The New York herald., 1870-12-20
signs Of Presidential Scrub Race and
Its Terrible Dangers TO tho Country.

all tue Douy pOilItc DeloTe tuerc eau NC y Fes-
toration of order, system and harmony. In a
political sense, General Grant and his admin
istration are menaced in the Senate with the
fate Of Caesar. The conspirators are there
and the conspiracy is under way. Sumner,
pompous, pretentious and consequential, is the
proper man to play the part of Brutus. Fenton
is not quite up to the calibre Of ''the lean and
hungry Cassius," but he has the spirit and the
will, and he will do. Carl Schurz, red revo-
lutonist by profession, of the European Jaco-
bin school, is the very fellow for the role of
''the envious Casca.' The faithful Drake, in
his farewell speech in the Senate, might have
said Of Schurz, in reference to the late Mis-
souri, election, as Mark Antony said over
Caesars dead body
"See what rent the envlous Casca made
Indeed, excepting General Cameron, Gene
raj Wilson and one or two others, we are not
certain that General Grant has any supporters
in the Senate who are honestly working for his
success as the mainstay Of the republican
party and the national Treasury. Some of
the Senatorial body want a new party, as Cal
houn wanted a new party when he found that
General Jackson was too much for him; some
have their petty personal revenges to satisfy,
such as Fenton; some, disappointed in the
spois, have ceased to care button whether
Grant goes up or down and some, intent
only upon the enormous plunder Of railway
land jobs and whiskey rings, would like
to get General Grant out OF the way, as
an ohatrrctipO tn Snrn
among the numerous signs of general break
up Of the republican party, and Of disas-
trous scrub race to the country for the Presi-
dental succession. In this scrub race we may
look for three or four candidates from the
debris Of the republican party, and over three
from the drifting materials Of the democratic
party-an Eastern candidate, say Hoffman;
Western candidate, Hendricks, most likely,
and a Southern candidate, probably Andy
Johnson or Wade Hampton, and possibly JEFF
Davis.
In this month Of December, 1870, the con-
dtion of the republican party, though not SO
sharply defined, may be compared to that Of
the democratic party in December, 1859.
Then the signs Of an impending democratic
dissolution stood out in bold relief in both
houses Of Congress; now the signs OF
republican breakup are only partially visible
in the Senate. Then the Southern oigarchy
were with the President and he was with
them now the Northern boilers and malcon-
tents are against the President, and so far
they have not fatally crippled him. But the
grand result Of the fight among the democratic
politicians Of lS59-6O is promised from these
republican boilers and dsaffected leaders of
lS7O-the dissolution of the party and Presi-
dental scrub race from its sep arated factions
and sections.
What then? We shall not have the easy
reconstruction Of parties which followed the
scrub race of 1924, nor the bloody results of
terrible civil war such as followed the demo-
cratic dissolution and scrub race Of 1860; but
chaos will come again. In 1924, when the old
republican party was finally dissolved, and
Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay were run
for the Presidency, each upon his personal
merits, there were no delicate and dangerous
questions to be affected by the election of any
one of them over the others. In the end,
there being no choice by the people, when the
election was determined by the House of Rep
resentatives in favor Of Adams, the reconstruc-
ton of parties which followed (crystallizing
eventually into the democratic and whig par
ties) was more upon personal issues, such as
the battle of New Orleans of 1915, raised
between jackson and Adams, than upon any
thing else. In 1860, on the other hand, the
democratic scrub race was deliberately con-
trived by the Southern slaveholding o,igarchy
as an opening for an armed rebellion and an
Independent Southern confederacy by force Of
arms. 1t was senseless and suicidal war on
the part of jeff Davis and the South, as the
war against Germany has proved to be to
Napoleon and France; but do we not see in
both cases that aspiring and desperate dema-
gogues are reckless of consequences
Assuming, then, that we are to have
Presidential scrub race in 1872, the republican
party being broken up, it will make no mate
rial difference whether the election is made
by the Electoral College or turned over to the
new House of Representatives. chosen in this
years elections. With the republican party out
of the way the party lines will disappear, even
in Congress, and the members Of the House.
if called to choose President, will be con-
trolled by the spoils and plunder. Therefore
in 1872, whether we get President from the
people or the House (the republican party
being broken up, and the democratic party
too on different candidates, and General
Grant being thrown out), a scrub race will be
followed by political revolution in the
government itself. The political elements
which for twelve years have been kept
in the background will, as the most active
and united forces, come to the front; the
thirteenth. fourteenth and fifteenth amend