New-York tribune., 1867-10-15
PRESIDENr rM1KLNG- GENT

The Albany Erening Journal, when a young
gentleman just appointed something or other
on the Governors staff walked into the room
i'm all the bravery of brand-new uniform and
epauIettes took several turns athwart the room.
and walked out again. Mr.. Granger watched
his stride admiringly, and, when he had de-
parted, turned to us with merry twinkle in
his eyes as he amiably remarked" There! |
"have wondered for what have been tOiling,
"sweating and worrying in political strife
these twenty years; but now | sect was to
"make that young man feel as well "a he does
"tO-day."
That was nearly thirty years ago. aud we
are that much older than we were then-older,
even, than Mr.. Granger then was. And we
give timely notice that we have no remaining
appetite for political contention that produces
no results more benefcent, more enduring,
than those indicated by Mr.. Granger as above
related. If our party and its nominal antag-
onist shall stand substantially on the same
platform 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 dispense
ton Personally, 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 ofiice-begging let
ters to the President, the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Collector of the Port, &c, &c.
When public money is stolen (as stolen it is and
will be- we can pitch into the powers that
be" for putting thieves into Office or keeping
them n-an easier task than to defend them.
SO, whenever both parties get substantially
upon the same platform, we know that ours
will 90 under, and we contemplate that result
with serene philosophy.
We have been looking over string OF para
graphs from sundry journals which insist that
the results of recent elections insure the nom
nation of Gen. Grant as the Republican
candidate for next President. "The people
" will never turn against the heroic chieitaln
" who led the loyal hosts 10 victory &c. says
one. He is already nominated in the minds
of the people" says another. Our candidate
must be &" one whose claim to popular support
" is something more than q set Of political
" ricrs which he mag hare made his stock in
" frade.r says third. And the MASTER spirit
of them all cxuts over the defeat of Senator
Wade in Ohio, as having played ont" the
Negro question, and explains himself rs fol-
lows
"The result did not turn hall much the question
whether Colored Men should vote IA OHIO rs whether we
should by Military Law convert the Carona~. Georgia
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi &c, INTO 81 DoningO-
II was not whether Negroes should vote IN ono bat
whether Negroes should be voted or III Southern states
The defeat of Mr. Wade he further exults
over as "an equitable settlement of accounts
"between the people and their agents." and
says: "Chief-Justice Chases last card (he Ace
"of Spadcs) is t,runped, and with him the
game is over
We rejoice that these utterances are 50 timely.
They enable us to he equally direct and ex-
plicit.
OF our public men now on the stage of
action, we esteem Chief-Justce Chase by far
the ablcst and the best qualified for President.
His services in breastng and overcoming the
Rebellion Were in our view, more arduous,
and required more original genius, than those
of any other man, and were at least as essen
tial to the National triumph And such we be-
lieve to be the Judgment of intelligent patriots
throughout the country.
But we hold individual preferences and aspira-
tions in complete subserviency 10 cOnsidera-
tions of principle and of right Show us that
our bitterest foe Oh earth is fit for President
and will, if nominated be more likely TO in
sure the triumph of Republican principles and
measures than our noblcst and best friend, and
we will heartily support that enemy's nomina-
ton. Whether Mr.. Chase or some other man
shall be nominated for President is, in our
view, a 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 perfidy.
Apart from a portion of these United States,
we know no fraction of Christendonl, no civil
lied land wherein native-bon citizen is de
MED or deprived of any political or civil right
because of his color 1t is idle to cite Hayti
I tbaip af
Whites from citizenship are confessions of
weakness and apprehension on the part of
feeble, ignorant communities just rescued from
Slavery and surrounded oil all sides by