The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-09-03
TIE PHILOSOPHY oT GaANT's ELEC-
III


Washington was ard is accepted as
the embodiment of original American
independence; John dams and Thomas
Jefferson are e'orifiad because of their
participation in framing the fundamen-
tai Instruments of our Government
Abraham Lincoln lives in the memory
of loving reople because of the iGen
eifieatiou of his name with those grand
events which consp:Ted to save the Nh
ton from Destruction and which saw j.
purged of lis sin and shame !; and in
the character of the grand hero OF
armed, victorious Cnionism, the loyal
people of the United States accept Gen
eral Grant as the fi'test living man to
set up as the symbol OF Patriotism an6
Peace. The Philosophy OF Grants
election is admirably set forth By the
Washington Chronicle as follows:
One little month has marvcliously clarified
the public mind and swept from : e path Of
changes wrought since Seymour and Biair's
nomination almost seem to be the work OF
magic and read them, even in the
great calm that still tranGuiIzes political
parties, as easily As if they bad been written
on the arches of the skies. There is indeed
a bad reverse to the picture in the revived
ANNOYANCE of the old rebel leaders, but this
only makes more distinct the heal by iDdi-
cations among other classes and III other
sections.
Nothing touches the American heart so
nearly as dignity in Presidential candi-
date, unless it be his silence. Loud and
ooisterous as our political struggles are. the
veIy partisans VIII ma Ike thc'n are offended
at any imitation of their coarseness on the
PIT OF their leaders !; and even if this were
i.ot so to them, it IS Individually true of
the masses, who both make anu unmake |
our great political Ambitions. General
Grants dignity and silence not of to-
day. He is not playing the part of nom |
inee. He simply exhibits the qualities that |
him when he under the
cloud of Halleck's di>pleasure i'll the hrst
wear oftle war, when he heard the grateful
aPplauseS OF Congress and the people after
the fall of Vickshurg, and when finally he
stood before Richmond receiving the rebel
surrender, and knew that his name was
the object of the blessings and prayers of
thirty millions Of men, women, and chill
..Een. No exuitation ever a fallen foe-no
seif-prai>e in receiving the honors OF res
cueJ nation. Such n spectacle, beginning
in the midst Of complaints of failure and
extending 10 the moment Of transcendant
triumph is strongly calculated to excite
people like aa-s, when it is repeated III the
midst OF a n1oinC n,uotis political strugSi".
THIS being the fixed habitudc of Grant in
var and in the victories Of war, it is very
Easy to anticipate his bta airing i'll the admin
strstion of the Government he has saved.
And here we have the philosophy that
makes Grants election inevitable. If the
ebei Democracy were as crafty as they were
,,uel-if they had SO lCier like Hancock
IS the If leader instead of a sympathizer like
eymour-if their platform was pledae of :
eace instead of proc lamation of HOSTILE ,
ies-they would go down before the Repub-
lean party under such Il commander. And
that else but defeat, terrible and complete, ,
to be the fate of men who, convicted be-
pre- all the world of the greatest crime lii ,
,at worlds modern experience, and who, G
rst coniessiny coBtriton for that crime,
Wv boasts OF it, discard every lesson of c
istorv, and take issue with the Great Cap .
lin to whom their Southern Chiefs owe f
10 il lives and fortunes: r