Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-04

this letter. 81 don't want the third
, term," he says, "any more than
, wanted the firstU Yet everybody
) knows how much he wanted
! the first. The only doubt
Z in his mind was whether he
I should run as Democrat OF
! as q Republican. He intrigued for the
Democratic nomination and failed, be-
fore he determined that he would be the
Republican candidate; and now In this
letter, when he says that he does not
want the third term, he carefully leaves
the door open in the hope that, after all,
it may be given to him; and he iDgeu-
iously argues the constitutional point
that the people lave a right to elect a
man President as often as they wish.
However, the thing is ended. The press
settled it, and the Pennsylvania resolu-
ton registered the decree. When the Re-
publican convention meets to nominate
q candidate for President, there. will not
be man in it who will even think of
nominating Grant.
OPINIONS IN WASHINGTON.
Washington Correspondent New York Her.
add
Your correspondent, in conversation
with John Cessna, the temporary chair
man of the Pennsylvania convention,
tonight, was informed that there was
nothing in the deliberations of the Penn
sylvania convention that justified the
President in writing the letter to Harry
White. The letter is merely a cOmpi-
latiOn Of what the President has said
time and time again. It is not as eX-
plicit as what he said just after the Pres
idential election in November, 1872, nor
as positive ss what he said in August,
1873 in conversation with James f. Ca
sey, mis- brotheT-in.law, when he smoke
directly upon the HerG'd'S "third-term
sensation" as the President called it.
! Mr.. Cessna says that the third term was
| the Leading and important question be-
fore the Pennsylvania State convention.
| The delegates ss they arrived gave to it
more Importance than was supposed
TO exist. The original resolution
was not drawn as explicitly SIS
the opponents of 8 third term de-
! sired, and the mere recital OF the fact that
| the Republican party was opposed to an
! invasion Of the uGWritten law did not
satisfy the editorial element, and it was
| finally decided to give unequivocai and
unanimous condemnation OF the third
term movement; and, as the committee
! on resolutions represented the bone and
sneW of the Republicans Of the State,
the resolution reported by Mr.. M'Pher-
son, who will call the next house to Or
der, was unanimously advocated and
adopted. The friends of the President,
who were opposed to any action, deemed
it advisable not to disturb the harmony
Of the convention OF imperil the success
OF the ticket by pressing the question Of
a third term upon the convention, or con-
tinUe it, SIS it had been disturbing eIe-
ment in the coming campaign. Espe-
cial!y was this considered important in
view Of the fact that they expected to
be defeated in the convention
if they raised the direct
issue Of the third term before that body.
The Presidents letter is therefore but a
strategicRl effort to divert the attention
of the Ohio convention from the main
issue. The sycophantic labOrs of the
custodians of the original copy here did
not conceal or prevent the contents Of
this remarkable letter from being made
public. The way is still open for Cesar.
The President does not take back word
addressed to the Indians last week.
He will accept the third term as
readily as he did the first and second.
He never was an aspirant for the Office,
and so long as there are no cOnstitu-
tionsl inhibitions he is willing TO be
his presence in the White House neces. |
sary for the good Of the country.
Washington Correspondent New York Times /
The Presidents letter to General Harry |
White, chairman of the Pennsylvania |
Republican convention, has settled for |
the future all controversy and doubts |
about the third term. For months |
many of the most earnest Republicans |
and truest friends Of the President have |
wished he would write strong letter on |
the third term, and his silence has been
felt on ali hands to be, considering the |
form which the discussion had assumed, !
exceedingly Injurious to the prospects Of |
the Republican party. In the mean
time, some sycOphantic politicians and
newspaper editors, who supposed they
were engaged in commendable service,
zealously advocated a third term. One
prominent senator from the north has
not concealed, in private conversations,
his advocacy Of the third term, anu
southern Republicans have been wholly
committed to it. Sometimes patronage
has been unblushingly arranged on the
basis Of support of a third term, in such
a way that parties to the arrangement
were led to believe that it had author
ity. Propositions concerning patronage
and third term have been made to
some of the purest men in congress. 1t
turns out now, as ought to have been
known then, that such propositions
we're the devices of unscrupulous poll
ticians to serve their own selfish ends
But harm was done which only the Pres
ident himself could undo. He has now
taken tha action which becomes Deces-
sary, and which he would have taken
before the elections OF last year il he had
net regarded the proposal as harmless
opposition slogan invented for the can
vass, and If he had not believed voters
would not be inf1unced by the false ac-
cusatiOD. II has been plain for q long
Time that the President was by no means
shaping his course fer the purpose OF se-
curing q denomination, and bis appoint
nent to his cabinet of Judge Pierrepont,
we'll known to be opposed to a third
erm, was almost as decisive as the let
.eT to General White. But the Presi.
ieDt's own letter was necessary, and
hat has not been delayed long enough
o enlbarrass in any way the activity Of
he caGvasses in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
md other important States.
Correspondent New York World,
AOndsy.l I
The White House has spoken in the
) 4N6AAt-lAAoA NALlb VI 4OtDs 1uG
resolutions Of the Penn
ylvsnis Republican, convention have st
ast forced President Grant to write a
etteT TO General White, the president OF {
hat convention, informing the Republi- {
sn party Of that State, aud, through
i'm, the Republican party OF the coun-
~, that ne Is not now and has not been I
candidate for the Presidency for third
erm, though virtually admitting that {
here might be possible circumstances /
nder which be might be induced to &C. {
aPt another denomination. This letter, |
low written in response to a "note Of {
given by the second State in {
he Union, as the President terms Penn s
ylvsnis, has been gossipped about in l
administration quarters for a month t
sst, but latest reports have been that [
General Grant did not think 1t consist I
Mt with his long reticence on this ques- t
ion to break silence at this time. 1t is a [
ssll-knOwn fact that Senator Cameron 1
-isited the President two days before the 9
Republican convJntion !