National Republican., 1878-08-22
THE GR,Nr SCARE,

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practically unhappy journals in the country
over what is termed the GRANr movement
is the st. Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer
fToss. We are inclined to sympnthize with
1t in its painful trepidation, for its utter
ances and antics are rs incohercnt and ab-
surd rs those of the lunatic LEErE before
the Potter committee. II would seem that
much needless alarm is suffered over this
question. The GRANT movement, rs IL is
termed, is not GRANT movement at all.
II is spontaneous expression of confidence
and respect on the part Of the people, with
out General GRANTS procurement or
previous knowledge or consent. 1t is
Of the people, by the people, and
with the people, peculiarly, and II
they will II, and he will consent, he will be
their candidate in 1850 for veal Or woe.
The HOnoer-Prcss cannot stop or control the
current Of popular sentiment on this ques-
ton If II has u local habitaton and q name
in two more beautiful and prosperous cities
in the magnificent young State of Mime
sofa.
The country will decide this question in
its own time and in its own way. We have
not noticed rs yet more than one or two
open and earnest journalistic advocates of
General GRANTS nomination as a candidate
for the Presidency in 1880, while there are
a score or more journals who resist such q
proposition with great bitterness and per-
sistcncy. Other papers--and they are nu-
merous-re9ect the drift Of public sentiment
on this floating and uncrystalized question
as portion of the news of the day, without
any partisanship whatever, and in this way
the matter drifts along the tide of time in
sort of spontaneous and uncontrolled man.
ner, evidently gaining strength and power
as the time shortens when the question
must take positive form and shape. This
aspect Of the case is evidently the producing
cause of so much bitter and unproyOked in
vective on the part Of the Democrats and
such Republicans as have for some reason
contracted an uncomfortable hatred for Gen
eral GRANT.
The time has not come for an open advo.
cacy Of General GRANT as q candidate fol
the Presidency in 1880. This spontaneous
exhibition of favoritism arises from several
causes, prominent among which is the pros
pect that the nation may possibly pas:
under the power and control of its most
malignant enemies. This naturally excite.
alarm and prompts the people to seek dool
Of safety. Many able statesmen and astutt
politicians think that door leads directly t.
General GRANT, and have ventilated that
opinion. Then again the assumed desertior
Of the Republican party and cause in tn,
South has had its effect with the anti Bour
bon element In that section. The Republi.
cans there, both white and colored, turn Il
General GRANT as the MOSES who nigh
lead them out of the wilderness of their per
pleNities, disappointmcnts, and sorrows
The unfortunate condition Of Republicanisn
in the South, therefore, has had more or les.
TO do with the GRANT excitement, which i,
the cause of so much alarm and distres
with class Of nervous people.
If all the people of the United States vii
possess their souls in patience, under tn,
assurance that when this question is tinall.
decided they will be the arbiters of the case
and their judgment will lie law, n more com
Portable state of rcpose will, no doubt, settl
down upon the malcontents and grumbler
who are now making the air painful witt
their unhappy growls. To abuse Genera
GRANT and insult his known friends be
cause Of thisspontaneous uprising Of q sen
timcnt in his favor will avail nothing now
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cause which is source of so much disqui
etude even in its embryo state. Whel
General GRANT shall return to his nativ
land, where the people have learned to homo
him for his patriotism, bravery, aud states
manship then they will decide whether h
is wanted for third term, and one thing |
certain, If they want him they will hav
him, with his consent, in spite of all oppo
, sition, no matter from whence il comes.