New-York tribune., 1868-01-06

yentlon VIII be held to be IN proper pracuch
relations with the Government. 1t Is argued
that the Convention cannot admit any delegates
but from these States, that in the event OF any
doubt of the nomination of Grant the States
will be kept out of Congress until after the
nomination, when they will be allowed the
privilege of voting for candidate they did
not help to nominate. What is this
leading to7 do not write as an
alaimist, but to present the actual political
situation. 1t means that an effort is being
made to organize new party in opposition to
the regular Republican candidate. The ele-
ments composing that party may be classified
as follows:
]. The dissatisfied Republicans in the South
III. Those Republicans in the West and North
who believe with Gen. Butler that the bonds
should be paid in currency.
III. Those Republicans who believe the Ma
tional Banking System to be wrong
The argument of one who stands high in this
movement may be thus paraphrased: Take
"away Negro Suffrage and am Democrat.
al find what may be called an aristocratlc,
bond holding class, which will not tax bonds
"nor help to meet taxation. l find them de-
"termned to pay gold where we only give
greenbacks. i find them making discriminate
"ing Internal Revenue laws and tariffs, when
81 am n free trader. | see in Gen. Grant a
nd-holding candidate, supported by Mr..
"McCuloch, and Jay Cooke, and Mr.. A. T..
"Stewart in New York, and the whole
"Wall- street interest. The National banks
"cannot nominate Mr. Chase, and they are put
" ting their fingers on Grant. They own him,
and his success would be the triumph OF prin-
ciples to which am opposed" Then" sug-
gested "you mean to oppose the Republican
party, whoever it may nominate, and your
movement is secession, like the Birney move
"ment of 1874, or the Van Buren, movement of
"1s4s." 81 do MT put it in that view altogether
was the reply II am Republican on the
| Suffrage Question, and that holds me in the
"party. We can make the elements of party
against Grant, simply because Grant is the only
Candidate who does not wholly possess the con-
"fidence of the party on the Suffrage question
{" Just now the femoral artery of the party-lile-
"if you permit the phrase. lwould oppose Chase
"or Colfax, or anybody else upon financial issues;
&" but they are so Radical-Chase especially-that
"those who believe with me on the other mat
"ters would postpone them until new election.
at would also be so with Sheridan-If
You must have stals-with Thomas, perhaps
with Thomas certainly, if he had not
| been born in Slave State" L give
| you rs far as | can remember the words OF the
conversation. 1t is for you to place your own
value upon them. 1t would be madness not to
sec that such a movement is contemplated
| here and that, in the event of the nomination
of Gen. Grant on aigold- paying, currency-con-
tracing, protective platform-which platform
will surely be adopted-we shall have, within
thirty days such n ticket, perhaps as Benjamin
F. Butler for President, and Thomas j. Durant
| for Vice President | name these men on my
own responsibility, and simply by way of illus
tration. / do not think it would be strong. II
would not get any support from the friends OF
| Chase or Colfax. This | know. The only
| question is whether a Birney or Van Buren,
movement now would not throw the election
into the House, or lead to even worse results.
And this our friends should discuss in the most
earnest and careful manner.
| | have spoken of Mr.. Colfax! Was there
ever such good-tcmpered, chirping warbllng'
real canary bird of a Speaker 1t does ones
| heart good to look at him; and if he were to
| take wings and fly up among the trees and
carol all day, it wouldn't surprise me. Well:
the popularity of that man-considering he does
not drink anything, and goes to church-ls
astonishing. Some of his friends say he is no
longer in the canvass for the Presidency, but
that he will be presented by the West
for the Presidency. Certainly, the NOM
nation of Mr.. Cofax would strengthen even the
Grant ticket, and, but for his sectional position,
he would be nominated by acclamation. As
it is, unless You settle some of your quarels in
New-Yor or Pennsylvania, and agree upon a
candidate, Mr.. Cofax may be nominated any
how. 1t would be quite rs proper to nominate
| Grant and Colfax from Illinois and Indiana as
it was to nominate Lincoln and johnson from
| the Western States of Illinois and Tennessee.