Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
FHIRg TERM TWADDLE.
Republican Indignation at Grants
HPerPlexing Silence-GeneraI I'm.
easiness Among His Wouid-be Sue-

4PerPlexing Silence-GeneraI I'm.
easiness Among His wOuId-be Sue,
eesSOrs-
Long Branch Correspondence tang. ~ Of the
New York Herald
We are evidently on the way 70 a de.
eisive settlement OF The main question
AS We expected. the Long Branch Her.
ED letter, published this morning, has
created a profound sensation among
the politicians here, without distinction
of party. Hard-shell Republicans say,
''There is some fire under this cloud of
smoke, and Gen. Grant viii now be
compelled to show his hand. If he is
not for US he Is against us. and we
must
KNOW WHERE BE STANDS"
Soft-shell Democrats say, This Will
Tylerize the Republican party and the
game is in our own hands," In con-
versation with Liberal Republican
this morning, he affirmed that having
fought only two years ago under the
motto of Anything to beat Grant, we
cannot two years hence fly the legend
of Anything to elect Grant You
may bring the horse to water, but if he
has had enough you cannot make him
drink"
But, asks an indignant regular Re-
publican, "after all that we have done
for Gen. Grant can such things be?"
Why not: Is there in this new de-
parture of the President anything so
very surprising, after all? Are there
not numerous Presidential precedents
to justify the abandonment by Gen.
Grant of the party which lifted him
from the woodlands cabin to the White
House? When he found that he could
not get a second term from the Demo-
cratic party did not Martin Van Buren,
bolt to the freesoilers and become their
Presidential candidate? Did not John
Tyler, on finding that he was not at
home IN the wing camp. turn, with all
his mercenaries, against the wing party
and kill off Henry ClayG Again, did
not Fillmore, in 1856, as an independ-
ent opposition Presidential candidate,
elect James Buchanan? and did not
President johnson turn against the
Republicans and, with Chief Justice
Chase, cast his fortunes with those of
the Democratic party in their Tam
many National Convention of 1865?
And then let it not be forgotten that
Gen. Grant was !.
A DEMOCRAT BEFORE THE WAR,
and has never been anything but re-
luctant servant of the Republicans,
Notwithstanding the villainous abuse
heaped upon him by the Democrats,
from the highest to the lowest. Last
ly, after taking up Horace Greeley, as
the embodiment of their party and
their principles. in 1872, why should
there be any difficulty with the Demo
Gratis in adopting Gen. Grant in 1876:
After Greeley and Brown, is there any
thing impossible IN the whirligig of our
party politics?
We believe that the oracle has spo-
ken, and that the idol Of the RepuLIi.
can party is casting about for a change
of base. The great Duke of FMarlbor.
ough always took C5od care Of number
one, and Gen. GGrant is not the man to
trouble Himself about number two for
the Presidential succession. He has
u lLlEO HIS 0OMfAGI
with the Republicans, and now he holds
that he is a free man again-that if
they have no further use for him they
have no longer any claims upon him.
The treaty between the high contract
ing parties has expired by its own linn
itation, and this is the end Of it. We
mentioned yesterday that the orthodox
Republicans Of New York were so
harassed and indignant at the mystic.
rious and
PERPLEXING SILENCE OF GEN. GRANT
in reference to a third term, and so dis
trUstful of mischief in the meal-tub,
that they were ready to play the Lib
eral Republican against him. Upon
this matter we are informed that re-
Gently some leading Republicans of a
New York Congressional district.
strongly Republican, waited upon an
Out-and-Out Liberal Republican and
proposed to give hin this fall the nomi-
nation for Congress IN that district if
he would accept it. He submitted as
an objection to this nomination, which
they could not, perhaps, overcome
that he was inhexibly opposed to an
other Presidential term to Gen. Grant.
THAT is the very reason responded
his Republican friends, why we want
you. You are a free man. You can
speak out on
THIS THIRD TERM MONSTROSITY.
Your lips are not sealed by custom
house glue. We want Just such a man
to open the fight In our side against a
third term to Gen. Grant. We cannot
do 1t. We cannot venture upon a
quarrel with the customhouse. We
will take you as an opponent to Gen.
Grant for a third term, and mainly on
that ground we shall expect you to
serve us in our fall canvass" We be-
lieve that these negotiations closed
without a treaty, the Liberal Republi-
can on his part doubling the backbone
of his Republican friends when brought
to the pinch.