Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-23

HOW GRANT MAY DE DEFEATED.
Grants friends claim the result Of the
New Hampshire election as "a personal
victory" for him. The st. Louis RepubR-
can regards that result as not more an Ad-
ministration victory over the Democracy,
than it is victory of arbitrary power over
independence Of thought in the Republican
party. The Liberal Republicans appear to
regard it in this light, for they have grown
quite active within few days in their op-
position to Grant and in favor of the Gin
cinnad Convention. The st. Louis Repub-
licaa says:
''The Administration triumph in New
Hamphire is having a most singular and in
teresting effect. Instead of establishing the
authority Of the administration, and quiet
ing the tumult in the Republican party, it
is provoking fiercer defiances of the former
and stimulating the connection in the latter.
Instead Of keeping Republicans away from
the Cincinnati Convention, it is determining
them to go there. Instead of subduing the
insurgents, it is inspiring them with a
sterner spirit. The Cincinnati movement
has been growing stronger every day
since the New Hampshire election, and we
are, every day, hearing of new adherents
counted fer the movement who were not
suspected of being favorable to it before.
The explanation of the fact is simple and
short: it is because the New Hampshire re-
suit is a success of the administration, that
it is frightening and widening the dissatis-
faction among Republicans. They feel
that the administration is already too strong
for their good and for the freedom Of the
party, and that every accession of strength
which a fresh victory involves, makes it
more despotic and peremptory."
The anti-Grant Republicans do not seem
inclined to submit quietly to the arbitrary
and despotic rule of the Grant ring. They
are showing fight in manner which is well
calculated to spread dismay in the Grant
camp. But Grant is determined to rule or
ruin, and he has SO played this hand that
he has the call on his competitors. But the
Chicago Tribune, the leading Republican
journal in the Northwest, shows how easy
it is to defeat Grant, notwithstanding he
holds the reins of power. That paper calls
attention to the fact that the Republican
majority in New Hampshire sis but 1,500,
even when the whole party and all its divis-
ions, Grant and anti-Grant, Patterson and
snti-Patterson, united against the common
enemy" and adds:
"a change of less than 1000 Uotes tUould
hare reversed the result The marpin in
New Hampshire and Connecticut, aud in
many other States, is entirely too small to
justify the engaging in a campaign in which
the Democratic party, with its Objectionable
name, and its old bankrupt politicians, will
not be the adversary, but where candidates
personally and politically as acceptable to
Republicans as any in the country, may be
competing for the public confidence. 1t only
requires that per cent, or three out of
every hundred of the Republican
voters Of New Hampshire should
vote against the nominee of the
Philadelphia convention, TO give the
electoral vote of that State to the opposi-
ton. In Connecticut, the percentage re-
quired to accomplish the same result is
even smaller. 4 change of an equally small
percentage Of the Eepublicdn uote IN JeiC
other States 1VOWld gjUe majority Of the
achoIe electoral uote to the opposition candi-
date"
1t is very clear that large majority of
the people of the United States do not
want Grant reelected, and if they so will,
he viii not be again chosen to disgrace the
position he now holds.