The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-27
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" and good judgment OF men, Anu t'''
BRows saws further ''that Mr.. CHASE an
"ticipatcs the election of General oRAN'
"that he expects on the Attn day OIL
March, 1869, if both are alive, to swear
him into office as the next PRESIDENT OF
"thc United States.''
Now. BRowH gives all this and great
deal more before coming to the history of
events in the New York Convention, in
which the contest was between the "Pro-
gressionists and the Reactionists."
The former were confident up to the last
day, and up to the very last minute of that
day before the nomination of SEYMOUR,
that CHASE would receive the nomination.
He speaks of great deal of skirmishing
on both sides. The policy was to keep back
Judge CHASE until all the other names had
been tried, and then to bring him forward
1t was determined on the night OF the eth
of July that the next day should be the
accepted - time-that HANcocK's chances
should first be fully exhausted, and that
SEYMouR's name should also be brought
forward to test his sincerity. But so GER
tain was it, says Mr.. Brown, that Mr..
CHASE would be nominated, that Governor
SEYMOUR had read to friend q very neat
and chaste speech, which he said he WOULD
make when Mr.. CHAsE's name was brought
before the Convention.
But like some of the best laid schemes OF
men, the plan was defeated, Mr.. BROWN
saws, by q nter-movement-the nomlna-
ton of Mr.. SEYMOUR. To this only SIX
members of the Ohio delegation, he says,
were made privy. The game was with the
aid of the southern rebels" las Brown
calls them) to capture Mr.. SEYMOUR; and
Ohio led off. The other States IN order on
the roll followed, and the States that had
previously voted changed their votes Mr.
Brown draws a picture of MIR. SEYMOUR In
the dilemma intended to reflect upon him
as wanting courage and frmness; but ad-
mits that Mr.. S. was sincere in what he
said, and was not equity Of preconcerted
treachery." He had, Mr.. Brown means,
sincerely desired the nomination of CHASE.
MIR. BRowS says the Progressionists "
were demoralized when the counter-move-
ment was developed, and gave up the fight.
And thus concludes the history, if it may
be SO called, of Mr.. Brown. 1t gives us
really nothing new, and shows by its bitter
reflections upon rebels and {" reactionists >
that he is after oil but one Of those soldiers
of fortune that will fight with anybody,
and can, with the utmost readiness, at one
time fight with persons who at another he
is equally ready to malign and yituperate.
lie was ready to set up man against &C.
neral GRANT, and oppose the General with all
the weapons of partisanry, while now he is
equally ready to espouse his cause with ar
guments and assertions that prove him to
have been q most faithless and unprin-
cipled man ever to have dreamed Of OPP
posing him.
Mr.. BROWN puts forth this merely cleo
pioneering card in Kentucky, not for any
good it is expected to do there, but for use
in the campaign in other States. For Judge
CHAsE's sake, Mr.. Brown should have re-
manned quiet. lie acquits Judge CHASE of
any knowledge of his purpose to explode
his torpedo. But it is impossible that the
Judge can be saved from some damage by
the explosion. The innate sense of public
justice will not approve of the depreciation
of the New York Convention and its nomi
nee by man who fished for the nomina
ton of his friend by that body. 1t was
quite as respectable-its dignity quite as
imposing-after it nominated Mr.. SEYMOUR
as it was before.
Judge CuAsE's friend was willing, as was
Judge CHASE, that its nomination should
have been cast for the Judge. To fly at it
because the Judge did not get the nomina-
ton displays more of disappointment and
resentment than of good judgment and fair
ness.
This tub to the whale will hardly keep
him off the Radical ship; and it is now al
most certain that on the 4th of March next
Mr.. CHASE will have to swear Mr.. SEY-
MoUR as the next President of the United
States,