Year: 1868

for the Democracy.


What will the democrats do? Whoever can
tell this can solve the problem Of the Presi-
dency and foresee four years Of our future; for
all depends on the action of the leaders Of the
party that seemed defunct so short a time
since and has been revivifed by the almost
incredible blunders of the republicans. There
is a breach in the lately dominant party that
nothing can heals 1t is sheer nonsense to sup
pose that the shallow radicals can ever
whip into the party lines again those resolute
and determined men who so wisely and de-
liberately opposed them on the impeachment
verdict; and it would be an insult to human
nature to suppose that these true statesmen
| and upright judges can descend to make terms
| with the vulgar clamorers who shout against
them in Congress and in the radical press.
There is an inevitable antagonism between the
two elements that must 60 on and deepen with
its progress until one side or the other prevails
and is accepted by the people as the party of
the future


Strangely enough, the democrats stand in
position just now to turn the scale one
way or the other in this contest. If they
follow the policy that we much fear will
be instructive with them-if they act with
that want of true perception that has
marked their course on some memorable
occasions hitherto, and nominate men whose
record in this late great war has been one of
hostility to the nation-they will fairly drive
the country into the arms of the widest radi-
calls. All differences in the republican party
will be forgotten, and people will accept the
lead of the most extravagant rather than see
a man Of doubtful history on the war made
President. If, on the other hand, they nomi-
nate such man as Chief Justice Chase, they
make themselves the asserters of the rights of
the nation by that very act, and they
present a candidate on whom patriotic
whom the most extreme democrat can vote
and feel that he is giving the moral weight of
his voice against the government of the country
''outside the constitution that he is en-
deavoring to give force to the principle of
government by law rather than government by
military machinery, and at the same time
man for whom conservative republicans can
vote as the recognized great intellect of the
war-the head and front of the republican
party, so long as that party pursued grand
national purpose.


Chief Justice Chase would be President
with policy-not the mere tool Of any legis-
lative clique-not the ready suppliant for
elevation, promising beforehand to do what
ever may be dictated by the party that gives
him position. He stands above that Like
some others of the great men of our history, he
was not supple enough for the manipulation
Of party, and it is because of his unbending
honesty that he now stands in position to
make him the standard bearer of the great
conservative masses of the nation. He is the
! greatest civilian that has popular name, and
the moral dignity Of his character as shown
| by his course on the trial of the President
and the conservative principles in virtue of
which he stands forth as the great type and re-
preventative OF the supremacy of constitutional
governmental these peculiarly fit him to
be the candidate of the party whose history in
the past is identified with the defence of the
constitution and the dignity and purity of our
republican system.


On the same ticket with this great and up
right civilian we would place the name of
that stanch old soldier General Dix. Him
self democrat, this patriotic gentleman never
could see that democracy was in any way in
consistent with the most energetic exercise Of
all his faculties in defence of the country when
menaced by the organized treason Of the South.
He is democrat of the grand school that
thought the country paramount to all things
and with his good war record, his high tone,
intellectually and politically, the association of
his name with the name of Chase would do
much to change that bad tendency of political
combinations that inevitably puts a mere non
entity in the second place on the Presidential
ticket


1t is true that this putting in the second
place in the ticket for the democracy Of
General Dix would smash up some Of the pet
arrangements of Tammany Hall and the ring
masters. But Tammany Hall might better
consent to have some of its little pet arrange
ments smashed up than to take the inevitable
certainty of being smashed up altogether, as
it would be with Hoffman on the Presidential
ticket Dix on that ticket would carry the
country; Hoffman would carry nothing outside
this city. But Tammany Hall is power in
its way, however, and it might be assented that,
in consideration Of some self-denial as 10 the
Vice Presidency, Hoffman should be our next
Governor, especially as this would leave
the Mayors present place open for Judge
Barnard, whose term expires in proper sea-
son-as do the terms Of some dozen other
judges, if it were deemed expedient to change
the name.


Miss WINNIE REAM AND THE IMPEACHMENT -
From debate the other day in Congress on