Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-18
GRANT AND CHASE.
Greeley in u DOuble-I4eaded Leader
on the Next Presidential Canvass
He Chooses Negro Suffrage even
with Defeat.

Greeley in 81 DOuble-I.eaded Leader
on the Next Presidential Canvass
He Chooses Negro Suffrage even
with Defeat.
. If our party and its nominal antagonist
shall stand substantially on the same plat
form in the next Presidential struggle, we
foresee that the result will be much like
that Of the Scott canvass in 1852, and are
quite resigned to the dispensation. Person
ally, we have an easier time, with far less
anxiety and trouble, when our party is out
of power. Then we are not bored to death
with opportunities to write office begging
letters to the President, the Secretary of
the Treasury, the Collector of the Port,
etc, etc. When public money is stolen,
las stolen it is and will be- we can pitch
into "the powers that be" for putting
thieves into Office or keeping them in-an
easiert task than to defend them. So, when
ever both parties get substantially upon
the same platform, we know that ours will
go under, and we contemplate that result
with serene philosophy.
We have been looking over string of
paragraphs from sundry journals which
insist that the results of recent elections in
sure the nomination of Gen. Grant as the
Republican candidate for next President.
"The people will never turn against the
heroic chieftain who led the loyal hosts to
victory" etc, says one. He is "already
nominated in the minds of the people,"
says another. Our candidate must be zone
whose claim to popular support is some.
thing more than set Of political uieacs a0hich
he mag hare made has stock IN trade" says a
third. And the master-spirit of them all
exults ovei the defeat fiSenator Wade in
Ohio, as having "played out" the negro
question, and explains himself as follows
"The result did not turn hall SO much
on the question whether colored men should
vote in Ohio, as whether we should, by
military law, convert the Carolinas. Geor-
gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, ETC., into St.
Domingos. 1t was not whether negroes
should vote in Ohio, but whether negroes
should be voted for in Southern States"
The defeat of Mr.. Wade he further ex-
ults over as can equitable settlement of ac-
counts between the people and their agents."
and says: "Chief Justice Chase's last card
(the ace of spades) is trumped, and with
him the game isover."
We rejoice that these utterances are so
timely They enable us to be equally d.
rect and explicit.
Of our public men now on the stage of
action, we esteem Chief Justice Chase by
far the ablest and the best qualified for
President. His services in breasting and
overcoming the rebellion were, in our view,
more arduous, and required a more origia
nal genius, than those of any other man,
and we're at least as essential to International
triumph. And such we believe to be the
judgment of intelligent patriots through
out the country.
But we hold individual preference and
aspirations in complete subserviency to
considerations of principle and of right.
Show us that our bitterest foe on earth is
fit for President, and will, if nominated, be
more likely to insure the triumph of Re
publican principles and measures than our
noblest and best friend, and We will hearth
" support that enemy's nomination.
Whether Mr.. Chase or some other man
shall be nominated for President is, in our
view, quite subordinate question. But,
if the principle of equal rights before the
law is to be struck down, the Republican
party will be saved from the crime, the
burning shame, of that immeasurable per-
fdy.
we want peace III iHtS country
genuine, thorough lasting peace. For this,
we have labored long and sacrificed much
for this we are ready to labor longer and
sacrifice far more We want this peace at
the earliest moment compatible with
national fidelity and national safety We
utterly ebhor all schemes of vengeance on
the discounted Secessionists, whether that
vengeance be disguised as execution, con-
fiscation, or otherwise. But four millions
Of loyal Americans cannot be put under the
feet Of those who fought to divide the
Union in order to tighten the shackles of
those four millions, unless by that Demo-
cratic party which sympathized throughout
the rebellion in its essential ideas and i'm
pulses, though not in the specific means
whereby it sought to achieve them. If
ever a Southern State reappears in Con-
gress with constitution which gives her
whites supreme power over her blacks, il
will be Democratic majority which Sc
cures her such admission. And if our
next President shall favor such admission,
he will be chosen by the Democratic, not
the Republican party. His ESme, his vo-
cation, his past history $50 that it prove
him honest and patriotic), are immaterial,
or st best OF secondary consequence; but
therewill be no Republican chosen President
who favors the sham Democratic doctrine
that black men, because they are black,
shall, in the lately Rebel States, have such
rights only as the whites of those States
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