Year: 1868

for hundreds of miles the mighty stream OF the
lower Mississippi 10 confined between artificial
entertainments or leva ,s which protect the rich
lowlands on both sides from inundation. But
there are times when the spring floods from
twenty States and Terri. ories fill these en-
bankments to the very britu, and then the
steamboat passenger frons a considerable ele-
vation looks down on the COTTON fields and
planters houses on each side of him. AT such
a time, when the water begins to triclile over
a depression in the soft al]uvion Of the levee,
if not Immediately attended to great gap
will soon be formed, through which a resistltss
torrent will deuge the plains below. This is a
crevasse Its tremendous volume and force
may be imagined from the. fact that not only
does this escape valve serve to inundate thou
sands of square miles of fields and forest
lands, but sometimes changes the course of the
river itself Hence the numerous crescent and
horseshoe lakes on both sides of it below
Memphis. They were formerly bends in the
channel of the shifting stream.


The radicals are now threaten ed with a Gre
vase of this description in the democratic
movement for Chief Justice Chsse as their
Presidential candidate. The result may be a.
change in the course of the government, which
will cast the ultra radical policy off
to one side like one of those Missis-
sippi river side lakes, no more resorted
to except for their catfish. The big In
dians of the Albany Regency, near thechead of
navigation on the Hudson, had littleScouncil
of war the other day on the Presidential pros
pect, when, as it appears, ''the Oneida Chief
Horatio Seymour, boldly and earnestly pleaded
the policy of nominain Chief Justice Chase as
the last chance for the perplexed democracy
against the hero of tine Appomattox apple
tree" The hint is Immediately taken up at the
lower end of the river by Captain Rynders,
who, in few pointed historical and logical
remarks, proves that Mr.. Chase is first rate
democrat and the man Of all men for Tam
many Hall in this crisis. Last fall he was
the anointed head radical Of Tilton and the
model statesman of Greeley, on the presump-
ton that he stood side by side with Wendell
Phillips on the platform of manhood suffrage,
universal negro suffrage, radical negro recon





the whirligig of politics brings about great
changes upon a short notice. Now it is known
that Chase is no radical, but sound con-
servative; that his political ideas are much
nearer the policy Of johnson than that Of Ben
Wade, and that, next to Johnson, Chase has
fallen under the wrath of Butler, Boutwell,,
Stevens and all the impeachers.


Here, then, is the champion for the demo-
cracy and all the conservative forces-the
great statesman who furnished the snews of
the war, without which even General Grant
would have been failure. The Chicago
republican platform throws Pendleton out of
the fight, in leaving him nothing to fight
against on his greenback policy; while on the
other tack it hedges off Seymour on his shb-
bOleth of gold to the bondholders. Then, on
the question of universal negro suffrage, as the
republicans limit it to the unrestored rebel
States, they practically give up their case,
inasmuch as, with the restoration of those
States, they will have the same reserved rights
as New York and Jersey to regulate the suf-
frage each for themselves, universal or
qualified Knock out the impeachment reso
luton, and the Chicago platform may be
adopted by the July Tammany Hall Conven-
ton; and so, as in 1852, the two parties may
occupy substantially the same ground, and the
result, fropa similar causes of distrust against
their party leaders and managers and their real
designs, may be the same to the first soldier of
| the age.


hoe nj will la
| sition ticket and some such combination is the
only chance for the democracy. They will go
down again with Pendleton, or Seymour, or
Hendricks, or Hoffman, or Wood, or poor Pierce,
or Fillmore, or Black or Brown, or any other
decayed politician identified with the peace
party of the war. The fastidious Western
copperhead democracy turn up their dainty
noses at Hancock. They don't like his epau-
let's and they won't have him. The aristo-
cratic managers of the Eastern democracy have
always given the cold shoulder to Johnson,
perhaps because they have no faith in goose or
lapboard, thimble or scissors We have tried
them with brave old Admiral Farragut,


but they evidently were afraid that, as


he was not dyed in the wool at Charleston or


Chicago, he knows nothing of democracy.


Mr.. Johnson himself has done oil that he


could towards finding democratic candidate,


but all to no purpose, till at last the party


leaders discover that Chase is their only


chance of salvation. Seymour and Rynders


pronounce him good democrat; Greeley still


pronounce him great statesman, his recent


record proves him good conservative, and


all men acknowledge him thoroughly loya


and trusty. There is no fear that If elected


he will take the copperhead democratic back


track to ''the constitution as it was, including


the Dred Scott decision and the revival o


slavery, and no fear that he will diverge t.