Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-29
from the n. Y. Herald.l
The Presidential Contest.


1t is curious to observe how entirely the
politicians of the Radical negro supremacy
school have been confounded by the remov-
al of Stanton from the Cabinet, the assent
of Gen. Grant to discharge the duties of
the War Office, and the ready acquiescence
of the country in the movement. A few
hours on Monday of last week sufficed to
accomplish marked and surprising
change in the political situation. On the
morning of that day the Radicals were
bold and confident, their Secretary OF War
had bid defiance to the President, and they
felt assured that in their Tenure of Office
bill they had entirely stricken down the
power of the Executive and virtually abol-
ished that branch of the Government. In
the evening they were startled, first by the
announcement that Gen. Grant was quietly
installed in theWar Office, and next, by
the evident disposition of the country to
approve rather than to disapprove the
change.
This Washington coup d etat has not, how
ever, been their only source of uneasiness
and alarm. The almost simultaneous NOM
ination of General Grant for the next
Presidency by the Herald has set all the
politicians, from Maine to California, at
their wits ends, and has precipitated the
Presidential contest on to the country,
much the same as, in time of war, the
sudden movement of single colum n will
often destroy the plans and calculations
of weeks and bring on general
engagement. 1t has been the desire of
both the Republican and Democratic
politicians to hold the question of the Pres
| idential nominations in allegiance, the
| friends of the several candidates trusting to
their own powers of secret intrigue and
combination to advance the chances of their
| favorites in the party conventions of next
fall. But the name of Grant has been re-
| celved with so much enthusiasm by the
masses of the people, and his nomination is
so evidently equivalent to an election, that
the smaller fry are at loss how-to meet
the movement or what policy to pursue.
| Meanwhile, there are few cunning old
wire-workers of the Republican concern
| who are availing themselves of the uncer-
tainty and CONSERVATION of their fellows to
bring again into active play all the old
Ideas and issues with which they started
out at the commencement of the war, when
Chase was Secretary of the Treasury, and,
hacked by the influence of the national
banks, to raise up the cry of sthe South for
he negro" so as to obtain control of the
Republican Presidential Convention next
TALL, overslaugh Grant and all 9TH
ipation of Chase for President, with
my candidate for Vice President
whose office-seeking friends may be strong
| enough to carry him through. Thus we
lind that the real purpose of the organiza-
| ion of the national banks is beginning to
develop itself, and the fact that they were
intended by Secretary Chase as political in
stitutions, as well as financial institutions,
becomes apparent. They are the lever up
] on which he expects to be hoisted into the
Presidential chair. Pampered by special
legislation, and enjoying gratuity OF
twenty millions year from the
Government, they are expected to
evince their gratitude by forcing up
on the country the rule of the holy
coalition of Puritans and niggers. They
nre called upon to aid in placing the Cen
tral States, with their great interests, and
the young and vigorous Western States,
with their sturdy population, under the
control of fanatical New England and the
Atricanized South. This is their mission,
pnd it begins to look as if they would GER
tainly distance all competitors for the rad
tcal nomination-Colfax, Wade, Stevens
Sheridan, Fred Douglass and. the resG-and
force the nomination of Chase on the square
issue of negro supremacy.