The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-30
The POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

makes some very peculiar statements
We had always supposed that Joe
Hooker fought the 'battle above The
clouds on Lookout Mountain, bur
are gravely told that the honor of tha
memorable conflict is now to be given
to the "standard bearer" General
Grant. We are also told that ''he
(Grant) is supported by the million
men composing the societies of the
Grand Army of the Republic" 1nas-
much as the society mentioned is not
in any respect a political organization
it is not clear upon what authority the
Enterprise makes this assertion, es
pecially in view of the fact that the G.
A. r. includes within its ranks many
thousands of Democrats, who will
hardly be claimed t favor the re-elec-
ton of Grant. Besides this there are
many prominent Generals who have
been and are now avowedly hostile to
the administration, among whom we
mention Hancock, Hooker, fitzpatrick,
Burnside and SchurZ Surely these
men are not to be claimed as il favor
Of the e-election of Ulysses, and as
certainly do they belong TO the organ
ization referred to. The charge that
the G. 4. r. is in any way a political
organization is and will be indignantly
denied by each and every member
thereof. Does not the editor refer TO
the boys in blue in his random asser
tons? Again, that paper says that
Grant is supported ''by the four mil
lions of colored Americans, who have
been made citizens and voters by the
Republican party" Look at the Cen
sus report and you will find, Mr.. En-
terprise, that the total colored pOpula
ton of the United States is under five
millions-men. women and children.
Surely they have not all been granted
the elective franchise under the late
amendments. There are probably
some eight or nine hundred thousand
colored voters in the United States,
and it is possible part of them may
support Mr.. Grant in preference to
Mr.. Greeley. We shall see. But, let
US assure the Enterprise that the coll
ored population do not and cannot for
get that Horace Greeley has from the
first agitation of the slavery question
until to-day, stood in the front rank
of those me- who have led the colored
race across the dark waters of perSecu-
ton and travail, up to and over the
borders of the promised land. That
when U. S. Grant strayed up to the
polls in 1856 and cast his first and only
vote for James Buchanan, Horace
Greeley was sounding the tocsin of
in the support of the first nom
Of the Republican party. Per
baps they will support him; perhaps
they 60 not believe in him. Yet the t
editor of the Enterprise will hardly be ,
able, by all the personal abuse he can :
heap on the head of the freedom-lover, ,
Horace Greeley, to make the cnlored
of America forget that to him {
as much, if not more than any other :
man, they are indebted for the agita- l
ton of the slavery question, out of
they emerged freemen and a
{
Lastly, as a fit climax to the absurd t
estimates INDUCED in by the Enter t
prise, we read .'that the condition of
he grandest party known to history,
5 as unruffied as the bosom of Sum- C
nersea." This is indeed touching. With n
ully one-third of its abIest journals +
faith in and opposing its pro- T
,osed nominee for President. in which
hev are rejecting the sentiments of &"
nore than that proportion oftheir read II
RS, the placidity ofthe Republican hos u
IN is remarkable. but not more so we "
link than that stupidity in admins &
ration circles which affects to ignore T.
ne widespread disaffection, and as q
umes that one third ofthe Republican a.
oters of to day are not able to disturb
$ quiet serenity. We think the
,moke'' rather thick about the adj
ADMINISTRATION party, and that the -
congressional investigations last Win L
r., have thrown rather too broad a z
are of sunlight" about the shoul g
arS of "America'S most successful Is