Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-05
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The Autopsy Of the Radical Party or
What it Did. and by Whom it Is to be

Buried.
A Washington correspondent of more
than usual sagacity, gives the following
view of the situation of the Radical
party:
Sufficient time has now elapsed since
the Chicago Convention to speak OF the
effect of the nominations made there,
and the political prospect as viewed
from this central point.
The ticket has fallen fat and produced
no impressios whatever There are
various reasons for this fact, but the
main one is the Identification of General
Grant with the Radical wing of the party,
and his full acceptance of all their
policy, including impeachment, which
he advocated openly and even violently,
as is we'll known here, and as Cen
eral Logan and Mr.. Judd, of Hi
nois, emphatically declared at Chicago.
General Grant went over to the Radi-
Gals, and abandoned his previous Con-
servative tendencies last October, at
which time Washburn came to Washing
ton to arrange the programme, and Gen
Rawlings was sent West to make a
speech, revealing his chiefs conversion
to the doctrines of Thad Stevens and
the Mountain"
Ever since that time he has been
losing ground, and is now even weaker
than the party, because it is admitted
that he brings no outside strength, and
excites no interior enthusiasm, while old
and straight-faced Republicans will hold
his nomination as an abandonment OF
principle
1t is absurd to suppose that Colfax
adds particle of influence to the con-
Germ. Any ward politician would be
equally strong, and he is of the same di-
mensons of ward politician, only raised
in the country. There are tens OF thou
sands of the same class and genus scat
tered over the Union, many of whom are
vastly superior to the individual whose
smirIing mediocrity occupies the chair
once filled by Henry Clay.
The Radicals relied upon the success OF
impeachment as their last and only hope
of carrying the Presidential election.
That defeated, they substantially admit
the game to be lost. Their plan was for
Stanton to organize the whole South into
compact Radical column, to declare
martial law in Kentucky and Maryland
under some fabricated pretext, in order
to exclude their votes, and then by coer-
cion and corruption to secure enough oil
the East and West to count themselves
into power. This scheme required the
/ aid Of Wade 10 make il success. With
johnson in the White House II falls to
the ground, and with it all the hopes of
the revolutionists.
Disguise it as they may, the Wade men
are intensely indignant, aud will do little
TO help the ticket Their chief has given
/ no such Endorsement as is pretended by
the Radical organs. On the contrary
be swears like "our army in Flanders,
and says that he was sold out. IL is mo-
torious that the Southern delegates, who
we're pledged TO him, we're bought by the
New York jobbers at various rates, and
many Of them as cheap as their hotel
bills. This open bargain and sale is nov
urged here as a reason against the ad-
missioa Of those States by many ex'
tremisis, and if their votes we're not
counted upon in November, they would
not be allowed TO come in at al.
IL IL nov conceded BY leading and
competent Radicals that Pennsylvania is
{ lost by large msjority, frsi, because Of
/ the failure Of inpeachments second