The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-21

| not. IL Ieiuiuus US, III Ills treatiuehe VI
General Grants plain. positive and
patriotic remuneration of Presidential as
piraticns, of negro boy who, being told
that his father was dead, replied promptly
that he ''would not believe it unless he
should see it in q letter in his own hand
writing"
We are not surprised that journal like
the Washington Republican, an organ OF the
Grant movement, refuses to believe General
Grant because the Generals refusal to
serve the promoters of the Grant movement
is very serious matter to them. 1t leaves
them sin the air" Grant move
ment without Grant is plainly impossible;
and as that is now clear which the HERALD
has all along maintained, that General
Grant himself had no part nor share in the
Grant movement, the surprise of the self
seeking politicians who with Characteristic
| impudence used his name without his con-
sent to advance their personal aims and
ambitions is complete and notifying All
they can say is that they do not believe
Grant; and Tor the rest to abuse the
HERALD
We confess we are not much surprised to
notice that some democratic journals either
find General Grants sensible and patriotic
resolution distasteful. The democrats are
so uncomfortable at the prospect of having
Mr.. Tiiden, a very weak candidate, force
himself upon them. that they are naturally
nervous about the republican candi-
date Many of them believe that the
country would be SO deeply alarmed
at the denomination of General Grant that
this alone if it were to happen, would in
sure the election of almost any democratic
candidate even Mr.. Tilden. Hence they
see with chagrin and alarm that General
Grant withdraws himself They would
have welcomed with great satisfaction a
contrary declaration from him, that he de-
sired and would accept a denomination.
The organs of the desperate political in
trigue which calls itself the Grant move
ment on the one side and some democrats
on the other are thus moved by self-in-
| terest to cast doubts on the GENERALS sim
cerity and honesty. They are not thinking
of the country, nor OF the respect due to
Grant himself, but OF merely selfish or par
tsan interests, to whose advancement Gen
| eral Grants denomination is necessary.
| Their attitude in this case shows the truth
of what the HrRALD has repeatedly pointed
out-that the Grant movement, so-called,
had at heart not the honorable fame, the
| interest or welfare of Grant, but was simply
plot to use his name and reputation for
their personal ends, to crafty their ambi-
tons and restore to power set of men
whose misconduct when they had power
before disgraced them with the people and
has LETT them without a political standing
or future.
But we confess our surprise at the man
ner in which SO respectable journal as
the Eueniag Post treats the deliberate re-
nunciation of political aims by General
Grant. Having an occasion offered him by
the polite address Of Prince Kung, Grant
used that occasion, the first which
had come to him, to express himself
frankly about matter which he may
well have shrunk from dragging in at
random. He said, 81 have held the office
of President as long as it has ever been
held by any man." 81 have had my share
of it-have had all the honors that can be
or should be given to any citizen" II
have no claims to the office; it is a
place distastetul to me; place of hard
| ships and responsibilities" ''No man who
knows what the Presidency imposes would
care to see friend in the Office" "lhere
could be no wish more distasteful to me
than what you express" "There are many
able and distin guished men who have
earned the office to one of them it should
be given" "Ihere are others who have
have earned the honor. They are worthy,
and to them it belongs not to me-"
The Worcester Spy, republican journal,
remarks, pertinently: correspondent
who sends this important intelligence is,
doubtless, well informed. He has been
General Grants confidential companion
during his long journey, and what he writes
is not only authentic, but it is. or is pre-
snmed to be, what General Grant wishes to
have published. The sentiments expressed
in this reported conversation are natural
and honorable"
But what says the Erening Post? 'Tf the
General had said further, i do not want
the place would not take it if it were
offered to me and l ON determined If the
Republican National Convention dominates
me to reject the nomination positively
there would have been no room for doubt
on the subject" But surely, if General
Grant had said these words to the
Chinese Viceroy, that person would
have looked at him in amazemcnt
What does Prince Kung know ofrepublican
national conventions? What excuse could
even the Erening Post imagine ior such
words as it demands, in such conditions