The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-06-04
OUR CANDIDATES.
Gen. u. s. Grant.

! Gen. U. s. Grant.
| Eight years ago, when a Republican
Convention at Chicago nominated
Abraham lincoln, a man notaltogethe
unknown, and wherever known respect
ed, the country was taken by surprise
but rallied to his support as no old favor
lte had never been supported, In the ter
rible years that followed gave him Z
place in the popular heart never accord
Ell to any one except Washington. Now
the country Is not only not surprised al
but actually demands the nomination o
q man then living at Galena, whose
l.alne the people had never heard when
Lincoln was called from his quiet home
at Springfield. Both Western men and
both residents of Illinois, though born
the one in Kentucky and and the Other
i'm Ohio, they were nominated for the
tional Conventions held in the lnetropO
lis of their adopted State. Lincoln had
mission to perform, and the Conven-
ton of 1860 called him forth to perform
it; Grant has that work to complete,
and the Convention of 1868 ask him to
complete it. His record in the past
shows the singleness of purpose with
which he will pursue the task allotted
to him, i'm the future.
Ulysses S. Grant was born April q,
1922, at Point Pleasant, Clermont Coun-
ty, Ohio. Like Lincoln, his early in
telectlal advantages We're of the most
ordinary kind, but he was enabled to ed
ucate himself sufficiently toenter the
Military Academy at West Point, to
which he was fortunate in procuring Il
cadetship, though at the expense of his
name, Hiram Ulysses, which was given
him in infancy for the one by which he
has become known all over the world
If the clerical blunder which inscribed
him Ulysses 5. could not be erased from
the records of the Academy, neither can
that name be blotted from the scroll of
1884 and was breveted I'd Lieut. in the
4th Infantry. He served i'm the Mexi-
can war receiving brevets of First
Lieutenant and Captain for meritorious
conduct at the battles Of Molina de Rey
and Chepultepec. After the war with
Mexico he continued in the army for a
few years, and while serving in Oregon
in 1852, was promoted to a captaincy.-
The next year he resigned, going into
business at st. Louis, and in 1859 he re-
moved to Galena, ILL.,, where he wascon-
Quoting an extensive tannery when the
recent war broke out. Capt. Grant was
among the first to offer his services to
the Government, and was given COM
mand of a regiment by the Governor of
Illinois, with which he went into act
i've service in Missouri. 1t was not
long until he was appointed Brigadier
General Of Volunteers aug, 1861, and
assigned to the command of the District
of Cairo.
The unfortunate battle Of Bull Run,
and the varying fortunes in the South
West had depressing effect upon the
and the people were willing to
take leader OH trust if he would only
come herald with II victory, however
Rich Mountain gave NJ
Clellan command of the Armies of the
United States the unfortunate eXpedi-
ton t. Belmont doomed Grant to COM
parative obscurity at Cairo, until near
the close of the first year of the war
Then the brilliant victories of Fort
Donelson and Pittsburgh Landing, the
first of any significance gained by
Union army, could do little for him. and
while the former made him a Major
General, the latter deprived him of
All eyes were turned to-
wards the Grand Army of the Potomac
i'm anticipation of the great things it
would accomplish when its leader chose
TO move upon Lee at Manassas and de-
cisive actions upon the Cumberland and
the Tennessee were not considered,
while people were amused with prom
ises never to be realized, and kept in
expectation by assurances that
all was quiet along lines little nearer
home. 1t We're useless to attempta de-
seription of these actions now, but
when Grant completed a victory that
had begun as a defeat, by leading in per-
son charge of six regiments, he show
ed that u General might promise little
and yet accomplish much. Soon after
he had worsted the ablest Re BILE leader
in the South, who was killed in that
|ierce engagement at Shiloh Church,
Halleck assumed command in the South
w est, and the victor was rewarded for
his two successes by subsequent neglect
until September, 1862 He was then ap-
pointed to the command of the Army of
West Tennessee his forces const ituted
he 18th Army Corps, and fixed his
headquarters at Jackson in that State
In the meantime Mcclellan had been
driven from before Richmond, Pope hadf
been defeated at the second battle o
Bull Run, and All uncertain victory at
Antietam had closed the career of Gen
eral who was called to the head of the
army in the fervor of popular enthusi-
asm, and had been restored to command
in a moment of popular despair. Dur
ring the dark and terrible winter that
followed, the Army of the Potomac un-
der its successive commanders lay on the
banks of the Rappahannock, and fought
the ill-fated battles of fredericksburg,
and Charlottesville, while Grant and
Sherman were quietly working out
their plans on the Mississippi and the
Yazoo, When Lee moved northward
in the Spring ard Summer Of 1868, and
Meade was enabled to gain his great
victory at Gettysburg. the capitalization
Of Penberton added Vicksburg to Get
tysburg in the association connected
with the ever glorious Fourth of July
In detailing the appointments Of Major
Generals which had been made in the
regular army, Grant once modestly
said; "After the capiulation of Vicks-
burg was added" as if himself uncon-
scious of the importance Of an even that
had given the army leader who con-
luered peace for the country, and
makes him to-day the candidate of the
great Republican party for President,
an Office which he would not desire were
not the people intention giving him this