The daily gazette., 1878-08-21

GRANT FOR THIRD TERM-How TO Ex.
TINGUIsH ALL HOPE OF REPUBLICAN
SUCCESS. 'f ' 'n .t uiH
From Harper's Weekly. fif .Y .t
There is sort of frantic desperation
| in thetone in winch Gen. Grants romi-
| nation is urged. The drift of the
articles is plain confession that upon
him hangs the only chance of the Re-
publican party; and that the chance
arises, not from the greater wisdom of
Republican policy, but from the dire ex-
tremity of the country. A more ridcul-
GUS strain cannot be Imagined. One of
these papers says that "the sooner the
necessity of nominating Grant is gener-
ally recognized, and the event is accep-
as a foregone conclusion" the better for
the Republican party. Another says
| that his call to the Presidency dis be-
lieved to be essential to the welfare of
the country" Mr.. Emory Storrs, in the
Illinois Convention, in advocating, amid
loud cheers, the nomination OF Gen
| Grant, said:
The laboringman inquiries, shall be
permitted to labor without interference
| from mobs or mob violence? Shall the
wages of my labor be secure? Is there
in this country any one man whom the
| nation can place at the head of Its affairs
who will see to it, SO far as he is con.
cerned, that In all these may be secure?
All these laboringmen are asking them
selves this question, and they have an
swered it. Property asks this question.
Capital of all kinds makes the inquiry.
Nay, every good citizen, each for HIM
self, is revolving in his mind to say, and
has been for months past, who is there
of all others in this country who, placed
at its head, will see that the great essen
tials of life, liberty, property the due exc
cuton of all the laws, shall be protected
and carried out?
All this is unmistakable. Gen. Grant
is to be nominated, not as the represen-
as a savior of society. He is not to carry
out measures that have been argued be-
fore the people, and which have been
approved by them at the polls, but he is
to protect us against anarchy and the I'M
pending dissolution of social order. But
If he be the one man Indispensable to our
continued peaceful national and social
existence, we must keep him in the posi-
ton of savior as long as Heaven gracious.
ly spares him. We cannot afford to
take the risk OF the dissolution of society
at the end of four years; and If we can
spare him at the end of four years, we
are now in any danger OF such dissolu-
ton, and his nomination is not necessary.
The reasons for the nomination.of Gen
Grant are typifisd in q picture of man
on horseback withstanding host of aD-
archists. Those who do not think that
this is the situation, who do not believe
that the American government is ON the
edge Of chaos, and who, therefore, are
not uesirous of summoning Dictator
those who are not yet tired Of free popu-
lar institutions and who know that agita-
ton is the atmosphere Of hberty-wili
naturally oppose Inc call for . SAVIOR of
society, We do not do Gen. Grant the In
justice OF supposing that he has authoriz-
ed this nonsense, or that it is especially
agreeable to hum. He was always shewn
himself to be an officer loyal to the laws,
and this presentation OF him as the inn
perial hope of America Is exceedingly
comical. There l., however, q serious
side TO it, and we beg these heady Re-
publicaDs to remember this: that the
chief aud vital objection TO the RepubI-
can party in the minds of many most pat
riorio and intelligent citizens Is the con-
viction that it has come to regard itself
rs the country and the rightful Govern
ment, and to consider opposition to IT.
self as trosson, II not wrong offered to
human nature, and that consequently it
holds all means Of perpetuating ies pow
or to be permissible II not imperative. |
This convicuon is immensely strenthen- |
ed by the ground token by Republicans |
ground is that he alone can save us from
Every honest, honorable,
and patriotic American rejects with
scorn such an assumption. We hnve
laughed at Democrats who argue that
Gen. Grant has the ambition of Louis
Napoleon, and enjoys royal dinners be-
cause he wishes to he king. But here
is Republican paper which says of his
"We have reached point
where a firm, steady hand is needed to
guide the natlon." That is the tone of
Louis Napoleon's toadies. The duty of an
American President is to execute the |
law mot to guide the nation firmly. Those
who vociferously, and upon such groupds,
demand the nomination of Gen. Grant,
are doing their utmost to extinguish all |
hope Of Republican success.