Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-06-05
Our Candldatas.


Eight years ag0y when Republican
Convention at Chicago nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln, man not altORebher uu-
known, and wherever known respected,
the country was taken by SURPRISE but
rallied to his support as no old faYoTite
had been supported, and Ia the terrible
years that followed gave him a place
in the popular heart never accorded to
one except Washington. Now the
country is not only not surprised at,
but actually demands the nomination
Of man then living at Eaaleuas whose
name the people had never heard when
Lincoln was called from his quiet life
at Spriug felds Both YHdafeTn men, and
both reslosauts o1 Ili1uuIsf though D0Ea4
the one in Kentucky and the other in
OhfU, they were nnnainafed for the FIRST
Office in the peoples gift by National
Co Inventions held in the metropolis OF
their adopted State. Lincoln had
mission to perform, and the Convention
of 1860 called him forth to perform it,
Grant has that work to complete, and
the Convention Of 1868 asks him to come
plete it. His record in the past shows
the singleness of purpose with which
he Will pursue the task allotted to him
in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant was born April q,
1922, at Point Pleasant. Clermont Coun-
ty, Ohio. Like Lincoln, his early in-
tellectual advantages were Of the most
ordinary kind, but he was enabled to
educate himself sufficiently TO enter the
Military Academy at West Point, to
which he was fortunate in procuring a
cadetship, though at the expense Of his
name, Hiram Ulysses, which was given
him in his infancy for the one by which
he has become known all over the
world. If the clerical blunder which
inscribed him Ulysses s. could not be
erased from the records Of the Academy
neither can that name be blotted from
s.f III Z IA
graduated in lS4S and was brevebed ID
Lieut.. In the 4th Infantry. He served
through the Mexican war receiving
breVets as First Lieutenant and Cap
tain for meritOriOus conduct at the bat
tie of Molina del Rey and Chepultepec.
After the war with Mexico he contin-
ued in the army for few years. while
serving In Oregon in1852, was promoted
to a captaincy. The next year he re-
signed, going into business at st. Louis,
and in 1859 he removed to Galena, Ill,
where he was conducting an extensive
tannery when the late war broke out.
Capt. Grant was among the first to offer
his services to the Government, and
was given command of a regiment By
the governor Of Illinois, with which he
went into active service in Missouri.
1t was not long until he was appointed
a Brigadier-G 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 a depressing effect upon the
country, and the people were willing to
take a leader on trust if he would only
come heralded with q victory, however
insignificant. Rich Mountain gave
Mcclellan command of the Armies
of the United States; the unfortunate
/ expedition to Belmont doomed Grant to
comparative Obscurity at Cairo, until
near the close of the first year of the
/ war. Then the brilliant victories of
| Fort DOnelson and Pittsburgh Landing,
4 the first Of any significance gained by
/ Union army, could do, little for him,
and while the former made him a Maj
4 or General the latter deprived him of q
/ command. All eyes were turned to-
I ward the Grand Army of the Potomac,
4 in anticipation of the great things it
1would accomplish When its leader chose
i to move upon Lee at Manassas; and
/ decisive actions upon the Cumberland
and the Tennessee were not considered
while people were amused with prom
/ ises never to be realized, and kept in
/ constant expectation by assurances that
all was quiet along lines a little nearer
/ home. It were useles to attempt dis
! CriptiOn of the actions now, but when
! Grant completed a victory that had be-
/ gun as a defeat, by leading in person q
/ charge of six regiments, he showed that
u General might promise little and vet
/ accomplish much. Soon after he had
| worsted the ablest Rebel leader in the
South who was killed in that fierce en-
gagement at Shiloh Church, ,HaIleck as
! sumed command in the South west,
and the victor was rewarded for his two
/ successes by subsequent neglect until
/ September, 1862. He was then appoint
ed to the command of the Army OF
| West Tennessee, his force constituting
the 18th Army Corps, and fixed his
headquarters at Jackson in that State.
In the meantime Mcclellan had been
driven from befoRe Richmond, Pope had
been defeated at the second battle OF
Bull Run, and an uncertain victory ut
Antietam had closed the career OF a
General who was called to the head of
the army in the fervOr of popular en-.
thusiasm, and had been restored to COM
mand in a moment of popular despair.
During the dark and terrible Winter
that followed, the Army of the Potomac
under its successive Commanders Law
on the banks of the RappRhanocIS, and
fought the Inflated battles ofFredricks-
burg and ChanGerYille, while Grant and
Sherman were quietly working out
their plans on the Mississippi and va
zoo. When Lee moved northWard In
the Spring and Summer of 1863, and
Meade was enabled to gain his victory
at Gettysburg, the capitulatiOn of Penn
beFtOn added Vicksburg to Gettysburg
in the associations connected with the
ever-glOrious Fourth of July. In de-