The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-04
GEN. GRANT Is THE COMING MAN.

The prospect for the nomination of
Gen. Grant for the presidency by the
Republican party are decidedly on the
increase, so much so that it now seems
pretty sure that he is the coming man.
The movements of the third term men
have been very successful, although they
have met with vigorous opposition within
the Republican ranks. New York and
Pennsylvania, with their sixty-four votes
in the nominating convention, are
pledged to the ex-President, and Gen.
Logan, of Illinois, is pronounced in his
advocacy; and as Logan controls the
Republican party of that Ssate, its
twenty-one votes may be placed along
with those of New York and Penn
sylvania, giving Grant eighty-five votes
from those three States, and leaving him
only one hundred and eight votes to get
from the other States to secure the NOM
ination. Of this number he will proba-
bly, get fifteen from Indiana, twenty-five
from the Pacific States, and one-half, at
least. of the Southern States, which would
give him the nomination without any of
the Eastern or other Western States,
where it is more than probable he will
get at least half of the vote. It is gene
rally admitted that Grant is to be the
nominee, and that of itself will gain
him many votes in the convention, for
there are certain men in every body who
60 with the current, and vote on what is
considered the winning side. If these
calculations are verified, in our opinion,
the result will portend very serious, if
not disastrous, days for the period which
lies between this and fourth day of
March, 1881.
The Grant movement is no ordinary
Presidential race. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars have already been spent
in working it up, and thousands more are
ready to be embarked in carrying the
undertaking to success. 1t does not
mean simply the preference of his friends
for General Grant, but, in our opinion, it
indicates a formed design and settled
purpose to carry on the consolidation of
the States until this government has
nothing of its original symmetry left. 1t
is the slow but sure and steady approach
to monarchy. It is the astute and plau-
sible imitation of the policy which
changed France from a Republic to an
Empire, and transformed Louis Napoleon
from President to an Emperor. These
changes were not wrought in day;
neither have Grant and his followers at
tempted their ultimate end in single
movement. One encroachment has skill
fully followed another until the iron ad-
herence of the American people to the
forms of our government, as set forth in
our Constitution and expouuded in a
series of near hundred years of prac-
lice, has been broken, and the people
have been. familiarized with fraud, usur-
patton and force. The will of the peo-
pie, as declared under the form which
our ancestors denominated the sacred
ballot, has been trampled under the foot
of military tyrants and civil usurpers.
Now "the man on horseback" "with an
iron will" is put forward for the Presi-
dencyin defiance to the unwritten Con-
stitution Of our country, the beginning
of which was given to us by the great
Washington, who declined third term
as President because it best suited the
genius and perpetuity of our free institu-
tions, and whose noble example has COM
manded invariable respect and adherence
from every President until the present
time, when Gen. Grant defes that ex-
ample, which has prevailed unquestioned
during the first century Of the Republic,
and seeks for his own aggrandisement to
subsidise the interests and welfare of the
Union.
The issue is most important one, and
if fairly and forcibly presented to the
people of the Union must arouse popu-
lar opposition which will sweep from
public life, not only the man who thus
seeks promotion in defiance of the prin-
ciples of our government, but like
wise the host of followers who expect by
Grants promotion to advance their in
Auence, or power, or fortunes. The con-
test, however, will be no slight one. 1t
is the determined undertaking of a war
party, headed by successful military
chieftain. The arm of power, and the
might of force, will be largely relied
upon as the means to control the desired
result. The days of seventy-six will be
more than repeated. The struggle has
in it political life or death for Grant and
his party. If, therefore, there is any
power that can be commanded by them,
that power will be brought to the rescue.
1t is race in which the Republican par
ty lines are likely to be in measure
broken, and if the Democrats nominate
a discreet and acceptable candidate, we
believe the prospect of success is very
Hattering. At any rate, the coming
canvass is likely to be one in which every
Democrat and every patriot will De called
upon to exert himself to maintain the
liberty of that government handed down
to us by our fathers.
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