Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-22
THE NEW PARTY n1OyEnENT.

The reported movement at Washington
for the organization Of third party fur
nishes the correspondents with something
20 write about, and some profess to have
made important discoveries in regard to
the matter. The correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, writing on the
18th inst, furnishes the following items
Mr.. johnson has long cherished the
notion of third party, and this idea, II
not suggested, was stimulated by Mr.. Sew
ard, who saw no chance for his cordial re-
ception by the Democratic leaders. The
Philadelphia Convention was gotten up by
johnson and Seward for this purpose,
though Joined afterEard BY many Demo
Gratis who had no idea Of abandoning their
regular organization. The purpose vas
to elect Mr.. johnson or Mr.. Seward by a
great popular movement on the ruins of
the old parties; but the scheme was broken
up. 1t is believed TO have been revived
lately by Mr.. Seward and his adjutants,
Thnrlow Weed and Raymond. The course
of events, and the Impeachment imbroglio,
have furnished the material for this moYe
ment, and the following prominent politi-
clans are named as persons likely 10 favor
it: Andrew johnson, Seward, McCulloeh,
Browning, Randall, Stanbery, Chief JUS
lice Chase, the two Ewings, Robert J.
Walker, Groesbeck, Fessenden, Trumbull,
Grimes, Ross, Van Wrinkle, Fowler, Hen
derson, Evarts, General Banks, Reverdy
johnson, Jay Cooke, and number of jour
nslisls, embracing Raymond, Thurlow
Weed, w. G. Bryant, and other influential
men. Should the non-impeachers be read
out at Chicago, great impetus will have
been given TO the movement"
Upon this point the Washington CORES
pondent Of the Chicago Times writes under
date of the 18lhinst. as follows:
The topic next to Impeachment which is
most discussed here, is the third party move.
ment, which il is deemed will become
matter Of much political Significance. Ever
since the announcement of the Chief JUS
tiCe that the President had been acquitted
on the eleventh article, TO the present time,
the belief has been current here that Chase
would be the possible candidate Of the De-
mocracy at the New York Convention.
Chase, there is little doubt, would accept
the nomination at the hands of any
convention whose platform would accord
with the principles which he has
maintained for a lifetime. Indeed,
he has substantially so declared, over
and over again. The Democrats, of course,
will not go to Chase, and Chase won't go
10 the Democrats; SO, tonight, the general
belief among Radical Democrats and Rad
ical Republicans is. that a new party, COM
posed of anti-impeachers from among the
Republicans and the Conservative portion
of the Democrats, sloughed off by the ex-
citement Of the past three months, will be
found, and that a third candidate will be in
the field in the person of the Chief Justice.
A Chase paper is already in contemplation
here, under the sanction, il is said, of the
Chief Justice. The more considerable con-
clusion is, that all of this excitement, aris-
ing out of the disappointment and anger
engeRdered by Saturdays proceedings, will
gradually die out, and the disaffection will
cease, and all will unite in the support Of
Grant