Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-07
4 foa PRESIDENT.
A Powerful Argument Ia favor Of Ills
Nomination In 1850.

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la Powerful Argument In Favor OF HIS
Nomination In 1850.
Trenton IN. J.) state Gazette.
We need a strong and resolute hand at
the helm of the ship of state. The alarm
ing signs of the time prove that the pro-
found distrust In which the democratic party
has been held by the country since the war
is still fully justified. Its career a. the SER
vile tool Of the slave power and sympathetic
ally of rebellion, has utterly untitled it for
the care and control of this government.
1t has become tainted through and through
with the habits and ideas Of this association.
It has come to look at all public questions,
the political future of the republic, and its
own task and mission. from q standpoint of
incorporating hostility to those principles
of freedom and equality which we believe
to be the very essence and genius of our in
stitutions. The issue between it and the re.
publican party on these questions is radical
and irreconciliablc. IneradicAhly infected
with a deep and contemptuous hatred Of the
spirit of freedom and progress. and holding
in cynical scorn . political philosophy
which does not begin and end in pure sci.
fshnesa, that party is . safe custodian Of
neither the welfare nor the honor of the
COuutIys ~ 40 Nv uO4V y OO sIuoLoO Will
the care of the priceless interests of the
a trust fund, or a bloated debsuchee with
the guardianship of a child. The ~realiza-
ton Of its highest ideal of the future of this
country would be, to see slavery re estab-
lished, the southern slave masters again
lording it over northern "mudsills" and
Radicals" and the republican party and its
principles of liberty and equality, both
trampled CONTEMPORARY into the dust.
Practically, it does not hope ever to see all
this really accomplished, but the domina-
ting hope and purpose of the party is to
approximate to this ideal as nearly as pos
sible. 1t aims at reducing the blacks to a
civil and political servitude, fuller in some
respects of hardships and humiliations than
slavery itself, and to make republicanism
and liberty by-words and mockeries through
out the south. The odium that attached to
slavery and rebellion is to become an honor
and distinction. The immortal principles
whose achievement cost us half a million
heroic lives, are to be derided as a reproach,
and the grateful AMI sacred reverence in
which We have held the memory of the
union dead, is becoming the subject OF
scofing and gibes. Undying hostility to
the spirit that animated the war for the
union, the liberation of the slave, impartial
suffrage, and all the progressive steps that
have made constitutional Law Of our high
sounding professions, allied to a reckless
and mercenary greed for Office and its spoils
this is the spirit and purpose of the DEM
ocratic party Of to-day.
And in this evil mood it menaces the
peace and safety of the country. Its pre-
tended zeal for the creation Of the electoral
commission i'll the interest of the public
peace, its reluctant but ostensible submission
TO the decision of that tribunal as final and
irreversible. are now shown to have been the
mere dissemblings Of a maturing conspiracy.
1t now breaks upon the startled and alarmed
mind of the country that in it's hatred to
freedom and its hunger for the spoils, this
faithless party has been steadily plotting to
wrest the control of the government, by rev.
dictionary and violent proceedings, from
the hands Of its lawful ~custodians. To this
end it has weakened and crippled every de-
fensive power of the government. 1t has
struck successive and crushing blows at the
army and navy, and has recognized and re-
trenched them almost out of existence. In
every way the road to a democratic rebel
lion has been cleared of all i%mpediments
and obstructions. They have pursued the
same tactics as in 1860, when they laid the
union, bound and helpless, at the feet and
mercy of a triumphant rebellion.
But the same eublime and uncomfortable
spirit that then rose equal to the occasion,
will now confront and defeat them. The pa.
triotic spirit of the country is already great.
ly aroused. The gravity of the situation is
everywhere felt. The indignation Of peace.
loving citizens is profoundly moved. There
is a universal and unappeasable demand
that this revolutionary movement be met
with a temper and mien of unconquerable
resistance. The question of the last presi-
DENTAL election is settled, finally and forever.
1t cannot be reopened, nor its conclusions
tempered with. This is the position of the
republican party, and of the law and order
loving portion ofthe entire community. Any
other course would be to plunge this country
into all the horrors of the uncertainties, and
contentious, and bloody revolutions, Of desc
lated and unhappy Mexico. To protect our
country of such a wretched fate, has now be-
the mission of the republican party.
And the one man, of ~pre-eminent and il.
lustrious fitness for leadership in this mis-
sion, is Ulysses s. Grant. The dangerous
and revolutionary temper of the democracy,
their obvious certainty of making mischief
whenever they obtain power, the irreconcili-
able character of their ideas and tendencies
with those which are inextricably interwo-
ven with the future glory and mission of the
republic, demand that there should be a
strong, experienced and %resolute hand at the
helm Of the ship Of state. General Grant
is conspicuously the man, towering immea.
sureably above all others, of special fitness
and aptitude for the exigency and the posi-
ton. In this time of gathering clouds and
thickening perila, the hearts and hopes Of
the country naturally and inevitably fix
themselves upon our great hero captain and
ex-presidext, as the man to lead the repub-
lican party to victory in 1880, and to save
the county from the dangers that surround
and threaten it. The perfdy and ingrati.
tude of the south, that has responded to
President Hayes noble overtures of friend
ship with a foul and ugly blow at his official
life, and the contemplate northern dough-
face that prostrates itself in obsequious ser.
Witty before its southern master, aleo both
deserve a return Of the sternly just admins
tration of Ulysses g.. Grant. The grave per.
lis Of the time, the r%eactionary and rev.
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