The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-13
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Saturday Morning, April Is. 1872.
Tho Progress OF the Cincinnati Move
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Tho Progress OF the Cincinnati Move
80 ment.
Day by day. as the time appointed for
the meeting at Cincinnati draws nearer.
encouraging, responses are being made
by liberal Republicans in the various
States. There is now no doubt but that
marked preponderance of the indivi-
dual integrity, ability and personal in
fuence OF the Republican party is heart
lily in sympathy with the movement for
reform. II, indeed, the representative
men of party, the men of intellect and
probity, that originate every political
party, and direct and control its action
until, from excess of power. it becomes
corrupt, and honorable statesmen are
discarded for time-serving politicians
and 1nscrarulcus demesogues- in
other words. those who really sustain
the declared principles of party may
be Justly considered as forming that
party-thea Of a surety it may, with
truth and propriety, be said that the
genuine Republican party will hold it's
convention at Cincinnati.
What array is it possible that the
GRANTEES can muster at Philadelphia to
compare, in point of character and ear
nest patriotism, with Schurz, Trnmb ull,
Greeley, Sumner, Davis. Brown, Cox
and Chase? The most prominent men
at Philadelphia will be Butler, Morton
and Conkling, who, to the distinguished
men named above, stand. in point of
ability, like pigmies to giants. and
in character, about like Ulysses Grant
to the ''great and good" Washington.
This ia 80 apparent, it is 80 unquestiona-
bly, true, that the intellectual and moral
strength Of the Republican party dis
favors the reelection of Grant; that the
New York Herald, the cringing and
fawning advocate of Grant, dubs him
the peoples candidate, as contra dis
tinguished from party candidate. The
''intelligent Masses. it says, form a
more just estimate of public mans
fitness for position than his political
associates, and the masses are satisfied
and pleased with Grant. There is no
denying that Grant is extremely popular
with the masses; but We take it that the
oause Of this popular admiration is
directly the reverse Of that which the
Herald assigns. It is simply because the
masses, as rule, are not intelligent; be-
cause they do not know Grant; are not
sensible of his selashness; his nepotism;
his ill-oonoealed avarice; his bestiality
and his official incapacity, which has
turned against him every honest Repub-
lican who has had opportunity to wit
ness his daily exhibition of suoh de-
testable qualities. To the masses of the
Northern people Grant is only known
as the great chieftain of the Union
armies. and. as such. they natu-
rally admire him, and, are prone
to invest him with the like lovable and
magnanimous characteristics that so en-
dears the memory Of Washington to the
hearts of the American people. They
are in blissful ignorance, the majority Of
the people, of Grants conduct since his
occupation Of the White House. ABB
sorbed in their daily business avocations,
the Intelligent Masses have paid but
little attention to Grants administra-
ton, and consequently know nothing of
him. His popularity is based solely
upon his fortuitous connection with the
successful termination of the Confede-
rate war; but whom the veil shall be up
lifted, and the enormities, the iniqui-
ties, the profigacy, the corruption and
the oppression of the South, which have
marked the present Administration,
shall have been impressed upon the
public mind; when the halo of mill
tary glory that now clouds the public
view OF Grant shall have beon dispellcd,
and he disclosed to popular gaze, in all
the naked deformity of the loathsome
monster that he is; when those who
know him as he is-men of undonbted
veracity and patriotic devotion, like
Schurz, Trumbull and others-shall de-