New-York tribune., 1872-02-28

"novr no ia surely mistaken. The call for
Convention at Cincinnati very clearly denotes
this. Thousands already initiate the roman
philosopher who declined to argue with the
master of forty legions. They say, we can
" not match one hundred thousand 0ince-
"holders in packing delegations; we must at
{" tend TO DIR farms, our snops, our business
"whereby our families are subsisted; "
they con give oil their days and nights
"to politics; right wdl we know that
4" they can force the denomination OF Gen.
Grant if they will but that only leads the
horse TO water-he will drink or not, as ne
shall see fit.r We could name many mon OF
mark and consideration who talk thus ana
mean it. They can be defed and overcome
we do not say that they will not be- III 80,
some of them may vote as j. s. Z. would
have them; Others would not. Those who do,
will defer to what they consider the country's
wcll-being-nol to the authority of the Phla-
delphia Convention. There should be no delu-
sion on this point; there shall DO none il we
can help it.
III. We feel that the convictions Of those
who regard the eligibility of a President to
reelection while in Office have been dealt with
in a manner at once decetfu and insulting.
When the last Presidential canvass was open
ing, Messrs. Wade, Sumner, and Ashley (all
Jealous Republicans had before either House
of Congress propositions to amend the Con-
stitution SO as to forbid the reelection Of
President while in Office. The Washington
Chronicle, whereof Col J. W. Forney was and
ever had been responsible Editor, emphat
cally indorsod those propositions saying of
Gen. Grant, He is an advocate Of the One
Term principle, as conducting toward the
"proper administration sOf the lava prin-
"clple with which so many prominent Rcpub-
licans havo identified themselves that it
"may be accepted as an article of party
faith" And again, six weeks later,
"Le not Congress adjourn without passing the One
Term amendment TO the Constitution There has never
been favorable opportunity All parties are In
favor of it, The present incumbent of tho Presidential
Office has nducement to oppose it. NObody's sensi
blihes be offended by It, II cannot be charged as
party movement intended to head of obnoxious Pres
dent Gen. Grant IS in tapOr Of IL. The party which
supports Gen Grant demands 1t; and above all else
public morality calls for it, Let again wlt5ess
the Iutter debasement of the Presidential Office by the
efforts of the incumbent to a second term The
second term makes the first period OF chcanery. 1t IL
the fertile germ OF Executive Policy and brings forth
a fearful crop OF treaohery and lies.
at is the fomenter of divisions between the Depart
ments and the nducer OF Executive usurpatOns 1t Is
a constant peril to TIE liberties of the country Not
man or O party in the country worth counseing with
wishes the President to be eligible to a reelection h
the opportunity is lost and walt until after the next
Presidential election, shall counter to sup
posed personal party interest in reopenDg this sub
ject"
Gen. Grant was then in Washington, and
hoy of bn
of these articles, even if they were not (as we
believe they were) sometimes shown to him
before they were published. lie must have
known that One-Term men were attracted to |
his support by these assurances from the lead |
ing Republican journal at the capital. If they |
his views, he should have re-
1uired their correction but he did not. And |
now we are told, by the responsible Editor of |
that very journal, not merely that he had only |
TO rum months before this, on an |
that he was to have two terms, |
but that Gen. Rawlins asked in his behalf |
what more was 10 be done for him, indicating !
a disgust at our uicayune republican parsimony |
IN paying him only twice or thrice as much as
recompensed the services of George
Washington.
". AS a single point on which majority |
in the Philadelphia Convention will not be ac
cepted by some Republicans as conclusive, we
will instance that of embezzlements. That |
these have been numerous of late, is not the
main point. Thieves will steal, whether in
Office or out of it; and it is very difficult to
keep them out entirely. But we want to know
through whose fault it was that paymaster
stationed in the. Federal city, under the very
eye of the Treasury officers, Paymaster
General, &c, could draw S474,000 from the
Treasury, $4,000 at lick, on his own checks
payable to bearer, and gamble it away before
his guilty career was arrested. OF many de-
falcatons, this strikes us that most easily in
vestigated, while it sadly needs elucidation.
We called for this long ago: when shall we
have it