
CLEAN this fact, for the press of the De-
mocracy also, from the small &" tweedle
dunn" {" concern, published on Franklin
Street, all the way up to that giant OF
Copperheadism, the Age, all point to the
same end. The warrior hero aud states,
man, and the civic hero and Statesman
are SO rapidly becoming the evident men
of the times and Cor the times, that We
think there is but little doubt that the
meeting and proceedings Of the Chicago
Convention, will be but ratification, in
this regard, of the doings of the Conven-
ton held at Philadelphia, on the 1lth
ult d a1el
We have said that the presses of both
parties point to this as the most probable
result of the preliminary canvass of the
great campaign. Those advocating the
wise, energetic and, consequently, whole
some measures of Rcpublicanism, exhibit
it in the jubilant tone in which they Sc
cond the action of the Philadelphia Con-
vcntion, and in which, with stubborn
facts as data, they argue the certainty
of success under the glorious lead of
those truly great men, Grant and Curtin.
Their evidence is positive in character as
we'll as positive as to the result. On the
other hand the evidence furnished by the
Democratic press, though negative in cha
racter, is none the less positive as to the
firm, uncompromisiug demand of those
who fought for, and now vote for, the
building up Of the old Union on more
impreguable basis : who having learned
the improvement in the science of war
on many hardly contested field, are de-
termined to submit to nothing less than
the improvements in the science of peace
as suggested by that war, in the firm es-
tablishment oE~the Government. This
evidence Of the Democracy i, not, it is
true, marked by much of jubilsnce, but
is plainly set forth in the abuse which is
so unstintedly heaped upon Republicans
and Republication generally, and upon
Gen. Grant aud Governor Curtin particu.
larly. The niger gets kicked worse
than ever and every means of delu-
sion, every system of lying possible for
the leaders to invent, that promises to
stay the onward march Of the masses is
eagerly seized upon aud thrust in the
way. But it don't work, and rabid in.
deed, have those leaders become, and in
their very rabidncss is to be found the
best po,sible evidence that with such
candidates as We shall have, they see in
the, to us, glorious future, nothing but
dark clouds, to render still darker the
prospects of success for their hopes.
It is meet that it should be so = tha,
the people should come up with their
demands and insist upon their ful6llmcnt
Who SO deserving of the uarmest support
and the most unlimited confidence of the
people as the man, who, by his prowcss
| in the field aud his wisdom In the council,
overturned the Vaccinations of traitors
in arms, and of still grester traitor, ele-
waited to the Presidential chair by the
hands Of an assassin; and who more de-
serving Of elevation to the second highest
Office in the gift of tho people than he,
who, with the spirit and strength of a
Hercules, labored night and day to sus-
tain the former in his noble work, and
who, through his untiring perseverance,.
furnished men and means without stint
for the security and safety of the Govern
mcnt? Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew
Gregg Curtin who are better entitled
than these to the reward always due to
good and faithful servants; and who 80
we'll able to judge as to the most fitting
reward, as the masses of the people whom
they have so faithfully served7 Let pol
iticians stand to one side = their day
may come after Heroes and Statesmen
have unmistakably secured us in ourI
rights and liberties. Let Democrats
howl over their prospect = their deeds Of
dark ness and treason, committed in the
hour of the country's sorest need, can
hardly be wiped out by an eternity of
howlinss. Let but the Chicago Conven-
ton second the action of the Philadel. |
phia Convention, as the signs all show
that it ought, and blighted South will be