Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-15
The Democratic NOmlnatlOE--.A Ulear
Field for General Grang.

| The die Is cast The Democratic Con
venti0n has decided that our neXt rresi'
dent sbalI he General Grant There was
snIandid opportunity offered this conven-
lion 10 the nomination Of Chief-Justice
| Chase. to carry off the balance OF power
from the Republican camp, North ana
/ South East and West, and TO inaugurate
in the approaching Presidential election
| substantial and enduring Conservative rev.
olution. The advantages of this noInina-
ton were at once appreciated by the Dem
ocratic masses and the independent think
! ING men of the party, with the agitation Of
his name as the Democratic candidate for
the crisis. and they were enthusiastic IN
the cause of Chase; but the party Jugglers
of this Tammany Hall Convention had
different game 20 play. So far as the New
7 York managing politicians are concerned,
/ this game was fully disclosed IN the Herald
| of Sunday last in reference to the mock
/ declnation Of Horatio Seymoat.
The old fable of the mcuntain IN labor
has been fully realized, and the delivery is
a ridiculous mouse as the Democratic Pres
/ identia candidate against The conqueror OF
the rebellion. Seymour sgsiRst Grant IN
| 1868 amounts 30 Democratic surrender or
disbanding Of the Democratic party.
The ticket Of Mcclellan against Lincoln
was strong ticket compared with this OF
Seymour against Grant. 1t has no pres
tige but that of defeat In 1862, indeed
Mr.. Seymour was elected Governor; but
il was on the platform of "a more vigorous
prosecution of the war. In 1868 he re
turned to his idols of the Copperhead faith,
and there be would have remained but for
the plumbers Of the Republicans and their
divisions in the State electiolsof last year.
Now. as in 1868, 81, '65, and &C. after
their successes il 1862, 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 come
changes 10 be sure, but as against Seymour
they are all in favor of Grant
There is nothing in Seymour. nothing IN
his record nothing in his platform n, that
viii bring a single recruit to the Demo
cratic party, but everything to rally the
whole floating vote of the United States,
with all the conservative Republicans,
around the glorious banner Of Grant. 1t
is supposed by his friends ands political
trainers that Seymour is al least good for
New York, with its fifty thousand Demo
cratic majority of last fall That majority,
however, was delusive, the result of Re
publican disafections and divisions, which
only the nomination of Chase as the Dem
ocratic candidate could have turned to a
substantial advantage in this campaign
Seymour against Grant will bring all the
Republicans into line, and the result will
be another political reaction, which will
give New York to Grant by twenty, thirty
or forty thousand majority,
* 3 K
We can give no countenanco ~ this re
trograde movement of the Democratic
party The successful movements of the
age arc progressive, and we must 90 with
them. All the world is going forward, ex-
cept our Democratic party II is behind
Austria. Russia, Turkey, and China, for
they all recognize the necessity Of shaping
their policy to the pressure of 'iying events.
Seymour is behind the age, and Blair as
soldier pinned to this 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.-Nesg York Herald July 9,