The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-20

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Presidential ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Grant
and tho Coiorcd vote-Thc Cincinnati
| Men and the Democracy.
| The Presidential movements of the day
appear to be limited to the Grant and the anti
Grant republicans. The temperance party and
the labor reformers, from their February Con-
ventions at Columbus, Ohio, proclaimed each
their Presidential ticket and principles; the
Grant republicans are closing up their appoint
ments and preparations for the regular Repub-
lican National Convention, which is to meet in
Philadelphia on the 9th of June; the anti
Grant republicans are busy in the work of
getting up meetings and delegates for Cincin-
natl; but the great democratic party-the late
implacable and fierce democracie having
become passive and plant, are awaiting the
upshot Of the Cincinnati flank movement upon
the administration. The call for a National
Convention Of the democratic republicans at
Parkersburg, w. Va, in the special interest Of
Chief Justice Chase has been withdrawn, and
the delegates concerned, including the liberal
democrats from West Virginia, have been
instructed to attend the gathering of the liberal
republicans, and likewise the Reunion and
Reform Convention (another coercion) at
Cincinnati, and to use in both ''all honorable
means to secure the nomination of Chief Justice
Chase to the Presidency
The democratic republican and liberal de-
mocratic Chase platform in this connection
embraces national sovereignty, State rights,
the fifteenth amendment q low tariff, univer-
sal amnesty, specie payments, the annexation
Of neighboring States, when we can annex
them without force or Fraud protection to
American citizens at home and abroad not
forgetting the Fenians, and the inviolability Of
the national debt. This is glorious platform
and remarkably comprehensive. To be sure
it is not quite up to the two Polar stars Of Tit
tlebat Titmouse, Everything for everybody
and nothing for anybody to do" but it is the
next thing to it, in providing something for
everybody, which is all that we can reason
ably hope for this side the millennium, when
that old serpent, Satan, which is the devil is
to be chained fast for thousand years. Mean
time we have no choice but to deal with things
as we find them, and in the Presidential field
we find them, in the opposition camps, mex
plicably mixed. That portion of the people
which adheres to the administration and to
General Grant for another term is headed by q
strong, disciplined and harmonious organiza-
ton, while the opposing forces include half
o dozen incongruous political factions whose
only hope of success is in coalition with the
democratic party. Assuming, however, that
this coalition will be agreed upon by the.
various managing clques interested lex
Guiding the temperance and women's rights
parties, what is the prospect for the defeat of
Grant? Let us see, beginning with the
colored vote, and the indications Of the late
elections
There are seven hundred thousand colored
voters in the United States and from several
recent events these voters with few scat
tering exceptions, may be counted for General
Grant. The events to which we refer are the
action of the late Colored National Conven-
ton at New Orleans and the speech of Fred
Douglass before that body, and the visit on
Wednesday last Of the members Of the Annual
Conference, at Washington, of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church to the President
at the White House The ruling ideas of the
New Orleans Convention were these: That
the democratic party is not yet sufficiently re-
constructed to be trusted by the black race, and
that ''all roads leading out of the republican
party lead into the democratic camp" The
African Methodists waiting upon the President
to pay him their respects spoke to him of the
devotion Of the Methodist Church to his
administration, and of his services in securing
to the colored race the right of peaceful
thought and action all over the South, where
the lately prescribed and prosecuted race is
now fourishing, and where in their churches
and other institutions they are in the
full enjoyment of their civil and politi-
cal rights The Presidents kind response
to these fattering compliments was ali that
his colored friends could desire and So put
ting oil these things and other things of like
import bearing upon the colored vote together,
we think that throughout the United States,
in the coming Presidential election, this vote
may be set down almost as unit for General
UrbHU aBdlLs1 any anu III ooIhPc1ieoIs'
The Cincinnati Convention of boiling re-
publicans, therefore, displaced in the idea of
revolutionizing or dividing the colored vote,
is limited to the project of fusion with the
democratic party. Now, as not one-half OF
the black vote of the Union, under the subse-
quent fifteenth amendment, was polled in the
election of 1868, and as General Grant had
over three hundred thousand majority of the
popular vote of the Union in that election, it
follows that, other conditions remaining the
same, the addition of even three hundred
thousand to his colored vote will enlarge his
popular majority to six hundred thousand.
The elections of 1871 and of 1872 SO far,
show that throughout the country largely,
we know, in consequence Of the collapse of
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