The Portland daily press., 1868-11-06
Comments Of the Newspapers ON the
Elections. i-..-.

We proclaim in this most trying hour
speaking for party sere1lely secure of pos
sessing the future of our country, and of
moulding her magnificent destinies when it.
self shall have been purged and moulded for
that imperial task-an mistaken and unshak-
able confidence in its puissant and undying
youth, which out of disaster will get disci-
pline, out of misfortunes, patience and un-
cOnquerable courage, out of plumbers, wisdom
and a settled will.
To this great work, here and now, upon a
battlefield which has been lost, do we invite,
beneath undiscovered standards, the youth,
the manhood of our time.-N. Y. World.
The rhetoric OF the last sentence is decided
ly success, but it fails of common sense.
1t was upon the profound appreciation of
this matter by the American people that we
based our confidence in Grants election. Not
during this generation, LOr during the next,
will the people of this country lose sight of
the great war, or forget the part played in it
by those who have been leaders, or who may
aspire to be leaders. To have been false to the
Republic in that tremendous crisis, or to have
been lukewarm in its service, will be brand
of political ruin for many years to come. 1t
will be useless during this century for any pO-
ltical party to nominate Presidential candi-
date, who cannot show that he battled for the
Union with hand and heart when rebellion
had the sword at its throat. And in this de-
termination the American people are perfectly
JiSU1Heu-eN6u lut HlSu6St gTOunuS OF
Cancellation, fraternity and peace.-N. Y
Times.
Tom Florence's paper, published in WASH
ington, says:
On the 4th of next March General Grant
will be inaugurated President of the United
States. There is no proof that he is not
thoroughly devoted, and that he has not genu-
inc attachment as an American to American
institutions. Theirs is no proof that he enter
tains hostility to our constitutional form of
government, and since he has been the GEN.
trail figure in the eye of the American people
he has exhibited qualities and capacities which
mark him as a man of honor, courage and
ability.
The New York Suns comment is as follows:
Those who are too blind to recognize the
new era, those who are too slow to keep pace
with the progress of events, must be left to
wander among the tombs of the dead past;
while men of clear vision and elastic step will
become the guides of the nation and lead it
forward in a career of expansion, of prosperity,
of power, and of renown, such have Illus
trated no previous period in its history, and
will scarcely find parallel in the annals of
any people.
Brick Pomeroy is out with a whole battalion
of exclamation points-thus:
No, not beaten, Democrats We have only
not won! "We have moved upon the enemy's
works." but have failed to carry them. But
we are not routed, thank Godl Our lines are
unbroken, our spirit unsubdued, our courage
as high as ever!. -. The fight goes on! 1t
must go on! We cannot give it up! :. Then
stand to your arms, white men OF America!
Though the victory is not won, the cause is
not lost! You are still as great, as strong as
ever! You have still country, homes chill
dren! Liberty, in chains, still beckons you to
her rescue! Remember that it is battle
for life! For the life of the Republic
The spirit of the Boston Post is to be com.
mended:
What is good in government, let us sustain,
whoever devises it; what is wrong-what we
believe detrimental to the spirit of liberty, re-
publican constitutional rule-let us oppose
with that firmness which tests sincerity, and
that vigilance which marks the faithful watch
man. E-