The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-08

OF the exunctlOn OF slavery was matter OF
primary and paramount interest. He knaw
nothing of the Northern and Western people
could not understand their character or tenn.
per, and had not the slightest sympathy with
their principles or sentiments. Such politioal
relations as he had sustained with tbe
people of the North had bsen with tbe
Democratic party, and from the beginning il
was evident that, aside from the question of
Union and secession, what sympathies he had
with the North were with that party. All
these things combined to deprive him of the
popular confidence and favorable preiudo
ment which contribute so much at the outset
Of every administration to its success in
carrying out its views OF public policy. He
had no capital to start with. From the verv
beginning, therefore, he was at disadvantage
with his own party; while the Democrats.
failing to capture him and bring him pri-
soner into their own political camp as thsy
hoped and tried to do by their extraordinary
demonstrations of favor Immediately after his
accession to the Presidency, became all the
more his enemies on that account.
With General Grant the case is very differ
ent. His popular strength, greater than that
of any man since General Jackson, based on
public services of which no man could deny
or doubt the magnitude or the merit, fixed
the eyes of the whole nation upon him as it's
next President, and compelled his nomination
at the hands OF the Republican party, as the
only party with whose principles and mea-
sures he had any sympathy, and of whose
attitude and action towards the Rebellion he
could approve. The opposition TO his election
was the work of the leaders rather than the
masses Of the Democratic party, and was even
on their part perfunctory rather than cordial,
prompted much more by the hope of
preventing the utter disruption and dispersal
of the party, than by any real conviction that
his election either could or ought to be pre-
vented. AS it was he received many thou
sands of Democratic votes, and the alent
sentiment of the great body of that party to-
day is one of hearty rejoicing at his success.
General Grant goes into Office with degree of
popular confidence and support greater than
has attended any of his predecessors, except
Washington, and Jackson at The beginning of
his,second term, and which will guarantee
him not only against the hostilities which the
World so eagerly and anXiOusly predicts, but
against any which the Democratic party can
ossibly array against him.
General Grant will not be, in our judgment,
so much at the mercy of party organizations,
nor so dependent upon them for support and
success, as Presidents usually fud themselves,
for the reason that he is not indebted primarily
TO any such organization for his nomination,
nor TO party considerations of any kind for his
election. His services il suppTessing the Re-
bellion gave him strength with the country
which made it necessity with the Republican
party to make him its candidate; and the
general confidence OF the whole country in
his sound judgment, practical prudence, and
disiuterested patriotism will give his admins
tratioD degree OF strength which no party
organization can resist. There will be men o
his own party, as there always are, whose ex
pectations he will dissppoint, and some wht
may be goaded into declarations of hostility
by his failure to comply with their demands
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and every day of his administration is likely
to win tenfod more support from the mass o
the Democracy, without regard to the actor
of the recognized leaders of that party, thai
it can ALLEVIATE from the Republican ranks.