The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-21
General Grant as n southern candi-
date.

their discovery Of General Grant. lie IL, IL
seems, man after their own hearts, and
the best possible Presidential candidate.
The Southern papers are addressing him
by dozens as great and good friend, and
it is amusing to see that those republican
journals in the North which act with tie
promoters of the Northern ''Grant move
ment," 40 called, are in ecstasies over this
Southern democratic Grant "boom
Why are they 80 delighted? The promo
tiers of the Northern Grant movement
are among the most stalwart OF the 'stai-
warts !" they are the extreme republicans,
the men who doubt Blaine, who scout at
Washburne, who will not have any one of
whom they can harbor even the suspicion
that he would continue the Southern policy
of Mr.. Hayes. They want "a strong man
ut tho head of the government to keep the
| South in order, as they boast--to make 1T
ugly for the rebels, to show those South
erners what they must do. II was because
they supposed General Grant to be their
man that they cried out for him, as their
model or ideal Of a "strong man at the head
OF the government"
But now come the Southern democrats
and take him out of their hands. DO these,
then, want their States to be once more
harried? Is it because they believe that
the General, il reinstated in the Presidency,
would re-establish the carpet-bag rule and
would demand new force bill, or the
passage of the old one, which Mr.. Blaine
defeated, that the Southern democrats sud-
denly embrace him That is what the stall
wart republicans want. They have never
concealed their wishes nor their hatred and
contempt for the Hayes Southern policy.
They demand q ''strong man at the
head Of the government" for precisely
these purposes they have maintained
their alliance with the defeated carpet-bag-
gors in the South. and kept up the hopes of
these ruined politicians; they have urged
them to join in the Grant ''boom," de-
Tended their claims and made m uch of their
wrongs, on the precise plea that another
four years of Grant would reinstate these
worthless in their old places and power.
And now come the Southern democrats
men who refuse steadfastly even to hold
social intercourse with the authors Of the
carpet-bag misrule-here come these demo-
Gratis and shout for Grant.
| Who is to be cheated in this most remark
able Of political combinations? We do
not OF course suggest that General Grant
would deceive anybody; he has nothing to
do with all this outcry. But it is clear that
| il the Northern extremists want Grant, as
they loudly and continually assert, because
he would "keep the rebels down." because
| he would ''show them who won ut Appo-
mattox," because he il the only man strong
enough, bitter enough, determined enough
| to serve in what they declare to be grave
| exigency, then the Southern democrats
must inevitably reject and oppose him. II,
on the contrary, as we believe to be
the true state of the case, General
Grant holds in contempt all the
stalwart bosh about ''rebol supremacy" and
Southern outrages; il. as we suppose, he
sees that the South is not danger to the
country-that. on the contrary, many
Southern statesmen are among the most
conservative and patriotic men in Con-
gress if he believes that the South is to
be trusted and ought not to be reviled and
bounded, what part, then, have the North
| ern stalwarts and their friends and allies,
the Southern carpet-baggers. with him?
| We do not object to this remarkable COM
bination. "Politics make strange bed
fellows" is an old and true saying and to
an outsider, MS the HERALD is, the spectacle
Don Cameron and General Gordon, w. p.
Kellogg and General Gibson lying down
amicably together is certainly amusing.
If the Northern stalwarts continue to de-
mand General Grant they must either re-
gard him rs the only man fit to head their
anti-Southern crusade, or they must con-
foss that all the hullabaloo they have made
Tor the last year and half was mere
sound and fury, signifying nothing but their
determination to retain power by grossly
and alphabetically incorporating the
South and setting the sections by tho
ears. The public, which has taken but q
languid and perfunctory interest in poll
tics for a year or two, will be curious to see
which horn of this dilemma tho stalwart
leaders find tho easiest to sit down on.
We are not surprised at the Southern
democratic rally for General Grant. The
Southern men remember that General Grant
saw in the last months Of his Presidency
that he had been misled about the South
ern spirit. They heard from his lips in
those days expressions of disgust and con-
tempt for the carpet-baggers who had de-
ceived him. They believe that he would
not repeat the errors of years gone by in
regard to the South, and they believe that
they can deal with him, and that they made
blunder by opposing him before. But
more than this, they believe that General
Grant would join Them in those great and
costly schemes of internal improvement for