Year: 1872




TO the Editor Of The State Journal


The reelection of General Grant is ne
cessary to the complete success and perpe
tuity OF those measures which Congress ha.
enacted to secure the present and futur,
happiness of the people. General Grant.
administration is one of eminent success il
a period that requires great administrative
ability. For him there were no precedent
and he could not look to the past for in.
structlon. A new era in the history of the
country arose by reason of the unfortunate
dlscontents OF a political section, and he
who gave us peace by conquest, perpetuated
that peace by moderation Of council and
sagacity Of administration. If Washington
was necessary in the foundation of the GOV.
eminent, Grant is equally necessary an the
gradual subsistence of that terrible blow
which was aimed at the stability of the
Union, but Providentially turned aside by
his military genius. s


The vivid page which Grant already oc-
cupies in the history of the country, enga-
ges the respect of nations, and secures for
him the loyalty and support of the Ameri-
can people. 1t is through him, the acts of
Congress have given a like character and
disposition to the principles and institutions
OF all the members of the American Union.
For these things, Grant is entitled to our
iurther gratitude, and this gratitude will
be assuredly given by re-electing him to the
Executive chair.


History is seldom impartial; its preiudi-
ces are religious or political; hence, ap-
peals to 1T for verification of facts, are not
always reliable. Tradition is the necessary
adjunct of history, and without it we can
not discover or lift the veil of the past.
whereby to receive information concerning
prior events, and this tradition attesting the
patriotism of Grant and the wisdom Of his
administration of the state in times fraught
with peril to the government, will descend to
posterity through the medium of the ma
tional legislature of the Union-upon this
will rest the good fame of Grant Can his
political opponents point to any violation
by him of the laws passed by the superior
power of the Congress of the United
States? In what has he failed? Isl
fault to assent and to obey as faithful SER
want, the constitutional will of the States
federated in the Senate, and that of the
people, more. directly represented in the
House of Representatives ?


The recently attempted coalition of par
ties, or parts of parties, and the mutual
sacrifice fthe principles by which they were
widely separated, are the tore-runners of
trouble and con(usion-these things are too
terrible even for the calm consideration of
the patriot but it is well for an honest
people to know that ambition with a pro-
found egotism, and apolitical dissimulation,
grotesque in appearance and repulsive in
intention, beckon them to sustain the chief
tain Greeley, who has the disposition to
destroy, but not the genius to create and
who did by means of ten thousand fiery
tongues of his press, considerable pc
riod before and down to the late calami-
tous strife, ALLEVIATE the esteem existing
between the South and the North; thus
creating and introducing jealousy and
hatred, and melting to wars stern necessi-
sites and, now, as palliation to the dire
results of that strife, we are told in the |
South, that the Doctor, who nearly killed
his patient by bad practice, desires entire
charge Of his unfortunate victim, and, that |
as proof of his high qualifications, he be-
came surety for Jefferson Davis


What say the survivors of the battles of
the sections? What say the dead of the
North, the dead of the East, the
dead of the West, the dead of
the South? Alas! the numerous and op-
posing armies that were drawn to the front
Of battle fell on the field of honor; and the
nan who promoted the furious dlscord
that led to blood--Amcrican blood now,
rs if obliyious of the cruel past, asks per-
mission to sit in the Executive Chair that
ne may inaugurate peace and virtue, for
getting the editorial follies and crimes that
high brought ruin to his country. This is
he audacity of egotsm, and one of the
rightful wonders of century, that has
strange phenomina in the moral,
political and physical world. He came
nigh, through his evil influence, effecting
he destruction Of the Union; and now,
hat influence comes forth once more, but,
God be praised, to be baffled again by the
,enious of Republicanism.


A NATIVE VIKGINIAN.