The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-05
&c., &C., &c.
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WASHINGTON, August 4.-Tbe Herald's
Long Branch letter, Of the Sd instant, gives
what purports to he the result Of consulta.
ton with the President by prominent
Liberal Republican on the desire of Gene
raj Grant for rejection. The correspondent
says:
Write down General Frank Blair as also
among the prophets. 1t is and will yet long
be remembered that in the opening uf the
presidential campaign in 1868 General Blair,
with all the emphasis of an earnest convic-
ton, declared that, in bis judgment, IL Cen
eral Grant were put into the White House he
would never be put out while he lived, or in
words to this effect: That we are on the way
to thefulflmenG of this remarkable prophecy
will presently appear. The absorbing and
most perplexDg question WHICH you can now
put to regular Republican who believes
first in his party and next in the National
Administration is the fearful question,
| docs General Grant desire and expect to
be nominated and elected for a third presi-
dental term?" You cannot from any Re
publican who still believes In the loyalty Of
General Grant to the Republican party get
an ineligible answer to this question. Nlr.
Thomas Murphy, hitherto known to be and
still widely supposed 10 be among the high
est in the confidence Of General Grant, can
not answer it. Nor can Senator Conkling,
or Dir. Speaker Blaine, or Senator Morton, or
Senator Logan; nor can any Republican
apostle or disciple who believes first in his
party aud next in the Administration. They
cannot answer because General Grant no
longer coplides in them.
On the platform indicated rs an indepeDd-
ent candidate
GENERAL GRANT WILL DE SUPPORTED
not only by the combined opposition forces,
but by the grand army Of Office. holders, five
legions strong by the Grand Army Of the
Republic and by the still grander and more
powerful political army of capitalists, bank
ers. brokers. and bondholders. This is the
calculation, and that General Grants
thoughts have, since last fall, been
running in this direction, may be
reasonably inferred from his allusion
in bis annual message Of December last
to the breaking up of party lines OF
distinction in the recent elections; from his
decisive Reputation of the Republican
would.be Governor Davis, OF Texas; from
bis snubbing of the Would-be Governor
Brooks, OF Arkansas, and from his uneX-
pected veto of the pet currency bill of Sena
tor Morton and of the imitation maJorities OF
the two Houses supporting him. Nor can II
be doubted now, that in that important
matter OF the appointment of Chief Justice
last winter the Presidents purposes and the
purposes of the Republican magnates OF the
Senate were widely different. These are
but prescriptions and differences touching
the new departure suggested; but they VIII
90 far to strengthen the evidence directly 10
the point which follows.
TIE EVIDENCE.
A feI days ago leading Liberal Repub-
ican of the West, encouraged by iIstruc-
tons that President Grant was strongly IN
Glued to new political movement for
third term, came to Long Branch and called
upon the President at bis cottage TO OBTAIN
lis views upon the subject. The results oil
this conference, aS given to the writer from
a third party, an intelligent and responsible
man, were these After the usual introduce
tory rormallies, the Liberal Republican am-
bassador having stated the object OF bis
visit and his desire for free inter-
change of thought and suggestions, the
President said that the country had mani
testify had enough of the rule of the Repup-
lican party: that the party had fulfilled lis
mission and outliyed lis usefulness, ana that
the people, tired of the corruptions ana de-
nominations of the Republican party IN
Congress, and tired Of its extreme seclionai
measures, were ready and anxious for
change. Next in the course of the CONVEX
sation the President suggested that II the
Liberal Republican party would take the
lead in nominating him upon the platform
faI bn iG1lhf
success of the movement. The Liberal Re
publican ncgotiator submitted, however,
that bis party was but handful OF men, ana
that Of themselves, as party, they couiu 40
nothing.
THE PRESIDENT REPLIED
that they were respectable body OF inde-
pendent men, that their principles were ac'
ceptable to the people, and that in moving
for his reelection in opposition to the regu-
lar Republican party they would first bring
over the Democratic party, and that in ehe
next place all the southern States would sup.
port the movement; and, sgaip, the moneycd
interest of the country, de>irous of avoiding
aEy dangerous changes or experiments in
our financial system, will support new
party hich, while aiming to displace the Re-
publicans, will support the President for an
otner term as the national standard-bearer OF
this new organization. The President also
submitted that the Executive patronage
would prove an element of considerable
weight in this new party undertaking., ana
that, with all the forces to back It when ne
bud indicated, defeat would be Impossible
and success certain.
Furthermore, we are informed that "heh
these high contracting parties separated IL
was with the promise on the one part tnat
the Liberal Republicans, so far as directly
represented in this conference, will move III
behalf of General Grant for third term, ana
with promise on his part that TO strenstn-
en- this movement the President VIII veto
the ciyilrights bill if passed at tins coming
session Of Congress !, will insist upon ciVll-
service reform, notwithstanding Inc oDJec'
tons of this Congress will urge q uhlsel,
sal amnesty in bis next annual message, AM,
to the extent of his power and resources VIII
clear ont the carpet-bsggers and prove him.
| sells true friend Of the South and OF south'
eza rights under the Constitution.
| We have this information, we repeat, from
sn intelligent and responsible man, VINO sd!
abat these shiDgs are true, ana VINO oenefes
that IN Ter the programme we nave ou.iine g
General Grant can, ana pfoOaoiy WIN ~
elected for third presidential term Is tn'
Candidate OF the combined opposition force
against the party in power. We learn iur
ther that the leading Republicans of tn
co nntry-and of New York most proln'
nently.-are not only distressed, but ind'g
oant AZ this continued and mysterious silenc
Of General Grant in reference to tbir'
term that they suspect there is misehie
in if and that they are prepared to adop
and play the Liberal Republicans against hin