The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-30

dent. The magnitude OF the blunder is now uniyer.
sally understood; but why the New York delega.
1t, and which was made up OF capable politicians.
should ever have been guilty OF such folly Is still
mystery 70 many 5s Which nigh. wen At BE-
the New YORK delegation in that Conven
Hall, which was resolved that no man
should be put In nomination who was
patronage of his administration In the city and
State of New York. The second Is that Salmon p
Chase and his friends failed to give assurances that
months ago Tammany entertained the same views
with reference to the next democratic nomination
and was shaping its course accordingly. The re-
publcans never counting such q blunder by
their adyersaries, and being seriously alarmed at
the prospect before them in view Of what they sup
otherwise, many Of them would have been very un-
willing to do
The democrats, however, wifuly sinned against
light and knowledge, and so lost their chance. The
well enough, only the movement was too late.
CINCINNATI IN 1872.
We now come to the latest venture IN connection
with Presidential matters which Is the Cincinnati
liberal republican experiment, and to understand
the true history and meaning OF which 1t Is neces-
to 81 . Of the
partment In 1862, much dissatisfaction was felt BY
agood many Western people, and especially IN the
His partsans at once declared that his real offence
consisted OF his proclamation announcing freedom
annulled, and the President was denounced as lit
tie better than proslavery man. In the State Of
the radicals, or scharcoals,n being in favor Of i'm.
mediate emancipation, and the conservatives or
"claybanks" being either in favor OF ignoring the
slavery issue altogether, or OF some very gradual
scheme Of manumission The flrst, embracing
pretty much all the Germans In Missouri, who are
both numerous and aggressive, sympathized with
Fremont and took decided ground against Lincoln.
SO active and demonstratiye was this radical OPP
position that 1t soon attracted the attention OF
country. who began to look to MISSOURI LOT the
nucleus OF an efrectua resistance to Lincon's re-
spondence was the result. The product OF this
interchange Of views has the appearance OF Q cali
for Freedom convention to assemble rae,n IN inc inc
Presidential election 1884 ostensbly for consulta-
tion among the friends Of immediate emancipation
THE BORDER sLAvE-HoLDING STATES,
which were exempt from the operation Of Lincolns
rate an antiLincon canvass In the name Of radical
emancipation. The call was issued from 81. Louis,
and was prepared by b. Gratz Brown, then the
leader OF the Missouri radicals, by whom he had
been elected to the United States Senate the winter
previous The Louisville meeting was intended
being that it should meet adopt resolutions denun
ciatOry Of the national administration from the
radical standpoint and cal national convention vel ION
nomination Of an Independent republican ticket
The design was identical with that OF the coming
Cincinnati Convention, and had the spme parentage.
THE LOUISVILLE AsSEMBLAGE
was held, and was attended BY quite number %, Of
terest OF chase and others, either as participants
or lOOkers-On. Nor was the President, as the issue
showed, Indifferent to Its proceedings The failure
OF the project for as the purpose had In view was
concerned. was owing to the very simple but quite
important fact that when the Convention got to-
mics. large delegation-large enough, as 1t was
supposed, to control the body--of ant-Lincon men
% ST an @
aggregated delegations from Kentucky and Ten.
nessoe, the first headed BY Hpn, James Speed, Of
Ter, afterward United States Senator from
Tennessee. Speed and Fowler were strong
Lincoln men, and their particular G; aim seemed
saries. For two days did the body remain in SEES
sion the main contest being over the proposition
in the end was voted down, and the great object
OF the gathering failed 1t Is true that convention
IN the same interest ana oy the same parties was
was put In nomination; but the antI1ncOln 0ppO-
sition, which for time threatened to be formtdar
Bile, never recovered from Its Louisville defeat
Speed I'm the course OF time taken into Lin
coins Cabinet as Attorney General and Fowler-a
see-was made a United States Senator, which led
to the remark IN certain quarters That Presidents
were not always ungrateful.
THE DIsAFFEcTED SPIRITS
An element OF dlsatfcction, however, continued,
especially In the State OF Missouri, where 1t con-
trved In various ways to give trouble to the repub-
can party For time 1t protested great satisfaction
with Grant, but when he failed to satisfy its leaders
In the matter OF patronage 1t turned upon him more
savagey than it had ever done on Lincoln. Having
managed to divide the party on local issues and
being Joined by the democracy, which, for the time
troll OF the State With that base for its operations
and under the same leaders 1t has once more sent
out Its appeal to the dsaffected spirits, black and
white of the republican party In office, and out OF
oflce disarected because the tariff is too high and
because 1t Is not high enough; disanected on
iccu and n
view to repeating In 1872, the experiment In which
IL failed In 1864.