The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-29
THE CmICACo NOMINATION.

Tho National Union Republican Uonvcu.
tion, held at Chicago, on the 10th inst, is
generally admitted to have been ono of the
largest and most enthusiastic bodies Of cit,
izens that has ever assembled FOR like purl
noses. Tho following apt and Timely re.
marks of tho New York 7jTjWe, on that
GonVestion aud nominees fully states the
case aud will accord with the views aud
feelings of every earnest member of the
Republican. perty;
1t was not necessary 10 hold Conven.
tion to designate tho Republican, candidate
for President. The people had already do.
'oided that they wouldvoto for Ulysses S.
Grant. and nobody else. We tried for n
while to persuade them that they could do
better but they would not hear us. The
nomination of Gen. Grant hy every dole.
gate from every State and Territory com.
prised within tho boundaries of the Uuion
was simple proclamation of what the
masses had already decided. The wild en-.
thusiasm wlicrewth his namo was hailed
will roll irrepressibly from tho Bay of
Fmdy TO the Pacific. Apart from all poll.
tics and parties, the People are for Graut
md his vote will far exceed that of the
most popular candidates toy Governor Con
gross, &c, who may berun on tho same
ticket We predict that both his Electo.
Ial aud his Popular maiorities viii exceed
those ol lincoln over Mcclellan.
Those who would fain mako believe that
the soldiers who fought pallan,ly for tho
Union are rot heartily for Grant, deceive
none--not even themselves. Should Han.
cock he the Democratic nominee, he may
possibly poll one.toutt OF the votes Of the
Union Volunteers, with nno-tenths of that
cast by their paroled prisoners who fought
for Secession; but as against Peace Dem.
ocrat, We believe that Grant will make
Hearly n clean sweep OF the Unions defend
ers. Quite q number may still expect 10
oppose him on partisan grounds but, long
before the campaign is ended, the foolish
ealumnies of his assailants will impell them
10 "voto MS they shot" As the wellre
membered ioug.roll is sounded in THEFT
ears, they cannot resist tho soldierly i'm
pulse TO "lall in."
General Graut will receive more vote,
from reconstructed Rebels than could b,
obtained tor any other man who Tough
gallantly, Bnccessfully itr the Union
Faithful TO his country aud her ilag, h,
was ever a mAguanimOus foe and no mal
il more anxious than lac that the bloody
hateful past should be speedily obscure,
by a genuine fraternity and mntuM goo,
will, lie fought. not to degrade and dc
stroy, hut 10 eXat aud TO saVc. There j
no other American in whom all uterest
and all sections cherish so profound irus
as iu Ulysses $. Grant. Hence, the streugtl
evinced by the Republicans iuiutermediat
local contests will loo no measure, no tCsr
"f that which will be developed when lh
People come to vote consciously Tor han.
Schuyler CullaN is native ul lAiS cit,
now AS years old. His mother, carl
widowed, married agalu aud removed /
Northern Indiana; where Schuyler aft,
HIS school days, first became a clerk in
store, but, before he had attained his MI
iority, developed taste aud aptitude {,
Journalism. He established or purchase
The 81. Joseph Faiisy RegiSier al Soul
Bend. and soon made il plwcr in Il
land. lie was cauvasscr quite aA soS
as he was of age, and bore au effective pa
ip the Clay Campaign of lSld, IA Il
County (St Joseph never failed to sta,
by him, he was chosen ia 1850 uemh
OF the Convention which fralneH the ptese
Constitution OF mdiapa, aud bore a prou
nent part therein, though suil Yourg a
IN political minority.
In 1881, he was htst q candidate for Go
sefesp, and beaten 23a votes. in a poll
leA7A, by &. n. Fitch. his pemoera
leompetitor. Ia 1884, he was again noi
mated. aud WAS now riumphautly electe
as no has been al each snbsequunt (lccli
iior Representative IN Congress down,
this hour. The ablest and most etiecli
Democratic o0nvAsserS in the District ha
been suecessively pltled against him, of
with hopes Of sugeess, always doomed
be blasted. Here is Tie aggr egate vote
either side at each eleetiou;
IsSi-coIfax..,. s,lls Fitch .-,,...'.. O.