The New York herald., 1870-12-02

meuts Of tho Day-Thc Real Issue
| Hull.
''Where am to go?" asked Daniel Webster
when he found himself still in Tyler's Cabinet
and Tyler read out Of the whig church as a
locofoco. ''Where are we to 60 r is now the
| inquiry among many republican foaters, with
the confusion of Babel prevailing around them.
| General Ben Butler is said to have lately
| expressed himself after this fashion-that the
republican party, upon the tariff question, is
split in two by the backbone OF the Allegha-
nies; that it is cut up on all other financial
| issues; that it has no coherent force, no
leadership, and that, instead Of supporting, it
seems to delight in snubbing, General Grant
and his administration. According to Wen
dell Phillips the republican organization, hav-
ing fulfilled its mission, is now oil at skies and
sevens, without any common principle or com
mon purpose, bnt the liberal and progressive
men Of the country may still rely upon Gene
raj Grant The Free Trade League are evi-
IDENTIFY ripe and ready, scheming and active.
for any coalition that will cut out General
Grant, beginning with the organization Of the
next Congress. According to the democratic
organs, from Damascus to Jericho, Grant is
already "a dead cock in the pit, and, sink or
swim, will surely be thrown out as dead
failure by the disgusted leaders Of his party.
So much for the wrangling republicans.
But how is it with the happy family of the
democracy? They, too, are without princi-
pies, policy or recognized leaders. Accord
ing to the republican journals, if the radical
democrats Of Missouri are red hot for free
trade the party in Pennsylvania are as stiff
as Greeley on cold iron. Nor does it appear
that the democratic fodder of the next Presi-
dency is cut and dried for Hoffman. They
say that the Western 'Pendleton Escort
have not forgotten the New York artful dodgers
Of the Tammany Convention, but are pre-
pairing bomb for Hoffman which will blow
him sky high. AS they went into the Charles
ton Convention with the Gag of Douglas and
squatter sovereignty nailed to the mast, SO
they will carry into the next Convention the en-
sign of Hendricks and John Quincy Adams"
or Of ''Gratz Brown and Adams" or Of ''Thur
man and Adams" or Of ''Pendleton and
Adams" or Of some Western man for Presi-
dent against Hoffman, with Adams to clnch
the ticket in the East. Adams is the left
bower Of these Western men, and if driven to
the wall they will make him their right bower
against Hoffman for President The Western
democracy are proud of Adams as the acqui-
sition of Massachusetts nabob Of the old
school, and proud of him as a democratic
champion of the Massachusetts, and Missouri
new school of universal amnesty and free
trade.
But, only think of it! John Quincy Adams,
a chip of the old Massachusetts federal block,
the democratic ticket for the Presidency!
What would the old Jacksonian democracy of
1928 have thought of such horrible prophecy?
But was not Martin Van Buren, with Charles
Francis Adams the free soil ticket in 1s48
against wings and democrats? ssPolitics make
strange bedfellows," as John Minor Bolts said,
in getting under the same blanket with Captain
| Tyler Hoffman, however, has clearly the
inside of the democratic track for 1872. He
is up to the times likewise, in going for the
buryng Of all dead issues, no dead weights,
and for a clean run upon the living issues of
the day. Yet certain dyed-in-t the wool copper
heads, including one from Connecticut, have
protested that Hoffman is begging the ques-
tion-that the democratic party still believes
in State sovereignty and the Dred Scott deci-
sion, and repudiates ''the nigger" and the con-
stitutional amendment enforcing s'nigger
equality" and sticks to ''the constitution as it
was" We suspect, however, that with Sey-
mour and Blair, under the Wade Hampton
resolutions Of 1868, the democratic party has
had enough of this folly Of fighting the wind
mills, and that even in Kentucky, where
Sambo has been the hardest dose to swallow,
the party in 1872 will not only chime in with
the fifteenth amendment, but get up the
biggest Kentucky barbecues, those Western
free dinners in the woods, for the votes of
''onr colored fellow citizens, invited to drop
in"
What, then, is the real situation of the two
great partiesp 1t is situation which some
what resembles the 'sera of good feeling" Of
Monroe's time, leaving out the good feeling.
| There is not much of that now among our
party men on any side, excepting General
Grant, the Tammany sachems, the Tammany
republicans, Mike Norton and honest Tom
Murphy They all feel good, Notwithstanding
the fuss and nonsense raging all around them
But the political situation Of 1870 reminds us
! Of that of 1924, in the fact that now, as then,
tLo ala oil I'D rfc in fho
very condition for an old-fashioned scrub race
| like that between Jackson, Adams, Crawford
and Clay. Nor could anything prevent such
a scrub race in 1872 if Grant were only out Of
| the rav Take ont Grant to- norrow and be-