The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-09-02
Taking to Fright.

Bennett, of the Herald, and Greeley
of the Tribune. two Of the biggest and
most potent guns of Grant, begin t.
feel the Seymour volcano and scent de.
feat in every passing breeze.
The following from the Herald plain.
ly indicates how old Bennett feels:
Greeley begins to see the Presidential
canvass in clear light, and sees every rea.
son to fear the failure of Grant, Hesays that
tho labor that is to insure the; triumph Of
the Republican candidates. g lis. yet. to be
done i" that six times as many clubs as the
Grant men new have are necessary and
that before 1t can expect to win the clubs
must gather and CLEAN half million
votes from those who ;irc now Indifferent
or hostile !" to the Republican party. And
all this, he justly reasons, implies such a
canvass rs has neyeryet been made in our
country" For those who fancy the cleo
ton of Grant drid Colfax certain, be says
So far is this from tile fact that they are
this hour in peril of defeat" aud "will
surely be beaten if their steadfast supper
ters are not speedily aroused to general
and intense activity" Republicans" have
to poll their very last vote in half the
States-many more than they ever vet
pnlled in the belt of States beginning with
'Cofnecticut and extending. through, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio
to lndiana-or Seymour will he next Pres.
ident." He believes that )" there is danger
grave danger"-that, Grant will not be
the next Executive; NOT that he donbts Of
the reaT Supremacy of Che Republican bar.
ty in point ofnumbers even, but lie fears
that Republicans will DO apathetic and
Democrats crafty, and Of course dishonest
Ia view not quite Consistent with his 9th
or view that his party needs to win half a
million votes gained either from it's Opp6.
nents or from men indifferent t0 party.
! Greeley, then, begins to feel tho coming
defeat of Gen. Grant. He has good reason
to be uneasy in view. of tile possibility.
He may regard this resGits as in a peculiar
degree tho consequence of his o&n efforts
He has directly contributed to bring ii
about He created in the first place and
has kept alive those elements Of tlisaffec-
ton to tho Republican party. from which
alone Grants defeat can come. He ID the
man who his driven the. common sense,
the respectable controlling conservatism
Of the c2untry. into an attitude Of hostility
to the Republican party. He is the real
source in his party of all its extreme ten
dencies-all those desperate efforts to re.
model the nation in accordance with OK.
travagant and misty tlleory-those ridicu.
lous yagaries Of a dreaming enthusiast who
fancies lie isa politician and statesman
Had Republicanism acted on. the IMPULSE
OF the people at the close. of Tie war, lid
its policy reflected the true will of thef,eo.
pie, how different wonld have been our re-
cont history But it gave way to thai
spirit of which Greeley was the head and
front, and the rest came of course. Thence
came all the niger legislation and all that
perversity Of our recent political strife that
wonld not have peace Fit was not peace
with the niger in the best place, Thence
came all the Legislation outside tho Con.
istitnti0n and the effort to cast the Execu
tive Office ont Of our system Of government
because the occupant of that office. did not
agree with Greeley in his views Of his du,
ties. This is the spirit that has rendered
it impossible for tile people to act longer
with the Republican party; and though
the nation respects and rcveres Grant fol
his character and his history, it cannot
even for his sake accept party of such
tendencies and subject, as its record shows
to such unsafe influences.