Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-19
SUNDAY READING.

o; November IL tie following para
graphs from the Presidents late psocla
1nation relative 20 the election in IL,
Southern States. are oonspicuousiy sand
wiched between editorials, placed anon.
the news and miscellaneous matter. ant
repes:si throughout, the paper in yer,
significant aud noticeable way:
SHOULD THERE BE ANY GROUNDS CT
SUSPICION OF FRAUDULENT COUNTING
IN EITHER SIDE IT SHOULD BE REPORT
Ell AND DENOUNCED AT ONCE.
NO MAN WORTHY THE OFFICE OF
PRESIDENT SHOULD BE WILLING 4,
HOLD 1T II COUNTED IN" OR PLACID
TuGRE BIZ ANY FRtUD. EITHER PARTl
THE RESULT. But Tbs COUNTRY CAN
NOT AFFORD TO HAVE THE kEsUL I
TAINTED BIZ THE SUSPICION OF ILLEGAL
os FALSE Returns. T. s. GRANT.
Tt, conspicuous employment ol
these paragraphs is mono the less meta
bic il view of the fact that the Herald is
the paper which was first to briuG
against Grant tho charge of Caesar.
i'm" and aenounce him as one having
the purpose of perpetuatins his own in
cumbency Of the Executive chair ct the
expense of Republican institutions.
Thus is the Herald. out of its own
mouth. convicted OF its folly aud IN.
,ruihfalness.
We are mere AMI more confirmed il
our estimate O! Grant; more and more
justified Of our preference for his nom.
ination over all others for this years
Republican candidacy 70. the Presiden-
cy We believe him to be the strongest
and most conservative public man this
generation has seen we believe DO has the
most evenly balanced mind Of any Pres
ident this Republic ever had; We believe
his ssgaci,y and practical wisdom sur
pass any mans in the country. The
judgment Of postesi,y will confirm this.
The moral aspect CT the case. that
phase Of the subject which suggests a
theme for Sunday discourse is this:
The practical morality of Grants mind
Is inseparably associated with the wide
reach of what may be acknowledgement
from the said practical morality by the
name Of an infallible comprehensiveness.
And yet the two qualities, or rather all
the qualities of such mind. are co-or-
dinate. They operate on one another.
1t is not the morality or conscience of
Grants mind which makes lin arrive
Q: such admirable conclusions as he
reaches; these are but the expressions of
a mental structure so solidly built in all
its parts ard SO compactly framed and
Joined together that it cannot go wrong.
Such a mind may be accepted as the
very highest type Of masculine mental
machinery. 1t is only weak men. or
men in whose minds there exists weak |
place. who become .yrauts, usurpers and
cppressors. There may be strength OF
purpose combined with weakness Of an
hitior: euergv Of action coupled with
that weakness which finds expression in
acts and purposes Of injustice. In the
a.nsa Of his life being a grand success.
Iirsct's character is ros unlike that OF
Julius Cesar's. He has been compared
10 Wellington. In some respects the
is true one in many
others the differences Letween Yelling
lon and Grant are very wide. We think
hat the verdict OF impartial history will
place Grant on a much higher plane OF
greatness and solidity of per-
,onsi character than Wellington. After
". the principle of right runs through
md under all departments Of human
.riion in such q way as to make them all
'sia,ei. We mean by this that the true
s,imate and apprehension of the facts,
citations and emergencies which enable
uch o mind as Grants to simplify and /
,rasp all the conditions of Q state of war !
Ike that which existed during the re-
'ellion. are the fruits of mind which
, consti.utionally right, whose organic S
dement's are strong, healthful and not
D be -lisled or perverted. The weakness
personal ambition and the hunger for
.me were the destruction of all the
,sser suffers for Glory whom the war
eveIoped. These left Grant standing L
lone in the field. the acknowledged :.
laster of the situation. And so we say, l
lat the principle of correct and success ::
II action which made it possible that :,
rant should handle the rebellion as he ::
id, is the governing and guiding ele- r
ient of his mind and character. He is r.
ever nisled by the weaknesses which e,
ad lesser and more brilliant and more q,
veable men astrny. He teaches US c
at solid practicability is the best al
orality; that the best virtues are those IL
hich are accompanied by enough of
rec to give them activity and practical :,
,plication; and that perspicacity, COM y,
and self-reliancs are the Pr
rest foundations upon which to build n
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