The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-09-04
GREELEY ON THE PRESIDENTIAL.
ELECTION.

Greeley begins to see the Presidential
canvass in clear light, and sees every
reason to fear the failure of Grant. He
saws that the labor that is to insure the
triumph of the republican candidates
sis yet to be done;" that six times as
many clubs as the Grant men now
have are necessary, and that before it
can expect to win the clubs must gath
er and CLEAN half million votes from
those who are now Indifferent or hos
tile" to the republican party. And
all this, he justly reasons, ''implies
such canvass as has never yet been
in our country" For those who fancy
the election of Grant and Colfax GER
tain he says $50 far is this from the
fact that they are this hour in peril of
defeat" and twill surely be beaten if
there steadfast supporters are not sped
lily aroused to general and intense ac-
tivitv." Republicans "have to poll
their very last vote in half the States
many more than they ever yet polled
in the belt of States beginning with
Connecticut and extending through
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Ohio to Indiana-or Seymour will
be the next President He believes
that 'there is danger-grave danger"
that Grant will not be the next Exc
eutive not that he doubts of the real
supremacy of the republican party in
point of numbers even, but he fears
that republicans will be apathetic and
democrats crafty, and of course dishon-
est--a view not quite consistent with
his other view that his party needs to
win halfa million votes gained either
from its opponents or from men inditf-
erent to party.
Greeley, then, begins to feel the COM
ing defeat of General Grant. He has
good reason to be uneasy in view of
the possibility. He may regard this
result as in a peculiar degree the con-
sequence of his own efforts. He has
directly contributed to bring it about.
He created in the first place and has
kept alive those elements of disatfec-
ton to the republican party from
which alone Grants defeat can come.
He is the man who has driven the
common sense, the respectable control-
ling conservatism of the country into
an attitude of hostility to the repubi-
can party. He is the real source in
his party of all its extreme tendencies
all those desperate efforts to remodel
the nation in accordance with eXtrav-
agant and misty theory-those ridicu-
Ious vagaries of dreaming enthusiast
who fancies he is a politician and a
statesman. Had republicanism acted
on the impulses of the people at the
close of the war, had its policy retiec-
ted the true will of the people, how
different would have been our recent
| history But it gave way to that spirit
of which Greeley was the head and
front, and the rest came of course
Thence came ell the niger legislation
and all that perversity of our recent
political strife that would not have
peace if it was not peace with the mig
ger in the best place. Thence came
all the legislation outside the consti-
tuition and the efforts to cast the EAe-
cutive office out of our system of gov
ernment because the occupant of that
office did not agree with Greeley in
his view of his duties. / his is the
spirit that has rendered it impossible
for the people to act longer with the
republican party and though the ma
ton respects and reveres Grant for his
character and his history, it cannot
even for his sake accept a party of such
tendencies and subject, as its record
shows, to such unsafe influences. .-NelC
York Herald.