Year: 1872

nomination OF the President, "a most
desirable for the country and for the
party; nor has he ever expressed any
desire that his inclination to retire
from the public service should be dis
regarded. Indeed, there is no man
who has more grateful sense of the
popular kindness which he has al.
ways received, and OF which his nom.
ination to the Vice Presidency was a
striking illustration.


It had become a tradition that the
nominations for the two chief offices
offices should be determined by To-
cal considerations. Ii the President
were taken from the North, the Vice
President would be selected from the
South; or if one were from the West,
the othe. would be from the East
Indeed, this had gone so far that il
one were from a Free State, il was
thought only fair that the other
should be from Slave State and in
1856, when Colonel Fremont, from
California, and Mr.. Dayton, from
New Jersey. were nominated for ths
Presidency and Vice Presidency, the
ticket was denounced as sectional" /"
In 1868 there were conspicuous and
able Republicans in all the Eastern
States, but the Convention, sitting in
Chicago, nominated a President from
Illinois and q Vice President from
Indiana, and the association OF the
names OF Grant and Coltax was m
stantly and universally hailed as Pc
cullarly fortunate and happy, and no
whore more heartily than in New
England.


During his term Of Office the Vice
President has certainly not lost his
hold upon the respect OF the country
or the confidence of the party. Al
ways a devoted Republican, and in
full sympathy with the most advanc.
ed Republican ideas, he has the tact
which dlsarms bitter hostility, aad
the good common sense which is in
valuable in the conduct of affairs
Although personally a friend of the
President, and decming his ienomi-
nation desirable, he is not identified
in any degree with either side in the
warm controversy upon that subject.
The New York Tribune, which Judges
the President very vigorously, is al
ways, and justly, most friendly to the
Vice President. He IS, in fact, one
Of the most generally trusted men
in the party. He owes tco much to
it to deny any honorable claim which
it may make upon HIM. Even his
wish to retire, sincere as it undoubt-
edly IS, would we are sure, yield to
conviction that his continuance IN
public life was desired by that party
for its own harmony and for the pro.
motion of its principles.


No man is reader than the Vice
President to own that every thing
which he has honorably desired o
the part1hasopen grnnted hiu6 6Mni
no one 8 moro opwift to name the Re
apablican chlefe who might well b,
called to succeed him. Nor do W,
suppose that he il in the least bllni
to the fact that his declared intention
Of withdrawal has naturally aroused
expectation and hope in other quar-
tiers. Indeed, no political leade
more accurately apprchends the situ
ationl or is more honorable and gen
erous in his feeling toward all his tel
low Republicans. But as the time
approaches for definite consideration
and consultation in regard TO the
nominations, and as there is naturally
the most general desire among Re-
publicans to understand precisely the
feeling of the Vice President, we are
very sure that We are no. wrong in
saying that if the Convention should
decide that name so Justly popular
as his would insure greater harmony
and promise surer success, with
out asserting the slight st clam,
and in grateful sense Of duty to his
party, he would not reuse to yield
his preference to the wishes OF his
party friends. Haypers Wsekly.