The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-10-17
4 LE1E EROM HLSTORI,

are elected in November and not in October |
| 4 LEAF FROM HISTORY.
If there are vet any doubling Thomases in
the Democratic party, we want TO call their
attention especially to certain facts which
should dispel every gloomy foreboding, and
impel them to the most earnest efforts. To
those who have faith this leaf from history
| will act as strengthener.
In 1865 Horato Seymour, of New York,
and Francis +. Blair, of Missouri, were the
Democratic candidates for President and
Vice President of the United States. Ger
eral Grant, the then most popular soldier in
the country, and Schuyler Colfax, whose
character had not then been smirched, were
the opposing candidates. The nomination
of Mr.. Seymour was not altogether popular
one. lie encountered good deal of opposi-
ton in his own party. On Tuesday, October
l3, 1865, Pennsylvania, (then an October
State,) Ohio, Indiana, and NehraskaWield
elections, and all went Republican. There
upon the opposition to MIR. Seymour oulmi-
mated in the demand for his withdrawal from
the ticket.
ber Is, in double. .leaded editorial, recon-
mended the Withdrawal of both Seymour and
Blair.
ri A special despatch which we take from
our files reads as follows:
PHILApELPHIA October 10: Prominent Demo-
cratic politicians here discussing the withdrawal
of Seymour and the substitution of Chase.
The World demanded the withdrawal of
, the Democratic candidates and the nomi-
nation of men who can hope to success
fully compete for the suffrages of the
"Union voters of the country The dis
. affection among the Democrats was wide
spread. 1t was not confined to New York
alone.
The New Orleans Times, in its issue of
October 16, 1868, said:
We would respectfully suggest to the Democracy of
the land the propriey Of leaving to Governor Sey
mour and General Blair the high honor Of selecting
their own successors In the
g A special dated st. Louis, October Is,
!. says:
The Conservatives heaping curses upon the New
, York Convention for not having taken up Chase and
" | Hancock.
:, On the evening of October 10, there was
!, a consultation at the house of Chief Justice
;, Chase, at the White House, and at the office
of the National Inteiligencer, and on the
), morning of October 16 the Inteliigencer pub.
lished the following article at the head o
:, its editorial columns.
TIE DUTY OF TIE HOUR
We lay before our readers this morning the follow
,hs ssh,hcil,' aroc,e o' the new YORK World W.
/. restoration Of the constitution of ,7ss In n,,,n,
forward ticket In the present temper of the country
we have always maintained they should have kept II
" view ."e ...' .n.. ",e hepuoneans were divided u
a, ,pon Gpances II ia uuo,ss,,onah,v trns that Nh
Ia Republicans before the adoption of those measure
constituted majority OF the Northern people. II
us W. ., ~, s"en Sa p"ey anu ra.ro,,s
Il; ornize as within the nal of their organ,za,on all w
opposed the measures which we have referred. Tn
y New York Convention thought otherwise and non'i
10 s'.o, ''',, ""u "en.,", n'. I"o,
,r the object alone was to maintain the integrt
y Of the Democratic party. But we had aga
i, ana again ueclated .nat INC preservation
m was ,hs r,,nd n,r,os. w. haI =, ylsy in s,,.r,n
upon the canvass Of 1868. ASS minority could ava
!, little in such work. policy and sound principles de
n,an'ed nominations .'al would draw largely iron
r. not Needed Int It ia st In force and now ,s IN
al time to obeyit.
.. Let those upon whom the convention Of the part
% ,ns as, s,e"' nono. o' w. l,se 20 u.
exalted PATRIOTISM. let the National Committee exc
the trusts reposed in them by the people withou
IN rear ana WIN no other sentiment an devotion
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