The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-06-02

~ hG1sAADy lAO ANODA II
The Prssaasney-Ths Frsmsas msvs-
nsnt-Hsw Liasssa WAL No Defeated.
The political radicals Of tho late Cleveland
Convention have boldly entered tho Presiden-
tial field under the banner OF Gencral Fremont,
aud upoa tho broad and oenmodioM platform
Of the Unloa, tho constitution and tho laws, the
suppression Of tho rebsllioa BY gunpowder,
FREQ speech, FREQ press, tAs habeas corpus,
the right Of asylum, the one term principle,
tho Monroe doctrine, emancipation and coa-
fisosAoa, and elderly. equality and fraternity"
The politicians thus represented have named
themselves tho "radioal democracy" although,
with very few exceptions. their rank and die
are drawn from the camps Of ehs radical 70
publicans.
What ere they driving att Nobody inaginss
that they have put forward their Presidential
ticket Of General John G. Fremont and General
John Cochrane with any expectation Of any
possible contingency that may result In the
election Of this ticket. No. Their object d
not tho election Of Fremont, but tho defsst Of
Lincoln Nor can this movement be regarded
with Indifference whom No know that II S sup
ported BY q powerful body Of honest and in
flexible radicals, including the Fremont Ger
man Legion and whom we remember that the
little abolition diversion Of 1874, under Blrney,
though locked upon at the time - contempt
BILE affair, proved sufficiently strong to take
OF from Henry Clay, in this State, the popular
and electoral balance Of power by which be
was defeated. It will be remembered too,
that, inoensed and disguised with the doings OF
tho regular Democratic National Convention ct
Baltimore in l848, Martin Van Buren,, heading
an independent free soil ticket, and upon bis
free soil Buffalo platform, In the name Of the
"free democracy" carried away votes enough
from General Cas-, in this State, to turn over
its electoral vote to General Taylor, thus do
Gliding the election in old Zaeks favor.
BY similar diversion the radical democ-
rscy" are now aiming to prevent reelection
Of Abraham Lincoln. They declare that he has
proved false to the cause Of "humsn freedom"
that he has needlessly, in many cases, tram
pied under foot the liberty Of speech and the
press; that he has treacherously abandoned the
Monroe doctrine; that his administration, in
everything failure, corrupt and incompetent,
Is leading the country on the high road to
destruction, and that new President Is the
first essential to the salvation Of the country.
Upon this bill Of accusations We may assume
that this Fremont faction viii carry away the
Lincoln republican majority Of every State
from New York to Missouri inclusive. Thus,
taking it for granted that Abraham Lincoln
will be the nominee of the Baltimore Repub
lican Convention Of next wcek, this independ-
ent Fremont movement will clear the track for
. good conservative Union ticket from the
Chicago Democratic Convention in July.
But il either the Baltimore Convention or
the Chicago Convention should hoist tho broad
pennant Of General Grast this Fremont organi-
sation will speedily collapse, Is its main OBJ
ject--the defeat Of Lincoln--will be accom-
piished. We will assume, however, that the
OF Lincoln at Baltimore Is .
foregone conclusion; and we wilt further
assume that, without . cordial fusion upon
some popular name Of all tho conservative ele-
msnts Of the Chicago Convention, les labors
aud this Fremont movement will amount to
nothing. What thens Why, then, tho Chicago
Convention, casting aside "the time honored
principles" or cant clap-trap and rubbish Of
the defunct democratic party, will have nothing
to do but to nominate General Grant upon his
own platform in order to absorb the Fremont
organization and walk over the Presidential
course.
General Grant Ii master Of the political as
we'll as the military situation. The Baltimore
Convention, in nominating him, will settle the
Presidential contest at once, or the Chicago
Convention, in taking him up in opposition to
Lincolu as the candidate of the shoddy repub-
licaus, will soon develop the power to defeat
them. Like the rebellion, the Presidency Is 10
the hands and subject to the good will and
pleasure Of General Grant. n this fixed fact
be made apparent at Baltimore it may
Giant by the Chicago Convention. This Cleve-
land Fremont movement will neutrslixe the
most Of Lincoln's State majorities, and the
name OF Grant "a the candidate Of the COM
bined conservative Union elements OF the
country will become the signal for great and
wholesome political revolution.
TIE ESGLrsH AND FRENCH GOVERNMENTS AND
THE REBEL PRvATEEss-In the declaration Of
Paris France and England agreed to the aboi-
ishment Of privateering and invited this gov
eminent to make similar promise. That We
did not sign such an agreement may yet stand
us in need. At the commencement Of the
Davis rebellion the traitors found immediate
encouragement in the action Of the British
government, which recognised them as bellige.
rents. France did the same, and the hopes OF
the so called confedsracy, a . natural result,
rose to fever heat England went still further