Year: 1867

r. Next Presideacy-Now 10 the Time for th6


People 60 Move.


From, all parts Of the country we hear or the
spontaneous expression of the people in favor
OF General CANT for the next Presidency.
With the exception It the radical press-and ws
do not discover that s~e2 that bitter political
element il swinging united,y in an opposite
direction-the public journals are almost unan-
imously in favor Of Grant for the &ghese ofAss
in the gift of the American people. Talk =,
men Of sense and patriotism from the New
England States, and you will find that Grant =
the favorite, and that they will denounce ths
sharp and COARSE criticisms upon his character,
by such irreconcilable radicals a. Wendell
Phillips and others, in the sevsrest tones a
indignation. Talk to Middle State man, from
the heart of the great State Of New York, and
you will always hear the name Of Grant mem
toned approvingly when an inquiry is made
in regard to the next Presidency. Proceed
farther West, and you will find that tho
public voice loudly proclaims for Grant
"frst, last and always" except here and there





or national bank director is heard saying
that he ais not prepared as yet to give n
opinion on the subject" Go down South, and
the men who confess Grant to have been their
conqueror select him as their standard bearer
and accepted champion la the next Presi-
Dental campaign.


Therefore now is the time for the people,
irrespective Of all parties, to unite in prelim-
nary action looking to comprehensive and
powerful organization, one that will COM
pletely revolutionize and overwhelm all nero
partisan combinations in the next Presidential
election. Now is the time for the people to
meet, organize and communicate with each
other, without recognizing either of the old
corrupt political parties or their rotten out
groupings Of mean, shabby and irresponsible
little factions. Look at the work of these old
parties-the rebellion, with its untold horrors
the alienation of one section Of our people
from the other the accumulation of q noun.
tain Of national debt that, "pile Pelion on
Ossa." or the debt of France and England ono
upon the other, you will scarcely find its equal
in magnitude and direct oppressveness upon
the people. Look at q crippled foreign COM
merce and stagnant internal trade. Look at the.
corruption that blackens the national capital,
overshadows the halls of State legislation, and
renders insecure even the commonest but most
ventlon to reform by constitutional provisions
some Of these grievances is met at the threshold
of it's proceedings by the bloody death Of one
Of Its most prominent members for the alleged
commission Of crime against civilized society.
There is no safety, no justice, no law, no reli-
gion under the present debased system Of poll
tical management It is all crime-grabbing,
corruption, commercial prostration, and moral
and political prostitution-as the law is now ad-
ministered and society is now organized.


The parties that produce these political evils
and crimes demand a thorough breaking up.
1t can be accomplished by the reconstruction
of the law-making and the law-administering
movement the South can be more readily 70
constructed and the prosperity Of that moan
ing section Of the country be restored. Tho
whole country will rejoice in this humanisin4
revival and the old corrupt vicious and de-
moralizing parties, with their intrigues for
Chase, Ben Wade, Stanton, or anybody else,
60 to the wall.


Let the work at once be commenced in this
State, by city, town and county action, for the
coming fall csmpaign. It can be done in
private or public assemblages, provided the
old politicians are kept out. The people will
thus be prepared to enter the field next year
well organized and equipped for short, sharp
and decisive campaign for the Presidency, or
in the event Of the radicals bringing their rebel
batteries to bear too strongly, to declare In
the words of their heroic leader, "We will fight
it out on this line il it takes all summer"