Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-03-28

That General Grant is the coming man Is es-
tablished beyond the shadow of a doubt. The
North, East, West and portions of the South
have proclaimed for him. The Union party and
press of California are unanimous for Grant, and
our County Convention the other day declared
that he is the first choice of the Union men of
Trinity for President. There is no installing
the determination of the American people.
Grant will be the next President
The Democratic party completely exhausted
itself in trying to prove that General Grant had
not particle of sympathy with the Republican
party that his preferences were with the Democ-
racy, and his sympathies with the recreat Pres-
dent in his war upon Congress. But it is now
clearly developed that the Democratic leaders
of Vicksburg and Appomattox. And as soon as
it was made manifest that owing to his Republic
can principles Grant could not, by an possibl-
ty, be made available by the Democracy, the
whole pack turned upon the devoted General,
and attempted by the most demonstrative arts of
sickening adulation, when they pretended to
think him firm in the behalf of that gone-out
party, these adopts in personal abuse as a poll
cal weapon have cast aside all truth and decency
in speaking of him. Now that it is apparent he
will become the candidate of the Union party
for the Presidency, Copperhead vindictiveness
knows no bounds.
That party is fertile in expedients, and IN
scrupulous in fabricating accusations against the
character and capabiity of our candidates.
Grant proves exception. Now, with them,
he is q of narrow and sluggish intellect,
whose dearth of ideas has been dgnfed by the
courtly name of prudence" but which is, in
reality, I" stolidity." He e has never given evil
dence of any civil Abilities, is ''dull in CONVEX
sation has no dignity of learning" He is, in
short, "a cold, narrow, commonplace, unattrac-
tive man. Still worse, he is accused of great
moral deficiencies, of being Incorporate and of
irreligious habits, of having q changed his po-
ltical principles from motives of ambition, y and
many other equally false and abusive charges
noted writer who is familiarity acquainted
with the subject of these remarks, differs with
his Copperhead accusers, in this: That Grants
conception, celebrity of action, soundness of
Judgment, and effectiveness of result, will COM
pare with the best of those of Napoleon when
he was in the fulness of his genius and vigor"
Further, that his intellectual powers are not of
the ready and dazzling sort he is no hasty or
fluent talker he has not cultivated the arts of
forensic reasoning or Of eloqucnce and being
singuiarly reserved and modest, be may appear
to stranger heavy and uninformed; but any
one who has shared the intimacy of General
Grant in his private walks, must have been
struck by the keenness of his perception, which
amounts almost to intuition, his thorough good
sense, his skillful dscernment of character, and
his frank and manly mode of stating his opinions
on all subjects on which it is necessary for him
to speak Nor are his moral qualities less obvi-
Gus, and above all others, the absence of pre-
tence, the honest estimate of his own and others
services, generous forbearance towards his enc
mics, devoted attachment to his friends and the
rarest magnaminity and sense of justice and
honor. His correspondence with Sherman
throughout, but particularly on his appointment
to the misunderstanding, is full of the
noblest traits of character, and in the highest
degree honorable to both. Meanness would be
impossible in a soul of that high stamp, as much
so as it would have been in the not dissimilar
nature of Washington"