The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-04

49, Aoau5 'no IiesiucHcy, prhHuso
within hair of the nomination, and a grea
! grandson candidate for Governor of the Stat
and prospective candidate for nomination t
the Presidency also. But Charles Franci
Adams is cold man, and comes from q rae
who have never been popular. There was neve
was followed or regarded as political leader
The people in voting for Adams would have
voted for a name and no more; for with al
the services of Mr.. Adams he is little more thar
name to us. The suggestion OF Judge
Davis was scandal A reform convention
taking q candidate for the Presidency from
the empyrean heights of the Supreme Bench
and drabbling his ermine in the dirty waters OF
our politics would have been al offence SO
grave that the people would have risen in
mutiny. The same may be said Of Judge
Chase, and the lesson this Convention should
teach to these learned and eminent men Is
that when statesman becomes q lawgiver he
must cease to be politician. We impose
upon these gentlemen a political cell
bacy as rigid as the celibacy pre-
scribed to the priest by the Church OF
Rome. Lyman Trumbull would not have been
a strong candidate. A timid man, oil his life
a politician and for many years narrow and
implacable, his appearance as reiormer and
the champion Of seli-denial and political lib
crafty was too grotesque to be accepted sin
cerely, and he would have been wearisome
and dull candidate, the citadel of whose
record would have been battered down in thirty
days. Gratz Brown was an ambitious
experiment, and member Of the Blair
family, while Mr.. Curtin was an ordinary Penn
sylvania politician and adventurer who would
not have carried single State in the Union
So that, in looking over the field, the judgme Mt
of the HERALD pointed to Horace Greeley as
the natural candidate Of the liberal republi-
con movement. After Charles Sumner the
honors belonged to him, and upon him they
have been well bestowed.
What will be the effect Of these honors
Has this Convention really nominated the
next President? VIII the enthusiasm which
arose yesterday upon the banks of the Ohio
die away in summer shower or sweep the
country like a tornado? Is this a remon-
STRANGE or q revolution? Will the strangely
incongraious and hostile elements which
gathered at Cincinnati really form winning
party? VIII the free traders who absorbed the
intellect and driving power of the Convention
Of protection? Will the Southern men forget,
III the fact that Horace Greeley bailed Jetfer-
son Davis, his life of war upon them
and their institutions? Can the democratic
party be induced to support the hero of forty
campaigns against democracy? Will the
Germans vote for o man who sees intem-
perance crime? All of these are grave
and unavoidable questions. Strong as Horace
Greeley is, and impetuous and command
ing as we have found the Convention to be,
his friends are met at the outset by many per-
picking problems. Then Horace Greeley him.
self is dangerous candidate. resolute man,
he is never Sin the hands Of his friends" He
threw away the Senatorship in letter which
did him honor but was political mistake
literary man, skilled with the pen, and open
to literary temptations, he is apt at any
time to introduce petard into the
canvass which will explode himself and his
party. Against him will be nominated man
of rare fame and extraordinary services, a
Chief Magistrate whose administration, with
all its faults, has won the nations confidence.
And behind Grant there is an influence of con-
servatism which pleases the people. Greeley
means enthusiasm. Grant means strength.
And with Grant is that great army whose
soldiers followed him to victory, and who will
require strong temptations to incline them tc
desert his banners now.
No man is as well known in the country as
Horace Greeley, unless, perhaps, it is General
Grant. 1t will therefore not be canvass OF
false pretences 1t will be personal canvass
question Of mere men; for beyond the name
of Horace Greeley, what principle do We
see in this platform? The name Of Horace
Greeley and the restlessness of the country
under our foreign policy, and the desire
for change which belongs to our easy tenn
percd people, and nothing more! There arr