Year: 1868

selecting Tor our representatives stirling


Union men who are certain to cast the yot,


OF this State for General Grant as our frs


and last choice for President, has but re.


iected. as it should, the wishes of the entire


body of the Union Party Of the State. Never


was the Union Party of California in such


accord as upon the duty and necessity Of


nominating Grant for our next Presidential


candidate, and we are on this point of policy


in complete harmony with the National


Union party. Never was there more cer-


tain thing in the politics of our country than


that General Grant will be the choice of the


Union Party for the office of President, in
the ensuing campaign. The denomination
OF Lincoln was not, four years ago, more
/ foregone conclusion. At no time IN our
political history have the people ever ex-
4 pressed. in advance of the meeting of their
Delegates in National Convention, in so de-
cided and thunder tones, their choice of a
/ Presidential Candidate. Nothing in fate, if
/ Grant lives, can defeat his nomination but
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refuse gift from the people, which is so
magnificent token of their regard and of
their appreciation Of the value of his past
services to the nation. Nor will his indom-
itable courage. which proved itself from the
| storming of Fort Donelson to the last shot
fired in the war, permit him to shrink from
/ the perils of the high Office which the people
/ have pre-destined lin to fill. Neither is
there any thing in the record of the gallant
General which need cause the slightest fear
that he will be guilty of any act of weakness
which will impcril tie present certainty OF
his nomination. Nothing but death from
an act of God OF the hand of an assassin, will
prevent Grants nomination for the Presiden-
cy by the great Union Republican party of
the nation.


The people have selected for themselves
their candidate and grand standard bearer
for the campaign OF 1868, and county, State
and National Conventions are this year but
the machinery by which they record their
choice. The campaign opens under the
brightest auspices for the Union party.
Candidates tricked upon party through the
Vaccinations Of corrupt political cliques
must pass searching ordeal with the people,
and it is only through the blunders of their
opponents that they can hope for success at
I the polls. But the spontaneous choice of a
great party carries with him moral strength
! which is rct TO be borne back or overcome.
/ Against such force any and all opposition
( becomes irregular and scattering, and void
of all concentrated energy. Twas thus that
the people into the Presidential Chair, in
1925 thus Harrison was elected in 1910,
and Taylor in 1913, and thus Lincoln was
reelected in 1864, and, with the blessing and
permission of Divine Providence, thus. in
1868, will Grant lead up the triumph de-
creed to him by grateful people. But
gratitude for past services is not the only
element in the peoples selection Of Grant for
their next Chief Magistrate. Interest prompts
then: also for they need his services again.
His peculiar talents are indispensable at this
crisis. when the wounds of war are to be
, healed, and the foundations of our Govern
ment are to be relaid "in order to form more
perfect Union, establish justice. insure do
nestle tranquility. and secure the blessings
Of liberty to ourselves and postcrity." The
! same genius which was needed to organize
/ cur armies and lead them On to final victory,
{ is row needed to re- organize ard settle anew
and forever the disturbed balances Of oul
government, and to make it republican in
spirit as we'll as in form, according to the
! intent Of It's illustrious founders. The many
virtues OF Grant, public and private. and the
/ spirit of ready obedience to law evinced by
/ him on all occasions, point him out as the
man pre-emincntiy fit TO establish the reign
! Of law and domestic tranquility in the dis
turbed portions of the country; while hi;
! stern integrity and modest reticence will
! save us the shame Of seeing the offices of tht
government converted into agencies of cor.
rupton. or of blushing at the maudlin gar
rulity of the incumbent of the highest 0 ffict
in the Republic.


The only question on which our delegate!
will be called on at Chicago to express al
opinion of their own. will be upon the nom.
nation of the Vice President. In making


this nomination, the National Convention


should, and without doubt will act by tht
light Of experience, and select man whose


election will not be bid for Grants death
JEFF Davis is reported 10 have said that tn,
rebellion could not have benefited by til,


death Of Lincoln during his first term, be


cause Hamln was known to be a more rad


ical man than Lincoln. If the Convention


loves Grant, Let it then take warning and SCI


to it that no man is placed upon our ticke
for Vice President. to make whom President


it Will be any temptation to traitors to xii


Grant. While Grant, personally, may havt


no fear OF assassination, yet the country car


not afford to take any risks, and We shoult


have for his constitutional successor a mar


Of known, uncompromising radical senti


ment-a man educated in the principles o


liberty, and whose recognized honesty o


character is guaranty that he will not g


back upon the principles of the party who


have elevated him to office; in short, MAI


whose known anteeedents can voueh for hi


future political action. There are many


such whose names are prominently mention


ed In different parts Of the country, all o


whom are available; and in the selection o