The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-07
Tna Thtrti Term.
ruE rRssrDEST AND THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
s555zs TaE COMPACT FULFILLED. tzsSS
fcorreapondeaee Of tte Sew york Herald.l

ss LoEG BRANCH, Augusta4, Isl 4.s
We are evidently on the way to a decisive
settlement of the main question. Aswe ex-
pected, the Long Branch Herald letter, pub.
Iisbed this morning, has created a profound
sensation among the politicians here. With
our distinction of party. Hard.shell RepuD.
Iicans say, /" There Is some fire under this
cloud of smoke, and General Grant VIII now
he compelled to show his hand. IL be Is not
for us be Is against us, and Wemust
KNOW WHERE HE STANDS"
soft-shell Democrats say: "This thing will
Tylcrfze the Republican party and the game
Is in our hands," Tn conversation with
Liberal Republican this morning, be affirmed
that .shaying fought only two years ago
under the motto of 'Anyth to beat Grant,
we cannot two years hence fly the legend OF
sAnytbing to elect Grant, You may bring
the horse to; the water, hut 1t he has had
enough you cannot make him drink"
"Bnt," asks an indignant regular Repnb.
icap. "after all that we have done for Gene
raj Grant can such things be?"
WHY not? Is there in this new depart
ure of the President anything so very sur
prisiDg, after alt? Are there not numerous
Presidential precedeuts to justify the a5an-
denmcpt BY General Grant of the party
which lifted him from the woodman's cabin
10 the White House7 When he found that
he could not get second term from the
Democratic party did not Martin Van Buren,
bolt to the Freesoilers and become their
Presidential candidate? Did not John Ty-
Ter. on finding that he was not at home in
the Wing camp, turn, with all his mercena-
ries, against the Wing party and Kill of
IIo,r,. (,l,p tyojp did NOT t'illm0rp in
1856, rs an independent opposition Presi-
denta candidate, elect James Buchanan
and did not President johnson turn against
the Republicans, aud, with Cbief.Justice
Chase. cast bis fortunes with those of the
Democratic party in their Tammany Ma
tionaI Convention Of 1868? And then let
it not be forgotten that General Grant was
A DEMOCRAT BEFORE THE WAR,
and has never been anything but reluctant
servant of the Republicans, Notwithstanding
the yilIainons abuse heaped upon him By the
Democrats, from The highest to the lowest.
Lastly, after taking up Horace Greeley as tho
Of their party aRStblzsss.
pies in 1872 why I'm Ia there t be any pi dfi.
raj u. The Democrats in adopting Gene
1.Grant in 1876? After Greeley and Brown,
is there anything impossible in the whirligig
of our party politics.?
We telieYe that the oracle has spoken, and
that the idol of the Republican party is cast.
ing about for change of base. The great
Duke Of Marlborough always took good care
of No. /, and General Grant is not the man
to trouble himself about No. for the Presi-
Dental succession. He has
FULFILLED HIS COMPACT
with the Republicans, end now be holds that
be is tree man again--that if they have no
further use for him they have no longer any
claims upon him. The treaty between the
high contracting parties has expired by its
own limitation, and this is the end of it. We
mentioned yesterday that the orthodox Re.
pubicans of New York were so harassed
and indignant at the mysterious and
PERPLExGNG SILENCE OF GENERAL GRANT
in reference TO third term, and so distrust-
full of mischief in the meal tub, that they were
ready to play the Liberal Republican against
him. Upon this matter we are informed that
II Gently some leading Republicans Of New
York Congressional district, strongly Re-
publican, waited upon an out.and.out Libe.
raj Republican and proposed 10 give him
this fall the nomination for Congress in that
district if be would accept it. He submitted
as an objection to this nomnation-which
they could not. perhaps, oyercome-that he
Was iyflcxibIy opposed to another Presiden-
tiaI term to General Grant. "That Is the
very reasou," responded his Republican
friends, "why we want you. You are free
man. You can speak out on
THIS THIRD TERM MoSsTRosITy.
"Your lips are not scaled by custom.house
glue. We want just such man to open the
fight in our side against third Term to Cen
erai Grant. We cannot venture upon quar-
rel with the custom house. We will take you
as an opponent to General Grant for third
term, and mainly on that ground we shall
expect you TO serve Us in our fall canvass"
We believe that these negotiations closed
without treaty, the Liberal Republican on
his part doubling the backbone of his Re-
publican friends when brought to the pinch.
There have been to-day some visitors to
the Presidents cottage, we are told, who
touching this new departure Of the Presi-
dent will spike the enemy's guns. Surely,
if tie President is not candidate for still
another term, the half dozen words that will
set him right can be easily spoken.