The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-24

cousidcrable extent among Tue Ps"o"ou' s'v"e ""
Afkansas river Arkansas The disease u stu raging
Fort Harker fytwo new cases and seventeen deahs
| being reported on Saturday.
The Board OF Registration at Augusta Ca, has
dcred all employers to notify their employees OF tn Q
preseuco OF the Board under penalty OF tho law ad-
ministered by military commission
The Camp Meeting Association Of New York have in
auguratod thor annual enoampmeHt at Sing Sing
General Grant for tho Presidency-The Radi-
Gals Taking tho Alarm.
Public opinion and the independent press in
This country have become stronger than the
politicians and their party organs. In the
good old times of General jackson two or
three leading democratic journals and two or
three little coteries of democratic managers,
including the Albany Regency, divided the
spoils and dictated the order Of the Prcsiden-
tial succession. But things have altered
bravely since then. An independent news
paper press, cultivating an independent public
opinion, has established balance of power
which all parties and politicians are bound to
respect. Hence we are not surprised to learn
from Washington that "the next Presidency is
q confidential topic of conversation among
the republicans of both houses" and that "they
are coming to see tho necessity OF uniting
upon General Grant !" that Chief Justice Chase
and ''Old Ben Wado," President of the Senate,
cession, neutraliEe each other; that, while
Chase has the capacity for the Presidential
Office, "his financial schemes have rendered
him unpopular" and that III is very nearly
settled conviction among the republican men,
bcrs of Congress that Grant Is the man."
We dare say that new impulse has been
given in this direction from the recent develop
ments of General Grants opinions On the re-
construction laws of Congress, which remove
all doubts as to his position on this subject
He stands squarely by the side of Congress
and the five commanders over the ten excluded
rebel States. 1t would be a remarkable thing,
indeed, il, with his quick military eye, his sa-
failed to discover that the position Of President
johnson is useless and untenable for offensive
or defensive operations. The copperhead
managers, therefore, who have been planning a
flank movement against the radicals, in arrang-
ing for the nomination of General Grant as
an Independent opposition candidate, after the
fashion of old Zaok Taylor, must now cast
about for some other standard bearer, or con-
sent to fall into line, so that Grant, in 1868,
like Monroe, in 1920, may be elected without
and so that then we may have a
fair field and q clean set of new books for q
new organization of parties, as In 1924.
That Grant, with the opposition of Chase
will command the united voice Of
tue republican party is, we think, as clear as
that all the opp osition in the ranks against the
reelection of Abraham Lincoln gave way
with the discovery that Chase could do nothing
against him in. State or national convention.
With Grant, then, as the republican candidate,
embracing the, Chase division of the party, the
little opposition movement Of General Ben
Butler and Wendell Phillips will disappear
like that of General Fremont and John Coch-
rane in the campaign of 1864 The forlorn
Northern democracy, in this view of the COM
ing campaign. could not, perhaps, do better
than to fuse with the republicans on Grant, so
as to wipe out all existing party lines, together
with the odious copperhead record Of the war,
in order that fairly and squarely we may have
a new division Of parties for 1872 upon the
new order of thinss which will have ripened
hy .hf.t time under negro suffrage and the re-
construction and restoration Of the ten outside
reb0l States.
Meantime the warnings thrown out from the
Presidents hand organ at Washington as to
what ne intends to do, in the absence Of Con-
i,ress, with the five military commanders of the
South, and with the present manageable
Secretary OF War, can only operate to hold
the republican party of the North intact with
Congress, and to draw the radicals Of both
houses in closer communion with the con-
servatives and General Grant, while Grant
is drawn into closer relations with them
all. If President johnson wishes to de-
eide the issue Of the coming Presden-
the next meeting of Congress, he has only to
employ his attorney to make up a case against
Sheridan, Pope, Sickles, Schofeld or Ord TO
secure these objects; but If Mr.. johnson de-
sires to get on quietly and without further
trouble to the end of his term, all that no has
to do is 10 tamper and tinker no more with
these military commanders and the laws, but
simply to stake care" bona Jide, that the Laws
be faithfully executed"
Thurlow Weed, Farmer Abel and other
specializing politicians, on their beam ends,
"snufing the battle afar off," went down to
Long Branch tho other evening close upon the
heels Of General Grant. We suspect that
Weed is aiming to get the inside track against
Greeley under the wing Of our invlncible SOL
der, unless the "king Of the lobby" carries
with him a treaty OF peace with Greeley by
authority Of Mr.. Seward and all in the name