The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-17

Ashc,,S. Friday. July NJ, HSG~.
The Peoples Candidates.

tinguishad gentlemen nominated by the
National Convention OF tho People of
the United States, for the offices of
President and Vice President. They
are names familiar to tho country, and
we shall not stop to indulge in pane
gyGic or high wrought culogy, charac.
teristic of partisan journalism on such
occasions. Mr.. SEYMOUR, the head of
the ticket, the leading and foremost citi-
zen of the Great Empire State Of the
Union, has been in public life for some
years, and has filled many prominent
positions-alway with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction of those who
placed him in them. His reputation as
u public man is as broad and ample in
its integrity as the limits of his ma
tive land. Without reproach in his mo-
re-, character and private walk, HoRA-
ITO SEYMOUR stands forth in all the ele-
ments OF enlarged and genuine states
manship, in true greatness, almost with
out peer. This much is accorded him
in influential and respectable Republic
can Journals, and by the intelligent and
frank and candid Of the opposing po-
litical party.
Again: MI SEYMOUR is truly rep
rcsentative man of that mighty Party of
tho People who have chosen him for
their Chief end Standard Bearer; and
not the least strong feature i'll his Cam
didacy is, the singular and impressive
fact that he did not seek the position ;
but that the position sought the man !;
was literally forced upon him. Too
good 10 be afflicted with vaulting ambi-
ton; but too patriotic and selt-sacri
fcirg to consult private wishes and per-
sonal inclination when the call of his
country and tho perils which menace
and environ it demand his service.
We do not intend now, nor shall we
daring the canvass, attempt to detract
from the glittering fame of his oppo-
ncnt, or try to sully a leaf in the chap
let which circumstances and the for
tunes OF The battlefield have entwined
around his brow. But it is no dispar-
agcment to General GRANT to say, that
in poiu. Of civil and administrative ca
pacity, IA point OF experience, o. learn
ing, AMI all the qualities which enter into
honest, manly, independent statesman
ship, and which ought to center in the
executive head Of great and powerful
government, he is SO infinitely the infe-
rior OF tho Peoples Candidate that COM
parison would mantle with q blush in
proposing parallel The clash and
conflict OF arms is over. Let the mill
tary man rest upon his laurels. won by
the valor and blood of his fallen COM
rades, and in the enjoyment Of the onor-
nous emoluments that have been show
cred upon him. What the cxigencies OF
the period demand is broad, liberal, en-
lightened, and comprehensive states
manship; precisely, and completely,
what is offered the country in the can
didacy of HoRAT1o SEYMOUR.
Should Mr.. SEYMOUR be elected, and
the signs in the political heavens are all
suspicious OF such a result the people
OF this great country, stretching from
ocean 10 ocean aud illimitable in its ca
pacity for growth and development
will have a sure guarantee that the gov
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marks laid down by the Fathers, and
that new era of peace, prosperity and
fullncss is dawning upon the land.
Turning to the name on the ticket fol
the second offfce-Gen. BLAIR presents
to the country a record of good anG
Wholesome works, honestly earned by
protracted and devoted service, both il
civil and military capacity. He is {
gentleman Of high order of ability, a!
has been demonstrated in all the public
stations he las filed. A man of poin
and force; and to this adds a private
and moral character which even the
most INSCRIPTIONS partisan will not
venture to assail. He served with much
distinction throughout the late unhappy
conflict, and is one of the very few
Generals ON the Union side who re-
memhered, at the close of the war, the
alleged objects for which the General
Government had prosecuted it, and has
labored zealously ever since to promote
and secure full realization of those OBJ.
jects; and not to tyrannize over and CD.
press a chivalrous and enduring, bu,
crushed and Inundated people. OF
Roman firmness and tenacity of pur,
pose in the discharge of public duty
with but little of the modern partisan
in his temperament and composition
and frank and fearless in the enuncia
ton and maintenance of what he be
lieves to be the right, General BLAIR il
perhaps as good man as could hav,
been selected for the second Office in thu
government.
We congratulate the country in hav
ing such able uncomfortable aud In