The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-16
Military Men Not wanted

mAAAtGEg 4CA NOS 1&Mt~O
JOHN T. HOFFMAN, Mayor of New
York city, and Democratic candidate
for Governor of the State, opened
the campaign in a speech at Buffalo
on the 8th inst. In the course of his
speech he made the following allusion
to General GRANT:
The nation has placed three stars
on his shoulders, and | would be the
last man in the world to say that they
ought not to have been placed
there. ] would not take one
of them off. | would let him
wear them as he has earned
them; but l would not by my voice or
vote, sustain the policy of the party
which puts him in nomination, which,
while it leaves the stars upon his
shoulders, takes them off the flag of
the country. They stand emblazoned
upon that glorious old flag, each star
the representative of a sovereign,
independent, and equal State. But
we want no military President. The
country wants statesman. The day
of the sword is passed.
Mr.. HOFFMAN forgot to announce
the time when military men became
so Objectionable to the Democratic
party. In the days of JACKSON, mill
tary heroes were at a high premium,
and so late as 1864, the party made
much of the military record of its
candidate for President Mr.. HoFF-
MAN, also, failed to state how it was
that FRANK BLAIR received the nom
ination for Vice President on account
of his military record. Will Mr..
HOFFMAN insist on BLAIR's resign
ing in case he should become Presi-
dent by reason of the insanity or
assassination of SEYMOUR Doubt
less that would be an exceptional
case, and under such peculiar circum-
stances a military President might be
endured. BLAIR is all military. He
has already announced his intention
of playing CROMWELL to the next
Congress, in case he should be elected
But we presume Mr.. HOFFMAN has
reason for disliking military men. His
particular friends in New York city,
upon whose frauds he based his hopes
of election, have wholesome recol-
lection of the military who put stop
to their amusements in 1863 in MUIR
dering inoffensive women and chill
dren and burning orphan asylums.
The solid tramp of those veteran regi-
ments from the army Of the Potomac
as they marched up Broadway, still
rings unpleasantly in their ears. They
failed to create the diversion in favor
of LEES rebel army that they desired
on that occasion, and their curses have
rested upon military men ever since.
Therefore, we are not surprised that
Mr.. HOFFMAN, sympathizing with his
New York friends, cannot tolerate the
military, and has a wholesome dread
of a military President. He is not
alone in his objections to a military
President. The rebels down South
endorse his objections. They, too,
don't want a military President, un-
less he will pledge himself to destroy
the law making power of the Govern
ment, and establish a despotism in its
place, with the late rebels of the
South at its head.
But the very objections of these
rebels teach the peaceable citizens Of
the loyal States wholesome lesson. If
HOFFMAN and his friends, the New
York rioters and rebels in the South,
don'twanta military PEesident,it is be-
cause they believe military Presi-
dent knows how to preserve peace,
and that he will do it. Hence, mill
tary President is the preference oil
law-abiding citizens, in all parts OF
the country. When GRANT says,
Let US have peace, they believe it
is full of meaning, as were his other
express; ons, unconditional surren-
render" propose to move imme-
diately on your works" and +" shall
fight it out on this line if it takes all
Summer" New York rioters and
Southern rebels and wandering Ku-
Klux ba ndits will understand it the
same way and there aojH be peace.