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Show 5 Gen, Gbakt is reported as having said, while sojourning among tho Thousand Thou-sand Isles of the river St. Lawrence, that he did not desire to be nominated for a second Presidential terra, but that circumstances compelled him to accept of the nomination; . This is the extreme of disingenuousncsra, but it is not peculiar to general Grant, From time immemorial, politicians while moving heaven and earth, and pipe-laying pipe-laying and spending money and bestowing bestow-ing patronage to win a nomination to an important office, have after they have succeeded, talked hypocritically about the oares and troubles of official business, their exceeding anxiety to retire re-tire and sip the sweets of domesticity, their horror of the filthy pool, etc; and then with sly and soothing egotism, they declare that they accept the nomination nomi-nation tendered them at a great sacrifice sacri-fice of inclination and comfort, and only because they oonsider it their duty to waive all personal considerations when their country calls. Humbug I |