The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-10
HE WRIBUNE.
GRANTS SERVICES.
THE President of the People
From the New York Herald

The President OF the PeOIole'
From the New York Herald.
The failure of impeachment, the un-
satisfactory condition of the finances, the
chaotic condition of the south, the bur-
dens imposed upon all classes by the war.
had made the country dissatisfied. A
change of administration was waited
A candidate was needed who would arouse
enthusiasm. The Republican party had
no such man. General Grant had come
out of the war with world wide fame.
He held a life office, was in receipt OF
large income, and had dignity as gen
eral of the army which was emlnently
grateful as a soldier. Under any aspect
the presidency was sacrifice. He had
no career in politics, no skill in the tor
tuous, unhealthy maneuyers by which
politicians gain power. lie was tree
from ambition. He had been ambitious,
had he been vulgar, unscrupulous sell
seeker, he had only to have given his
hand to the Democracy in 1865 to have
become as powerful in its councils as
jackson In its zenith of his power ana
fame. Had he followed the tokens that
filed the political skies, he would have
accepted the alliance. He was content
with the command of the army, with q
nQTGIaDtG SldtlUH lOI NV III pASASAShSS
to the stormy and uncertain tenure OF
the presidency. That office could add
no more to his fame than it added to the
fame Of Washington He had written
his name among the few immortal names
that are not born to die. The Republi-
cans sought him. They appealed to him
as a soldier and man Of honor. They
represented to him that as party they
had sustained him in the field, and they
appealed to him, in common gratitude
by the memories Of the glorious strife
through which he led the armies of the
Union to victory, to lead the party out
CT despair-He consented. He took
their nomination. He went before tho
country. He won victory, the fruits
of which were Of less value to him than
to the humblest leader of the party that
chose him. He accepted the platform
and he has kept every pledge embodied
In that platfort with beautiful fidelity
which his harshest critics have never
failed to recognize. The effects of his
administration have been to rchabilitate
the republican party and to give 1t a
stronger hold upoa the country than 1t
had at any time since the election of
Lincoln. he has paid the debt i;
he has kept the peace; he has shown
mercy and justice to the south he has
behaved with signal energy and frank
ness in all our foreign relations he has
dealt with the Indians like a christian
ard not like a robber; he has strlven to
reform the civil service be has guided
the country in paths of prosperity +; he
he has avoided every adventure that
would embarrass the return of the ma
ton to peace and stability, and he has
borne himself in his high Office with a
dignity, patience and moderation equaled
by no president since Washington, and
by Washington alone.
This is high praise. but we feel that
IN writing it we anticipate the verdict
Of history, General Grant is nothing to
the Herald. Whether he reigns, or
Greeley or Sumner reigns in his
stead, does not affect US pins value.
And it is because of this independent
Judgment Of his administration and his
character, and our just reading of the
history that all men should know, that
we look upon the intrigue to displace
lrirEI With much oontcnpc.-SFe insist
that the honorable men who are to in
struct US this evening shall give US living
reasons for this course. We shall not
stop TO inquire why Dir. Greeley. as a
pgotectionist, should sigh call that IA
vors free trade F.; Why Mr.. Trumbul, as
senator who opposed impeachment
should seek the political alliance of Mr..
Wilkes, who denounced him as traitor
for his vote why Dir. Sumner, the life
long abolitsonist should carve the NOM
inatlon for the presidency at the hands
Of the slave holders and slave hunters
or any one Of a hundred pertinent in
tcrrogatorles, the true answer to which
would show painful absence Of political
morality and tendency to chicanery and
double dealing on the part of our liberal
republican friends that would seriously
wound the nation sense of public viz
tue. We put it to these men as politicians
whether 1t is an honorable and manly
deed Tor them to conspire against and
cover with infamous and brutal calumnies
the man who sacrificed his comfort and
his gain, and brought vcxation and an
noyance and peril TO his peerless fame,
simply to lead party which had slipped
from their control back to power Is il
patriotic to ask the country to punish
and rebuke General Grant merely be,
cause their ambitions have been unan-
swerad, their vanity has been wounded
and their selfish hopes disappointed We
have too high q respect for the manhood
OF our people to anticipate such a re-
sut. All the eloquence and anger and en-
thusiasm shat will answer the echoes OF
Cooper hall to night cannot change the
deep seated conviction of the American
people. General Grant is the president
Of the people. He has served them,
and they will defend him. The liberal
republican movement is simply an intri-
que, without principle, without fol-
lowing, without the hope of victory.
The iorlorn errana Of Mr. Trumbull ard
his friends in this, the first combat of
the campaign, would excite our amuse-
mcnt and commiSeraticn were it not
that the contemplation Of SO much in
gratitude and unfairness on the part of
men who have been caressed by the re-
publican party leads to grayer and sadder
thoughts.