New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-12
The Re-olection-What the President
Thinks About IL.

A Washington special to the New York
Herald says:
The President considers that whereas his
frat election was an honor paid on account
of such service as he had been permitted to
render the country in the field. his second e
the nations stamp of approval upon his p0-
itiCal administration Of the government
and a popular Vindication of his persons L
character from aspersiOns cast upon It since
he has held the presidency. Long before Il
Amounted meeting Of the Philadelphia con
vention he had been obliged TO see that put
lie sentiment in the party and the county
had virtually settled the question OF hs
successOrship and reduced the functions
of the convention to a formal ratltica-
ton of what the sovereign will of the
people who had adhered to republican prln-
cipIes had decreed. The nomination OF Mr..
Greeley at Cincinnati, and his confirmation
by the Democratic convention at Baltimore,
was real qualification to the President, as
it not only narrowed the contest to two can
didateB and so emphasized the honors Of sue
cess, but the character of the opposition
gave early and complete assurance OF the
result The President feels himself party
man and politician enough TO rejoice with
other party men and politicians over such
renewed triumph and continuance OF re
publican principles as Mr.. Greeleys candi-
dents surprise the Baltimore nomination
affriglrted some of the really prominent
leaders of the RepU blicans. even as smaller
number of weaker men had been disturbed
by the doings Of the reformers at Cincinnati.
Political giants, who would now willingly
forget their record on the subject, came to
the President after the Baltimore n0mina-
ton and begged him to change his Cabinet,
to remove this and that weak or obnoxious
officer from this or that big place, and put
it, with all such places, at the disposal OF
local wirepullers and managers, to win
votes and court popularity that would
tide them over the crisis. Even his nearest
friends complained of his stOhdlty when
they did not accuse him of indifference to
the efforts the party was putting forth to
save him and itself. 1t was at this time be
| said to a Western man just elected member
of Congress, Everybody seems demora!-
lied by this Greeley movement. What
! is the matter2 have never
had the slightest doubt Of the re
suit Of the presidential election, and am
surprised that gentlemen in political life
| have so little confidence IN the good sense
! of the American people as to suppose Tor a
moment that they would select Mr.. Greeley
as their President" But tie President
confessed that he seemed to be alone for a
time in his confidence of what the American
people would and would not do. The
| North Carolina election, as first reported,
completed the fright of politicians, but
Justice is done them by admitting that
when the truth came out they came for
ward and congratulated the President on
the firm stand he had taken and which
they at the time denounced as blind OBJ
stinacg. One possible helping cause of the
! Presidents indifference was, 1T Is true known
to very few of the timor0us or steadfast
either, and that was his knowledge Of the
fact that from the opening Of the canvass
to the end of the great campaign Of Octo-
Der the Republican national committee had
picket in every Greeley camp of any con
sequence from one end Of the country to
the other and knew day by day every
phase OF the Greeley situation as well as
Mr., Greeley's managers themselves. Put
ting the information thus acquired to their
reports from their own side, this committee
and those in its confidence had a compre-
bensive view of affairs that saved them
from doubts and panics, while the fears Of
the untutored were played upon to stimu-
late larger concessions Of money and effort
to carry the doubtful positions