The New York herald., 1865-10-06
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1885,

ton hero" Suppose he says TO William Aiken, one OF
tho Statesmen OF tho SOUTH who has confomed TO the
emancipation Of thousand slaves and partitioncd
among them land TO TIL and subsist upon-suppose
he says TO him. II shall accept tho resignation Of Secre
% @ o with
truth that tho people OF these States without distinction
OF party, participate in desire for his retirement"
Secretary Of war they shah then have q
representative at Washington attending to their
local neress and competent 10 assist tho President
the admnistration OF The government The time will
como when tho Presidential election will be reached
Az that time the southcrners will vote. no matter
whether they have members of Congress not
By the Constitution they are existing States
in the Union and they would vote should rather sup
faithfully execute tho law and would SEQ that their
votes were converted; and am quite certain that their
votes would not be cast for the leading re-
pnblicans in the next election say, then,
that the President is master Of the situation,
and has 1t in his power to control the whole
question without any serious injury to the Sosthand
we pass along then to tho next election Now the great
majority Of the people avcrse TO saying anything
the subject 50 many years before. hand, in re-
for the Presidency Our State Convention wisely said
nothing on tho subject Most of our leading prefer
regard to tho Presidency Now President Johnson him
self, it Is frequently said may dc before
to the this expiration 1 a his ns er na
ever did in tho Presidential Office Cheers and laughter)
Is very curious fact that during the last sixty i've
years only three fSderas Presidents have been elected
Generals Harrison and Taylor and Mr. Lincoln Each
OF these did in tho Presidential Office
and the Vice Presidents who succeeded TO
the Office in each democrat SO
tnaf daring the whole OF these sxty-ave years demo
cratic principles have been in the ascendency? Choers
wonder that some Of these clerical republicans who
look FOR the finger of God every thing do not what
proydental dispensaton IL isg uaughter) No
democratic President has died in ollcc, and
no lederalist President ever lived out his term
IN i, showing the watchfu of Providence
over the United stV,esl From the first gun Of tho
Revolution 10 tho last scene Of the rebelion in no
way has this been moro Prov idcntiay and conspcu-
ously presented than in tho way the people have
been saved from the of federal domination
tCheers) Now who shall bo next candidate for
the Presidency. The democrats If they had their own
way would ordinary OCCASION be disposed TO sup
port General Mcclellan. (Cheers) Wo went through
the last political campaign with that distin.
guished soldier when everything against
him. He (McClolan) conducted himself with
propricty, and he subjected throughout
10 great calumny In all the OF that campaign,
IL my judgment, has come forward who has
manifested more ability and wisdom than he but it is
TO he remembered that from the st to the last that in
the Immediate future require the wisest and most
experienced exertions OF statesmen instead OF soldiers
IL viii require all the wisdom experience and states
manshp IN tho country TO conduct successfully
through the extraordinary crisis.