The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-20

The Democracy ma the Next Presidency
Chief Justice Chase the Coming Man.
The old Bourbon leaders and managers of
the Northern democracy have been again
upset in the late elections. Pendleton in Ohio
and Packer in Pennsylvania, the chosen repre-
sentatives of the constitution of Buchanan and
the democracy Of jeff DAVIS, even on a short
vote, have gone to the wall. Their followers
are puzzled. They had expected, from the
prevailing Indifference among the republicans,
the election OF Packer and Pendeton The
results show that the popular verdict on the
issues involved in the election of General
Grant remains and will remain unchanged;
and that ''the constitution as it was" and the
democratic party as it was when resting upon
negro slavery are as dead as julius Caesar.
From the collapse of the Charleston Conven-
ton of 1860 down to this day the copperhead
| faction Of the North have fought to the last
| ditch, step by step, the march of resistless
revolution. In the outset they were 50
strongly intrenched in the paramount con-
sttutional rights Of slavery that even Pres-
| dent Lincoln, an anti-slavery man, permitted
| General Mcclellan, in fighting the rebel
| lion, to send the runaway slaves found
| within his lines back to their rebel masters.
| Under this system the war was a wretched
failure. Campaigns were lost and great
armies were swallowed up, until at last we
thought it miraculous that the rebels were
repulsed from the back door of Washington
AT this juncture, 1862, through the sagacious
John Van Buren, we prevailed upon Horatio
Seymour, as the democratic candidate for
Governor of this State, to take the field for ''a
more vigorous prosecution of the war;" Upon
this platform he was elected, and in popular
reaction against the military failures of Lin
coins administration all the Central States
went the same way as New York.
Here, them was the line of success plainly
marked out to the Northern democracy. 1t
was to take the lead in the war for the Union
and carry it through. In the same year, how
ever (lS62), and just after the battle of
| Antietam, Lincoln gave notice that unless the
| rebels should surrender meantime, he would,
on next New Years Day, proclaim the eman-
i
day came and with it the proclamation, and
| straightway Seymour and all the Northern
| democratic Bourbons bolted back again into
| opposition to the war, as a war against the con-
| sitution in the matter of slavery. From that
| day to this the Northern democracy, under
| their copperhead leaders on the niger ques-
| ton, have been thrashed and pushed from one
position to another, until in these late elections
| they have been driven from their last ditch,
hostility to negro suffrage, as embodied in the
fifteenth amendment. The revolution is sub
stantially accomplished-th negro is hence
| forth to be a citizen on the basis of equal
rights, civil and political, and the constitution
of 1887, and all the political parties and
dogmas founded upon it are as much among
the things of the past as are the old French
nobility and their grand estates of 1889.
| So it is that Pendeton, Packer, Seymour,
Hendricks, vallandigham. and all that set of
fossilized Bourbons must be laid upon the
shelf, with the bred Scott decision and the
dogmas of Calhoun. SO it is that. without
leaders, without living principles, without
! any Hxeu pOHcy OF lucas Ol Cohesion, Tue
Northern democracy now stand. But not
withstandng the disastrous policy of their
stupid leaders since 1912, they are still a
powerful party, and under proper direction
they may in short time become again the
dominant party of the Union. They have
lost the substance in grasping at the shadow,
like the dog in the fable; but surely they
have had enough Of this. Here in New York
they have still something of their Jacksonan
elasticity, and are hopeful and buoyant under
the wing Of Tammany, and they have faith in
Hoffman. We fear however, that the bow
string of the two thirds rule will be fatal tc
Hoffman on the first twist and what then
Pendeton or Packer or Hendricks, or some
such fossil No. Against General Grant ii
1872 this would be worse than Seymour ant
Blair
Chief Justice Chase is the man, and the ONLY
man, for the democracy in the next battle
His name as the democratic candidate will q
once extinguish all those obnoxious copper
head ideas 80 repulsive to the great UnioI