Year: 1868

candidate, on his platform of "no further extern
sion of slavery" walked over the Presidential
course. Then came the secession of South
Carolina; then the Southern Confederacy and
our great rebellion; then, with the suppression
of the rebellion, the extinction of slavery and
the Southern slaveholding oligarchy and the
substitution of the liberated blacks by repub-
Hcan Congress as the new Southern political
balance Of power; and so stand the recon-
structed rebel States to-day, upside down and
wrong side up, under this new rule of South
ern negro supremacy


Such have been and are the results of the
rule or ruin policy of the Western Douglas
in 1860. Thus the Southern or right wing
of the democratic party was cut off, cut
up and destroyed, and thus the Northern
rump or remnant has been fighting the profit
less battles Of feeble minority in Congress
for the last eight years. Now an opportunity
is offered, through the defections and divisions
in the ruling republican camp, to rout the whole
concern, horse, foot and dragons, in the
choice of the proper opposition Presidential
candidate, and by common consent the most
sagaciOus Eastern leaders of the democracy
recognize in Chief Justice Chase the very man
for the crisis, when again Western democratic
bolt is threatened. 1t is by no means estab-
lished that President Lincoln would have been
reelected had General Mcclellan in 1864 been
coupled with good war democrat and placed
upon the war platform which elected Horatio
Seymour our Governor in 1862, and which that
fall carried all the Central States against the
republicans. But the Western democrac acy,
while consenting to Mcclellan, saddled him
with Pendleton, peace man pending the war,
and put him on that obnoxious Pendleton peace
platform which denounced the war for the
Union as ga failure" Hence another reaction
against the democracy, from which they only
began to recover in the elections of last year.


Surely, with these facts before us, we are
justified in the conclusion that Mr.. Pendleton
is not the man to ran against General Grant,
and that the democratic principles and demo-
cratic precedents" still paraded in the West
have run to seed. The Eastern democracy





that there has been deluge. Otherwise, Mr..
Brooks and his party colleagues in Congress,
two or three years ago, would not have played
as they did into the hands of Old Thad Stevens.
With little more sagacity they would hav Q
contrived some general basis of union with the
conservative republicans, and we may say the
same of Mr.. Raymond and the anti-radical re-
publican wing of the House. Brooks went the
wrong way in doing the work of Stevens, while
Raymond, in playing fast and loose, soon
played himself out But at length the rough
lessons of experience have taught the New
York democracy the way of wisdom, and Mr..
Seymour, in moving for Mr.. Chase as the man
of all men to run against General Grant, dis
closes not only the broad views of practical
statesman, but the keen sagacity of the master
politician. He has had enough of the fighting
of windmills. He looks to living issues and
the ways and means to practical results. He
sees that Grant or Chase must be our next
President, and that no man but Chase can con-
test the field with Grant. This, too, is fast
becoming the ruling idea of the democrats Of
the East.


The Western democrats have yet this lesson
to learn They are full and brimming over
with Pendleton. They forget that, with a
beaten horse against regular Eclipse, the
odds are against them from the start. But
they are in for it. They will have Pendleton
or they will bolt We can only warn them
that, as like causes produce like effects, if they
persist in playing again in 1868 their Douglas
game of 1860 they will again be routed,
wrecked and left broken to pieces, high and
dry.