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Show BOOTI BOSH J The .Von&ense A boot Grant and The Homh. New York, 19. A Herald corres-( corres-( pocdent write: Having just returned rrom a ix weeks' tour among the people of tue south, durine wuich I e enjoyed special opportunity, social and personal, lr observing tbe dritt of the popular opinion, I am f compelled to say, aa a mere d matter of simple truth, tbat tbe 1- recent editorial suggestion in tne is Htrald of the powibi;i;y of e Grant being, in certain contingencies, u the favorite presidential candidate of I a large portion of southern ptople, is y strictiy correct. To my uuer amaze - ment, I bave found Grant as possible g president frrtDe next term Iretly and 1 tavorab y canvassed by representative t soaibera men of all cUs-es and pio-(es.-ioos. The writer euus up bis i conc ueions. and classes toe southern e aUtas, so Jar as Grant is concerned 1 about as fjliow?: Nrlb Carolina, s South Cirohua, F.oridd, probably for - Grant; Alabama, Louistaua, Georgia, , Kentucky, certainly against Grant; 1 Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, doubtful ; for Grant as agmnst Bayard or a strong democra;io candidate, but t probably for Grant as against lilden 3 or other democrats. The Herald says of the southern Grant movement: We do not like tbe i intelligence we receive on tbis aub-i aub-i ject, but that is no reason why we i should withhold, ordisguise, or oolor, or distort it. We need not say that we dep.ecate the nomination of - Grant as dangerous to our free insti-i insti-i tutiona, but if southern republican i delegates ahould be solid (or Grant this danger will have to be met and i parried by the people alter the nomination nomi-nation ia made. |