American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-09-04
The Presidency Again.

atlcn was the continuance of the Re.
publican party in power. The Demo,
cratic party has been treacherous to the
fundamental principles of the Govern
ment. Its teachings furnished the pre-.
text and its ranks the leaders of the re-
beliion. In Kentucky the success of
those who, If not ex rebels, were sincere
sympathlzers with rebellion, is hailed as
great Democratic victory. In OHIO
Mr. Pendleton and pallandigham siren
uJusly support the Democratic nomiua>
tlons aud oppose Republican policy
u equal suffrage. La New York facts
o the same significance are familiar to
every resident wno Is Interested in pol
tics. DUNG TIE war wi atever opposi>
Ton aud embarrassment were offered to
tne measures OF the Government came
IfOm he Democratic party, and its can
dldate Tor Governor presided at the Chi
cago Convention at which that party
proclaimed the war failure.
Since the event beled the words and
the wishes OF the party, as party, It's
policy has been the immediate readmis
slou to Congress of representatives elects
ed by the rebels in the Southern States
and the regulation Of all the rights of
the freedmen by their late masters. So
long as the President was supposed to be
untavorable to this policy he was the
Emperors horse made consul, he was
the ialsest, meanest, most contemplate
Of men. The moment there is a hope
that he may be used as a p rty tool for
the Democ attic policy he is nominated
for the Presidency by Mr. John VAN
Buren, to Democratic meeting which
vociicrously applauds, and he is praised
and encouraged by all the Democratic
papers and orators in the land.
a party with such antecedents which
furnished the doctrines and the chiefs Of
the rebellion which extenuated and en-
c0uraged it, which thwarted the Governs
ment IN its war measures which stead
ily and vilely maligued the President
during tho war, which announced its
failure, and whose attempt to elect Gen
eral Mcclellan was sustained by the
hopes and prayers of rebels and opposed
by those Of the vast multitude in arms
for the Government and those who hay
tortured and perishing in rebel prisons
pens-a party which denies the right of
the victorious Government to prescribe
the conditions upon which the rebel
States may resume the places in the I'm
ion, and which would leave the emanci'
pated slaves wholly, to the mercies of
their defeated masters-is not a party to
which the interests OF free society and of
Il Government founded upon equal
rights can be intrusted 1t is of the ut>
most Importance that the Republican
party therefore remain in power
We said also last week that this party
would undoubtedly succeed at the cleo
ton, and must therefore select candi-
date who would not undertake a no-par.
ty administrations which could end only
IN the decentralization Of the organization
which elected him. Then we said thar
II General Grant should be nominated it
ought to be not because or his great mil,
ltary service and popularity, but because
OF his known, open, unquestioned, and
unquestlonable fidelity to the principles
and purposes Of the party. The friends
of Chief justice Chase claim that for the
very reasons stated in that article. and
because OF the fact hat General Grants
political opinions are nowhere plainly
stat d, nor anywhere surely known, the
termination sh alld faii upon a statesman
ot the highest and most approved ability;
upon cue OF t pioneers of the political
fa,th which now dominates the country;
upon one of the earliest, most unwayer.
ing, aud NEST radical of .Republicans,
whose opinions have always been known,
VIII Sc acts lave never been equivocal,
whose public services as Senator aad
Secretary Of the Treasury have been un-
surpassed, and whose position upon the
Supreme Bench shows the public estim-
ton in which he is held Ell
For twenty years Mr.. Chase has been
one of the most conspicuous an,tislavery
statesman in the county In the Sem
ate he divided the leadership of the par,
ty with Mr. Seward, and while Mr.. Sew
ard has chilled and broken the hearts
that beat for h m and clung to him as
StotS9nhu vi iSdl lusiHuL ana oil
earnest conviction, Mr.. Chase has NOV
ed steadily forward with the advancing
sentiment of the country and is as fully
in sympathy with the most liberal
party to day as he was with the same
party twenty years ago
To this political characterc consistency.
perception, and progress-he adds an
unspotted private fame, and the training
and habits of statesman Perfectly IA.
miliar with the history and practice of
our politics, it is urged that he would
bring 10 his great task an ability and ex.
perience which would heal our civic
wounds and secure the asceadency OF the
party which elected him.
These are very powerful arguments.
aud we do not quarrel with them. But
great and persuasive as they are, is it
not still true, as We said last week, that
such is the confidence in General Grants
fidelity to the radical cause, if his name
were presented in Convention it would
be irresistible ? 1t is for that very reason