The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-13
General Grant And the Presidenc y--rh'
People against the Poifttcians.


candidate for the Presidency. in disturbing the
plans Of scheming parties and politicians, has
brought upon us the fire of their masked bat
teries from every direction But, In thus
drawing their fire, we have ascertained the
various positions they occupy and know how
TO dislodge them.
beginning with the administration party, we
New Hampshire proclaiming In favor Of an
other term to Abraham Lincoln, and with a
boisterous enthusiasm, as if to drown all oppo-
sltion. 1t appears, too, that the republican
majority of the Pennsylvania Legislature SYM
pathize with ''the voice of New Hampshire"
and that the party engineers in Indiana and
Illinois are working In the same direction. So
far, then, TO say nothing of the "loyalty' to the
existing head of the government Of the Loyal
National Leagues, President Lincoln holds the
inside track for the party nomination.: but
80 did Mr. Seward, to all appearances, in
1850, down to the meeting Of the Chicago
Convention. Then, however, it was discovered
that among the several competing oliques and
candidates there was an "irrepressible con-
hct," especially in reference to Mr.. Seward, and
the old expedient Of a compromise was adopted
in the nomination Of Mr.. Lincoln.
At the present time there is an 'irrepressible
conflict" between Mr.. Lincoln and his Secre-
tary of the Treasury; and the worst, or the best,
of it is that we see no signs of disposition on
the part of either to give way to the other. Mr..
Seward, discovering some time ago that Nj.
Chase had taken the ground from under his
feet, and DESTROYS to head of this powerful
rival, seized the first available opportunity-on
the eve Of our last November State election
TO declare himself in favor of the President.
Bot there has been no joyful response from the
party Of The Empire State to Mr. Seward nor
TO the New Hampshire Convention. On the
contrary, the remarkable silence of the New
York Tribune in regard to Mr., Lincoln's aspira-
tons, and its jealous defence of Mr. Chase
against the objections Of Wendell Phillips,
would indicate that the prejudice of the New
York radicals against Mr.. Seward extends to
tie President himself in becoming the candi-
date OF the unlucky Premier. The danger is,
therefore, that Mr.. Chase and his money bags
will prove too strong in New York for Mr..
Seward and his favorite.
Mr.. Lincoln is meraced also with another
danger in the West General Fremont has
bone to pick with him; and Fremont, it is said,
remembers his friends and does not forget his
enemies. Ii further appears that the powerful
Germsnic element of the republican party
West Is with Fremont to man; that the radi.
cal Western German considers him not only
the Christopher Columbus Of the emancipation
niovement-not only as a deserving martyr to
the cause-not only as the model Of all black
republicans--buta as one Of the very few Ameri-
cans who thoroughly sympathize with the Eu-
ropean red republicans among our people.
Fremont in word, like Kossuth, can blend
the most ultra principles Of democracy with the
magnfcence Of the Great Mogul--a combina-
ton Of things which, though incomprehensible
to "the Yankees" is perfectly consistent in all
its parts to the Continental European radical
from his past associations.
Here, then, we have the prospect of three
antagonistic candidates from the administration
camps--Mr. Lincoln. Mr.. Chase and General
Fremont Against either Of the FIRST two it is
said Fremont will take the field indepen-
dent candidate; and. with his German hackers,
he will be formidable competitor to Che regu-
lar party nominee. But the chances Of an ex-
citing, turbulent and perilous Presidential con-
test do not end here, if we are to trust to mere
party conventions and politicians. The rump
and stump of the old Know Nothing faction
have recently nominated General Mcclellan,
trusting to bis broad shoulders to carry them
through. The odds and ends Of the late demo-
cratic party have yet to come into the arena.
They, too, relying upon the solid popularity Of
General Mcclellan, may take him up as their
champion. Under such a state Of things we
shall have a scrub race. which, in its final ex-
element, may be carried to scenes Of revolu-
tionary violence, bloodshed and confusion
throughout the loyal States
This is the last hope and the last chance of the
rebellion. In the outset jeff Davis and his
fellow conspirators counted upon the active
support of their democratic partsans in the
North Disappointed in this calculation, they
next counted upon foreign intervention; and
failing in this, they looked for aid and comfort
to the Northern elections of last autumn. Sig
nally rebuked in these elections Davis and
his fellows have now no other prospect Of
success except in the chances of Northern dis
fractions and anarchy in our approaching
Presidential contest. How then, are these
perilous distractions to be avoided? Not by
trusting to parties or politicians, to whom we
are indebted for this terrible war-not by de.
pending upon an administration which has
proved failure-but by an independent
movement Of the people in behalf of General
Grant against the field, as the new man ordain-
ed to inaugurate new epoch and now order
Of things.
Thus BY bringing prominently and posi-
lively forward q candidate whose record is too
clear to be successfully assailed, whose
achievements are too great and decisive to be