Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-07-23
The Democratic nomination--A clear
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The Democratic nomination--A clear
Field for Gen. Grant.
From the New York Herald.
The die Is cast. The Democratic Con-
vention has decided that our next Pres
ident shall be Gen. Grant. There was a
splendid opportunity offered this Con-
vention, 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 in
augurate, in the approaching Presiden-
tial election, a substantial and enduring
Conservative revolution. The advan-
tages of this nomination were at once
appreciated by the Democratic masses
and the independent thinking men of
the party, and with the agitation of bis
name as Democratic candidate for the
crisis, they were enthusiastic In the
choice of Chase. But the party jugglers
of this Tamany Hall Convention had
different game to play. So far as the
New York managing politicians are con-
cerned, this game was fully disclosed in
the Herald of Sunday last, in reference
to the mock declination of Horatio Sey-
mour. The old fable of the mountain
i'm labor has been fully realized, and the
delivery is q ridiculous mouse, as the
Democratic Presidential candidate
against the conqueror of the rebellion
Seymour against Grant in 1868, amounts
to % Democratic surrender for the dis
banding of the Democratic party. The
ticket of Mcclellan against Lincoln was
strong ticket, compared with this of
Seymour against Grant. 1t has no pres
tige but that of defeat In 1862, indeed,
Mr. Seymour was elected Governor, but
it was on the platform of "a more vigor-
Gus prosecution of the war;" In 1853 he
returned to his idols of the copperhead
faith, and there he would have remain
ed but for the blunders of the Republic
cans, and their divisions in the State
elections of last year. Now, as in 1868,
,64, '65 and '66, after their successes of
1862, all the capital and all the foothold
gained by the Democrats have been
thrown away and lost, and the battle of
1864 is revived, with some changes, to
be sure, but as against Seymour they are
all in favor of Grant. There is nothing
in Seymour, nothing in his record, noth-
ing in his platform, that will bring
single recruit to the Democratic party,
but everything to rally the whole float
ing vote of the United States, with all
the Conservative Republicans, around
the glorious banner of Grant. 1t is sup
posed by his friends and political train
ers, that Seymour is at least good for
New York with its fifty thousand DEM
ccratic majority of last fall. That ma
jority, however, was delusive-the result
of Republican disafections and divisions
which only the nomination of Chase as
the Democratic candidate could have
turned to substantial advantage in this
campaign. Seymour against Grant will
bring all the Republicans into line, and
the result will be another political reac-
ton which will give New York to Grant
by twenty, thirty or forty thousand ma
jority.
We can give no countenance to this
retrograde movement of the Democratic
party. The successful movements ofthe
age are progressive, and we must go
with them. All the world is going for
ward, except our Democratic party. 1t
il behind Austria, Russia, Turkey and
China, for they all recognize the neces-
sity of shaping their policy to the pres
sure Of living events. Seymour is be-
hind the age, and Blair, as q soldier,
pinned to his ticket, makes n mokery of
the combination. Grant and Colfax
against such ticket, will sweep the
country from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
because the blockheads Off the Democratic
party will have it that we are still living
under the regime OF poor Pierce and Bu-
chanan.