Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-15
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The Next President.

throws open the columns of your time houored
Journal TO the occasional discussion of subjects
| which Involve the public veal and the politics
OF the country, we propose at this time to offer
few remarks touching the succession to the
Presidency of the United States, the first office
in the gift of the American people. 1t were
puerile to take up the time OF your readers with
any observations relative to the paramount i'm
portauce, at this grave era Ia our natoua life ,o
Tie most careful seecilOu OF the person 10 be
placed upon this nigh emlaencc, FROM which
Tor years he Is 10 guide and dlrcc. the destiuies
vi d great people, now proudly challenging the
attention Of the civilized world to their expe-
rimcut of sclgovcrument on scale of impos.
| ing and startling grandeur
! Without the slightest personal disrespect to
late occupants OF the Presidential chair, it will
yet hardly oe main tained, even by their wal III
est admirers, that they have either elevated "
adorned that position. To be successful
President vi the United States the Chief Mag
lstratc Giust be distinguished for suncning
more than Keen RELISH Ter questionable kes,
aud a decided ability to retail the same. Nor
can luuomltab!e will aud pure seit-asscriou, ac-
comraned though they may be by the most
astonishing proof OF selt-made progress and
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Ancrcan people. And day by day W. are
made more clearly to see with what scorn and
aversion they turn from the exhibition OF gross
selhSnntSs which prostitutes the rewards OF
nigh oth1e, and metamorphosrs the cares OF
State into series oil airy aud jDylAl Juukcll0gs.
we take 1t that hereafter this nation will re.
quirt that Its President be something more
thau Costly ugurc-hcad-a synonym tIr i
horse aud cigar. Surieited with the article
they have Oh hand, they demand with even
exceptional veheMcuce, that tnGlr ucyt ruler
shall be statesman with views as comprehen.
slve as the Uolou over which he is called urou
to pr5>ldv that he shall have bceu educated ia
civil affairs, with MUD we'll developed aud
trained III their adm alstra,or, aud that he
snail have heart, too, open to the needs and
d'stress2s OF his couulrymen, frYm whatever
section OF l"ls broad and they luay happen to
come. At this Ccuclual era, with minds
a2Ow with the recollection OF their patriotic
slrcS, who irom Georgia to Massachusetts Bay
uu!tcd 10 obtain the priceless boon OF free.
dom, they turn with Ioathiug from the idea of
iEa!rlciIaI strife, and from the man whose red
right maud is deeply lmoued 10 the heart 5
blood oi his brothers, with chorus OF voices
that shake the solid earth they swear,
No more the thirsty Erlnnys Of this soil
Snail daub her lips with her own cndren's
blood
No more shall trenchng war channcl her fields,
Nor b'ui>c her II wrcts with the armed hou.s
Oi hostile l.ce>: tho&c opposed eyes
" men like the mctoors oil troubled hesven
! AL q! one nature, Oi one substance bred,
DID lately lncet IN the intestine shock
and turlruS close OF civil butch .ry
Shall now, in mutual Notwithstanding ranks
March MI one Way; and be no more opposi
Against acquaintance. kindred and allies
The edge I'll war. like III ill.shcathet. knife,
N" more shall cut his mNstor
! his We take to DC the fiat OF Il rcsolute pcu-
PIE, notwithstanding the sinister lutimatiou of
the PrcsHent that there Is Yet in store for this
gr atlag land that >cDurge Of all SOURCES. a
religious way, 10 which, with horrld bias pncmy,
t'Sing upon CUR bps the blessed uame of the
Prince vi Face, We are to let loose upon the
suff"i!ng sous Of mcu, our brothers, ali that
wild II ,od OF passions and OF siuS which it was
his haIiowed misson to sui and To atone.
Aoslt O-neu! will be the prayer Of all good
III u 10 thlS gn&Stly prediction or threat of the
President.
The country gladly turns from such bloody
instructions aud lfum the karty WHO believe IN
thcm, which party the President has so dwarf.
cd that he has become lis alpha and omega, its
Cn ar Or no one, to that conservative and pa
trIotIc organization under whose bcuciccnt
sway |! cuJJycd 50 many years Of power aud
greatness, OF the trlumphs of peace aud OF
smiling plenty. Rcvcrtlng TO those halcyon
aalS before the rlDemllu and the bOudholdcr
hau eaten up the substance OF the people IL
mas determined again to give the helm to the
hauus that have heretofore so successfully
slccred The snip OF State. 1t has become,
neD, The bouuuen duty at this time, OF the
thoughtful men OF the Democratic party. Of
those who have at heart It's permanent success,
to make the bcst possible selection from its ser.
RED ranks OF the man who is to vludi cate its
t.me-honoeI, time cruwued principles ard
poiicy, not OILY beorc his couutrymen and on
the arena OF his native lani, but at this ceulen.
nlal period, before the world which looks with
Veleu cynlcsm andluhdcIity upon the vauut-
Cd American experiment of scf-govcrnmeut,
which. short lighted enough to regard ooIy the
ftults, the biuudcrs aud the crimes Of the Re-
publican party, it has confidently pronounced
to be failure. Pointing to Louisiana as an
other Poland, it regards the President as but
an Emperor IN disguise. Happily, as we be-
'leVe, 1t is reserved for the Democratic party
70 reverse this verdict. to rehablitate the Am
ellcan republic, and to renew to the oppressed
oi All nations that invitation and that welcome
Which nave heretofore alone sustained their
dropping hopes aud their siukng hearts.
Among the many good men and true among
the many Democrats who have deserved well
OF their country and Of their party, there is one
man III whom combine, more than in apy other
we think, all the elements which must 90 to
comcaud success in the great and paramount
struggle of 1876 which will settle for veal or
Tor woe, aud Tor centuries, perhaps, the des-
| TIMES OF the American people-a struggle in
winch all they hold dear is involved as deem as
WHEN, one hundred years ago, they pledged
Their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor. - This favored man is comparatively
young, as becomes the leader of i great pronle
marching With giant strides to bene6cent EN-
pre-. lie Is gallant, as should be the American
exponent Of the valiant Anglo. Saxop race. He
! IS geuerous as abundaoty testify his words
and acts OF sympathy Tor his brothers of the
States OF the South, whose just cause he champ
ions with trcesS energy, aud unsurpassed
ability lie is true TO Democratic pripcinjes
| aud policy. a. witness his Eta I,n, rno,.I -, -,