The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-06-05

so4dlefe OF the Repuhlic BY adyancing the
fret a her living sOldiers 20 thu Highest
place the hand. E~verywhere they have
given 'eowegs for tho graves Of the fallen.
brothers, aAa they are preparing TO give
their votes for the liviag defenders Of the
nation.
Yes, the nominations Of Gran. and COlfax
have been welcomed throughout the whole
land With an enthusiasm even exceeding that
amid which they were presented BY the Con.
V~eniion. Not a ripple Of personal complains
from the defeated candidates or their friends,
not a faint Of local dissatisfaction from the
State competing for the nomination to the
Vice Presidency, disturbs the harmony with
which politicians, the people aud the press
everywhere indoIse the work done At Chicago.
Eyen the more prominent among the lights
Of the Democratic PRESS and party confess
that il is the very best that could have been
made. The New York BoTid said Of the next
President before the Republicans nominated
him;'
He has within him every manly quality
which will cause the name Of Lieutenant
General Giant 10 live forever ia history
II is possible that the comments Of the
New York HeFalR on the nomination OF the
Republican ticket, the day after it was made,
Aaey AANN NoNNRNA l0AA A0AANGs - AntAN AAANf
appeal them. They should be put on re-
cord in Republican papers, as that journal
may have many summerSets between now
and November Il said:
In u. S. GRAFT, the Genetal-in-Ch ie OF the
army, and in Schuyler Collar, Speaker Of
the National House of Representatives, the
Republican party has placed a strong, cohe-
sive and popular Presidential ticket before
the people. Grant, the great captain Of the
age, has also proved thai in the administra.
tiOn Of the civil Affairs of a peace establish
ment he possesses those rare endowments Of
practical craftsmanship which qualify him
for all the responsibilities Of the executive
head Of the Government in any emergency.
It Is the general impression among the Amer
lean people that in his hands their interests
and the honor and prosperity OF the country
will oe safe, His associate, Speaker COlfax,
Tor one Of his age, is a man Of great expert
enee and superior abilities and sagacity In
our political Affairs, and, in the event OF =
call to the White House to fill the unexpired
term Of his colleague, no doubt can be enter
tanned that he will give US a good adminIs-
~lrRtion. Nor Is the fattering reputation Of
these men limited 10 the United States, for
it is substantially the same abroad as at
home. The news Of their nomination will
strengthen the confidence Of the friends Of
" the great republic over all the warld--on
the Thames, she Seine, the Rhine, the Nsya
and the Danube, and from the mighty ANA
zon, rolling its food Of waters down the
equatorial line, to the imperial Yang-tse.Ki-
ang Of China, " the son of the sea- Nor
will that honest faith in American securities
at FraRkfort-on -the-Maiu be weakened with
the prospect OF the transfer from aud after
the 4th Of March, 1869, Of the reins Of our
government to Gran. and Colfax. The
ChicAgo'C pnvention could not have chosen a
Better ticket. ThsFaif splitter and the tail
or were a powerful team; but the tanner and
the editor wall match them. There is moth.
ing like leather" and the newspaper Is the
third estate Of the Nineteenth Century.
Grant and COlhAx are a strong ticket.
How true il is, as said Col. Forney, in his
Washington ChroRieie, yesterday, that .
a." Every calnmny these journals utter is at
once answered by their own recent compli-
ments. Only a few months ago they tOiled
sedu,ouSly TO make him their candidate for
President, and they only dropped him when
he refused to join Andrew Johnson in a cru
SADIE sgSinst the Union people of the South."
Long ago the Herald said It was the gem
eral feeling that Grant is the man for the
crisis, that this feeling is not confined, strict
~, to any party--which Il is not, though, Of
course, Il is strongest in the Union ranks
but that the mass Of the Democratic party
those less welded to party than the country
-world not Object .bthe election Of a man
whose devotion to the public good has al
ways been supreme, and who has rendered
service to tie Union which the nation can
never forget. Nor is there any reason 10
believe that the people Of the Southern
States would regard bis election as CALLING
to their pride, or In any way hostile 10 their
welfare. To him, more than to any one man,
they owe the defeat Of their attempt TO Sc
eede but il is eertaia the great mass Of the
Southern people will soon regard that defeat
as the most fortunate event o: their history.
A loyal Virginia gentleman said, at a
Grant and Collar ratification meeting the
other day, that there is an old adage that
words are feminine and deeds masculine,
and that General GTans, viewed from that
standpoint, Is a masculine. Grant acts his
tory. he leaves Others to write and speak
history. That same VirginiAn gloFi6ed 10
the prospect Of the election Of this ticket,
when again should be seen every star in
the glorious Constitution revolving around
that great central snn, the General Govrrn-
ment-' There Is a majority Of The whites in
several Southern States believed TO be favor
able 10 the Republican ticket, though very
many Of these are not, from political mo.
tiyes, openly so. The Freedmeu, bow ever,
will 70 ia a body Cor the part Of liberty, as
th ey have done in the recent elections. Re-
publicanim, UniOnism, and Liberty, are
synonymes with them, as ATE Democracy,
Sscessionism, and Slavery. They know their
friends. and those who made them citizens.
They know thss the Republican is TIE only
true national party, the party Of loyalty, Of
devotion To- liberty, Of the traditions Of our
revolutionary fathers; the patty Of the ma
tons confidence aRd lis hopes-the party 70
which the nation looks for our future being
nude better and pursr than our past TIE
most BtreaROns Efforts viii undoubtedly be
mads IN the SOath By the igposant white
Demosrass 70 defeat Gen. Grant. This is
sufficiently evident from the movements al
ready made puoiie Ia the recent attenpts 60
defeat the Republican Constitutions and
sandidates3 ,bstS IS in the case Of the at
tempted detection Of the Freedmen 10 Tall
Eero For GoTcrn6f Of Boaisiaua, II is seen
how sigRal will be their Allure. The entire
maebinsy Of Tbe Republican party 10 the
7 Southern States. Is in The hands Of Crant-s