The New York herald., 1868-03-20

Spalding was right IN saying that the passage
Of the nigger suffrage bill would be death
knell to his party in the Presidential canvass;
but to avoid now the only issue the party stands
on will be equally destructive. Grants name
cannot save the faction. He Is seen by the
people to be In the clutches of men whose
purposes no one is willing to believe he can
approve, and the people will vote him down as
they did Mcclellan, who was equally popular
and also cheated into giving the great capital
of his name to an unpatriotic party. Let the
opposition, therefore, make the most of its OPP
portunity. Let 1t organize energetically around
Farragut, and its triumph will be certain.
The Democratic Candidate for the Presi-
dency-The Washington Chorus for MIR.
Chase.
A Washington purveyor for one of our radical
contemporaries says that 'the democrats and
johnson men who have been foiled in their
efforts to corrupt the members of the Senate
and to get an expression of opinion from them
against impeachment have been engaged in
the discreditable work of trying to influence
Mr.. Chase that ''they appear incapable of see
ing that this is poor compliment to the Chief
Justice, and that no one entertains deeper con-
tempt for their manGuvres than the Chief JUS
tice HIMSELF" that, being too blind to see this,
Washington are all shouting in concert to-
night for Mr.. Chase as the democratic nominee"
for the next Presidency, and that he shall be
nominated by peoples convention and ''with-
out platform If he will act on the trial of
Mr.. Johnson in a manner acceptable to them"
Now, the inquisitive reader will ask what
does all this signify? Is this another nomina-
ton from the White House for the democratic
party, or what is it? Failing with Hancock,
Sherman and Thomas, has Mr.. Johnson, as
last resort, really hit upon Mr.. Chase as the
acceptable man for Mr.. Belmont and all the
other New York democratic fnanciers at their
4th of July National Convention Not bit of
it. 1t has leaked out that in being superseded
by General Grant as the radical favorite for
the succession Mr.. Chase has become soured,
sulky and independent Wendell Phillips says
he is no longer to be trusted. The outside i'm
peaohment radicals at Washington, to say
nothing of the insiders, have taken the warn
ing from Phillips, and are distrustfnl of the
ticles at Washington, seizing upon this hint,
are working it up in their usual laundering and
bungling way to embarrass the radicals and
get up little confusion in the camp of the i'm
peachers. 1t appears, too, that with all their
they have succeeded. The radical
we have quoted is evidently ap-
prehensive that the Chief Justice, by ''bargain
and sale, has gone over to the democracy
that for the consideration of saving Mr.. John
son in this trial the faithless radical Chase is
to be made next President by the conservative
democracy. But the truth is that if there is
little honor among thieves there is less among
politicians; and SO among them the man who
was saint and paragon of perfection but
yesterday becomes to-day a trimmer, trickster
and traitor.
But, then, if Mr.. Chase is only football of
the politicians, who is the man for the demo-
cracy in this crisisp Hancock has been
whstled of, Sherman has declined the honor,
Thomas has fatty refused it, Seymour does not
been rebuffed even more shabbily than was Tyler
or Fillmore by the democratic party which he has
lifted, at least partly, out Of the mire and put
upon its legs again. The universal democratic
hue and cry out West is Pendleton and green
backs for the bondholders till, at the rate of
five hundred millions year, the national debt
is paid of, the old greenbacks, as we 60 on, to
be redeemed by new greenbacks, on sliding
scale, until we slide back to specie currency.
This is magnificent plan; but the man will not
do. Pendleton, the anonted democratic can
didate of the West, is not favorite in the
East. He broke down Mcclellan, and he will
not answer. Nor will Seymour, nor Jerry
Black, nor Hendricks, nor Hoffman, nor God
frey Gunther, nor Fernando Wood, nor Tweed,
Weed or Bobby Walker. In truth, the demo-
cracy must raise themselves to higher level
than their condemned Chicago platform and to
more advanced leaders than their rejected cop
perhead captains. They must let the dead
bury their dead, and begin anew with the living
men Of theday. Admiral Farragut, regardless
of the called ''tme honored principles of
the democratic party, which are rubbish and
nonsense, is the man for the democracy and all
the opposition elements at this crisis. If Mr..
Belmont were equal to the emergency he would
call his National Executive Committee together
within the next ten days and proclaim, at
venture, Admiral Farragut the democratic can
didate for the succession, without platform
and with good Union soldier to back him.
The ticket would be accepted by the party; it
would run Ike the cholera;" it would save
Connecticut and all the expense and trouble
and danger Of the proposed National Conven-
tion in July.
A RIGHTEOUS vERDicT-On Wednesday
the jury found for the defendants in a case
before Judge Garvin, Of the Superior Court, an
action m recnvpr ton ,bon.and l.u.-. r.