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The Dead Dromlos.
JTromthe Y Oommerexal Advertiser.
Salmon V. Chase and Uoraue Greeley began
life with anti-slavery predilections. They
were both extremely rulliiou, and mapped
out for each other a road to success. The Ut
ter, after being assisted and aided by politioal
friend?, finally turned upon them, and sought
to procure, luglo-bandd, the political promo
tion which be so niQcli ooveted. There was no
gift In tbe bauds of the people for which he
did not strive.
While persuading tbe people into tbe belief
tbat be was an noaelGab, uuauibiiious patriot
Who aimed solely at bis country's good, and
Would aocept of no office, be was striving all
tbe time to vlant himself in some publio berth.
"With tbe advance of time bis aspirations like
Wise advanced, and be craved first the position
Of Lieutenant-Uovernor, then that of Congress
man, Senator, and even President. 'And, as a
result of all his labors for publio preferment,
lie contrived to serve three months of an un
expired time in Congress, aud to bs appointed
one of tbe jnrymeu iu tbe London Crystal
Palace exhibition.
More successful than hU confederate, Sal
mon 1'. Cbnse has managed by log-rolling with
every political organization in existence since
lie entered publio life, to secure several honor
able positions. ' Trior to 1840 he voted with
Whichever party held out the greatest oppor
tunities for bis individual preferment. In 1840
lie supported (ieneral Harrison, aud after he
Was elected, turned against him. Iu 184 3 he
entered into an agreement with the Ohio
Democrats tbat tbe old Liberty party should
sell out to them en cond tiou that he was
jnade United States Senator.
In accordance with this bargain he worked
for tbe success of the Democratio nominees,
and in the following year the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature supported him in a
body for the Uuued States Senate. Iu 1855
be was elected by Know-Nothing votes to tbe
governorship of Ohio, aud was afterward sent
to the Senate by the Republican Party. When
President Lincoln gave Liin a position in his
Cabinet, be forthwith begau to plot aud
log-roll iu ord-r to supplant bis superior.
Ou being elevated by that generous supe
rior to the Chief Justiceship, be renewed
bis political machinations; aud taking a trip
down South, harangued tbe 'green negroes,"
and, as he suppo.-ed, laid the foundation for a
big Southern support in the Republican Con
tention of 1808. Soon after, be opened a co
partnetbbip along with Horace Greeley in the
universal amnesty universal suffrage busi
ness. "While the latter did the blowing" and
'spouting," be was to keep iu tbe background
and "lay low" for tbe Chicago nomination.
The Chicago Convention, however, discarded
tbe amViitious plotting Chief Justice at sight,
and be then turned to the Democratio party
In hopes that that organization would confer
upon him the boou withheld by the Re
publicans. But one word more remains to be said con
cerning these politioal aspirant. Greeley was
laid out stark at Syracuse on Wedoetday, and
Chase at IStw oik upon the following day.
Simultaneously tbe partners in the universal
Suffrage, universal amnesty business, have
been (-hovelled under the sod, and together
they fill a common grave.
Seymour and Iiliiir.
From the Boston Pout.
The Democratic Convention assembled iu
New Yoik to nominate a candidate not only
for the party but for the nation. There was
a fair and open couiparisou of views, and a
persistent support of preferences, out of which
.at length proceeded the choice which we an
nounce this morning.
It is necessary to reflect tbat the object of a
National Convention at all is a candid consul
tation for a giveu purpose, deliberation ou
tbe best mode of reaching a desired result ;
and not simply to record the steps by which a
few dogmatic men secure their aims or a tri
umph for their personal schemes. It must be
that an assembly composed of the wisest,
most thoughtful, and most experienced men
of the nation comprehends the general situa
tion more clearly, and knows bow to disoover
and apply more effective agencies than either
individual minds or separated communities.
The emergency naturally raised the party
to the most elevated ground, from which it
Surveyed more than mere party divisions per
mitted. It appealed with irresistible force to
its representative men to lift themselves
Wholly above tbe desire of mere party suc
cess, and give their serious thought to the
Safety of au imperilled country. The very
men who have been villi fled and maligned
these many years by the venomous tongue of
Slander, are now implored to lead the way for
the rescue of the Government which is made
the custodian of our common liberties.
The Convention was called, therefore, pri
marily to find a voice for that general senti
ment of condemnation under whose ban a
wicked revolutionary faction lay. It was
asked to speak tbe authoritative word which
should break the spell in which our freedom
was bound. It was assembled to summon
men of every party aud pernuasiou to join iu
the urgent work of rescuirjg all that is pre
cious from tbe grasp of ihe usurper. It gene
rously answered to more than mere party
need, and felt far more than the throb of the
Strongest paity sentiment. It considered
Other matters than those of expediency. It
Went deeper than to tbe secrets of mere policy.
It calmly and resolutely confronted the perils
that are bo thick about us, and, with the mag
nanimity which is boru of true patriotism,
forgot every form of prejudice and passion,
Saw nothing before it but impending dangers,
Studied only the surest method of extrication,
harmonized the lesser with the larger pre
ferences, and offered all it had, and all it could
do, on the altar of the common safety.
The contest is opened with the nomination
Of Horatio Seymour and General l' P. Blair.
It really means shall we have a civil, that
is, a republican government ? or shall we con
Sent to have our tree aud honored system put
to the sword f Tu issue is between law add
force; between right aud might; between jus
tice and power. Nend the men of this day,
Who have so freshly illustrated their devotion
to the principles under which we live as a
people, do more thau appeal to their instincts
as counsellor iu snub a contest? Is not the
Spirit of the tathers so thoroughly ingrained
With their own, tbat the issue may be said to
be ae'erminea ueiore me opposition Cau de
ploy its guerilla forces t In meeting bo .rave
80 fundamental an issue, we are applying th
touchstone to the faith wiiicu we keep as free-
mnj; we are testing tbe character ol our in
stitutions to see if they will stand. .
With tbe character aud services of tbe nomi
nees of tbe Convention the country is much
too familiar to require a recapitulation. That
tbey have been placed in their present posi
tions by a national body of delegates, is a con
vincing demonstration of their elevated worth
and their illness for the responsible work to
which they have been called.
ND who coulide in the high patriotism of
tbe Convention can raise a question respiting I
tbe BbrliDR qnalitien of the distirjKoisheii muu I
it has nominated. Their names will make the
union of tbe Demooracy still stronger, invite
tbe inert ased eon&denoe of the conservatives,
and break tbe thraldom in which radicalism
holds its followers. Under them we are to go
into, and go through this battle for the salva
tion of popular rights, and the perpetuation of
republican-liberty. They sound the oall for
millions of freemen to rise and renouooe a
tyranny whose galling yoke must be broken
now if at alt. - They challenge the oontlouaoos
of a rule under which genuine republicanism
cannot live on our soil. They embody aud
represent tbat swelling sentimeut of hatred to
tyranny in all its forms, aud under all its dis
guises, on whose full aud irresistible tide the
ship of State must be floated off the rocks, or
else go to pieces.
Tbe Democratic party, and all its adherents,
declare by its latest act and proclamation, tbat
we most have peace and frateruity, and no
longer blast the hopes of patriotism with thtr
f pirit of hatred and calumny; that tke Btates
thall be put in full possession of all their rights;
that military rule shall give way everywhere
to tbe majesty of law; that all the national
pledges thall be faithfully kept according to
their terms; that taxes shall be lightened by
their equalization; that the publio expendi
tures shall be governed by the rigid rule of
economy, so that the nation shall not lose its
strength by waste nor its vigor by corruption;
tbat tbe axe of reform shall be laid to tbe root
of abuses of administration; that the work of
the soldiers and sailors shall be speedily per
fected; tbat the foreign-born citizen shall be
protected everywhere equally with the native;
and that Justice, equality, and liberty shall
still remain tbe great supports and pillars of
constitutional liberty.
We have no statesmen in tbe country before
Horatio Seymour in philosophical insight,
practical sagacity, administrative ability and
lofty patriotism. He is one of the few great
men on whom a nation in its hours of peril
instinctively leans. Elevated to the guber
natorial chair of his native State in the darkest
period of a gigantio civil war, on a plat
form which demanded its more vigorous pro
secution to insure the triumph of the causa
for which it was undertaken, he stool a
faithful and steady pilot at the helm when
few descried a gleam of hope in the dark hori
zon, and, by his single prompt executive
act, encouraged the purpose of a sister State
until tbe relief should arrive which at length
turned the tide of disaster for the Union at
Gettjsbnrg. A purer publio man than Gov
ernor Seymour we have not in the country;
nor one more conscientious, devoted, or cour
ageously consistent. In him pre-eminently
shine forth all tbe virtues of his profound
faith in popular government and free institu
tions. He represents in speech and action
the living truths tbat give vitality to our re
publican system; aud he has defended them
from first to last at the bead of powerful
majorities and in the company or resolute
minorities, with tbe full vigor of his intellect
and all tbe earnestness of his nature. New
York cherishes him as ber favorite son
and will stive him such majorities in Novem
ber as will drive opposition of all kinds to
shelter. As the next President of the United
States, be will revive in the popular mind the
ideas of dignified simplicity which are insepa
rably associated with the administrations of
the early Prei-identp, while executing with
firmness and fidelity every high trust commit-
ua to ills hands by a enhding nation. Tbe
new time on which we are entering will be the
lineal descendant, aud in all respects worthy
ol tbe old. We hail it under the leadership of
tbat pure and patriotic name which we have
inscribed n our banner.
Tbe nomination of General F. P. Blair for
tbe Vice-Presidency is a worthy recognition of
tbe services of a gallant Union soldier, aud of
his ability and integrity as a publio man. lie
went from Congress to the field when the
Government was to be defended there, and
made his mark not more legibly as a soldier
of tbe Union than be had previously done as
a legislator. As the presiding officer of the
Senate and Vice President of the United
States, be will occupy with honor the post
for whose duties he is admirably fitted. He
is a believer in the Union under the Const!
tution, but not "outside" of its limitations
As a man he is equally without fear aud
without reproach. The American people are
ready to honor him with their confidence and
appioval.
The Couuter-Heactioii.
From the N. Y. Herald.
We are on the eve of a heated and excited
political campaign. The nomination of Horatio
Seymour, the embodiment of Copperheadism,
for President of the United States by the
Democratic Convention is au avowal of the
determination of the Democracy to renounce
none of their old heresies aud prejudices, but
to fiebt out the battle of the next election
upon the issues embraced in the contests of
the past six or seveu years. Tbe popular
demand lor an obliteration oi all tne old politi
cal lines, aud, a hearty uniou of the conserva
tive elements against radical misrule have
been disregarded; the Democratic) party has
withdrawn itself within its owu lines, aud
nothing is left to the people but to choose
between tbe old sympathizers with secession
and the men who have stood true to tbe Uniou
and fought out tbe war against rebellion to a
successful termination. Under these circum
stances tbere cau be no question that the reac
tion which manifested itself last year iu
several of tbe Northern States, and especially
in New York, against the revolutionary policy
of Congiers, will receive a serious check, aud
tbat, Oexpite the heated appeals of party
organs, the people of the Union will uuite iu
electing to tbe chief ollije. of the republic tbe
General who three yeais ago led their armies
to victory over tbe Confederate forces, rather
than the man who in ihe darkest hour of the
country's peril denounced the war for the
Union as a lailure.
So far as the State of New Yoik is concerned
we have no doubt that her fitly thousand ma
jority cast last year for the Democratic ticket
will be entirely wiped out next November,
and tbat tbe State will go about the same
number tbe other way. It is possible that iu
the several Congressional districts where sound
conservative men are nominated tbe vote may
be cart against the radicals; but there cau be
no question that the people will show at the
ballot box that they have not forgotten the
lessons of tbe war, and that they are not pre
pared to stultify themselves by refusing oivio
honors to the General who led their armies to
victory, and bestowing them upon the peace
politician, who rendered himself notorious
above all his confrere by the iugenuity and
consistency with which he denounced the
war as a failure. Indeed, It is mre thau
probable that the nomiuatiou of Seymour,
forced upon New York by the disappointed
and defeated Democracy of the Western States,
may prove tbe means of bringing about an
entire political revolution in our local as well
as iu our Stain putlHns. Tbe large majority
by which Geueial Graut will carry the State
next November'will be likely to iaiM with It
nearly all tUtt Assembly districts, thus givmg
tbe Legielatore in both branches, as well as
tbe State Fxeoutlve, to the Republicans. In
this event we may anticipate ageueral wiping
out of tbe municipal departments now iu the
Lauds ot the Tammany leaders, and a change
of r-atronige;tuat may effectually overoome
for tb next twenty-five years the enormous
majorities recently cast for- the" Democratic
ring candidates, whoever they may be, in the
great metropolis ef the United States.
The ii rent Issues. -
From the N. Y. Timet. .
The aotion of the Democracy has served one
useful purpose. It ha more distinctly define!
the grounds which divide the parties, and ha
left no room lor controversy a to the issues
involved in the coutest between Grant aud
Sevmour. " ' ' '
Whether the mode and form of reoonstrno-
tiou are the best that might have been devised,
is less a question for consideration than
whether what has been done shall be main
tained or reversed. We have got beyond the
stage at which criticism ot the details of mea
sures, or even their principles, might have
been advantageously disouaed. Tbe method
is now obscured by the result. A process in
its nature rough has at least advanced us far
toward the complete restoration of the South
to tbe Union. Several of the States are once
more represented iu Congress, aud others will
be before the adjournment. - Nearly the whole
South Is within slgbl of tbe goal which marks
tbe cessation of military rule, and the recsta-
biisnment of local self-government.
1 he question at issue is, whether what has
been done shall continue io operation, with a
certainty that it will gradually render paoiflca
tion complete, or whether it shall be violently
overthrown, rights that have been conferred
taken away, guarantees that have been pro
vided, destroyed, and the confusion and peril
incident to a vital struggle renewed. . It is a
question, on one hand, of peace, with ample
pportnnities of adapting the new govern
ments to local circumstances and wants, and,
on the other, of strife and bloodshed, with race
arrayed against race; and the old spirit of the
Rebellion in direct hostility to the national
authority. By upholding what Congress has
dene, and perfecting the application of the
principles it has affirmed, and the measures it
has developed, we have the assurance that a
brief period will obliterate remaining causes
of difficulty, and lay the foundation of an era
of vast industrial progress and prosperity. By
breaking down, or by attempting to break
down, ihe work of reconstruction, a struggle
would be provoked hardly less terrible than
tbat which the loyal strength of the Republic
put down. There can be no disturbance ef
reconstruction, no invasion of the rights it
has created or the principles of government it
nas developed, without a contest leading to
anarchy.
Shall the Rebel element be reinvested with
power to mould and control the South accord
ing to its pleasure ? Or shall the loyal forces
to which the national Government has given
shape and direction le watched, and if neces
sary aided, until their endurance be placed
beyond doubt? These alternatives make up
the issue which the country must decide. It
is a choice between order aul revolution be
tween governments born of law and anarchy
resulting from brute force; aud the election
of Grant or Seymour will indicate the national
choice.
Equally clear is the line drawn between the
parties ou tbe subject of fioauce. Business
interests fuller Seriously from tbe absence of a
sound and steady financial By stem; aud this
apain, requires as an essential condition, in
telligent aud well-established confidence. A
wise and just management of the debt is the
first step on the road to confidence; and the
relative claims of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties rest upon their respective pur
poses aud principles.
The Republican policy is to abate the bur
den of the debt by so steadfastly promoting
the publio credit that the substitution of a
lower for a higher rate of interest shall be ren
dered feasible.
The Democratic policy is to lighten tbe load
by paj iug tbe debt in a depreciated currency
instead of gold.
It is a question, therefore, of good faith or
repudiation of national honor or national
disgraoe of a confidence that will be felt in
every department of trade, or a distrust tbat
will paralyze industry and engulf trade iu
bankruptcy. -
Andy Johnson Democratic Ingratitude
Frvm the If. Y. Herald.
Andrew Jonnson nas been treated very
shabbily by the Democracy a great deal
worse than John Tyler or Fillmore or anybody
else that we can remember. Whether true or
not that from the moment he was sworn into
the White House Mr. Johnson beoame a can
didate for another term on the Democratic
tack, it is certain that he has done more to
keep the party in the field and to supply it
with arms, ammunition, rations, and clothing
than any ten or ten thousand men who were
stranded with McClellan aud Pendleton on the
Chicago peace platform. Since the beginning
ot ins conn let with Congress in December,
1&G5, Mr. Johnson's policy, it is charged, has
been directed to three results nrst, tne recon
struction and restoration of the Rebel States
on the Johnson platform; second, the demo
ralization and reduction to a minority of the
Republican party in the Northern States; aud,
thirdly, the employment of the Johnson States
of the South as the balance of power with
which to control the Democratic President
making Convention.
Mr. Johnson says be has been all this time
simply fighting for the Constitution. It is
enough to know, however, tbat since Decem
ber, 18U5, be has kept the Democratic party on
its legs and made himself the recoguized ollicial
embodiment of Democratic principles, and that
tbe party were thus placed under obligations
to Liui, for which the Democratio nomination
would have been the only proper equivalent
tbey could oiler. Instead of this tbey pass
bim an empty vote of thanks ('Hue words
butter no parsnips") and they whistle him
down tbe wind. He has thus learned at last
tbe selfishness, greediness, iuipudenoe, hypoc
risy, higratitude and treachery of party poli
ticians. But he is at last a free man. He cau
now take his own course, lie is thrown out
of the Presidential fight of 1SU8, aud that of
lb" 2 is too far off for any calculation of the
piesent day. He is at liberty to brush away
the hungry flies that have been buzziug their
llatteries into bis ears tor some time past, and
free to consider tbe policy of a quiet time dur
ing tbe remnant of his official term. He ought
to have known from the firrt that Ihe Demo
cratic politicians wanted a Presidential caudi
date upon whom they look as their servant
aud not as their master.
Are You Ilmuj I
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Tbe States of New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut have recently gone against the
Republicans. We lost Couueotiout on local
issues in the spring of 1S07, and other reverses
followed quickly thereupon. Connecticut is
the ' only State (unless it be Oregon) that we
have lofct on a reasonably full vote; aud she
can be carried for Graut aud Colfax. There
are at least three thousand of ber Republlcaus
habitually absent from her soil as masters of
vessels, commercial agents, etc. etc., who will
make a point of coming home to vote- at tbe
next Presidential election. Very thorough,
systematic work is required to carry her; but
that work w ill be forthcoming. We only ask
that an tllivieut Grant aud Colfax Club be
le, It
formed in every township, aud if pftssil
every Village, within the next few days. There
should be no delay; for the State can only be
carried by a conoerted, determined, persistent
effort. We hope to hear that the State Com
mittee has taken tbe needful . steps to havV
.every. township and ward organize! foe. the
canvass by tbe close of the present month.
English's majority oflast April cau and mist
be overoome. See to It, friends t that it is I
New Jersey is by many supposed to In
strongly anti-Republican; but that is an error.
Look at her recent votes: ...
Jl'publican. ' ' . Democratic.
IMC Lincoln 00.7M McOlelUn 'iS02l
sr5-Ward n7.IW5 Runyon., 0i7.i't
IWitt-OormreM 05 612 CoiiKrew" P 111
1807 I-eilHlature...61.114 legislature K7,I'W
In 1807 we had no ticket runutng iu the
great county of Monmouth, whose total vole,
tl ere'ore, Is counted as a majority against us.
We lost Burlington by over COO majority; we
shall cairy it lor Grant by at least 1000.
Warren oonnty gave 1G00 majority against
us; we don't believe she will give any majo
rity at all against John J. Blair for Governor.
Mr. Blair Is at borne there; the people know
bim, and are sure that, though he is self
made, very few men have been better made.
Tbe sham Democracy must poll over 75,000
votes to carry New Jersey next November;
and that is more than one a piece for their
legal voters. In short, we believe New Jersey
will be oarried for Graut and Colfax as she
was carried for Harry Clay iu '44, that is by
tbe hardest work ou the part of all her Repub
licans. We know her pretty thoroughly, and
trust her to astonish tbe Copperhead as she
did in lSu'5. Her soldiers know their friends
as well as Seymour kuew his iu our Park
in lSt'3.
Here in New York we have a hard fight
before us, but we know how to make it. We
have taken tbe measure of Mr. Horatio Sey
mour, twice putting him out of the Governor's
chair when he bad all its power and patronage
at bis disposal; and we shall beat him now.
Here is the aggregate vote of our State at
several recent elections:
lHfifl-Mi coin fi(!2 610
sii2 Wertswortb ifli.5.8 7
lfctil Lincoln .....3tis,735
h en ton .M 3iW .V7
1 WW Harlow H01 055
isfiu-KMiw.n ffliuais
1807 MfKean 825.00U
Fusion SI 2,5 10
Seymour nttt,nii
MxiUleiUu Htil.HMi
Hey in our. ...... 36 1. 2U
Hloeuru '27.1. IMS
' Hot! man 1VJ,52()
Nelson ..873,029
There is our woik out out for us to poll
400,000 votes for Grant and Colfax; and we
shall do it. It is but 37,354 more than we
polled in 'GO; and we came still nearer high
water mark iu 'G4 and 'titj. We shall make a
large increase in this city and in Brooklyn on
any vote we ever yet polled; we sball gain
still more in Brooklyn, because the increase of
population is there greater in proportion than
here; end we shall gain on Lincoln's last vote
in nearly every city of our State, while fully
holding our own in the rural districts. We
have the voters ; we shall poll the vote.
Though New York's 33 Electoral votes will
not be needed by Grant aud Colfax, they must
not be withheld. New York must still keep
step to tbe musio of the Union. She nas still
a bitter memory oi the last election of Sey
mour as her Governor, when Stonewall Jack
son, riding by rail from Fredericksburg to Rich
mond, called at every station for rebel cheers
for the triumph of their friends in New York.
Rigkt well we had reason to know, bafore we
got him out, tbat Stonewall understood mat
ters tar better than did thoBe loyal democrats
who voted for Seymour to secure "a more vig
orous piosecution ot tne War."
Friends of Grant and Colfax in our State I
we entreat you that have not yet organized
for the campaign to do so at once, and those
who have orgauized to send good men to rouse
to like action the Republicans of neighboring
towns. Let us nave a Uraut Ulub in every
township, ward, and village; let us begiu at
once to make the efforts requisite to insure
success. Lei us be prerared to assure our
friends, on tbe first day of August, that we
have at least one thousand working Grant
Clubs, and we shall be sure that our State is
destined to swell the electoral majority for our
candidates and our cause 1
Sot So, Sir !
From the ?f. Y. Tribune.
Ex-Governor Vance, of North Carolina, in
his Union Square speech, thus grossly misre
presented the Republicans:
"Xo every Southern river sball nogro suffrage
come:
But tio( to fair New England, or that's too close
to num."
(Great laughter and applause.) Tbey preferred
mgrosulTiuge at Jouk range. If ihey could
nave the ueuro to vote iu SoutU Carolina, all
well; but In Michigan, .New Yorfc.aud the other
iNorinern and western mates, they declined 10
gram mm ine lavor.. .
As Governor Vance was once a soldier,
though in a very bad cause, we trust he is
nt a wilful, deliberate liar. We will, there
fore, assume tbat be is laboring under a hal
lucination, and patiently set nam rigut as to
tne tacts:
New England is a collective name given to
the six States of Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and
Veimcnt. la each of these, except Connecti
cut, blacks vote, and have long voted, pre
cisely as whites do, their suffrage laws making
no distinction on account ot color. And blacks
have recently been chosen to responsible posts
in Massachusetts, and in some instances have
been tbe regular Democratic candidates, re
ceiving the Democratic vote.
In Connecticut, the strongly Republican Le
gislature of 181)5 (chosen the day after tbe fall
of Richmond) passed a Constitutional amend
ment, enfranchising blacks that is, abolishing
all distinctions affecting the right of suffrage
founded on color. That amendment was neces
sarily submitted to the people at a special
election held October 1st of that year, when it
was voted down, as follows:
Equ' 1 Suffiage Yes 27,217 No 31,189
Majority auialiibt olucks voiluu U-72
Of the 27,217 votes for equal suffrage, no
intelligent person will deny that at least 27, 200
were cast by Republicans: while of the antag
onist vote not less thau 33,000 were those of
Democrats; tbe 489 having been cast by the
hungry dogs who eat the. dirty pudding of
Jobnsinism. These have generally since gone
openly over to the camp where they belong.
It'would be unjust to Coenecticut to say
that she voted down impartial suffrage. Ire
laud voted it down. S ime ten to fifteen thou
sand vt tes were cast by Irishmen on th
question at least I'D in every 100 of them
against impartial suffrage. As they maiuly
live in cities and villages, their vote was polled
out at this special election much more fully
than tbat of the natives.
Now, as to "Michigan, New York, and
other IsortberH and Western States." Only
leave tbe question to be settled by the Repub
lieunt of those States, and, if we don't carry
impaitial suffrage by a vote of at least four to
tme, we will agree never to name the subject
gain. But, with every Democrat and Rebel
sympathizer voting against the blacks, it only
takes about one Republican in every ten or
fifteen to vote them down. Thin was Impar
tial Buflrage recently defeated in Ohio, iu Kan
sas, in Michigan, and (barely) in Minnesota.
But no State has ever takeu a vote twice on
this question without evincing Bnbatantial
progress.- Witness
'6W York, In 1R1 Yes Pi,m ;0
1J4I Yes 11 7 50.1 Nn-337 lt-4
Minnesota, in IWi Yea 12,170 No 1 1 M.IS
1W Yfca i.7,ia Mo iit,7jU
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Liberal contracts Will be entered Into for lota,
In this State, in the face of two signal de
feats on this question, every Republican mem
ber of the late Constitutional Couventiou re
corded his vote in favor of impartial suffrage,
after a full and earnest debate, and it was
thereby incorporated iu tbe new Constitution 1
now awaiting ratification by a popular vote.
Two Democrats also voted for It; tne rest
againttit.
. We submit these lacis to ine consideration
of Colonel Vance, whom we assume to have
been misinformed,' and incapable of deliberate
falsehood. It concerns himself much more
than us that he should take an early opportu
nity to retract his misrepresentation.
Ulysses Hiram Simpson Sam.
From the N. Y. World. .
Sundry radical organs make mouths at the
World for insisting tbat the nomenclature of
the radical candidate for the Presidency is in
a disagreeable and discreditable oondition of
Chaos. In this we thiuk they are both ill
tempered and inconsiderate. If General Grant
were the Democratic, as he is the radical can
didate, we should still maintain that he ought,
in justice alike to his country, his parents, his
party, and himself, to know his own name,
and let other people know it. A Pope being
elected Tope enjoys the privilege of electing,
also, by what name he will mount the throve
of St. Peter. But a President has no such
license. Practically, of course, General Grant
will never find hiu.self compelled to select a
Presidential Btyle and title, his politioal
career, which began with bis nomiuatiou in
May, being tolerably certain to close with his
defeat in November.
But he must always fill a large place in
Americau history; aud it is not a trivil thing
that he should go up among the immortaU
under an alias. Nor under one only, lie has
certainly been ' described, addressed, and
known during his not yet very long life under
no fewer than four different names, ilis god
fathers and godmothers in baptism begaa, by
giving bim a choice of two designations tan
dem. His grandfather, thinking Hiram a
''beautiful name," and his mother, admiring
tbe adventures of Ulysses, the child, after a
discussion as long if not as lively as that
which preceded ..the baptism of Tristram
Shandy, was appointed to be called
Hiram Ulysses or Ulysses Hiram, just as
luck or his own choice might thereafter
decide. He went to West Point, and
tbere found himself registered neither as
Hiram Ulysses nor as Ulysses Hiram, but
as Ulysses Simpson, the royal lumber mer
chant of Tyre having been unceremoniously
turned out of bis partnership with the poly
metio ruler of Ithaca to make place for au
avuncular Simpson, of Illinois. This ohauge
apparently pleased neither Grant himself nor
his fellow-cadets, and the latter irreverently
pitching all the antiquities Syrian, Greek,
and Hoosier into the Hudson together, be
stowed upon their comrade the brief but ex
pressive title of "Sam." It wa3 as "Sam
Grant" that tbe youth of many names took
bis low degree in his class; it was as "Sam
Grant" that the young lieutenant male the
campaign of Mexico; it was as "Sam Graut"
that tbe brevetted captain was permitted, for
reasons which the Tribune forbears to men
tion among the claims of its candidate, to re
tire from tbe army and engage in the business
of tanning leather and hauling wood.
Yet when Tilton assails the General of the
armies as a "drunkard,"-it is not Sam Grant
whom he derides. And when the General of
the armies prevaricated with President Jo in
son, it was not Hiram U. Grant who took the
consequences ? Why can we not have a defi
nite understanding on this point ?
None of the many names of Grant, ic must
be confessed, is much better fitted thau was
the name of Amos Cottle to
' Sound forever through the trump of fame."
And this is not so slight a matter as may
hastily be supposed. For though it be true
tbat a rose by any other name might smell as
sweet, or as Sumner, bettering Shakespeare,
expressed it, "might diffuse an equally agree
able odor," yet there cau be no doubt that
Destiny, when she sets about making men or
places permanently illustrious, commonly
shows a fine ear for harmony in giving thui
designations euphoniously fitted to their rank.
Such designations become a part ot tbe musio
of Nature, and of that fore-ordered rhythm ol
things whereof Mr. Emerson tells us:
"You cannot wave your slalf In air.
Or dip your pa rile In tbe lake.
But It carves tbe bow or beauty there,
And the ripples in rhymes the oars forsake."
John Milton might perchance have written
the "Paradise Lost," and "Comus," had he
been boin a Shu lllebot torn and baptized Adoni
ram; but Nature, abhorrent of cacophonies,
chose more wisely for bim and us, as also she
did when she gave us, by the hand of William
Shakespeare, what she might have dealt out
to us through a Peter Soroggins.
Nothing can be more respectable than the
name of Wiggins. Yet who will refuse to be
thankful tbat tbe Father of his oouutry has
cuine down to us not as a Wiggins but as a
Washington?
Tbere be many poor and jaw-breaking
names in Austria, but the fortune of war,
which has put Ansterlitz and YVagrarn and
Marengo and Apern into the mouths of meu
for ever, passes in silence over Ipa aud Murz
zuschlag. The barons of England might have
bi ought John Lackland to bay as well at Toot
ing or at Leatheihead as at Runnymede, and
are we to believe it was but a deaf chauoe
which guided their steps f If the poets and
tbe authors of the future, however, have little
to expect from any posMble settlement of the
quadrilateral quarrel over the names of Grant,
it is at least to be hoped that they may be
spared tbe calamity of bearing the four in
full. From such a prospect even a Tupper or
a llancrolt might recoil.
' Nor is it just "to tbe unborn." For some
time to oome it is likely that here and there
througLout the country there will be found
fond parents so perverted by the gratuitous
perusal of the 'Jribunena to desire to bestow
upon their helpless male offspring the name or
names of the Radical candidate whom Mr.
Uieeleyhas been morally " oowhidei" into
supporting. Tbe sins of the parents, we are
tuld, sball be virited upon tbe children, but it
really is bard to believe tbat the justice could
be reconciled with tbe mercy of beavea were
it to permit that au innocent son even of the
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i Simpson Sam Grant Forneyl -j
As there is no vuman probability tbat Grant
i can ever le elcctrt President, by the people,
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