National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-31
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the famous newspaper ''quadrilaterar"
which supported Mr.. Greeley for the Presi-
dency, is just now engaged in q little CO.
quoting with the third-term business. The
paper in question is a sort of skirmisher of
the Liberal Republicans and more ad-
vanced Democrats, and it is not at all i'm
probable that its recent sallies in this di-
rection are not entirely without inspiration.
Within the last month or six weeks some
of the leading politicians who opposed Gen.
Grant In the last Presidential campaign
have, If we may believe themselves, under
gone marked change of opinion so far as
he Is concerned, and in certain contingen-
cies would not be st all averse to support
ing him. Only a week or ten days ago, for
instance, Senator Fenton, who managed
Mr.. Greeley's campaign, and did more to
SOW whatever disssnsion existed in the Re-
publican party than nearly all the other
Republicans combined, declared that if the
election of 1879 were to occur this year, the
triumph of Gen. Grant would be ineVita-
| BILE. Others of lesser note have made SINH
uGClhIhklOuoJ 1uNA ~ 10 NV AAFtAS
cant that the Organs" Of these gentlemen
have moderated the violent and abusive
tone in which they have been accustomed
for some years to speak of his Administra-
ton. Has the Courisr-JoUrndI been &C.
lected to lead the movement, to msks the
overtures Of peace and reconciliation upon
the basis Of denomination, and ascertain
the manner of their receptionH
However that may be, our cotemporary,
if it speaks the truth, is now ready and
willing to renominste and re-elect General
Grant, if General Grant will allow it to
make the platform, to impose the condi-
! tons. What those terms and conditions are
is told by itself Substantially they are the
same as those which large number Of Con-
servatives In the South would be entirely
satisfied with-the overthrow of NEGRO
phillsm, " as 1t calls it, in the South, snd
hard money. 1.-THE passage of the civil
"rights bill, >" it says, will be the keynote
Ito the Presidential campaign of 1876. II
General Grant vetoes it. the act will unite
1.-The Conservative masses of the people,
North and South, in the belief that if they
cannot secure the election of some candi'
date equally reliable to oppose the ag
"grarian tendency of the Radicals, they
may find it best to discount the obvious
dangers Of q third term. The capital in
"terests of the country would be added tc
"this, and from similar motiVe-that o.
safety. Great interests make great par
ties, and men are merely instruments
Because General Grant did not suit u
yesterday Is no reason why he may no
suit US to morrow, just as he may be mos
"unsuited to those who have forced him
"and the public necessity he will represen
elf he is elected for a third term, on tn
country A third term for General Gran
lis a hard choice, assuredly; but if b
"proves himself the one man able to saw
1.-The South from negrophilism and tn
North and South from rag money, he wi
"be elected for third term by an over
"whelming popular consent, and his act c
\ candidacy will be indicated by the Gil
"cumstances surrounding the case" TIL
objection to this platform of the Courier
Journal is that in what might be called th
> political portion Of it it is vague and misty
What would it have General Grant do Il
ward the overthrow of "negrophilism
the Soulful" The mere veto of the civ
n rights bill, in case it should he passed, woul
10 not do it. The universal complaint is TIL
IN now, without civil rights, "negrophilism
=. fourishes like green bay tree in the SOutl
NJ Would it have him set the constitution
amendments at defiance and pave the we
or for their repealH Does it mean the di
o. frsnchisement of the black man, or the T
~ storation of slaveryH We ask these que
a tons merely for information, for the reasc
as that so much Is said and written upon Il
es subject now that it would be well to have
IN precise definition of the question. What
e. to be the result Of the alliance betwet
rs General Grant and the conservative men
ne the countryH In return forre-electing hi
m what exactly would they have him d
he What do our Conservative friends propc
Mt to do with the coIored man? Whele is
he to stand in the reorganization of Partie
is Will he find enemies or friends in the nj
n coalitiOn2