The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-18

Greeley begins to see the Presidential
canvass in clear light, and sees every rea-
son to fear the failure of Grant He saws
that the labor that is to insure the triumph
of the republican candidates sis yet to be
done;h that six times as many club as the
Grant men now have are necessary, and that
before 1t can expect to win, the clubs must
"gather and CLEAN half million votes from
those who are now Indifferent or hostile''
to the republican party. And all this, he
justly reasons, implies such a canvass as has
never yet been made in our country For
those who fancy the election of Grant and
Colfax certain he says $50 far is this from
the fact that they are this hour in peril of
defeat'' and will surely be beaten if their
steadfast supporters arenot speedily aroused
to general and intense activity Repub-
licans have to poll their very last vote in
half the States many more than they ever
yet polled in the belt of States beginning
with Connecticut and extending through
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio
to Indiana-or Seymour will be the next
President" He believes that ssthere is dan
ger-graye danger"-that Grant win not
be the next Executive; not that he doubts
of the real supremacy of the republican
party in point ofnumbers even, but he fears
that republicans will be apathetic and dem
ocrats crafty, and of course dishonest
view not quite consistent with his other
view that his party needs to win half a
million votes, gained either from its oppo-
nents or from men indifferent to party.
Greeley, then, begins to feel the coming
defeat of General Grant. He has good rea-
son to be uneasy in view Of the possibility.
He may regard this result as in o peculiar
degree the consequence of his own efforts.
He has directly contributed to bring il
about. He created in the first place and
has kept alive those elements of disafection
to the republican party from which alone
Grants defeat can come. He is the man
who has driven the common sense, the re-
spectacle controlling conservatism of the
country into an attitude of hostility to the
republican party. He is the real source in
his party Of all its extreme tendencies
those desperate efforts to remodel the nation
in accordance with extravagant and misty
theory--those ridiculous vagaries o a
dreaming enthusiast who fancies he is q
politician and statesman. Had republi-
canism acted on the impulses of the people
at the close of the war, had its policy re-
Elected the true will Of the people, how diff.
ferent would have been our recent history
But itgavesway to that spirit Of which
Greeley was the head and front, and the rest
came ofcourse. Thence came all the Niger
legislation and all that perversity of our
recent political strife that would not have
peace, if it was not peace with the nigger
in the bestplace., Thence came all the leg
islation outside the constitution and the
effort to cast the Executive office of our
system Of government because the occupant
Of that office did not agree with Greeley in
his view Of his duties.
This is the spirit that has rendered it
impossible for the people to act longer with
the republican party; and though the nation
respects and rcveres Grant for his character
and his history, It cannot even for his sake
accept party of such tendencies and sub
ject as its record shows, to such unsafe in.
fluences.N Y. Herald. assls'