The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-27


istered. They know that the whole country
trusts and cOnfi1es in him-that his whole
public career gives conclusive. proof of his
unsel6sh patriotism, and that the course his
love OF the Union may prompt him to pursue
will be in conformity with the will of the
people, and will therefore command the assent
and support of the whole country. The natu-
raj effect of this conviction in the South will
be to turn the public mind away from all
schemes of violent resistance to this laws, and
to induce them to rely on President Grant for
such wise, tolerant, and impartial administra-
tion as will either commend these laws to the
Judgment and favor OF the people, or else
show the necessity of their being amended or
replaced by others. This is another OF the
"ways in which Grant will give us peace"
But there is still another class of men at
the South to be dealt with in this matter.
There is in every section Of almost every
Southern State a class of lawless, reckless,
upscrupulous vagsbonds-men utterly with
out principle, impoverished by the war, with
out modes or habits of industry who flourish
best in the midst of strife, and whose profit
lies in tanning the ashes OF domestic war.
These are the men who commit the murders
and assassinations which mark the political
canvass in the South. They lead the cry for
Frank Blair because Blair promises them new
revolutions aud new wars aud it is only in
such connections that they have any chance
of profit and Advancement. Aud SO long as
they have the passion, the pride, the ambi-
tion of the leaders OF the Democratic party
and their hopes of success to back them, they
will prosecute these schemes of murder AMI
violence, and prevent the return of that
''pesce'' of which the South and the
country stand in such pressing need.
With Seymour for President and Blair for
Vice p President both standing on Wade Hamp-
toms declaration in the party platform, that
the Reconstruction acts of Congress are "usur-
Observation-Disclosures revolutionary, null
and void" and with the Brodhead letter to
give practical force and effect to this sweeping
declaration-with the whole patronage of the
Government at their command, and the moral
influence and support of the whole Democratic
party at their back, they could keep the whole
South in state of cOmmotion, and prevent
the return Of quiet, confidence and consequent
prosperity for many years to come. But with
Grant in the Presidency they would have no
motive foI doing So and would find, too, that
| there was an iron hand and determined will
| at the helm, to repress by the use of armed
! legal force all crime, violence, and disorder
with which the local civil power should prove
! incompetent to cope. Once convinced of this
| fact, they, too, would promptly "accept tue
| situation, and no longer stand in the way OF
| giving these reconstruction laws fair and i'm
| partial trial. This is another OF the ways in
which Grant will give us peace"
The whole country-Nortb and South, East
and West-Republicaus and Democrats, will
feel that in Grant we have for President a
patriot aud not politician-a man under no
such obligations and with no such relations to
any party as will constrain him TO do at its
bidding, and for its interest, what he does not
regard as conducive to the public gOod-a m an
of clear judgment, practical force and energy
of character, and devoid of all ambition but
that of promoting the peace and OF advancing
the power and prosperity of his country. He
| mil ha thn fnp1 nf M oafi nr aptx lie
hold upon the confidence and faith OF the peo-
pie will protect aud defend him against sub
servience to any clique or undue dependence
upon any faction. And this will be another of
the Influences which will give Grant the power
to ''give us peace"
We trust we have answered the Worlds
queries respectfully If not satisfactorily. We
do not believe that journal doubts the sub.
stantial justice of this view of the case. We
do cot believe the World itself thinks that the
public confidence in the future woul1 be
greater in case OF SeyMour's election than in
case of Grants. Seymour is the favorite, the
''idol" the Wo,h styles him, of a political
party. Outside of that party he commands
no confidence. His acts would bs regarded as
in the interest of his party, and this feeling,
whether just or unj just, would impair public
confidence in him, and thus deprive him of
the power to give the country peace. Grant is
not party man, nor a politician in any sense
of the word. He commands at this moment
the confidence of very large part of the De-
mocratic party to greater degree than does
Governor Seymour himself. His election re-
stores harmony and unity of action to the two
great departments of the national Govern
ment, and thus ends what has been for the
last three years potent element of public
disturbance and strife. And before the four
years of his first term shall have expired,
the whole country will have reason to rejoice
in the restoration of "peacs and its sequence
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