White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-22
The Presidency.


Another morn than ours.
The Presidency.
We Judge that there is no longer &
shadow of a hope that the National
COMMITTEES will change the time original
ly designated for the meeting of the Chi
cago Convention. We have not within
the last six weeks met Republican out
side of that Committee who did not con.
slider the postponement of that Conven.
ton to the middle of June a deplorablt
Mistakes in effect giving away the
two best months of the campaign. Until
the nomination shall have been made
very little will or can be done to secure
success in the ensuing election. We
shall be wrangling with each other about
our prospective candidates, rather than
rallying and organizing our forces for ef-
fective service against the common adver-
sary Delegations will be packed to Sc.
cure the nomination of this or that aspi-
rant, and many will go to Chicago not
to hear, to consider and decide by what
instrumentallities the Good Cause can
best be subserved, but to carry out pre-
arranged programme, no matter at what
risk or cost. Thus the bright idea oil
waiting to let the Slave Democracy guar
rel and fall to pieces at Charleston is
quite likely to result in serious dissen-
sions if not positive disruption in our
own ranks. But weak men will do any
thing sooner than admit that they have
made blunder ; so we must consider the
time Of holding the Convention settled
beyond further controversy.
The evil -eEretE- of this postponement
are manifest in the terms and temper in
which the selection of our Presidential
candidate are discussed in many Repub-
lisan Journals. A portion of them vir-
tually assume that, should A. be nomin-
ated, our defeat will be inevitable. An
other portion retorts that if B. should be
the man, he will not be heartily nor gen.
orally supported. Thus heat is generated,
and hasty words uttered-nay, printed
which the utterers will deplore and wish
they had withheld before we are hall
through the canvass. The purport, the
drift, of these i'll. considered fulminations
is, that, should candidate Of one class
be chosen, we shall throw away the cleo
ton if of another class, we shall only
succeed, if we succeed at all, at the ex-
pense of our own principles. All this is
idle, mischevious, untrue. And as the
Tribune is continually quoted as saying,
or purposing something different from
the fact, we propose briefly to set forth
our views on the main question.
We hold, then, that if the Republican
party is strong enough to elect as next
President waomsoever it will, there are
two men who above all others, are enti-
tied to consideration at Chicago. Those
men are VIM. II. Seward. of New Y ork,
and Salmon P. Chase. of Ohio. Being
members of the Federal Senate when
MIR. Douglas introduced, remodeled and
pressed through his Nebraska bill, they
opposed and exposed it with prompt
ness, energy, address and resolution,
which have rarely been equaled. Others
did nobly; but it is pre- eminently due
to these two that the country was early
and generally spprised Of the real character
and purpose of that iniquitous measure,
and that the hollow hypocrisy of its
claims to justification on the basis oil
Popular Sovereignty" were held up to
the indignant gaze of all who were not
wilfully blind. AS Me-. Douglas is very
likely to be the candidate Of the Sham
Democracy, there would be eminent 1T
ness in pitting against him one of his
two chief antagonists in the memorable
struggle which called the Republican par
ty into being. Each of them is, by orig.
inal character, by training. by experience,
emphatically statesman of unquestion.
ed ability, unsullied integrity, broad
National views and feelings. and thor.
oughly Republican principles and as
pirations. No sane American. no mat
ter Of what section, would have any feal
that the National interests or honor
would suffer under the sway Of Seward
or Chase, while the noisy swash Of dis
uniOn would berebuked and exploded BY
tbe Administration Of either of them
and stand exposed to all the world as thu
hollow mask it really is. No sarnes
Republican, surely, could refuse to worl
as well as vote for either Chase or Sew
ard. or to do every honorable thing with
in his power to secure the election o
whichever should be nominated.
Is the Republican party strong enough
10 cleo. Chase or Seward ? Could they
or either Of them. carry Pennylvania
New Jersey. and Illinois, or all the Ere
States except Pennsylvania? If yes
then the only practical question is, whicl
of these two foremost Republicans shAl
he our standard bearer in 1860?
We propose to leave both these que.
tons to the Chicago Convention. w