Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-22

Grant and Colfax, the Republican
Nominees for President and Vice.
President.
By reclamation, the Republican Nation
al Convention at Chicago yesterday put
General GRANT in nomination as their can
didate for the Presidency. This announce
mcnt will occasion no surprise. 1t was as
much expected as it is expected that day
light will prevail to-day. Months ago, it
became apparent to the politicians in the
Republican party that he was the only man
that could by any possibility be elected to
the Presidency by their party. At that
time, he was not a pronounced Republican,
and there were murmurings on the part OF
the earnest men against his nomination.
The Neao York Tribune, and they who
are believers in politics as expound-
ed by that publication, refused acquies-
cence in his proposed nomination.
1t wanted evidence that was neither
uncertain nor susceptible of being misun-
derstood, that General GRANT was Re-
publican whom you could trust. Col. For
NEY about this time devoted five columns of
his Press one morning to prove that he
was dyed-in-the-wool Radical-indigo
dyed, and that, therefore, it was not in tf e
power of time or the elements to change
enough on another occasion to say, that
although General GRANTS Identification
with the Radicals had neither the merit of
age nor conspicuity, his popularity, never
theless, was such as to warrant the hope
that under its shadow they could run into
Congress a sufficient number of members
unswervingly Radical, and that through
these members they could manage and di-
rect the Government to their entire satis-
faction. This view was accepted by many,
and the New York Tribune, through
some cause or other, became con-
vert to the propriety of his nomi-
nation. WENDELL PHILLIPS harangued
against it, and thereby helped the General
to his nomination by reclamation. WEN
DELL has the popularity of boatmen in
rowing one way and looking another, as
occasion may serve him. Since the time,
however, that Col. FoRNEY became the zeal
our champion of General GRANT for NOM
ination, the General has conducted himself
acceptably to the Radicals. He broke faith
the President fastened the lie upon him,
and this circumstance, strange as it may
appear, instead of disgusting the Republic
cans with him, only endeared him to them.
In his quiet way, he used his influence to
bring about the conviction and removal of
the President, and it is understood that he
has given satisfactory assurances that he is
in favor of Negro Suffrage.
Much was said in the Convention by the
speakers-by the Chairman of the National
Executive Committee, by the temporary
President and by the permanent President
that the Republican party takes no step
backward, that having struck the shackles
going to relinquish their labors until those
slaves enjoyed unrestrictedly and unquali
fiedly every political privilege that the
White man arrogates to himself as badge
attesting his superiority over the Negro
race. This distinction is to be obliterated,
abolished, wiped out, they proclaim. Gen.
eral GRANT unites with them in this war
fare against the White man. Whatever
influence may be supposed to attach to his
name, by reason of his services as Com
mander-in-Chief of the armies of
the Federal Government during the
late war, he thro1cs into the balance against
the aofite man. Practically, he says to the
ryof OF Gnnnaaffonf Ohio ond hiobfnop
"yuu are the dupes of an unworthy preju-
dice because you refused to share your po-
litical privileges with the Negroes; and
because you have refused to do this, by
Congressional enactment, we will compel
you, in comm on with the Whites OF every
other State, to allow the Negroes to enjoy
the same political privileges you enjoy"
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, member of
Congress from Indiana, and the present
Speaker of the Federal House of Repre-
sentatives, was nominated for Vice Presi-
dent on the fifth ballot. He is Radical
without any ifs and ands. He did consid-
cradle stumping for the Republicans in
Ohio last fall, when he advocated the I'm
parchment of the President, and labored
hard to make the people believe it was
their duty to vote for the pro-
posed Constitutional Amendment strik-
ing the word White out of the Constitution.
He, General GRANT and the Platform are
committed to the doctrine that the Negroes
must have the privilege of voting in every
State in the Union. If this doctrine has
grown popular with our people within a
few months, they may stand a slight chance
of an election, otherwise not.