Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-11-29

tious gentlemen who now contemplate sim
liar movement.-Free Pree and Times.
1t is obvious, we presume, to the Free
Fress thai any Republican can now oppose
Gen. Grants denomination, without even
the thought, much less the purpose, of re-
organizing a new party. The New York
| Tribune, for instance, is understood to be OPP
posed to the re- nomination of Gen Grant,
but if ne should be fairly nominated by the
| Republican National Convention, the Tribune
would not oppose his election. Nothing has
/ yet appeared to warrant any prophecy that
! the candidate named by the next Republican
| National Convention will not command the
united support of the party But this NJ t
only does not render it any the less import
ant that there should be full and frank ex-
preston of opinion and comparison of views
before the Convention it makes it all the
more necessary that such a free discussion
should be had. If the action of the Conven-
ton is to be acquiesced in, it becomes of the
first consequence that the preferences of all
| portions of the party should be fairly weigh
ed before the candidate Is selected, and that
the best man should then be placed before
the people for their sufrages.
We hardly think the Free Press is fortu-
nate in its illustration of the perils Of bolt
ing. Mr.. johnson was president-was in
office as Grant is-when the Republican
party concluded they did not want him or his
views in that Office Doolittle and others in
sis ted that the party should carry johnson.
and endorse his course and the disposition
on the part Of politicians to follow the ap-
pointing power did keep great majority OF
the Republican newspapers Of the country
and many prominent politicians in the oficia
rut until late in the fall Of 1865. The Re
publican Convention in Vermont that Summer
endorsed Johnson, and 10 this respect 1t only
agreed with the managing politicians all owe
the country. As early as the spring Of le6t
Do)little Gained that he was working in the
interests Of the Republican party and if tn
Senate had not had veto on Johnson's Off
cial patronage, it is by no means certain
that the accidental presj dent would not hay,
captured the machinery Of the Republican
party. aud Doolttle would not have been tn,
re 1reSentatlNe OF tne regular OI2aulL itl9u
That his was not the case was in a grea
measure owing to the determined fight mad
from the start against John-Jn's course ..
men and newspapers who did not see that
because man had been elected To office once
by party, the party was under any obliga
ton to always support him. When th'
opposition to Johnson, DJolittle i o., gJ'
50 strong with the pc pie that the politicians
saw they could safely join it. it went along yer.
well. but even then the Republicans NJ min
ated for president one Of the men who ''swyn
around the circle with Johnson and Doolittle
We submit that the lesson furnished by III
political fortunes of Cowan, DoJlittle AMI 9th
ers is not so much for the instruction O
tho Sc Republicans who follow their princi
pies and support the men who best represen
them, as for those who inSi-, that the eiai IN
or the presidential head of party lrc eati
tied 70 some consideration beyond the rea
merit and ability Of him who happens for ch
{, time being to occupy that position.