Year: 1871



 majority of the nation. He is equally

 unmindful of the fact that more than two-thirds of that army disagreed

 with him, and held the same just and wise views of government that were sustained and putin practice by Lin coin, Stanton and Grant 7he glory o1 that a17ay aras Mat hey aoe,Y citi:ens 6et0re and Gt'ter they are1o soldiers, and Gen. Sherman iS c soldier, aoih no clear per- captions of the dignity and ac01th of the citj1n cb0gUcter.

 In view of these patent and mo- torious facts, the Generals speech might have been passed over with an indulgent smile by the country which knows and honors him for what he is, foibles and all. But 1t has been given a singular and unaccountable promin- ence by the organs of the opposition. One morning paper, which changes its favorities oftener than Haroun or Brigham, seizes upon the General and makes him candidate for the Pres idency upon the strength of this speech. As the same paper will nominate dozen or so more before election, we cannot pause to discuss it's merry-andrew performance of yester- day. But we feel bound to give one word of candid caution to another paper, which assumes airs of leader ship ill the Democratic party, and which, as 1t only changes position radically two or three times a year, may be considered as having some re- gard for its reputation for consistency. It also makes this rattling speech of Gen. Shermans the occasion for delighted editorials crediting the speak CT with more than human sagacity and integrity. Itdoes notnominate him for President, but, on the contrary, timidly suggests that he had much better stay where he Is, at the head of the earmy-a good, permanent place, etc. It holds up to him his predecessor in the command of the army as an awful example of what generals come to when they begin to think of the White House. But these gentle homilies will have little effect upon the ambition and ar rpgant mind of the brilliant soldier to whom they are addressed. He will be likely to accept as genuine all the praise which Is lavished upon his polit- ical sagacity, and will reject the rest as impertinent. ''The White House gad-hy crazes when 1t stings," and the dilettante schemers of the Manhattan Club had better beware how they make a candidate of Tecumseh Sherman. We think he would make a bad President for all of us. He does not know enough of the first clements of political science to keep his despotic and eccentric i'm pulses in check But he would be an infinitely worse candidate for Tam many than for us. His rigid honesty, his tiighty notions of personal honor, his overweening self-confidence, ut terly unfit him to be the servant and fgure-head of that gang of grovel- ing rogues. He would smash into splinters any platform they could make before a month of the canvass was over; and if by any improbable luck he came to be President, we would expect, before the Cabinet was form ed, to see Boss Tweed kicked down the steps of the White House, slate, dia- mond breastpin and all, by the rash and splenetive Soldier, whose civil policy the Ring could no more predict or follow than the flight of meteor, and whose hard integrity they could no more mold to their scoundrel pur- poses than they could knead granite to their daily bread.