Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-11

The New York Herald, which has been
disposed to regard the Chicago nomination
as calculated to bolster up the Radical
party, has changed its mind since the Ore
gon election, the meaning of which it in
terprets as proof that Grants nomination
failed in its main object, which was to catch
votes. We copy:
THE OREGON ELECTIoN-THE FIRST RE
sPoNsE To GEN. GRANTS NOMINATION.
The election in Oregon indicates that the
name of Grant has no magic to change the
verdict against the Republican party that is
written in the MINDS of the whole people.
1t also shows that a deep conviction of the
dangers of Radicalism to the country-the
conviction that made itself felt at the polls
in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New Jersey and New York, and gave
those States to the Democrats by good ma
jorities-is deep conviction still; that it
has not worn away with time, and that
nothing whatever of promise for the better
is felt in any thing done by the Radicals in
the period that has elapsed since the State
last recorded the judgment of its people
against that party. Within that time have
come two great party events-the impeaeh-
ment and the nomination Of the Presiden-
tial candidate. Impeachment, it is sufi-
GENTLY notorious, has deepened everywhere
the conviction that the domination of the
Radical party is not consistent with the
safety of our institutions; but how it might
be with the nomination of Grant no man
could positively say. But the
ballot-box tells all. The seam crops out
at an election and the mind of the people
il shown. Hence the significance of this
election in Oregon determined with I'M
equiyocal clearness for the Democrats right
on the heels of the nomination of Grant
by the Radicals. Grant, to put it at .its
lightest, is not so great man, not man
30 thoroughly satisfactory to the people
that they will venture another four years
of Radicalism 10 have him. He ia too,
evidently, only the gliding of the pill, and
the people thrust him aside. And this set
tied, not on the arguments or declarations
Of partisans, not on the foFecasiings of those
who believe that Grant will be beaten be-
cause they hope il, but il is settled on that
only positive source of information under
our system-a test at the polls, an expert
Ultul btloIG tuG people, iApicotl1 OC-
livered vote Of great State.
The growth and progress Of such convic-
tions in the public mind as have produced
the Democratic triumphs of which this in
Oregon is the most noteworthy, nothing can
now arrest, and the inevitable consequence
will be complete change Of power. Hith-
erto the same change has occurred in much
the same way. Scott was once expected to
walk over the Presidential course somewhat
"a Grants adherents expect him to walk
over il now bat his promenade ended in
a great disaster. Grants seems very likely
to end in the same way. This steady, con-
slant but undemOnstrative change in the
minds Of the people results from the gen
eral feeling Of the necessity Of saving the
Constitution from the assaults of the pOliti-
cal desperadoes who find il an obstruction
10 their schemes. People hardly realize
ihe necessity for s Constitution. They
have heard the discussion one way and an
other over constitutional points, and have
given little attention. They have heard
the declaration Of the Radicals that they
would govern outside of the Constitution
and hardly realized What i meant. But
when they see in the acts Of tlese men just
what it all means; when they see iaw and
civil government trampled down in ten
States, and a great section OF the Union
ruled by a military despot; when they see
the whole power Of a great branch Of the
government used to destroy the Execu-
tive. and 70 strike down the Supreme Court,
they naturally consi5er what result the sue
cess OF these efforts world prpduce and
fear TO continue the government IN the
hands Of such party, changes the vote Of
every thinking man.