The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-03
Important Political 0I0vement-(;renf L
itinl New York Grant Meeting.

Important Political DIovement-Grenf In
itinI New York Grant Meeting.
The solid men of this metropolis the
Stewards, Astors, Vanderbilts, Grinnells and
host of others, bankers, merchants, mechanics
and workingmen, body Of citizens which can
command two hundred millions Of capital
have united in call for a mass meeting at
Cooper Institute, on Wednesday tomorrow
evening, to give a lit to the name and the
claims Of General Ulysses S. Grant for the
next Presidency. Representing all the SUBJ
stantial interests Of the city and the country,
we have the evidence in the list OF the signers
of this call Of the powerful hold which General
Grant has secured upon the public confidence,
embracing all classes OF the American people,
irrespective of past party distinctions. We
may therefore venture the prediction tina. this
initial New York Grant mass meeting will in
augurate q succession of similar popular de-
monstrations throughout the country so en-
phaiic in their character as to leave the Re-
publican National Convention no alternative
but the nomination Of General Grant
Mr.. Chase, through seven years Of active and
skilful engineering, has secured to himself the
control Of the machinery of the republican
party, headed by his legion Of national banks
and other agents Of his paper money system.
Against this powerful inside party machinery
the independent advocates OF General Grant
must mainly rely upon the outside pressure OF
public opinion. We think, however, to use an
old and expressive political figure ofspeech, that
it is only necessary to "put the bali in motion"
in order to set 1t rolling with resistless mo-
mentum to tho White House, so powerful do
we believe the prevailing popular sentiment
when once il is given any definite mode and
form Of expression.
In 1864 it was thought for time that Mr.
Chase, through his active financial Instruments,
would vigorously dispute the claims OF Mr..
Lincoln to second nomination; but SO strong
was the faith Of the loyal masses Of the North
in Honest Old Abe" that it controlled the
nominating party convention as by magic, and
Mr.. Chase was nowhere on the first ballot
We are prepared for the Same results, from the
same causes, IS between Chase AMI Grant
The republicans In Congress are casting about
for The safest road and the surest pilot to the
succession. The radical leaders who have SO
Tar ruled the party and its policy have met
with some severe rebufs in the late cleo
lions; but they still believe 10 Mr.. Chase and
his radical negro suffrage and paper money
programme. We dare say they will be ~
much astonishod at the manifest destiny OF
this New York Grant meeting as were the New
Haven philosophers with the veriacation Of
our first report last year from Greenwich Of
the shower OF mo.eors in England, when they
wero looked for In Connecticut
II seems 10 be understood that the radical
leaders will not abatc one jot or title Of their
negro suffrage and white disfranchisement
policy Of Southern reconstruction, and tia.
Mr. Chase relies upon the eleven rebel States
50 reconstructed to give him, against ell con-
tingencies, the balance Of power In the repub-
can convention, aud in the Presidential cleo
ton itself But his reliance upon this new.
this monstrous and dangerous Southern bal
anoe Of power, may prove delusion and a
snare. Assuming that II may give u Mr..
Chase the republican convention, and that
General Grant will then decline to run against
him, II does not follow by any means that Mr..
Chase will be elected. On the contrary, the
most crushing popular reaction ia the history
Of the country will be apt to follow the nom.-
nation Of the Chief Justice as the leader and
embodiment Of the republican party.
Under the Northern lights Of these late cleo.
tons these things were brought out into the