The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-01
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been in a talking humOr. The most
interesting portion of the converse
ton relates to the causes which in
fiuenced Gen. Grant to enter the
political arena. They are summed
up in the assertion that he feared if
a Democratic President and Congress
should come into power they might
abolish the office which he held at
the head of the army. The New
York World very happily treats the
ridiculous side of this conjecture in
the following:
Aportent indeed! The talking OK
of Rome, the singing statue of
Egypt. sink by comparison into
phonetic commonplace. Grant has
calculated his innermost soul. As
Rufus Choate once declared that he
would empty his whole heart con.
corning Cicero, eve so Ulysses the
Silent has actually emptied his whole
heart concerning, not Cicero indeed,
nor vet Demosthenes, but concern
ing himself, than whom no creature
to himself more precious Or more
sacred hath ever in the round of time
existed.
The words of such a man speaking
upon such a theme cannot be too
widely circulated or pondered too
deeply. How they ever came to be
spoken at all is not lightly to be left
unquestioned. Oracles were ever
accompanied from the earliest times
by particular conditions in nature.
Sometimes they came with the roll
ing of supernal thunders and with
the blaze of blasting bolts. Some
times a mighty wind went before
them, tossing the oaks in the forest
and the ships on the sea. Some
times the apocalyptic voice whis-
pered still and small. The ~revela-
tons of Grant were preceded, as the
Herald which records them informs
US, by a shower which ceased before
it began, and which was so dry that
it would not ven wet a Summer
coat" Also, by "a cloud which
paled before the rising wind at :
o'clock" Also, by usually turbu-
lent wave sleeping peacefully in the
lap of the land" Also, by "a lusty
breeze" and by 1.-THE sun, rising red
faced and hot from his bed in the
sea-"
All this. We ought to say, oc-
Cured at Long Branch; and when
all this had occurred the President,
sitting ION the right hand one of a
piece of expensive furniture from the
door" of his own cottage. took his
cigar out of his mouth, opened his
lips. and recited wonderful things.
Some of these wonderful things con-
cerned the past, some the present,
and some the future. Perhaps the
most impressive of them all was the
Presidents account Of how he came
to be President.
With muci, frankness the Presi-
dent announces that his only objec-
ton to becoming President ros
from the circumstance that in be-
coming President he was obliged to
give up being General of the Army.
He stood between the two offices like
Macheath between the two drabs in
the opera:
How happy could I be with either
Were t'OtIer lear charmer away
And his choice was finally deter
mined by the enlightened ~considera-
ton that if ne let anybody else be-
come President he might lose his
commission as General. II wasn't
sorry" said the President, "to be a
candidate, but I was sorry to leave
the command of the army. = 1t
seemed to me it would be impossible
for the Republican party to concen-
trate on any other candidate. :
| believed that if a Democratic
President was elected there would
be little chance for those who fought
for the Union. Thy uoan certainly
hnre gDtSid Of tie office of Commander
an CIiefofMe 4Tmy, and 50 ''sHELv-
ED ME- Behecing this l trent into
the contest in earnest"
We should rather think so. Now
we understand how it came to pass
that out of such a profound inditfer-
ence to politics that he scarcely knew
whether Jews were not by law eN-
cluded from civil rights, or whether
Andrew Jackson was not a Massar
chusetts Free soiler. Grant suddenly
developed into a furious Radical.
He became a politician and a candf-