St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-03-01
The Political Prospect.

The report that the meeting of the
Cincinnati convention had been post
pnmrd WAS perhaps due to the fact that
the response of the country to the
movement for the dissolution of the Re
publican party has not been SIti>tacto-
ny. Indeed. the summons has been no.
where very heartily welcomed. Mr.
Grn>Ncnor. the chairman of the NiSSnu-
ii convention which issued the call.
SAYS that success depends very much
upon '"-"I' ration IN "th"r STATES But
that cooperation does not Vet appear.
OF course Mr.. GroSvenor is too >hreW d
politician to rate the applause and
sympathy of Democratic conventions
very highly. The Connecticut Democ-
racy adopted two of the Missouri rc~o-
lutinnS. hut they did not alludr to Gin
cinnati. and they have only taken up ii
smiling position upon the fence. They
propose to ''co-operate" for the benefit
of the Democracy if an opportunity of
ferS. But that is the limit of their CO.
operation. while the New York Tribune.
which is the chief anti administration
Republican journal. can have no very
vital sympathy with an assembly OF
revenue rrtormers.
1t - NtlN li'>~l''lt lllil lIlt' 'll>silltt-
tion i'll the Republican party may have
been wrongly estimated both in clarac-
ter and extent. We have more than
once stated that Senator Schurz is the
only conspicuous Republican who has
declared that he can not support Gen.
Grant if he should lie rennmnated.
Senators sumner. Trumhull. Fcnthn.
and Logan have as Vet made no such
declaration. That they would prefer
another nomination Is umqucStionahle
and that they will take all lawful meth
DDS to defeat ii Is very probable. But
that those gentlemen and certain news
papers, which are brilliant ree-lanccS
i'll politics. really represent great sen
tlmcnt III the party nowhere appears.
The main effort has thus far been to
cast suspicion upon the honesty of the
President. There has been constant
shower of inucndocS against 1.-THE
White House. 1t is announced with
an air of profound concern. by those.
who are striving to defeat the rcnom-
nation. that the Presidents friends are
running him; and when everything hat
ingenuity can plausibly invent about
the President has been exhausted. in
S'i'll' Y t'AI ilN anu iNhN NDt'llltI IL Is
not suicidal folly to renominatc a Pres
ldcnt of whom such things are said ,
But the important question is not
what l. said. hut what il believed. The
Cincinnati managers seem to have mis-
taken the significance of the criticisms
upon the Administration. There have
undoubtedly been many things which
good men i'll the party do not approve.
and there Is Il wish among some mem
beers of the party that another candi-
date than the President NAV he select
ed ut Philadelphia. But that is very
far from il disposition to coInivc at Il
Democratic restoration 10y refusing to
support the regular Republican nomin-
alton. Senators in Washington, breath
ing the air of personal gossip and sean
dial, which Is the atmosphere OF every
great political capital. see the Prcsi-
dent not more truly than the country.
and very differently from the great
mass of the people To the people of
the United States the President is the
hero of the war of the rebcllion and IL
PLAIN. honest man seeking to do his iu-
ty. We d" not believe that they sup
pose him to have made money by the
general order system. nor 10y selling
arms to France to defeat Germany.
Nor do we believe that they hold him
personally responsible for the knaviSh
tricks of those who hold positions in
the government. They see what one
Journal declares to he inconteStahly
proved another Journal insists not to he
proved ut all. In word. they see that
i'll the passionate tumult of assertion
and denial it is not easy to discover the
truth. and they rest upon the one thing
which remains. and that is the general
results of the administration. and their
faith i'll the personal purity of the Pres
ident.
If the Administration were the seeth-
ing mass of corruption which it is some
times alleged to he, would the Demo-
cratic party he in the moribund condi-
ton which the action of its Connecticut
convention reveals? Could that party
ask any thing more favorable to its
hopes than dominant opposition dis
solving i'll its own corruption What
does the situation show but that the
Republican hold upon the heart of the
country is very sure! Yet what has
so confirmed that hold but the general
in the character and purpose
of the Administration 1t is true that
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