The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-10-11

| iC'S as uue 10 inc GhbI' lllueItO al tne
nominees of the party hayo been selected
| from the West, FREMONT hailed from Cali.
fornia. LrEco1N, and JOHNSON, who entered
the White House when LINCOLN fell, and
now GRANT, all sprang from the basin of the
Father of Waters From the accession of
POLK, in 1915, that section of the Union
will, ut the close of GRANTS Administration,
! have furnished the occupants of the Presi-
dental chair during a period of eighteen
years while New York, during this quarter
of century, has not had q single Republican
candidate. Mr.. GREELEY may therefore
urge with great force that the next Republi.
can nominee should be an Eastern man. and
be selected from the foremost State in the
Union. And we need not say that when the
eye of the nation is turned in this direction,
il will certainly fall upon the unique form
and bengnant countonance the famous jour.
nalist, author, farmer, philosopher, and poll.
tician of Spruce st rect.
And what would be Mr.. GREELEy's chances
Of an election should he receive the nomna-
tion 2 OF course, all the Republicans would
vote for him, for his claim 10 be regarded as
the founder Of that party rests on solid foun
dations, and the country knows that he was
the advocate of it's principles long ere the
party was organized.
All the negroes might be expected to sup
port him, for, in spite of the hostility of the
fossils Of the Wing party and of the fogies
Of the Republican party, he advocated not
merely the emancipation of the colored race
from slavery, but their admission to the bal
lot box.
All the Secessionists in the South and all
the Coppcrheads Of the North, ought to vote
for him; for when the clouds of war doomed
on the horizon below the Potomac
in December, 1850, he announced through
the Tribune that he was in favor
Of letting the insurgent States go in
peace. In the third year Of the conflict he
urged Mr. LINCOLN to close the contest by
offering the South four hundred millions of
dollars TO lay down their arms. After the
war had ended, he went to Richmond, at an
Indictment season, to bail JEFFERSON DAVIS
on an indictment for treason, and returned
home TO brave tempest of reproaches from
the Union League Club Of this city, whom
he denounced as "narrow.mnded block.
heads" And from that day till now he has
made the land ring with the slogan of
Universal Suffrage and Universal Amnes
ty." II, then, Mr. GREELEY can get the
nomination, we may look to see JEFFERSON
pl
FRED. DOUGLASS. r. NJ. 4. HUNTER and the
Rev. DIR. GARNET all on the stump below
the Potomac and the Ohio, and thus securing
him the vote of every Southern State.
Mr. GREELEY might reasonably hope to
receive the votes of all the Germans, for he
has warmly espoused their cause during the
present war; while all Frenchmen ought to
| support him because he is in favor of the new
French Republic. Nor need he despair OF
the Irish vote. His grandfather and his
father were natives of Londonderry New
| hampshire, town settled by emigrautt
| from the North of Ireland. Mr.. GREELEY
himself WINS born there or thereabouts, and
this makes him as much of Celt as Mr.
| KAUFMAN is Teuton and according &c
| the theory on which KAUFMAN claims the
nor, GREELEY ought to get those of the
Irish for President.
All the tillcrs of the soil would of course
| rally around the Farmer Of Chnpraqua. who
when not engaged in writing leaders for the
| Tribune, or composing chapter of his great
| agricultural book, OF addressing q cattle
show, or doing something else, may be seen
| with sleeves rolled up, trousers tucked in
SIDE of his boots, the perspiration dripping
from his expansive brow, illustrating witt
his own hands, on Lis rather stony ant
swampy acres in Westchcster, the agr cul
tural theories which, throughout q who'll
generation, have flowed from his pen.
The protoctonists would support hin
without exception and though the free
traders might naturally bo expected to OF
pose him, yet, inusmuch ns lie announced il
his speech at St. Louis that he was not IN
friendly TO free trade in liquor, the Gnan
cial rctormcrs might think him not impla
cable on the commodity Of iron, but likel
|
in 1872.
He would doubtless sweep the State q
New York, for he has shown his contemp
for WooDFoED ly running away from
during the heat of the canvass, which vii
secure linn all the enemies of WooDFoRD
while the 7ttJWne, which he las left bt
hind, supports WooDFoRD, which will secur
him all WoOpFoRD's friends
In short, if Mr.. GREELEY can obtain til
nomination in 1872, and can get the votes
all the various classes we have named, h
viii come nearer being unanimously chose
10 the Presidency than any man who he
run for that Office since 1920, when JANE
MONROE obtained every electoral vote
III Union save one.
An Expressive Silence.
Ut al the Republican State Convention
which Lave met and passed resolutions tn