The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-07
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
The War of the Radicals Against
General Grant.
Views or the People and the
Press.

Il
The story OF Judge Car,er's interview with General
oFaat IL an extraordinary one. The Judge IL . well
Known republican politician Of Washington, holding
dency is Ben Wade-who s OF the grandest of
err public men, whether presidential candidate not
1he 0becs Of the Judge In calling upon the General
whatf 1t ascertain first whether General Grant
would DO candidate, and, second, II So with which
party be would act Nov, We have fixed upon no favor
Ne yet for the next Presidency. Any of dozen
good men whom We could name would satisfy us thor
sughly Moreover, why should DO troubling ourselves
nominated till next Nevertheless. IL is always a safe
practice to determine who shall not DO Presidential
candidate We therefore announce In advance In
Asxible opposition any and for the next
Presidency TO whom party managers have to put any
such miserable ineogatory sir, TO which party do
Pen belong 7" The republican party wants republican
saadidata party With principles wants n candidate
With convictions. party whose policy is open and
avswed demands candidate whose opinions are definite
md known party with moral mission disdans
candidate Of doubtful faith Weknow nothing to the
,y e. the story Of fudge csss Inter
syer, originates with the Cincinnati Commercial,
Journal whose editor, as we happen 70 know, is OPP
posed N degrading Journalism by publishing sensation
dispatches, containing mischief than truth. But
10 refer to the story not for its intrinsic impor-
lance but solely for the moral which II points, That
moral is let the republican party beware Of seeking
Presidential candidate in any man in whom 1t has
lsng ago found an open and unequvoca advocate Of s
principles and aims suppose General Grant. before
the opening Of the campaign in the Wilderness, had
been waited upon BY Judge CARTIER with the question:
The question would have been an insult; for IL would
have implied doubt as to whether General Grant
an, 1 S,opos.d rsDs snada.e
from which party win you accept . nomination.? Is
equally an insult for 1t implies that the man to whom
- addressed may be ready TO join either the political
friends the political enemies Of his country We are
be understood rejecting upon General Grant II
either he other chooses to be without political
opinions this free country, and such idosyncrasies
abundantly permitted. What insist upon Is,
hat General Grant shall have political opinions but that
The next republican Presidential candidate shall have
such opinions. There are many ways in which
may honorably his country without holding or
without expressing positive and well defined political
usws General Grant has honorabIy served IT In one Of
these ways that H. by leading its armies. But it is
possible that man shall honoraby serve his country
. Presidential candidate and at the same time
- destitute Of strong, well grounded and openly
known political convictions This country has
curse to it. This the deliberate choice OF the
yepublicsn party That party might have chosen whom
thousand able and honest men lis Punder IN choosing
Andrew Johnson that It did not stop to ask whether
- had settled political CONVICTIONS il he had whether
eAess were IN harmony with the settled political convic
tons Of the party that committed its banner to his
banda Andrew johnson did not cheat the republican
trbid insttutns any comparison, direct or implied
bsween President johnson and General Grant The
knavs the other an honest man. But the republican
party cannot afford TO CHOOSE either . knave
honest man without definite political views
yssse ought 70 be an amendment 70 the const
= The Presidency unlessl can be proved that he Boz
nsves something. "By faith ye are saved" The his
ss o. the Republican Jean psT ~ Is history q mingled e0
- great moral principles; the shame its frequent
csmpromiss and surrender OF these principles fever
when that party needed for III standard bearer
& great devotion TO moral principles that time is now
ana will be prssmnsnty the four years Of Presi-
AsnsAl administration. II the republican party-the
yry which 70 elect the neg. Presidsnt-shai delbs-
SHias eacsps for the one thing which should
Sscommend candidate-namey, his political n
i.svi.aSiy ehss. ITSELF bs.r.S Is trust. and shame
- nation. the next administrator Of the federal
Ibsrsy has becn lifelong passion; win whom the
psiacipte Of Justice II sacred Name with whom pclit-
M me
C principles which endcdin tho overthrow Of American
aavsry; not man who has been indifferent all his life
lana 70 the greatest moral movement OF modern times
n Abraham Lincoln was cut short in his benign work
e upbudins Freedom and as his successor has been
eho berayer Of tho government the nation Is now
StIed 70 President whose soul competent to compre-
hsnd the large proportons Of the yet unfinished work.
whose heart Is full Of zeal for m accomplishment and
vhose hand has had experience In the practical OF
SAsemanship In Gods name, let u have great man
~ the next President tH
[From the chicago Journal republican, June Al
Tho Independent having formally swung loose from its
ounaregaonal mooripgs leads OF In its with
. editorial on next Presidency, taking the line
e policy that It's neghbor the Tribune docs. II will DO
couples doing their best or rather their worst TO pre-
vsnt the denomination OF Mr. Lincoln. They are now
jrecling their shafts General Grant Neither
Sat openly and board against him, but 1t requires
% special dscernmen to that whom either journal
hEss Presidential gun whether II bs the colubiad OF
. ieader or squib Of paragraph the real do
Ign oppose the nomination Of Grant for tho next
rsesdency In tho light Of Their former effort st Pro
psct that this "fank movement upon the General
6tli produce the desired effect When the Baltimore
Convention met there was hardly tho vcsgo OF any op
position 70 the reconciliation OF President Lincoln, and
sven the few who we're then opposed to II were after
wards heartily ashamed OF their course and most OF
hem Glad that defeated. n N q
particular preference OF for the next Presidency
We Wiling 70 wait for time and events TO develop
~ best FOR the place. At the time must
protest. against tho apparently prcconcerted effort OF
certain Eeaous politicians to prejudice the public
- Ldependsts article 10 that the Washington
0pondent Of the Cincinnati Commercdt-a notoriousy
unreliable source OF nformaton.reports that Judge
~ TO General Grant, "Sir, to which party do
pen belongS" To ask such q question an insult.
nx 70 defeat Governor Geary Pennsylvania and elect
Cymer General Grant took bold stand for the former
CAV indebted for his election When V Congress
passed bill extending suffrage TO the negroes Of the
bsuih General Grant urged Johnson TO sign IT, The lat
esr refused TODD H. and In bis message ntuaed
vogy plainly that II IL should become law questions Of
~ cons,tutionay might come in to prevent It's
saon; bat Grant ~ the General OF the United States
amy set about TO enforce In spirit and in
ssg appointing Military Governors the most radical
men silse'o and no has KEEP, them in power wi.hou;
Southern rebels II was feared that Mr. Johusons spe
sia friend. Rousseau, would be ordered TO supersedc
General Sheridan whom he dslikcs; but Sheridan
the confidence of Grant and Of the people, and
sequence Of the former be Ia retained in command Of
Yif,h district with prospect OF removal The iron
will and steady purpose before which Richmond fell and
Les became prisoner OF war have kept sheridan in
command and secured tho execution OF the Military Re-
construction act and for any Washington hanger TO
have the contery TO inquire OF the man who has done
ell this, "Sir, 10 which party do you beongrn Is
tsmpgible Had the fellow bcea shown the door he
would have received only his deserts But IL Is said
Mai there must be something wrong about General
Grants politics, or he woald come in for
his share OF copperhead and rebel abuse II
must be admitted that he has most remarkably
sscaped censure Wendell Phillips has mopopozed this
business almost exclusively But before drawing the
Inference tina, General Grant Is political cipher II
would be well 10 remember that military man he
escaped most REMARKABLY The copperhesds and
rebels have poured the walls Of their wrath upon all the
other prominent Union generals but they have spared
the mead OF the army This Is very pQtablc fact and
pertinent in this connection. VIII any pretend to
say he specially spared BY tho enemies OF the
government because he was tainted with rebel sympa
thiesS Everybody knows and admits that no went into
the with his whole soul, and that TO him moro than
i.sl al ind