The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-21

\ low citizens that have induced , Iel-
with all my feelings, conservative ns
they are, in opposition to MANY hits
thatthe Republican party are charDsS
with, TO support the nomination of ~
man who is not the Representative,
the ultraism of the Republican mari.
but who stands before you unpledesy
only to do what is right and to exeenIs
4 the VIII of the people, and to brine te
the land peace. lOheers.l Grant NJ
! say ST cease 10 be James sBuchanan
am the Democratic platform.u TLap9b-
teri Nofsuch thing. Grant saws:
endorse your resolutions, butt cannnI
commit myself TO any particular policy
Times change, circumstances chanSs
people should be obeyed. Peacs i
necessary to restore prosperity to ouT
country; let us have peace. EApplause
The next inquiry is.does he mean il.
Can he give u us; will he do it2 Is he
not the Radical candidate. do mo,
think I am a Radical. Neither do I
think General Grant is; but am will.
ing my Radical friends shall say lam
a Radical and that Grant is. Radical
il they will vote for him. i am wIlliny
my Observation-Disclosures shall say he is a
Democrat IL they.wilL vote for him. He
was a Democrat his lfs-VOted far
James Buchanan IN 1856, Unlike Gen.
| Blair who was an anti.slaYery man Nil
his life. am willing to risk him, aud
/ whyR Why should Gen. Grant desire
the Presidency. He has to-day bet.
ter Office and that for LIE. He cannon
be President more than four years, GER
tainly not more thar eight. He is
young man-younGer than i am. He
will hardly be as old as 1 am if he
should live to be President eight years.
He has an Office better in every point
of vlew-ani Office OF more power
really and OF much less what 1 should
consider unpleasant duties. Why
then should he desire TO be
President? It could only be my
fellow citizens, five give him credit for
common sense.-And i presume his
worst enemy will not deny him that
that he wants to crafty a laudable
ambition, General Grant has children
| to live after him--He has experienced
the bounty and beneficence of his
country through its free and glorious
Institutions created by that instrument
which fell from hands little less
than immortal, the Constitution
| of the United States. A graduate
of the Military Academy of West
Point he knows how TO appreciate
the benefits and blessings derived from
free government The son of plain
| but honest and respectable parents oc-
cupyinE a position no higher in life
than that OF any honest man within the
sound of my voice, but occupying rs
| high n position rs any other honest
man may-plain, honest, unostenta-
tious, he has grown until the eyes of the
I world are conferred upon him. I'm
| der what Government other than this
could man of his condition have risen
at the age of a 10 the proud position ne
now occupies. If he is an honest man,
il there beats within his bosom that Rf.
fiction that belongs to the father for
his children, can he desire auRht but
to leave the same avenues 10 wealth,
fame, greatness and power open to his
children that were omen 10 him. Can
he have any other interest, therefore,
but the best interests of his country al
heart in the discharge of the duties de.
yolving on him should he be elected by
your suffrsges, President OF the United
States. More than that, how could he
add to his fame-how cauld he main
tain his present place in the estimation
not alone OF the people of the United
doing anything other than that which
is right and proper, and which Will
command the respect not only OF this
people but OF all the nations OF the,
enrIh2 More than all this, Gen. Grant
feels that it would be in his power as
President, more, perhaps, than It would
be in the power ofRnY other man, to give
the nation what IL SO much needs and
longs fora perfect and enduring peace.
His commanding position before the
country as uESJ III WaEt anu lISl III lub
hearts OF his loyal c0untFymeu IN all
parties, give him a right to believe THAI
he would also be first in peace. Whelh-
er he believes it or not, believe It, aud
you cannot doubt IL. Grant feels that
} his country has made him what he is,
and that he owes 1t a debt OIL gratitude
} to be paid by the best service he can
! render 1t. Grant that he is a man OF
common honesty, and you cannot deny
that his wish to be President arises part
ly from his wish to do as he
! must sec that he could do, his
cOuutrymen valuable serves.
Grant him common conviction oil rlRht
common sense of gratitude common
affection for his children, and you can
and will trust him. Do not let this
} CRY "Radical partyn and "suppoTt OF
Radicals" and of being a Radical
drive you from the man who holds out
} to YOU in prospect the only chance you
have for the demolition or the present
organizations which are living on The
idead past" the restoration OF an era
! of good feeling under his admintstra-
ton, and the formation OF parties Ut
the end of it on living issues of the
present and future, differing not as TO
!. whether the government shall be
maintained and the country preserved,
and the laws executed, but upon cues
lions OF policy and administration.
each yieing with the other in a desire
to serve and benefit the country but
differing as to the means to accomplish
the end, This was the difference be-
tween parties in the good old days
when parties were; healthful to the
land, when partie were something
more than a name. 1t nattered mol
then whether Wing or Democrat sue
ceeded, In either hands the country
was safe and the laws would be en-
Z forced. Not SO now.
But they will say, are you in favor oil
negro supremacy in the SouthT How
sincere these party leaders are can DO
illustratedfby a single fact. When the
military bill-the first reconstruction
bill-was mp in Congress 1t passed the
House of Representatives, disfranchi-
sing a large portion Of the people OF the
n South, as the present law now does.
Now mark, 1t Is not so much that ne
groes vote in the South that Ia the real
cause of complaint as the DISTINGUISHING
of many of the whites of the South. IL
is the Acknowledgement OF the negroes
and the Acknowledgement of the whites
that Is the subject of complaint. The
Democracy would have you believe
they are the especial champions of the
Acknowledgement of the white race and
have always been the opponents Of
l their acknowledgements. Now It Is u
fact,-Rhich- the records of Congress
show, that when that bill passed the
i House of Representatives and went to
this Radical Senate, the Radical Senate
struck out the DISTINGUISHING clause
and sent back to the House OF Repre-.
i sentatives substitute under which all
these people would have voted, a mo-
| ton was made to concur in.the Senate