Year: 1868

1t is beginning to be rumored from Washing
ton that after some five weeks of active and
earnest negotiations the diplomatic agents of
the democratic party have succeeded in recon-
Cling President Johnson to the nomination of
Horatio Seymour for the succession. In the
outset, according to the report of one of our
Washington correspondents of the result of an
interview between Colonel Van Buren and Mr..
Johnson, there was hardly the ghost of chance
for the reconciliation of Johnson to the un-
grateful and unexpected action of the Tammany
Hall Convention. He owed the democratic
party nothing; he wss certainly under no obli
cations to support Mr.. Seymour, who had
declared that the best thing that could be done
for the country would be the impeachment and
removal of Johnson. 1t would appear, how
ever, that, acting upon the idea that faint
heart never won fair lady," the persevering
agents of the democracy have so successfully
applied their arguments and Establishments
that the wrath of Achilles has been subdued,
and that Mr.. johnson, after swinging round
the circle" has resolved, after all, to unite his
political fortunes with the ticket of Seymour
and Blair.


Assuming this to be true, the question recurs,
what will be the effect in this contest Of Mr..
Johnson's support Of this ticket? Morally, not
much; for the most sanguine republicans have
had but little hope Of any "aid and comfort"
to General Grant from the White House.
They have been so distrustful that they have
made no approaches in that direction, but have
left the field to the undsputed claims Of the
democratic party and its ambassadors from
the East, West, North and South. Mr..
to the ticket of the Tammany Convention
will create no surprise in the radical camp
and no astonishing enthusiasm among the
democracy. But as Kossuth would call II, in
the way of Financial and material aid it is
still possible that Andrew Johnson, repudiated
by the ono party and rejected by the other,
NAV WELD the balance of power in this ap-
preaching election. 1t is said that he has no
idea of abandoning the fascinations of political
strife with the expiration of his present term
of Office, but that he contemplatcs new
political departure, beginning with an effort to
get back to the Senate from Tennessee under
the wing of the democratic party. Here we
have motive sufficient, in the case Of Mr.
Johnson, to account not only for his adhesion
to Seymour, but for his most active support OF
the common cause with which the two m en- are
identified.


But in what quarter are we to find this
balance of power whereby Mr.. Johnson may
determine the issue of this contest? We think
II possible that it may be found in this city and
to the extent Of deciding the vote of the State.
| Through the Custom House, the Post Offices,
and other federal establishments within this
/ metropolitan district il is believed that the
| President may still control some twenty-five or
thirty thousand votes especially with anything
like prospect of o decisive political reaction


and revolution in November. With these


twenty-five or thirty thousand votes thus Sc


cured to Seymour and Blair they may, against


all the expected gains Of Grant and Colfax in


the interior, carry the Empire State. and, as


in 1914 and 1913, the vote of Now York may


decide the issue Of the election.


SO far all the political events of the day,
! North aud South, have indicated reaction