The New York herald., 1871-02-15

Day.
'IIet us have peace Uader this Sublime
legend, in 1868, General Grant marched to
victory as rcsIstlessly as did the great Con-
stantine in hia day under his invlncble BAN
ner Of the Cross ''Let as have peace il
now the cry from oil the great Powers Of
Europe. We have It from the German impe-
rial headquarters at Versailles and FROM the
French National Assembly at Bordeaux; We
have heard It from the green table Of the
London Conference; II hae been passing and
repassing The Atlantic Ocean between Queen
Victoria and President Grant and it is now
coming to us with the members eas route from
Engiand appointed to the joint High Commits
sion soon 10 meet in Washington to settle In a
treaty of peace all the outstanding differences
between the two countries. General Grant,
With this grand idca Of peace, is preparing for
| The campaign of 1872. In 1868 lie applied
this popular idea Of peace to our domestic
Affairs; in 1872 Il will be practically extended
TO our foreign relations.
| What is the prospects II is broad,
| anboonded, glorious and snpremely attrae-
| tive. We hear from Washington that the
republicans in Congress- are anything but
urit in support of General Grant for the sue
cession that Sumner thinks he is failure
and may conveniently be set aside; thai Carl
Schrrz is OF the same opinien; that Colax
has friends who are beating about the bush !;
that Trumbnll and Fenton and other leading
lights OF the party are perfectly Indifferent
concerning the claims Of Grant and will seize
upon the frss opportunity to out him and whistle
him down the wind; that Ia short, there are
half dozen ambitious republican politicians
who are actively mining and counterminiag to
| head of each other and to cut out Grant in the
national party convention. They are aiming
to weaken him before the people by con-
nnuance of the foolish high taxation policy of
Secretary Boutwell,, instead of lsboring to
strengthen the administration by popular mea-
sures OF financial reform, including reduction
OF our taxes to the extent Of hundred millions
a year. But, Notwithstanding al these con-
ictng lntrigues of soured and reckless poiiti-
clans, and all this confusion Of the opposing
cliques and factions of his party, General
Grant is still as strong against them as was
Abraham Lincoln against the Chase aud other
side movements to supplant him In the Con-
vention of 1854
Bat General Grant against the democratic
party win have harder battle TO fight in 1872
than his battle of 1868. In that campaign
General Wade Hampton, in his resolution.
made in the Tammany Convention a plank Of
the democratic platform, proclaiming all the
reconstruction measures Of Congress 'suneon-
stitutional, revolutionary, null and void"
made the battle to General Grant as easy as
that of Lincoln in 1854 against the democratic
platform declaring the war for the Union
failure. To ''Inake assurance doubly sure"
for Grant. the nomination Of General Blair
for Vice President on the ticket with Seymour
was made, and on the strength Of Biair's
famous Brodhead letter, boldly advocating q
violent overthrow Of the whole reconstruction
system OF Congress. With the announcement
Of this ticket and platform il was apparent to
every dispassionate observer of the currents
OF popular opinion that the Tammany Con-
vention bad ioolishly thrown away every chance
in the election, as in 1864, In fighting bludly
against fixed facts and the tidal waves Of
political revolution bound to run It's course.
That revolution accomplished in the fifteenth
amendment, opens before US a new order OF
things. The negro question, upon which the
republicans since 1854 have gained all their
victories, being settled. is out Of the fight.
The money question and questions affecting
our foreign relations take its place, and
upon these issues the democracy have advan-
tages and chances which really in the chap
ter Of accidents hold out some promise Of
victory.
Nor do we think that the republicans will be
gratifed In their expectation of the demo-
cratic stupidity again in 1s72-another revival
Of their fight against the fifteenth and the four
teen,h amendments Of the constitution. They
win, IN their National Convatiou, accept the
situation as Tammany has accepted it; they will
pick out as their candidates men whose ante
ced.nls IL the war are not Of the Yallndig-
ham school, and they will order their battle
upon the financial shortcomings Of Grants ad-
misisiratisn, including it's high taxes, with
their oppressive determinations against tho
masses of the people. For President Gov
ernor Hoffman has been wisely Withdrawn bx
Tammany- He is an able, capable and popu-
lar maa but his time has not yet come.
Hendricks, Pondleton and General Hancock
are now most prominently In the foreground
OF the party; but Of the old set Of 1868 Han
cock aDDears TO us the Only available Y,iera of
timber. Remembering, however, Polk, In
1874. aud Pierce, in 1882, aud that both were
successful from their very obscurity, we may
have the same convenient democratic came
repeated in 1872. And why mott II the Oh.
scuriy Of Polk was too much for orr greatest
statesman, Henry Clay, aud is the obscurity
OF Pierce gas too much FOR oar greatest SOL