The Portland daily press., 1871-01-28

The Presfue nlSt Election Of 1879.
It is conceded by all intelligent politicians
thai the denomination of Gen. Grant for the
Presidency ia 1872 is foregone conclusion.
Eighteen months before his first nomination
there seemed an even chance that the De-
mOcracy would make him their leader. His
inpelturbable reticence was mistaken by them
fol- conservatism. They boosted that they
had captured the captor OF Lee and Inc oe-
stroyer 0. the Confederacy. The events I'M
msdiately preceding the Impeachment OF An
drew johnson in the spring OF 1868, only a
few eeks before Grants nomination at Chi
caeo, for the first time convinced all men that
the latter's political sympathies were decided
ly with the patty oil progress ane liberty. But
now, probably, about eighteen months before
his second nomination, there are no perplex-
Ing uncertainties. The Democracy have
learned that Grant is not only Republican
but Radical Republican, and their detesta-
ton of him is greater if possible than that
they felt for his great predecessor, Abraham
Lincoln. On the other hand, it is no exag-
geration to say that Grants popularity with
his own party is far greater and his prospect
OF denomination much better than were LIN
coins at the beginning of 1853. We do not, OF
course, mean to convey the impression that he
has performed the duties of his position more
skilfully or more faithfully than the martyr
President, but, great as are his trials and re-
possibilities, they are not so great as those
that harrassed the, Chief Magistrate during the
war, and they are not SO well calculated to
produce dissension among his supporters in
whatever wayne meets-s them. The emanci-
patton proclamation had just been issued at
the time of which we speak, and that meas
ure divided the Republican party pretty even
ly between those who thought it too much
and those who thought lit too little. Those
who will take the trouble to go back in mem
DRY to that time will see that Mr.. Lincoln's
popularity was by no means without its linn
itatons. The same may be said of Gen
Grant now, but with much less force. The
discussions now existing on various matters
OF minor import are sure to be healed before
the Presidential nomination is made. The
politicians like Schurz, Trumbull, Sumner
and others, who are on personal and other in
sufficient grounds in temporary opposition to
The President, make no secret of their deter
animation to waive their private wishes
and their temporary discomfort in favor
vi the unity and continued ascen.
dency OF the Republican party. Those
who expect to see the Insignificant feuds OF
1871 carried into the canvass of 1872 will lie
mistaken. There will no third party nominal
ton as there was in 1884, when Fremont's
friends undertook their futile enterprise
There is not one Republican paper in good
standing in the United States that has taken
ground squarely against the President and OPP
posed his denomination, whatever the severi.
ty with which it may have criticised some of
bis actions.
The denomination of Gen. Grant being
morally certain, it only remains to consider
the prospect of his reelection. On such q
question as this, there is no authority to
which we should defer with more confidence
than to the New York Tribune, which for a
partisan paper is unusually candid and free
from enthusiasts and exaggeration in its po-
litical representations. We quote the follow
ing article from its columns:
We have heard it remarked that. should the
elections of 1872 copy those of 1870, Demo-
Crat would be chosen President. But that is
miscalculation, as the following table will
hows