New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-16
THIRD TERN DISCUSSION.
PRESIDENT PORTERs VIEWS.

tJNoUAIIFIRD CONDEMNATION or A SECOND RE-
ELEcTfON-US AS TO GEN. GRANTS
POsTrIoN-rHE PRINCIPLE WRONG AND NOT TO
BE CoUNTENANCED.
lYRoM AN OCCASIONAL coaRssPosDESr OF THE rRfBysEI
NEw-HAyEs, Sept. 1.-The elaborate article
In to-day TRIBUNE entitled The American Rabicon"
presented such array OF high historical testimony
against the thirdterm doctrine and Offset this with
foroibe review Of tho Presideprs attitu0e IN tho
present movement and so trenchant sum-
mary OF differences therefrom. as 70 excite much
attention In New:Haven. With the purpose Of
ascertanIng the views OF this class upon the subject
THE TRIBUsE's correspondent conyersed with repre-
sentative men, inQuiring especially with regard 20 two
points, viz: How the leading minds Of the city re-
gsrded the present attitude OF Gen. Grant; and How
they looked upon the third term theory on general
pripeiplest Upon tho former point there was some
want OF cearness chiefly owing 70 hestancy as 10 tho
trnstworthness Of data upon tho second point there
was but one voice-a thrdterm proposition would be
death the asprant aud to the party which nominated
him. That would never be tolerated. MI .D IIVrl
The DR.: Porter President Of Yale College, stated
that he had noticed The TRIBUsEs article. but had not
had time to examine carefully He had also been out
of the city for many weeks his long vacation ana had
somewhat the OF affairs and OF the Pablo senu
ment OF the country He looked at these subjects from
tho attitude Of the Independent men, who generally
voted with the Republican party but were not biased
by partisan spirit He could speak for men OF that class
He perhaps entertained higher respect for Gen Grant
than many, aud he had been-and 10 some extent was
stloh to believe that he would plot for third eAss
OF power. That was his private and personal estimate
of the man. and he stated 1t without In the least
blaming men who took different view and with hearty
approval OF the opposition which THE TRIBUNE and sim
liar Journals making TO abuses which had crept
into the Republican party. He should think, too. that
Gen. Grants well known reticence, and his
constituencies TO personal shghts and misrepre-
sensations afforded tenaOe theory for his silence.
which many construed into the silence OF consent He
could not tell however, lust how strong the case was
against him IN this particular; indeed be thought that
leading men had inclined TO regard the "C1sarsm"
agitation a newspaper sensation and had not very
seriously considered It. But the facts as now brought
out were so startling that he felt that the question
could no longer be go by default but should be thor
oughIy looked into. On the other hand, IL
his estimate of Gen. Grant was false aud he
was really plotting for third term, he
could not but feel that would be repudiated By all
upright ard rghtmnded men. Aud he would confess
that the developments OF the South Carolina Convention
had serious look He had had occasion to know some
thing of actors IN that drama OF when woud not
be proper him to speak, but his knowledge wasn't al
all assuring.
II IL was possible that there any BARGAINING with
Southern carpe baggers for mutual benefit 1t would DO
condemned with voice. AS for third terms In tho
abstract, they were to be condemned.