The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-13

IalseuOOu. III concerns himself UnOT6
than us that he should take an early opportu-
nifty to retrsct his misrepresentation.
Ulysses Hiram Simpson Sam.
From the ". Y World.
Sundry radical organs make mouths at the
World for insisting that the nomenclature of
the radical candidate for the Presidency is in
a disagreeable and discreditable condition of
chaos. In this we think they are both ILL
tempered and inconsiderate. If General Grant
were the Democratic, as he is the radical can
didate, we should still maintain that he ought,
in justice alike to his country, his parents his
party, and himself to know his own name,
and let other people know it. A Pope being
elected Pope enjoys the privilege of electing,
also, by what name he will mount the throae
of st. Peter. But President has no such
license. Practically, of course, General Grant
will never find hiu self compelled to select
Presidential style and title, his political
career, which began with his nomination in
May, being toerably certain to close with his
defeat in November. ....
But he must always fill large place in
American history; and it is not a trivial thing
that he should go up smong the immortals
under an alas. Nor under one only. He has
certainly been described, addressed, and
known during his not yet very long life under
no fewer than four different names. His god
fathers and godmothers in baptism began by
giving him a choice of two designations tan
dem. His grandfather, thinking Hiram
'bea ntiful name," and his mother, admiring
the adventures of Ulysses, the child, after
discussion as long if not as lively as that
which preceded the baptism of Tristram
Shandy, was appointed to be called
Hiram Ulysses or Ulysses Hiram, just as
luck or his own choice might thereafter
decide He went to West Point, and
there found himself registered neither as
Hiram Ulysses nor as Ulysses Hiram, but
as Ulysses Simpson, the royal lumber mer-
ohant of Tyre having been unceremOniously
turned out of his partnership with the poly
metic ruler of Ithaca to make place for an
avunculsr Simpson, of Illinois. This change
apparently pleased neither Grant himself nor
his fellow cadets, and the latter irreverently
pitching all the quties-Syr yrian, Greek,
and Hoosier-into the Hudson together, be-
slowed upon their comrade the brief but ex-
pressive title of ''Sam." 1t was as ''Sam
Grant" that the youth of many names took
his low degree in his class; it was as "Sam
Grant" that the young lieutenant made the
campaign of MeXico it was as ''Sam Grant"
that the brevetted captain was permitted, for
| reasons which the Tribune forbears to men
tiOn among the claims of it's candidate, to re-
tire from the army and engage in the business
of tanning leather and hauling wood.
Yet when Tilton assais the General of the
armies as "drunkard, lit is not Sam Grant
whom he derides And when the General Of
the armies prevaricated with President john
son, it was not Hiram U. Grant who took the
consequences Why can we not have def
mite understanding on this point
None of the many names of Grant, it must
be confessed, is much better fitted than was
the name of Amos Cottle to
Sound forever through the trump of fame"
And this is not SO slight matter as may
hastily be supposed. For though it be true
that rose by any other name might smell as
sweet, or as Sumner, bettering Shakespeare
| expressed it, ''might dffuse an equally agree
able odor," yet there can be no doubt that
Destiny, when she sets about making men or
| places permanently illustrious, commonly
| shows fine ear for harmony in giving them
designations euphoniously fitted to their rank
| Such designations become part of the music
of Nature, and of that fore-ordered rhythm OF
things whereof Mr.. Emerson tells u.s.
| "You cannot wave your staff In air,
| or dip your pa die in the lake,
But ii carves the bow OF beauty there,
And the ripples In rhymes the oars forsake,"
John Milton might perchance have written
the paradise LOST and "Comus, 4" had he
been born Shuflebottom and baptized Adoni-
ram but Nature, abhorrent of cacophonies
chose more wisely for him and us, as also she
did when she gave us, by the hand of William
Shakespeare, what she might have dealt out
to as through Peter Scroggins.
Nothing can be more respectable than the
name of Wiggins. Yet who will refuse to be
thankful that the Father of his country has
come down to us not as a Virgins but as a
| Washington
There be many poor and aw-breaking
names in Austria, but the fortune of war,
which has put Austerlitz and Wagram and
Marepgo and Aspern into the mouths of men
for ever, passes in silence over Ips and Murz-
zuschlsg. The barons of England might have
brought John Lakeland to bay as well at loot
ing or at Leatherhead as at Runnymede, and
are we to believe it was but deaf chance
which guided their steps 2 If the poets and
the authors of the future, however, have little
TO expect from any possible settlement of the
! quadrilateral quarrel over the names of Grant,
it is at least to be hoped that they may be
spared the calamity Of bearing the four in
full. From such prospect even Tupper or
Bancroft might reool.
Nor is 1t just "to the unborn" For some
time to come it is likely that here aud there
throughout the country there will be found
fond parents so perverted by the gratultous
perusal of the Tribune as to desire to bestow
upon their helpless male offspring the name or
names of the Radical candidate whom Mr..
Greeley has been morally cowhided" into
supporting. The sins of the parents, we are
told, shall be visited upon the children, but il
really is hard to believe that the Justice could
N. tIo &c 1,