The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-14

The views of the leading New York journals
in regard to the De nocratic nominations for
the Presidency are as different as their politics.
Each paper judges the nominees by the effect
likely to be produced bS-taem upon the party
which it represents, and it is useless to look in
any quarter for thoroughly unselish opinion.
The principal dailes do, however, reflect the
hopes and fears of Democracy and Radicalism,
and for that reason are worthy Of some atten-
ticn.
THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.
This able and dignifed daily says:
4 The choice was ultimately made amid great
excitement and the most unparalleled enthu-
sias1n, and it is not for us to say that the Con-
vention has not chosen wisely. Governor sey-
mour is too we'll known to need any descrlp-
t.tion here. He is courteous, Christian gen.
! tleman, OF good administrative abilities, high
personal character, and consistent advocate
| and bright example Of temperance. A new
man, not long trained in party trammels, would
] have drawn to the Conservative cause some
who will now hesitate, and would have en-
countered less opposition from long cherished
feelings ofhostility growing out of the political
contests of former years. As an Offset to this,
| Governor Seymour brings to the canvass an
established reputation and a host OF ardent
friends who will work for their leader with even
more enthusiasm than for the cause he repre-
| sents.
The nomination for vice-President will create
almost as much surprise as that which preced-
| ed it. Frank P. Blair MAS born in Kentucky
in 1921, graduated at Princeton College, studied
the law, and ten years ago was elected from
Missouri to the Thirty-ffth Congress: His
| later record, civil and military, is familiar to
all our readers. Like Governor Seymour, he
has ardent friends and bitter enemies, and will
win few additions to the ticket beyond the
Democratic hosts already pledged to lts sup-
port.
their cause distinctly before them, and the
trumpets are sounding for battle. 1t will be
the most momentous political struggle the
country has ever known, and it is not for us to
predict the issue.
THE TRIBUNE.
Horace Greeley's polished and refined journal
arraigns Mr. Seymour for what he did and did
no! do during the war, and predicts for him e
certain defeat. It tsays:
II the Democratic Convention had been in
tent on selecting that candidate for President
least likely to win Republican votes and most
certain to arouse and intensity Republican op-
position, it could not have hit the mark more
exactly. HoraEo Seymour has been the dead.
lest, most implacable enemy throughout, OF
the ideas which triumphed in the abolition OF
man ever heard Of his uttering generous
word for the ignorant, lowly, down-trodden
African-all these he would disfranchise to-
morrow If he had power, while he insists that
the South shall be given over to the keeping Of
her naughty rebels, who hold that they have
committed no wrong and forfeited no right in
conspiring and fighting to destroy the Union.
Ulysses S. Grant, then the patriot blood poured
out lik water at Gettysburg Vicksburg, Mis-
sion Ridge, and in the advance to Richmond,
was shed in vain.
TEE TINES.
This paper takes things quietly and opens
with regret that Mr.. Chase was not nomipa-
ed. It holds that the Convention treated
schemes Of moderation and compromise with
contempt, and filled the measure of it's wicked
ness by nominating Mr.. Seymour. 1t says:
Such ticket, resting on such platform,
inspires no apprehension Of success. Sey-
mour, with all his ability, has never filed
national office, and his reputation is not great Eat
with the Western volunteers, has ruined his
standing by his recent surrender to the ene-
my. The ticket, therefore, is not strong one.
It will not bring out even the full Democratic,
vote, and it will assuredly disgust the nom
partisan element, without whose support the
Democracy would, under any circumstances,
strive in vain. Mr.. Seymour was more than
usually candid, when he told the Convention
that ''he could not be nominated without put
ting himself and the Democratic party in peril"
Nothing but succession of miracles can save
it from defeat.
THE HERALD.
Bennett is disgusted and says "the die is
cast. The Convention has decided that her
next President shall be General Grant, 1t
says there is nothing in Seymour that will
bring strength to the party.
The old fable ofthe mountain in iaoor has
been fully realized, and the delivery is ridi-
culous mouse as the Democratic Presidential
candidate against the conqueror OF the rebel
lion. Seymour against Grant in 1858 amounts
to Democratic Surrender or disbanding of
the Dem6cractic party. The ticket Of McClel-
Ian against Lincoln was a.strolg ticket COM
pared with this OF Seymour against: Grant: It
has no prestige but that Of defeat. In 1852,
indeed, Mr.. Seymour was elected Governor.
but it was on the platform of 'sa more vigorous
prosecution Of the war;" In 1868 he returned
to his idols Of the copperhead faith, and there
he would have remained but for the blunders
Of the Republicans and their divisions in the
State elections cf last year. Now, as in 1868,
'64 e65 and &c. after their successes of 1852 all
the capital and all the foothold gained by the
Democrats have been thrown away and lost,
and the battle Of 1864 is revived with some
changes to be sure; but as against Seymour
they are all in favor Of Grant.
We can give no countenance to this retro
grade movement of the Democratic party. The
successful movements Of the age are progress
Five, and We must 80 with them. AL the world
is going forward, except our Democratic party.
Il IS behind Austria, Russia, Turkey and Chi
ma; for they all recognize the necessity Of shap-
ing their policy to the pressure Of living events
Seymour is behind the age, and Blair, as sol.
der, pinned to his ticket, makes mockery Of
the combination. Grant and Colfax against
such ticket viii sweep the country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, because the blockheads> \
Of the Democratic party will have it that We
are still living under the regime Of poor Pierce
and Buchanan.
THE WORLD.
This paper deyotes two columns to the NOM
nations, and compliments highly the nom;.
nees. /. describes the wonderful enthusiasm
which attended the nominations, and Gays:
In the first place, then, Horatio Seymour is,
beyond all question or contest, the first states
man in the Democratic party-the Ole who
most fully represents its principles, who has
the most consummate ability to expound them
broadest, whose culture is the most thorough,
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