Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-22
THE PRESIDENCY.

With no interposition of preventing
circumstances, the National Republican
Convention will assemble at Philadelphia,
On the 9Th of June next. The duty of
this body will be to nominate their Ma
tional Standard-bearers and formulate a
party platform.
Who these nominees will be, and what
class of ideas and principles they will
champion, are questions agitating the
press and populace of the entire country.
The sudden determination to defer the
holding of the Cincinnati Convention(which
was to meet the 9th of May) until after
the Philadelphia nominations were made,
contains the highest significance. The
aati-Grant Republican element have con-
eludsd to go to Philadelphia AID combat
tho fortunes and power of the President,
ssd in the erert Of his nomination to
abandon their nonsense and choerfully
support him or, to clothe anew their
Cincinnati shadow Of an ~sll-party alliance,
and put a deformed and idiotic bantling
Of this compulsory wedlock in the field.
The prime design of calling the Gin
cinnati Convention was easy and quick of
solution. It was to make the Republi-
can malcontents "show their hand" and
sntrap them in o new party movement,
hostile to the administration, prior to the
Philadelphia Convention. The ~icrcest
and bitterest enemies of Grant, Sumner,
Fenton. Trumbull and Logan have treated
the call with tho c~ontemptuous rebuke CT
indignant silence, and even Greeley so ar
dent after reform and SO merciless against
Grants: policy, never can support the
Cincinnati move-nevcr, never y Even
Colfax, the '.last chance" of beating Grant
gives no heed to the %clamoring of the OPP
position when they would exalt that lofty
statesman to a still higher pinnacle. Mr.
Colfax replies to his Indiana friends that
be goes for General Grant against all
somers and begs that his name be not
mentioned by any one in their State Con-
v~ention, as he believes that Grant is the
frst choice of a large majority of the Re
p1blicans Of the United States. 1t will
be remembered that Mr. Colfax is not a
disappointed office seeker, whilst all the
disafected Republicans have failed of re-
cognition by the Administration.
What Grants adversaries are pleased to
term his especial weakness" is the mystic
nv of his marvellous success in the past
and his present strength. He stands in
the same relation to the populace as did
those popular favorites, jackson, Harri-
son, Taylor and Lincoln and that is one
from among, and yet in the midst Of
them with no pretentions of superiority
over their judgment, intelligence and cul-
ture. Jackson was obnoxious to the po-
litical aristocracy of the country because
the customs, habits and manners of a
rough frontier training were not in conso-
nance with the royal magnifcence and
oourtly r~efinements of the white House"
Lincoln was offensive to the worthy sons
of this high-born blood, because the home
ly manners and rude simplicity of the
honest ~rail-splitter could not be contami-
mated nor ensnared by the cnticements of
polite depravity and cultured folly. Cen
eral Grant is Objectionable to this same
class Of political aristOcracy, because he
possesses in no small degree, the character
isties of these predecessors.
President Grant will be the Republi-
can candidate for the succession His
pre-eminert personal claims, bis ~populari-
ty as q soldier. and his availability as an
exponent Of a wise and liberal policy in
szre his nomination against all cliques.
factions and mutinies. All schemes of
opposition to him have shared the same
full measure of disaster. The"New De-
parture'' of Yallandigham, the brilliant,
dashing countermarchcs of Schurz, the
scheme of passivity, and finally the Mis-
ssuri movement on Cincinnati have suc-
csssiyely collapsed, and after all the splut-
tering, Eanfaronade and nonsense the peo-
pie will quietly and sensibly replace
Grant in the Presidential Chair.
THE FAHE.