The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-04

SASC%eAse1@aOMDs
The St. Louis Republican (Conserva-
tive says: g There is no organized Dem
:" ocracy in Virginia, North Carolina,
:" South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
" bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan-
g sas, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin,
g and Minnesota that the days of Sey-
mour, Thurman, and others of that ilk,
have passed away, and they are being
''jostled aside by generation of younger
" and more heroic men, of whom Kemp
d" er, Gordon and Lamar are representa-
q tives" One of these men, it thinks,
may even be on the ticket with Grant
g for the Presidency" We can scarcely
think such an event probable, though the
idea seems to have taken possession of some
minds that in playing his game TOR the
third term, it is part Of the programme
Of the present incumbent to conciliate
and treat more generously the section
which has been prescribed and dealt
harshly with since the war.
OF course the South could have no bet
ter guarantee Of just treatment than the
connection Of such name as Lamar's, or
Kemper's, or Gordon's, with the pro-
gramme suggested That her support
would be worth taking into the account
is plainly evident when it is remembered
that of the twelve late slave-holding
states, eight can be counted upon with
certainty against a ticket which embodies
a continuation af sectionalism and a pol
icy Of strife and prescription, and for
tick N whose banner is written peace
and Fraternity-Let US know one another
that we may love one another"
Whether or not this is the programme
of General Grant remains to be seen.
Silent, incomprehensible and enigmatical
to his warmest partizans, he is constantly
bewildering and confusing them, and
bringing their plans to naught by strange
and unlocked for departures. At the
moment they expected him to set up the
authority of Brooks, the adventurer, in
Arkansas, he turned him adrift and es-
tablished Baxter more firmly in his seat
B lcked by the decision of the Supreme
Court of Texas, the defeated candidates,
presuming upon their political relation to
the administration, applied to him to fur
Their their schemes; but with single dash
of the pen, their expectations were disap-
pointed, and the schemers marveled and
asked what it all meant? Anyhow, his
action has given rise to such thoughts as
are contained in the following extract
which we find credited in an exchange to
the n. \. Tribune:
The next element to be taken into the
account is the Democratic party, and
here, 100, Gen. Grant is not without con-
siderable show of strength. As Mr.
WatteIson has shown, the Southern Dem |
ocrats are not adverse to him, and his |
recent action in Arkansas topping over |
the Brooks Government, which was really |
the Republican party of that State, and |
reinstating Baxter, who represents the |
opposition of all shades, and most espec-
tally the Democrats, may be regarded as
an overture of very friendly and prac-
teal sort. If he shonld upset Kellogg in
Louisiana, as he ought to do and as he
once resolved to do, the ligament would
be even more binding. Moreover, Gen.
Grant never regarded himself as be-
holden to the Republican party at all.
On the contrary, it has been his theory
that the party was greatly beholden to
him. In his horizon there is no obstacle
to his accepting IA Democratic nomina-
ton, or at least Democratic support, for
a third term. Nor is there any reason
why the Democratic party, having once
Greeley, should not now sup
port Grant, if circumstances, in 1876,
should seem to point that way. In fact,
the heterogeneous state of politics conse-
luent upon the total disappearance of the
slavery issue from the field makes any
thing possible, and makes that thing most
probable which is least expected. Party
lines no longer signify anything but
former prejudices, and, as Gov. Ran
dolph, of New Jersey, has shrewdly re-
the Democratic party, since it
voted for Greeley, has fewer prejudices
than the Republican.