Western Reserve Chronicle

The largest and most enthusiastic National Convention ever assembled on this continent, was held at Chicago, commencing Wednesday, May 20, and continuing two days. From every portion of this broad land were gathered the representatives of the great National Republican party—representatives not only from the North, the East and the West, but also from the re-constructed and the unreconstructed States of the South. It was a great, glorious, harmonious assembling of the uncompromising and unconquerable Radical Republicanism of the nation, brought together in obedience to the mandate of a loyal people whose united efforts had rescued the Republic from the perils of a fearful rebellion. Men of that stamp could not be otherwise than in earnest, nor fail to perform their task well. It is the universal verdict of the Republicans of all the land that the Convention did its duty in the highest degree satisfactory.

From every point of the compass comes the cheering intelligence that the nomination of Gen. Grant for President, and Schuyler Colfax for Vice President, is most acceptable to the people, and that with such standard bearers to lead us through the campaign, there can be no such word as fail, if the Republican party will but do its duty to itself and the country.

It has been said that "the most successful thing in the world is success."
No man of this age has been so fortunate in conquering success at every step of his public career, as Gen. Grant.
When others failed, he triumphed, and when others met only defeat and blasted reputations, he won great victories and world-wide renown.

That the greatest captain of the day, the most successful leader of the armies of the Republic,—the most efficient organizer of victories in the great war for human liberty and national perpetuity, will be pre-eminently successful in so filling the Presidential chair as to secure and firmly establish as an everlasting national patrimony the glorious fruits of his victories on the field, we have the utmost confidence. Unambitious, unaspiring, and almost shrinking from the solemn responsibilities of the high position to which his countrymen invite him with unparalleled unanimity.

Gen. Grant can never be aught than in full and cordial sympathy with the cause of the people, which is the cause of justice and right.

Gen. Grant was nominated with an unanimity unknown since the days of Washington. Like his illustrious predecessor, he stands "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

In the Convention there were 650 votes, and on the call of the States, each State cast its full vote for Ulysses S. Grant! He received on the first and only ballot the votes of all the States and the votes of all the delegates of every State. Such unanimity certainly opens the campaign most auspiciously.

For the nomination for the Vice Presidency there were six candidates, viz: Messrs. Wade, of Ohio, Colfax, of Indiana, Fenton, of New York, Hamlin, of Maine, Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Curtain, of Pennsylvania.

Ohio's first choice was her own noble old Radical Senator, Hon. B. F. Wade.
Although not successful in securing the nomination of Mr. Wade, Ohio most cheerfully acquiesces in the result, and will none the less cordially give her electoral vote to Grant and Colfax.