The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-05-27
The xominatfens at Chicago

The Republican Convention, Sitting at
Chicago. has nominated General Grant and
Schuyler Culfax as It's candidates for the
Presidency AMI Vice Presidency. The
nomination Of the forme'.- although rot by
acelamation, as some hot-headed gentle
men proposed, was unanimous; and the
contest over the other was not protracted.
The names OF both these gentlemen have
heen suh ,iently before the public to render
ary'specal introduction OF them unneces-
sary. Tho military biographies of General
Grant are already pretty numerous; and
rs we are Informed, several Ingenious and
rapid writer's ore at work to produce oth>
ers; which, whoever shall read, will doubt
less become advised Of all that his friends
desire should be Known of him, or he desir-
Gus should be known of himself.
This nomination may he said to open the
political campaign Of the year of redemp-
ton, 1868. The party agitations and
events, which, running through several
months, eliminated in the decision at Chi
cage, indicate unmistakably that in the
opinion of tho leaders of the party their
strongest man was needed for the exigeney;
and 2hat they have produced the strongest.
How strong he will prove to be, the results
ci the coming six months will demonstrate.
There is no coneealing this fact--which
is damaging one for candidate-th that
General Grsnt has been made the nominee
of the Republican party upon the idea Of
oxpediency. There is no pretense on the
part of the representatives of the cultivated
intellect OF the party that he possesses high
qualities, or special fitness for civil Office
either natural or acquired. AS a states
man or practical politician, he has had alb
solutely, no experience, and-that which
in au rxigcncy like this, is shamefully re-
markable-wha. is general notions are, i
he has any, upon government, or his spec
ial opinions upon the momentous question
involved in our political condition, no know
individual is able to pronounce. He is, q
a time when it is almost a crime for pub
lie man not to be outsnokcn, a poltica
sphynx, vastA this difference: that th
sphynx was wise amid its leticcnce, wherea
Of General Grant the question is unsolved
whetherEhis silence springs from cunning Q
from stupidity.
Conventionally, General Grant will rer
resent the platform which the Chicago poll
''cians have constructed; which will hold t
him the same relation that the traveller ha
to the horse upon which he rides, or tn
train by which he is transported. 1t vii
probably, in good time, receive his indorst
uent, with his acceptance Of the nomin;
ton, as doubtless he would, with the sam
eheerfulness, have indorsed in blank til
paper upon. which it was to be inscribed
or the committee on resolutions by whom
was to be concocted.
sSaneral Grant is the representative Of
tendency in our political affairs that is omir
ous forrhe future. We are not among thos
who would decide peremptor']y against
man as candidate for civil office becaus
he belonged or belongs to the military prt
fns.ii0n; but when the military profession
~ sucl' asrires to monopoly Of civil Office
fs3tSitsrlfu mp as having special claims an
qualifications, and uses its collective II
Iaencc aud fellowship to secure the nonin;
tion and election of its members, the ma
ter becomes dangerous Then is a call fc
men to inquire seriously if it is not hig
time to resist these bold ebcroachment
AMI to think seriously what is the end {
the path they areinvited tolpursue.