Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1878 — Mr, Chase and the Presidency. [ARTICLE]

Mr, Chase and the Presidency.

The fact that Mr. Richard Parsons is connected with the Cleveland Herald. and was for a long time in confidential relations with Mr. Chase, gives a special interest to the following passage from an editorial in the Herald concerning the letter from Mr. Chase, relating to the New York Convention of 1868, recently published: No harm can now bo done by saying that Mr. Chase not only warmly desired the nomination for the Presidency at the bands of the Democratic Convention in 1868, but be had every reason to eipect he would receive it. Mr. Chase repeatedly to his friends justified his right to accept it, on the grounds that he had changed none of tho principles he had advocated, and was as firmly devoted to their complete triumph as ever. But he insisted that the Democratic party, if it nominated him for the Presidency, “ would come over to him,” and he could, without loss of consistency and with entire propriety of conduct, accept the nomination if it were tendered. Nobody knows beiter than Mr. Seymour that in accepting the nomination, instead of declining it and turning it over to Chase, as he could have done, and as he, in fact, wished to do, he made the greatest mistake ever committed by a public man for himself or his party, nad Chase been nominated by the convention of 1868, it is not improbable that the current of American politics might have been entirely changed, and neither Grant nor Hayes would have touched the Presidency. From personal knowledge \ye know that Mr. Chase had the utmost confidence in his election, if nominated, and this confidence was largely shared by some of the most eminent Democratic statesmen of the country, who warmly espoused his nomination. The probability is they were all mistaken. We thought at the time that tlie nomination of Chase was almost equivalent to an election. It now seems to us pretty clear that Gen. Grant would have beaten any candidate who could have been placed in opposition to him. The nan who took and returned the sword of Lee could not have been defeated for the Presidency in 1868. Chase would have been stronger than Seymour, but it was written th%t Grant was to be elected.—Cincinnati Commercial.

Russian Trophies. The Russian trophies in Kars are beyond expectation. Three hundred and twelve cannons, among them forty-two field pieces, whole depots of rifles and revolvers, large quantities of ammunition, stores, and provisions, and about 16,000 prisoners fell into the hands of the conquerois. The remainder of the garrison must be considered as killed or as having deserted. The Russians shut their eyes with regard to deserters, as they experience too much trouble and cost by transporting their countless prisoners in this season into the interior of their ice-shackled country. Whosoever manages to procure for himself a suit of plain clothes may run away and make himself comfortable in one of the villages, or in his own homestead. Voluntarily these men will not again join Mukhtar Pasha’s hungry and neglected host. Tho Russian losses do not exceed 2,000 men, and are less than had been originally supposed. —London News.

The Rev. Wm. Gleeson, in a * recent lecture in San Francisco, on Ireland’s independence, said that there are from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 Irishmen on the globe, and that an anny of 250,000 could be easily raised to rem««re‘ British sn-" premaey iu Ireland. M