The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-09
The Ohio aforementioned ROsecrans-
New Departure.

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The Ohio Democracy-General ROsecrans-
A New Departure.
The Ohio democracy have made discovery
They have been long time about it, but
they have hit it at last. They have found out
that their copperhead leaders lead them only
to defeat, and so the party, in solemn State
Convention assembled, have taken new
departure. They have dropped Vallandigham
and all his tribe and have drawn upon the
Union army of the war for their standard
bearer, and General Rosecrans is their man
for next Governor of Ohio. 1t seems that this
foreward movement was not made without a
stubborn resistance, but that even the power
ful name of Pendleton was vainly brought into
the convention to head OF the Union hero OF
Murfreesboro. This is very remarkable, Isl
view of the fact that during the war, as a
rebel sympathizer, Vallandigham, from Burn
sides military court in Ohio, was sent under
guard to Rosecrans in Tennessee, and by him
passed over to the Southern confederacy,
where it was thought said Vallandigham pro-
perly belonged; but the change of front in
question is not so remarkable, in view OF
another fact that on returning from the South
Vallandigham was made the democratic candi-
date for Governor of Ohio, only to be beaten
by hundred thousand majority.
We incline to the opinion, however. that
Mr.. Vallandigham and his followers will cheer
fully support this new movement Of the Ohio
democracy. With all his copperhead crotchets
he is democrat of progressive ideas; and we
think he has mastered this difficult problem to
the Bourbon, that there has been deluge
which has changed the face of the whole polit-
ical world. At all events, General Rosecrans
is strong candidate and will be hard to
beat. His military record, down to his disas-
trous day at Chickamauga, is one of the most
brilliant of the half dozen leading Union gene
rails of the war. That day at Chickamauga,
however, ended his military career. But still
his great services in the field were not forgot
ten for when nominated for the Mexican mis-
sion by President Johnson he was promptly
confirmed by the Senate as a recognition of
the deserving soldier, patriot, gentleman and
scholar.
From this point we may date the political
towering out of General Rosecrans, in his
volunteer diplomatic mission to the famous
constellation of generals of the hate Southern
confederacy, assembled last summer at the
Virginia White Sulphur Springs. His con-
ciliatory negotiations with those generals
placed him by common consent en- rapport
with the grand national democratic reunion in
Tammany Hall. His recall from Mexico by
President Grant, we presume, has, from the
political laws of gravitation, landed General
Rosecrans full fiedged democrat once more
in Ohio. His nomination, we say, is a hit
as new departure for the Ohio democ-
racy It relieves them of the stigma of cop
perheadism, and in spiking that radical gun
they gain, perhaps, not less than thirty thou
sand votes.
In the new democratic platform set up for
General Rosecrans there is not much of gene
raj Importance that is new. The party in
Ohio adhere to these doctrines-that the gov
eminent bonds ought to be taxed; that the
bondholders in their redemption ought to be
satisfied with greenbacks that high protec-
tive tariff serves only to enrich New England
manufacturers that each State should regu-
late the elective franchise for ITSELF and that
principles of the federal constitution, as if an
amendment, good or bad, could have any other
purpose than to change the constitution. The
Convention further declares that the radical
policy is tending to consolidated despotism
that our national banking system (Mr. Chase's)
is one of the worst outgrowths of the bonded
debt and that the doings of the military COM
missions in Texas, under President Grant, ''are
violations of the most sacred rights of Ameri-
can citizens" &c.
The issue, then, in Ohio is sharply drawn
against the administration; but, strangely
enough, Cuba, Mexico and the Alabama claims
are left out But to sum up':-The nomination
of General Rosecrans, Of ITSELF is great step
behind the forward movement of the Virginia
conservatives but it is still a movement in the
same direction; and in the same direction, it
will doubtless soon appear, all the opposition
forces Of the country are drifting. In short,
the elements of new political revoluto are
forming, and while the administration is rest
ing upon its oars the wide-awake democracy,
instructed by many defeats, may shape their
tactics to some purpose, in view of the ap-
preaching fall elections, not only in Ohio, but
throughout the North.
Judicial Independence and Dignity.
In the Court of General Sessions yesterday
City Judge Bedford sentenced John Howard,
sailor, who was jointly indicted with Thomas