The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-01
President Making.

The Herald Of New York declares tnat
"GRASr is already chosen by the univer-
sal acclaim of the people," and that It IS
only necessary to 60 through the form
a,;ties of an election" How long that
journal will continue so to declare remains
TO be seen. The Tribune, on the other
hand, demonstrates against precipitancy-
saysit will be fifteen months before We
are called on to elect President, and
that we are engaged in most important
concerns Just now, which ought not to DC
set aside for /" President. making by guess"
These important matters relate to taxa
ton and currency and the reconciling Of
"IocAL sELr-GovEaSMENT WITH THE PER-
" MANENT SWAY OF NATIONALITY AND 10y
ATTY" This last is herculean labor,
and might, if anything could, divert the
public mind from the question Of the Pre-
sidency. But the Tribune knows little of
the American people if it thinks anything
can keep them from the business of MAX
ing Presidents. They parody an old adage
thus "Let President be elected though
the heavens fall"; and lest parties and
men suffer by delay, the temper always is
to begin early. So. Mr.. GREELEY cannot
hope to call off the partisans by remind
ing them of the painful matters of the
public debt and taxation, and the dull and
insirid work Of reconstruction. There is
excitement in the presidential canvass
that great race over the national track on
which so much is hazarded. The very life
Of multitudes hangs upon it-(some of
whom richly deserve another kind Of hang
ing)-men who, having become mere
party hacks, rely alone upon office for the
perpetuation of their lives. Then there
are those who are seeking honors, and those
who have hazards of one kind and another,
and those who merely love excitement
all combining to press forward the compe-
titors for the great prize, and back up
their claims and their qualities. GREE
LEY won't get hearing. The danger is,
we now fear, that the champion named has
so much strength and force that compe-
titoS will be deferred from entering the
lists. The Wing says he is the Repub'
lican nominee o.; but the Wing is not jus.
tilted in so declaring in opposition to the
Tribune, which hints that before the election
there may be great changes that will show
the prudence of postponing now the can
vass of GRANTS claims. We trust Gene.
raj GRANT, or whoever is to be next Presi-
dent, will not put himself in the hands Of
any party-the Republican no more than
any other, for we think it very bad
party. We trust that the next President
will be representative Of q new period :
period dating from the death and burial
of old parties, the turning over the dark
page of our history, and the mutual agree
ment to detsch and disconnect the past
from the legislation, the action, and the
enterprises Of the nation. That is the only
way to restore harmony-the only way to
restore entire energy and hope to peo-
pie now distracted and divided-and a
national order and prosperity, now de.
barred by perplexing party feuds and
partisan ambitions. Both the old partie:
arc horrible their history for ten years
has been history of inconsistency, dis
honesty, depravity, and blood and we
pray God, in his mercy, to abolish them
from the face of the earth