Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-12-02

Vn0ToU0yS Dee. y. 1885,
Presidential.
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Preparations for the great race in go
are already going on. Streets grow noisy
with excited discussions Of prospects; club
meetings are busy planning future opera
tons and drilling their forces. A strange,
might reasonably consider US on the eve
of some tremendous convnlsion when q
great public ezigency required all thi,
vigilance and interest. Such movements
in France would presage = revolution; in
England, even, they would make minis.
Try tremble. Every political system,
doubtless, has its defects, and this is Ger.
tainly the plague Of ours. For the mex,
two years the people will &c pestsred with
the insuaerable croakings of Presidential
aspirants. All questions Of real public
moment will be absorbed in the matter Q,
BucHANAN's successor. In former day.
the Presidency was clothed with too much
dignity and importance to be associated
with inferior names. Accessible to any
whom the people will endorse, it has sadl,
dsgenerated, not by any irremediable faul
In our system--which is by far the bes
ever devised-but by reason Of the chica'
merry and persuasive arts which so offer
delude the people. Nor will this politca
RIGHTEOUSNESS be arrested until healthy
national sentiment gains the ascendancy
in every quarter. A sentiment that will
always rally its strength to the defence o.
. faithful administration, and when the
mantle Of power is transferred will sec
that it falls upon some ELISHA whose ser
vices and principles establish bis fitness.
1t is not espedient, say conventions, ia
PIT forward prominent men as candidates
they present too many points for attack
their record may prejudice their prospects
The reason Of this course is quite obvious.
The patronage Of the Federal Government
is immense. The chief interest Of those
who control the primary movements in
elections is in the spoils Of Office, and the
first and great object is to elevate poli.i.
cal friend who will disburse among them
the coveted millions. IT. therefore, a
prominent actor, whose life and principles
and capabilities are familiar to the nation.
is unlikely to succeed, erpediency forthwith
trots out some obscure General" or so.
ciable PATHFINDER" 1t becomes SQUAD
bic for power, while principles are entirely
lost sight Of. So long as availability is
made the qualification of candidates, we
shall have inefficient administration
The Democratic party tried the expert.
ment in 50, but wisely abandoned it in
'56.
But the opposition, intent only on i'm.
mediate success, have engrafted it into
their policy, and, with single exception,
have practiced it since the days of JACK
1og. This has given great anxiety and
wen offence to such faithful oarsmen as
SEWARD. He has made the party and de.
fined its position, and justly claims share
Of its .tarors. How to keep the aspiring
privates, Fremont l. Co., in the ranks, and
still secure . nomination to the Great
Leader, has been a difficult problem for
our Republican friends. But GREELEY,
the Columns Of politicians, has it. His
patent right for making SEWARD the next
President is truly wonderful, and must ne
great changes In present tactics.
It is rather complex for ordinary minds,
but then it is to be worked BY a master
hand. He proposes to humor the preten-
Dions Of the numerous available candi-
dates, in the same way that nurse salts
6es the curiosity Of a child by keeping the
coveted toy just ,cithout its reach. Be
would have every State vote for It's favor.
tie candidate-Ohio for CHASE, New IIamp-
shire for HALE, Illinois for LINCOLN, and
10 on, with the understanding that the in
dividual who secures the greatest number
Of States shall receive the transferred sup.
port Of oil, trusting Of course in the leger
domain Of WEED and himself to make
SEWARD the fortunate assignee, and thus
obtain through fattery of State pride and
compliments to individuals, what it is
not possible to obtain on the merits Of
their cause. This is quite equal to the
sntimely discovery Of the tro FRExosrs
in Sc.
Now we would like to see SEWARD m ade
the Republican nominee, upon the plat
form recently promulgated by him At
Rome and Rochester. The party is the
workmanship Of his hands, and he is most
grievoUsly troubled with the "slave-hold.
ing schemes" which he foresees "are to
extend throughout the Union--defeat the
admission Of free States-carry slavery
into the Territories "--re-establish the
slave trade-demoralize the North, and so
complete our ruin, that he, "for one, should
not remain in the country" Not only
should this entitle him to the nomination,
but bis sad experience would enlist SO
much sympathy in bis behalf He is con.
stantly tormented BY the memorable ghost
Of slavery. 1t pursues him everywhere
into the Senate chamber-into tho secrecy
Of his own thoughts, when be would con
template the future Of bis country-into =
quiet home. Once only has he escaped
it, and that when he was sharing the hos.