The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-09-03
President Grant.

General Washington was our first and
most illustrious President of the United
States. He was not only great general,
but great statesman, erich In saving
common sense" His knowledge of men
was wonderful. He selected Thomas
Jefferson for his Secretary of State, and
Alexander Hamilton for his Secretary of
the Treasury, two men of great genius, of
opposite political views, but pure patriots
| ard ardent lovers of their country. One
had served in high civil positions; the
other was distinguished for his military
services and his forensic and literary
abilities. No one disputed the acknowl-
edged supremacy Of the Father of his
Country-frst In war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts Of his countrymen.
Next 20 him was the Hero Of new Or
leans-a great general and great Presi-
dent, who smothered the incipient South
| Carolina rebellion, and whose regret was
that he had not hung the traitor Calhoun,
| the political father OF the aristocratic reb-
| els of 1861.
The rebellion has produced the greatest
living general of the age, the commander
of the largest and most efficient army of
modern times, offlcered by the abiest gen
erals, composed of the bCne and sinew of
! the American people, and never surpassed
| in heroic bravery and love of liberty by
any body of soldiers in ancient or modern
times. This general, so beloved, not only
| by his brother soldiers but by his fellow
citizens, will be the next President, and
we have therefore headed this article
| President Grant
General Grant, by his great admins
trative abilities, his intuitive knowledge
of men, his determined will, his great
moderation, his pure patriotism, and his
sound and unerring common sense, is pc
cuiarly fitted and marked out for the
| Presidency, to close up and heal the
wounds inflicted by the rebellion by a
policy comprised in one word, "Peace."
No man is fitted for the Presidency who
has not an accurate knowledge of the
Southern people and of their late leaders
| OF the civilians, Jefferson Davis and
Alexander IL. Stephens, two unrepentant
rebels, are known to every one-the one
as laying the corner stone of slavery, and
the other who, in the last moments of the
expiring rebellion, said 4: "Sooner than
we should ever be united again | would
be willing to yield up everything [ have
on earth, and if it were possible would
sacrifice a thousand lives before [ would
succumb." This mans mad ambition has
caused the loss of hundreds of thousands
of lives and many hundred millions of
treasure aud to-day, an indicted traitor,
he is parading himself in England to ex-
cite the sylnpathies of his blockade-run-
ming friends
Cobb and Thompson, the absconding
| secretaries the rebel commissioners, Sill
dell and Mason Vice President Breck-
/ iDridge, the wordy Wise, and the intcm-
perate Toombs, are too well known to
require a microscope. But there are 9th
ers whose characters are not SO we'll known
to the people at large.
General Grant wrote from Ficksburg ::
III try to judge fairly and honestly, and
it became patent to my mind early ia the
rebellion that the North and the South
could never live at peace with each other
except as one nation, and that icitltout Slu-
U0y." This is the starting point, and his
acquaintance with the South is intimate
and accurate.
As commander, he has had to study
the characters of Lee and his officers, and
he knows them thoroughly, better than
any other man in the country, and better
than the gentlemen themselves. He
knows how to deal with the South, and
can estimate accurately the pretensions of
such belligerent gentlemen as Hampton,
Forrest, and Pike