Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-05
MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1872.
THE Grant CONTENTION.

AEAE GhANL NON IN
The National Union Republican Con.
vention meets to-dayin Philadelphia fol
the purpose of nominating a candidat;
for President and promulgating a plat
form 20 catch voters. Controlled and
directed by Grant and his henchmen,
it is reasonable TO conclude that the
whole affair viii simply be farce after
the manner of that which the tabled
King Of France played, marching his
men up the hill and then down again.
The delegates will meet and adjourn.
The work before them has already been
cut out for them. They go up
to nominate Grant and seal a foregone
conclusion. Some of the State Conven-
tions Connection, Missouri and South
Carolina) sent uninstructed delegates,
but all the rest go in the interest Of
Grant. 1t is therefore certain he viii
be nominated on the first ballot, perhaps
by reclamation. The platform and the
selection of a candidate for the Vice
Presidency are then the only subjects
for contention. As to the latter, twenty
Of the th~irty-seven States 90 uninstruct-
ed, and seventeen instructed as fol-
lows: For COlfax-Delaware, Indiana,
Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Vermont and West Virginia. Wilson
Of Massachusetts viii get the votes Of
Alabama, Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, and J. F. Wilson, Of Iowa,
will get the vote of his own State; Har-
Ian will get that Of Kentucky; DENIM
son that Of Ohio; Maynard that of Ten
nessee; Davis that Of Texas, and Lewis
that of Virginia. Uninstructed States
for the Nice-Presidenc poll the heaviest
votes, and it would notbe surprising that
failing to nominate Colfax, who no
doubt desires the position-some new
man like Morton or ConkIing viii be |
tackled on to a ticket that cannot be
made a heavier load to carry than it Is
with Grants name on il. Anyway, and
no matter who may be selected, and no
matter what amount Of surface eclai
may appear to attend this o~fice-holders'
convention, there is comparatively easy
wsrk for the Liberal Republicans, if only
the Democratic Convention, to meet at
Baltimore, is equal to the patriotic work
of indorsing the ticket given US by that
of Cincinnati. With Horace Greeley
and B. Gratz Brown we can overcome
even the combined office-holders ano
Place-hunters who make up the army
which Grant leads. A fair statement Of
his personal weaknesses and the impoli-
cies Of the administration for which hei is
responsible, are enough of themselves to
damn linn before the people. He can
recover from the blows inflicted
upon him by Sumner. The summary oil
his crimes by that first and chiefest oil
Radicals, cannot be successfully contra
and unless the people are lost to
all sense Of their personal interests, it
viii be the most potent of cam
paign documents in the labor Of
neutralizing what may be done at Phila-
to-day. We have no fears for
The success Of the Greeley ticket; there
IS no possible chance for its defeat, un-
ess the Radicals succeed in preventing f.,
he Endorsement Of Greeley and Brown
It Baltimore. With Grant in the field
to the white-coated philoso- t
the election Of the latter, backed
Up by the Liberal Republicans and b
Democrats, is sure, the South can r.
,reathe freer and the future will loom
p bright with promise and hope. e
Ne have gone too far TO think Of look
lg back. We must go forward and ae- b
omplish the work cut out at Cincinnati. 81
Tor the South it is everything. 1t comes
ONE to every man, woman and child, a
nd concerns US in all the walks Of life Il
nd all the avenues of trade. Elect
rant and We shall be as a people par j,
elect Greeley and we take d
ew departure, revived and hopeful. D