The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18
The Democratic Chase Movement.


The movement looking to the nomina-
ton of ChiefJusticc Chase, by the Con-
servativc Republicans and Democrats, is
proportions of large magnitude,
and his nomination will probably be the
grand result of the Convention to be held
in New York City on the 4th of July
We arc glad to see this, because the no.
Of the Chief usticc, more fairly
than the nomination of any other man,
will bring forward the principles which
govern the disagreement between the
President and Congress, for the decision
of the people. 1t will open up, without
possibility of mistake, the question
whether, in the final peace growing out
of the war, pcrmanency to the doctrines
which governed President Lincoln in
his conquest Of the Rebellion, or whether
the loose, disjointed plan, which may at
any time again result in rupture, which
governs Conservatism and Democracy,
shall prevail. Whoever is nominated by
the Newly ork Convention, VIC have that
great, unswerving confidence in the
masses, to believe that the proceedings
at Chicago will prevail, and that Grant
and Colfax will be the next President
and Vice President OF these United States
Yet VIC believe that with Chase at the
head of the conglomorated opposition, the
whole matter will be simmcred down to q
contest between the impracticable policy
of President johnson and the practicable
one established by Congress, and for this
reason we rejoice at the prospect of De-
mocracy suffering itself to be led by Con-
scrvatism.
BY the nomination Of Chief, usticc
Chase the negro question will be practi-
cally out of the campaign. Strcnuously
as the Democracy have contendcd against
manhood suffrage, they will not dare to
continue that opposition, with the very
father Of the measure as the candidate
for their suffrages. But they viii hardly
| balk at this, rs their leaders have for
some months been endeavoring to infuse
partiality for the measure in the ranks
of the party. They are particularly anx-
ious for success; and Conservatism hay
ing succeeded in making them believe
that their only hope Of success lays in the
direction of an abandonment of their prin-
ciplcs, and the nomination of a man whom
they have abused and rcvilcd for more
than quarter of a century, because of
the obnoxiousncss Of his political predi-
lcctions, it will not be looking for too
much, in case the Chief Justice is nomin-
atcd, to look for them to contctid that
they have all along been the advocates OF
just what he has advocated = and the
lifetime opponents of the dogma which
they attributed to Stephen y. Douglas,
viz: that this I" is white mans Govern
ment, gotten up by white men for the
exclusive government of white men," and
with other nonsense of like character.
1t is true that the Democracy has not
yet become unit on Chase; and there is
considerable kicking against the arrange
mcnt. But VIC think the times clearly
Indicate that it viii come to that, and
that the contest this fall will be between
Radicalism backed up by the people, tri-
umphant in the persons Of Grant and
Colfaz, and ultra, carpet-bag Radicalism,
backed up by Democracy, and those
purely disinterested Conservative Rcpub-
licans, who several years ago found their
true interest to lie with the +" Bread and
Butter Brigade" defeated in the person
Of Chase, and possibly English of Con-
nccticut. When the Democratic leaders
set their feet firmly, Democratic followers
have nothing left them but to obey.
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