The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-05-28
The Onening Canvass.


The campaign opens brilliantly. The re-
spouse to Chicago shows that the Conveu-
ton struck the public heart. The record
of Gen. Grant is the most glorious chapter
of our history. Whatever may be his poll.
tics, no citizen can be insensible to Grants
merits or the luster of his name In know
ing Grant we know ourselves. Like Tenny-
sons great Duke he stands before us great
in saving common sense and ''in simplicity
sublime The conqueror of Lee is hidden
forth to conquer Lee'ssremaining allies aud
as the canvass deepens and ripens it will be
found, we think, that our candidate will
win to his standard large part of the party
known as "War Democrats" The leaders
of the Democracy are sorely distressed for a
candidate They have dozen in training.
Hancock il kept on fine piece of ground
near Blair's place, fu the vicinity of Wash
ington, and is in the hands Of company of
veteran political trainers. They manage
him as, carefully as MIR, Coburn aud Mr..
McCoole are managed before entering the
prize-ring. He is dieted, and made to take
long walks, and to look like statesman,
and TO sigp abstruse letters, which people
are to presume he writes, BY July he will
be in trim, and we shall probably have him
in the ring. We suggest that Gen. Sheri-
dan capture Satantee, the ''big Indian vino
stole Hancock's uniform coat, and send
him East. All the party wants is coat
with gilt buttons, and Satantee will COM
mend himself by bis ancestry at least to the
tribes of Tammany Hall. In the event of
Hancock's failure we shall have Mcclellan,
or Pendleton, or one Of the buried members
Of the Adams family Any body to beat
Grant
1t will require somebody to make a re-
spectacle canvass. The meeting. of the
Union League shows the character of the
men whose active support Grant and Colfax
command We find The representatives of
the most conservative interests of the Re
public taking an active part in the cam.
paign, These men feel that the success of
the Republican party means stable gov
ernment Reconstruction, the healing Of the
wounds Of the war, generosity, justice, am
nesty to the repentant, and suffrage - the
worthy They see how sadly and WEAKLY
the nation drags its way under the. infa-
NOUS administration of Andrew johnson,
and they look to Grant and Colfax to give
uE new life and vigor. - @
Our friends from Maine unto California
are warm with enthusiasm. Let the work
begin at once. Let this canvass be the
most thorough ever known. The enemy
will move heaven and earth to take pos
session Of Congress, oraby some means to
divide our forces or throw confusion into |
the Republican party. 1t is not enough |
that we elect Gen. Grant. We must utter.
" rout the Copperhead party, aud destroy
It's power for evil Already we see the bet
ter classes Of the Democracy lowering over
the negroes and offer them suffrage. With !
Thorough canvass we can polkso large
majority that their party will be abandoned,
and the hateful and bitter spirit which it
mas fostered sent to rot with the Toryism /
OF the revolution. A man will then be
almost as ashamed to say that he voted |
against Grant and Colfax as our grand. |
fathers If they still lived wouldbe to confess
TO having opposed Washington and Adams !,
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