New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-15
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for any time this six months, that the Con-
vention which is to meet at Chicago on the
twentieth instant will place General Grant
before the people as the candidate OF the
Republican party for the Presidency, the
Democrats are yet all at sea in relation to
their candidate. 1t is surmised,- we know,
that Mr.. Belmont and his fellow-managers
of the party in the Eastern States have laid
the wires for the nomination OF Mr.. Sey
mour, and that they propose to present to
the Convention that meets in New York on
the fourth of July the alternative of taking
Seymour and plenty of money for cam
paigning purposes-or of rejecting him and
doing without any money whatever save
that which the Western politicians can
raise. But Seymour has no strength in the
West be has talked double" on the
Reputation and greenback questions, and
the best hold of the Democrats in all
the States west Of the Ohio river is open
Reputation. They will come to New York
with the plain declaration that Democratic
success in the West can only be obtained
by boldly hosting the flag of rascality, and
appealing to the natural villainy OF
the human heart Stripped Of all
disguise, what they even now say
is this at is only by enlisting on
our side the lowest passions Of men that
we can hope to succeed. There are two
good cries for us, Down with the niger
Down with the bondholder.i IN hoe siJpo
Uinces. Seymour is sound enough on the
first, but he has too much to do with Wall
street to make us safe to trust him on the
second. Give us a fat-footed repudiator
and an unquestionable Copperhead, and we
can perhaps find fools and rogues enough
in each of the Western States to enable US
to elect him. But we can do nothing with
halfway man. Seymour is too much of
a gentleman to serve our turn; we want
some one like ourselves, to whom every
rogue in the land will be drawn by Atm
ity. Decency, morality, and honesty, or the
pretense of it, in the Democratic party is
played out We must win, if we win at
all, by reason Of our unquestionable viii
lingness to take from the colored men Of
the South their recently acquired political
rights, and to cheat the creditors of the
nation out of their money. Give us a man
whose name means this, and perhaps we
can succeed. Compel US to take candi-
date who pretends to be decent and honest.
and our defeat is certain
This means Pendleton, or better still
Vallandigham. But the Eastern Democrats
can "abear' neither of them. Seymour is
their first choice. Mr.. johnson is no lon
ger thought of; it is doubtful whether he
ever had any ground to believe that the
Democratic party would take him up.
From the moment of the impeachment the
Democrats threw him over. His counsel
damned him with faint praise; they
spoke of him as q man of few ideas;" Of
little education; of limited capabilities;
as being "poor' in brains but "honest'' in
heart. As the trial proceeded the Demo
cratic leaders Knocked at his calamity, and
laughed at his fear. The attempt to make
a Democratic candidate of MIR. Chase was
a desperate one; but it has been abandon
ed. We can hear nothing said of General
MoClellan-no one even seems to know
where that redoubtable warrior is, or what
he is doing. The last that was heard of
him was that he had appeared in British
court as the heir-atlaw of a woman who
had died in Scotland, and who had left
few thousand pounds, which was paid over
to George upon his proving himself to be
her next Of kin. General Hancock has
some friends; but the insurmountable OBJ
lection to him is that he fought on the
wrong side in 4" the late onpleasantness,"
and is believed to be in favor of faithful
payment of the debt. There is a very
strong pressure in favor of George Francis
Train; but that gentleman is at present
locked up in debtors prison in Ireland,
and Notwithstanding his reputed wealth
seems likely to remain there. There re-
mains one other candidate on whom a
compromise might be made. Mr.. Jefferson
Davis combines in his person everything
desirable from Democratic point Of view.
If Mr.. Chase could be induced to hurry up
the treason trial, and have J. d. set free
IRON those bonds before the fourth of
July, the New York convention csuId not
do better than TO take him.
He has not expressed his opinions upon
the questions Of the day, bat every one can
imagine what they are. He will of course
favor Reputation; his views on universal
suffrage are not likely to be radical; and
he Is one Of the race before whom the
Democratic leaders Of the North have ever
delighted to bow. There was great din
ner eaten by the Democratic saChems Of
Tammany the other day, at which toast
was given which squints strongly toward
]. D. 1t was TO The South-ths birth
place of the greatest statesmen, orators,
and heroes Of the Revolution desolated
by the military rule Of strangers and ty-
rants, may she rise like a phoenix from her
ashes, and bestow agaia the inestimable
blessings of peace and liberty upon her
people," It may be that Mr.. Davis may be
rewarded for the excellent service which
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