Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-13
RADICALS AGAINS GRANT.
Firing i'm the Hear.
IFrom the Buffalo Courier, july 81

From the Buffalo Courier. July 81
We much fear that the Radicals, COM
mitted as they are to the cham pionship OF
Grant, will be forced to forego their ancient
boast that "all the morality" of the country
is marshaled in their ranks. From var
ious religious sources we note expressions
of dissatisfaction coming up, and many
pulpits that %ere Ihumped for Lincoln give
out dolefully uncertain sound as to
Grant. 1t is we'll known, for instance, that
leading men at the great Methodist Confer
ence, which was in session while the opera
house nominations were made, felt nervous
as to the effect on the christian COM
munity of the nomination of a
man whose reputation for godliness is not
less criticisable chan Grants. 1t is assert
ed that this same influence aided to procure
the rejection of Wade, on the ground that
two men OF moral antecedents so similar in
some respects could not well De carried on
one ticket. In addition to these and other
indications we could enumerate, we now
gan of intense Radicalism as well as of re-
ligion, which beats the ''gong of grace"
in the ears of Grants supporters as fol-
lows: -+
General Grant is not a fit man for a
Christian to support. Here now is
this speechless sphynx enveloped in a
cloud of tobacco smoke-silent, stubborn
man of the world. Suppose he takes it into
his head to convert his four years. gront OF
power into life lease, or any other whim
He has the army at his command, and eve-
ry evil influence in the land will support
him. We do not say this will be, hut is il
proper for Christian men to give over the
Executive power of this nation into such
hands?
This is an unkind ease of ssfiring in the
rear" when it is remembered that, imme-
diately after his nomination, the Washing
ton papers announced Grant as having
bought pew and attended church, and oil
having pretermitted his conversation on
"horse" and "pups," one Sunday, long
enough to dilate on his admiration Of
Methodism as aehurch system.
Quite as cruel also are the shots which
drop now and then into the Grant camp
from certain Radicals of the Western Ger.
man, as well as Eastern original abolition.
ist stripe. The last of these guerilla dis
charges we have noticed Grant receives al
the hand of a German Radical organ, TIL,
Future, which is published in indianapolis
and purpOrts to be sort of mouth piece o.
the Turner Associations. A smoking
whisky-supping, -nothingistic shoul.
der-strap wearer" is what The Faturt
contemptuously calls Grant, ere it pro-
ceeds, under four separate headings, to ex'
plain why it and its friends cannot give thu
Chicago candidate their votes. We give
8. We will not vote for Grant, because
the Chicago platform is not a forward, bu
q retrogade step. We will here only cal
attention to that plank which declares thai
negro suffrage must be carried out in thu
South, but not in the North. By this sour
rilous pusillanimity it is sought to inveiglt
conservative votes, but this delusion will
soon be dispelled. Whoever is opposed t.
negro suffrage in the North will wish Il
see the South exempt from the same bles
4. We will not vote for Grant, because
by the result of the recent i'm
parchment trial, the powers of tn,
President have been enlarged; that t.
place them in the hands of an ambitious
soldier, in case of revolution or foreign
war, may prove the destruction of the re-
public. Silent, ambitious Grant is bes
adapted to carry out reasonable designs
more SO than a Democratic President from
the civil ranks. Democrats cannot make
matters worse than they now are. Let then
exert themselves to this end it will bring
the public sooner to lis sober sense.
1t is sad thus to see that Grant, who il
perhaps the most accommodating OF poll
ticians-who has in fact mo policy" at all
or any policy whatever, just as may b.
thought best by his managers-is succeed
ing so poorly in conciliating the warning
elements of his party. 1t would seem tx
be coming true, as the Neto York Tribun
prophesied, that the people twill not stan(
deaf and dumb candidate" and that "th,
epauleted sphynX," as great popular pa
geant, is not a success.