The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-10-06
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 30, 1868,
There's no fun in this campaign none Of that
excitement caused by strong, lively opposition
Things is workin'" all one way. It's good deal
like playing euchre all night, with the privilege
Of shutting, cutting and dealing the cards, face
up, all the time, aud deliberately selecting your
hand and that of your opponent A man
could not endure the monoteny Of such game
unless he was playing for enormous stakes.
The only thing that makes this insunerably
"slowf campaign endurable TO Republicans, is
the consciousness that principles and measures
vital 10 the pivotal interests Of the Human Race
are the stakes that the game is being played for,
and that we hold cards that the pick of the rest
Of the pack can't touch. We have already won
the stakes yirtuallr, and are only playing the
hand ont as matter Of form, and to comply with
the rules Of the game.
II is amusing 10 watch, from this central point,
the mAn@uyres Of professional politicians, as /
have been Watching them ever since Grant was
first spoken Of for the Presidency. Prom the
Congressman aud the aspirant for q scat in the
Cabinet or frst-elass Foreign Mission, down 10
the man whose highest ambition is to secure or
retain an obscure post-otice apathy clerkship,
these selash, INSCRIPTIONS, professional polti-
cians birds Of tho same feather, and arc read
lily distinguished from the patriotic men who
seek Office because thoy honestly believe them
selves capable u welding power for the benoht
Of their fellowmen, and who do 90 WELD II 10 tho
best Of their ability. ] zee aud hear Of, every
day, men who bitterly opposed the nomination Of
drant-mon whom have heard noislly and pro.
fAnely defAming him a. a man, statesman, and
oYen a. soldier -now endeAyoring 10 make
themselves notorious as his champions and ad-
mirers, On the stump and in the social circle !
sec men who went 10 tho Convention u puroled
Rebels in New York which nominated Seymour
And Blair not ~ dsiegstes, but 70 work for their
respective friends, and 10 secure introdncsions 70
the ''soathern gentlemen whom they hoped and
ezpeeted 70 take the lead, IN tic fatafv Ia the
good old times, in the sSAirs Of The nstioa l
know some o. these men who returned from that
convention hurrAhing for Seymour and BLAIR, and
Who bogsn working for them 70 the extent Of their
ability, bat who, having observed Ehe rapidly in
creAalng popularity u GrAnt within the iAst two
months, are now thorongh going Grant men, and
deny that they were ever anything else. Even
gahn wllsoa. the I'd Auditor Of the Treasury, has
within few weeks tod several persona, conf
dsntsAily. that after rgid investigation VI the
political 'sitnAtipn." he e cauyinosd that sey-
mour ard Flair hare not shs ghOs, Of chance.
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