The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-12
Prcsideai AiakinR-Trials and Troubles OF
tho Party Politicians.

Prcsideat AiakinG-Trials and Troubles OF
tho Party Politicians.
The trials aud troubles OF the President
making politicians and the newspaper or
gans Of both our great political parties, in
reference to the succession In the White
House, are painful to contemplate and withal
very amusing. The republican journals have
got into lively discussion among themselves
on the respective merits Of principles and ex-
pediencies, measures and men, the statesman
and the soldier, Chase and Grant The radical
organs, par excellence, have no faith In Grant
they do not want Grant-they distrust the
political antecedents OF Grant, and they are
disguised with the studied and imperturbable
reticence Of Grant Under the apprehension
however, that they may have to fling up their
hats and shout for Grant, they are resorting to
all sorts Of devices to make the oracle speak
and repeat their shibboleth of negro suffrage
and Southern negro supremacy. Will they
succeed! They cannot say, but they fear
failure, and hence their sore distress.
To US this painful difficulty between the
bosterous radicals and the reticent Grant is
the old difficulty Of Mahomet and the noun
tain and it can be settled only in the old
way. If the mountain will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet must 60 to the noun
tain, or give 1t up as . bad job.
Our impression is that the mountain will not
be moved by Sambo. On "the almighty
niger" Grant is Western man; for the great
West is pervaded by grand idea touching the
almighty nigger." 1t is this-that the black is
so far the inferior of the white race In the
order of nature that there can be no such
thing as negro equality in the order of Ameri-
can politics or society. The amiable and
generous minded Abraham Lincoln shared in
this idea, and never accepted the ultra radical
Interpretation OF the dogma that all men are
created equal" Ask any Western soldier, from
Grant or Sherman down to one Of Sherman's
bummers, what he fought for in fighting the re-
belion, and he will answer that he fought for
the Union, and his right Of way down the Mis-
sissippi, and not for the niger. Even by Lin
coin the abolition Of slavery was proclaimed,
not as measure Of justice to the blacks, but
of the Union. So tar, too, in all that he has
done and in all that he has said, General
Grants position in reference to the negro is
entirely consistent with this salient idea of the
emancipation proclamation. True, as q law
abiding man and law regarding soldier, Gen.
eral Grant has faithfully executed and pleaded
for the execution of these Southern Reconstruc-
tion laws of Congress; but for oil this, II made
the military dictator of oil the outside rebel
States reduced to one district in order
to consummate Southern reconstruction under
negro supremacy, we shall not be surprised il
he declines the honor, inasmuch as it's accept
ance would make him the embodiment OF the
| for the present, however. that the radicals are
| debating among themselves whether it will be
| better to lose the Presidency in a fight for
principles or to secure Il In q fight for
| Grant.
| The resuscitated elements Of the Northern
democracy-a party which was generally sup
posed some ten months ago 10 be defunct and
done for-are quite as much embarrassed with
their Presidential candidates as the wrangling
republicans. In January, 1867, the democratic
anglers were fishing for Grant, and would have
jumped at him without conditions. In January,
1865, embodened by the last fall elections,
they turn up their dainty noses at Grant,
| give Andrew johnson the cold shoulder and
are clamorous for a candidate representing
the "time-honored principles of the partyr-a
man whose garments have not been soiled by
the war against State rights man with q
clear anti-war record. SO IL Is that we find
Mr. George II. Pendleton, OF Ohio, the demo-
cratic favorte OF the West agains! the field,
while only feeble voice here and there in the
East is raised for Seymour or Mcclellan, or
some other broken winded or stif-jointed
| quarter horse.
! Here we find the democratic managers re-
peating the same blunders which marked their
course after their remarkable but delusive vic
tories of 1862. We must therefore, again re-
mind them that the war against the rebellion
was not failure, that the legitimate conse-
quences Of the war must BIO accepted az the
law and the gospel and that no second hand
candidate of the Chicago Peace Convention of
1864 will touch bottom in 1893. A candidate
with good war record, like Andrew Johnson,
and representing the policy and constitutional
principles embodied In Mr.. Jobnson's veto
messages against the universal negro suffrage
and Southern negro supremacy policy Of this
radical Congress and the republican party be-
hind it, are the man and the platform for the
resuscitated but SUI weak and shaky de-
mocracy. Sixty thousand democratic majority
in this city is splendid figure, and fifty thou.
sand in the State is positively startling but
with Pendleton, Seymour or any such hide
bound democratic candidate for the next
Presidency even the Empire State will be
turned back to the republicans. II is evident
from all the indications around US that they
will close up their ranks for the Presidential
hnlA asnd III