Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-07-16
THE NOMINATIONS.
The Press on Seymour aud Blair.

IN. Y. Tribnne.l
If the Democratic Convention had been
intent on selecting that candidate for Presi-
dent least likely to win Republican votes
and most certain to arouse and intensity Re-
publican opposition, 1t could not have hit
the mark more exactly. ..Such
is the chosen leader Of the hosts of Reaction
and Aristocracy, in the contest now opened.
No man ever heard of his uttcring gcner-
Gus word for the ignorant, lowly, down.
troddcn African-all these he would disiran-
chise tomorrow il he had power, while he
insists that the South shall be given over 10
the keeping Of her naughty Rebels, who
hold that they have committed no wrong
and forfeited no right in conspiring and fight
ing to destroy the Union. If this man can
he chosen President over Ulysses S. Grant,
then the patriot blood poured out like water
ut Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Mission Ridge,
and in the advance to Richmond, was shed
In vain. fsiH
New York lIerad.l
The die is cast. The Democratic Conven-
tion has decided that our next President
shall be General Grant. There was
splendid opportunity offered this Convention,
in the nomination of Chief Justice Chase, to
carry off the balance of power from the
republican camp, North and South, East and
West, and to inaugurate in the approaching
Presidential election substantial and endur-
ing conservative revolution. The advantages
of this nomination were at once appreciated
by the democratic masses and the indepen-
dent thinking men of the party with the agi
tation of his name as the democratic cand-
date for the crisis, and they were enthusiastic
in the cause Of Chase; but the party jugglers
| of this Tammany Hall Convention had a
different game to play. So far as the New
York managing politicians are concerned,
this game was fully disclosed in the HERALD
of Sunday last in reference to the mock
declination Of Horatio Seymour.
| The old fable Of the mountain in labor
has been fully realized, and the delivery is
n ridiculous mouse as the democratic Presi-
dental candidate against the conqueror of
The rebellion. Seymour against Grant in
1868 amounts to democratic surrender or
a disbanding of the democratic party. The
ticket of Mcclellan against Lincoln was a
strong ticket compared with this of Sey-
mour against Grant. 1t has no prestige but
that of defeat. Seymour is
behind the age, and Blair, as a soldier,
pinned to his ticket, makes q mockery. OF
the combination. Grant and Colfax against
such ticket will sweep the country from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, because the
the blockheads Of the democratic party will
have it that we are still living under the
regime of poor Pierce and Buchanan.
| TCol. Forneys Letter to the Press.l
General Blairs nomination for Vice Presi-
dent is simply sublime blundcr-worse
than Seymours, for it brings no strength and
conciliates no disappointments. The Gen
eral is a rash, heady, uncertain partisan
the prince of good fellows socially, but as fl
to deal with questions of state as he is tc
build Mississippi steamer.
the whole, if Grant and Colfax had held {
friendly consultation to pick out their ad
versaries they could not have been more
successful than the rebel Democracy thil
morning.
philadelphia Press,1
In the nomination of Horatio Seymour
the Democracy have empbatically writteI
themselves Bourbons. A choice more of
fensive to the loyal instincts of the countr,
could not well have been made. Had
been left to the Republican party to select
candidate to defeat. next to Brick Poneroy
they would have probably have fixed on til
nominee of the New York Convention.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph vsr
They nominate their own presiding of
cer-a lack of taste most astonishing The
nominate man who has again and agai
, declined. But the old story of Caesar rcfu!
, ing the crown is made modern. History r,
peats ITSELF They nominate man who hf
expressed views on the most vital issue
7 that OF tfinances--which are Numerically OF
iposed TO those OF the platform. They mus