Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-26

The nomination of Grant and Collax
seems to have excited very little enthu~
siasm anywhere. The Washington corr
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
saysin his letter Of the odd instant: "The
Republicans accept the days work at
Chicago with good heart, and will go into
the coming campaign determined on suc-
cess" The days work is not hailed as
the harbinger Of success, but is meekly
accepted as the best that could be dOnei
in another paragraph the same corres>
pondent says:
"An interchange of opinion relative TO
the nominations made at Chicago has taken
place among the Republicans to-day, as
the result of which it may confidently be
said that no selections could have been
made more generally acceptable"
This is decidedly cold and formal
Had the nomination Of Grant been made
four or five months ago, it would have
excited some enthusiasm, but the novel
ty wore off before the nomination was
made, and there is nothing in the man to
arouse the tagging interest Of the Radi-
Gals. There is no question that the nomi-
nation of sturdy old Ben. Wade by
the Chicago Convention would have
awakened ten fold more enthusiasm
among Radicals than that Of Grant has
The Chicago Times of May 20, in an ar
ticle upon the Radical Convention, said
Never was Presidential nominating
Convention held in this country which was
attended with so little interest, and so COM
plete an absence Of every enthusiastic feel
log, as are visible on the present occa-
sion.
"The number of strangers in the city is
very large And vet, when the Conven-
ton was called TO ORDER, yesterday, few
people that were not delegates or newspa-
per reporters, appeared in the Opera-house.
Much larger audiences assembled week be-
fore last, 10 witness the descent Of Orpheus
into hell than assembled yesterday to wit
ness the descent of Ulysses TO the position
Of the Jacobin standard-bearer. And, from
a comparison Of the demonstrations Of APP
plause, it is manifest that the public feels
more lively interest in the intrigues Of the
internal deities than il does in the parti-
san plans Of the internal Jacobins.
"On the streets, at the public meetings,
in the hotels, everywhere, the same alb
sence of enthusiasm was apparent. The
gatherings were poverty stricken proper
tons The speeches were fat, stale and
Improbable and fell upon the ears of in
different listeners. Party spirit was dead.
Over all party hopes seemed to hang a dis
NAL portent of coming doom.
THE convention, compared TO any pre-
yiOus convention of the same party, Is a
palpable failure IL Is an aggregation Of
small talents; an event OF small interest
an occasion that has failed 10 meet the ex-
pectations even Of men whose political
sympathies are against the party which it
represents. A city convention Of either
party in Chicago has often excited greater
interest, and very rarely been attended by
20 little enthusiasm M the present National
Convention Of the Jacobin party presents"
The result of the action Of the Con-
vention has fallen still-born upon the
country. The prompt and hearty re-
Spouse which hailed the nomination Of
Mr.. Lincoln foar years ago, has no where
been exhibited. The fact that General
Grant exhibited no settled political prin-
ciple has contributed largely to this
marked absence of enthusiasm not only
on the part Of those who are expected to
vote tor him, but on the part Of the lead
ers Of the Radical party He is laxative
about horses, and like topics, says the
Philadelphia Age but on the great SUBJ
iects that occupy the minds Of thinking
men he has always been mute. tits not
that he is reserved, for he keeps back no.
thing: it is, that he really has nothing 20
say. lie will probably now liken himself
10 horse entered for race; he viii put
himself ia the hands OF his trainers-suoh
men as Forney, and the notorious Wash
burne Of whom Donnelly, brother Badi-
cal. said che carries Ulysses S. Grant in
has breaches pocket" Grant will be tool
in The hands Of these men. OF independ-
eat political aclion for the good Of the
country, none need be expected from him
He has already allowed himself 10 be ar
raigned with The enemies Of civil liberty,
and The free form Of governments established