The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-10

and, therefore, that if the Republi-
can cause should be ruined, the Pres
Eident will be justly held response
| bic. This remarkable allegation is
constantly made, and it is evidently
believed by some sincere persons.
Still further it is stated very en-
phaticalIy that even those who favor
his denomination do so under pro-
test; that distinguished party lead
ers who publicly support it privately
deplore it, and that it is incredible
that any staunch and steady old radi-
cal Republican can really think the
denomination of the President desir-
able. These remarks are made in
various forms; but they all tend to
represent the President as q terrible
Old Man Of the Sea who has seated
himself immoYably upon the neck
of the Republican party, and who is
bent upon riding it to destruction.
We assert, on the other hand, that
the great mass of the Republican
voters of the United States who do
not hold Office, nor expect to hold
Office, who have their own views Of
public policy, who read the news
papers and keep themselves inform
ed of the course of public events,
and of the character Of public men,
and of the probable motives that in
fuence political conduct, are Just as
much resolved upon the renomina-
tion and reelection of General Grant
as they were upon those of Mr.. Lin
coin in 1864. The only manner in
which such an opinion can be YER
flied, is, of course, by some election
which may be fairly interpreted to
turn upon the question of the pOpu-
lsrity of the President; and such was
the election in New Hampshire.
Last year the Republicans in that
State were defeated. This year,
when the probability Of the renomi-
nation of the President was evident
yet when a certain hostility to it was
already declared, and when it was
fully understood that a Republican
victory would be interpreted as an
lapproval of the President, the re-
covery ofthe State by the Republ-
cans could have but one meaning.
That this was perfectly under
stood is evident from another fact.
The Legislature to be elected would
choose a United States Senator.
Patterson, who we hope will be re-
turned, has always been reckoned
one Of the most independent~as well
as one Of the most honorable Of
| Senators. He went to the State
| Convention which made the nomina-
tions, and declared that If there were
any New England Senators opposed
to the President, they were not the
| Senators from New Hampshire.
What did this mean? 1t meant
that, in Senator Patterson's judg-
ment the Republicans of New
Hampshire supported the President,
and that the Legislature elected by
them would elect no man Senator
who was not friendly to him. This
is the only fair Interpretation of the
Senator's speech. The President
was really the Republican platform
in New Hampshire, and upon it the
State was recovered. Will anybody
seriously say that it was a victory Of
, the bread-and-butter brigade? And
if there had been any grave disafee'
tion in the party, is it not plain that
. the dissatisfied Republicans would
have taken care that the very frs
' election of the Presidential yea
: should not have been of the utmos
! service to the prospects Of the re
) nomination.
: Again, if it be true that distin
t guished party leaders publicly favor
the denomination and privately
: groan over its inevitability, what
does the fact show but that they
clearly see the popular preference
for the President? Those of Us who
. favored the denomination of Mr..
Lincoln, at a time when We were
bitterly reproached for supporting a
trivial and obscene jester, who had
no real anti-slavery convictions, and
was letting everything drift, used to
reply that the people would take
care of him, and that the politicians
would certainly fall into line. We
were not deceived; and it is as true
now as it was then, that the strength
Of the President is with the people.
The personal assaults upon him hay
ing recoiled with shame and ridicule
upon those who made them, he re-
mains the representative of policy
which the people approve, and Of
this stability which they feel to be
indispensable.
It's not he who thrusts himself
upon them for renomination-it is
they who are resolved to renominate
him. By what right, therefore, do
the Republicans who are opposed to
him, and who refuse to countensnce
the Convention of their party be-
cause Of their conviction that the
great majority of Republicans desire
/ his renominatisn, charge the Presi-
dent with dividing the party, and
those who favor his denomination
with abetting his fatal action? Even
the New York World, patronizing
the Cincinnati Convention, and ex-
horting its leader, to be "bold," SAYS
of them: "Ifthey rise to the height
of the occasion, they will be sup
ported by one-third of the Republi-
can party" This is the most fanci-
full and fantastic estimate that even
irresponsible advocacy claims for the
schism. We venture to think that
the Cincinnati leaders themselves
smile at its exaggeration. The
same paper in the same article adds
that in Connecticut, in November,
''the Democracy will bring out their
full vote, and the liberal Republicans
will support the same candidates; :"
and that the liberal Republicans, ''ia
combination a0itb the Democratic
party, will carry the State against
Grant next fall by at least a hun
dred thousand majority"
That is to say, according to the
most partial estimate, q third of the
Republican party in alliance with
Democratic party are to defeat the