Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — The Next Presidency. [ARTICLE]

The Next Presidency.

Vick President Colfax, who has over and again reiterated his determination to retire to private life after his present term of office expires, and who declines, under any circumstances, to be considered as one of the nmnerons aspirants for the next Presidency, is out in an article in this week’s hukpcudcnt, in which he takes up the cudgel for the Republican party in his ‘ usual vigorous style. “ The Future of the Republican Party ”is its title. Of course the theme affords Mr. Colfax a wide field for speculation. He believes that the “prophets of evil,” who croak about a “ new party ” that must of necessity arise out of the ashes of the old Republican party, to carry the next emotion, are croaking in vain, ancrth&tlbe same votes which carried Lincoln triumphantly to the White House Wtil again place General Grant at the head of the nation in 1872. Mr. Colfax argues from the past record of the Republican party, to show that it has by no means lost its hold on the affections of the people; and as to the Southern States which have lately gone Democratic, instead of their being an indication of the way the Presidential election of 1872 will go, he declares that the results’ of these same triumphs will serve byt to strengthen the Republicans as a party.' In support of this assertion he proceeds to detail what be calls the “results” of the Democratic triumphs. South, such as “midnight assassins”ip Kentucky, the election to the Senate, from North Carolina, of its fonner.rehel Governor, and so on, ad i*itum. Mr. Colfax then closes as follow's • “ What preserves the Republic fawn Che rule of the Democratic party, which con tabad these elements within It, is the Cob- j tinued power of the Republican party. Ambit is bedause the young masses of this patriotic organization who, without the w« Jtl had been a reform party during all its existence, and lias carried through mor% vital reforms than all other parties in our- 1 oentury of national life, and can elaborate «ad consummate all needed reforms in tb e

that they A ?3wever thePreswtaaka^WoeaMulouP didate In 1068, may be crttfcMefl «r Attack - SC“tSilCwaf^^i3 e cC£ Then there were fears with tome that, though a Republican, he might not be in ahnics. and oil < Us same wojv there, he might not be too qufokin j3iuk!hAi n tional questions M /hwmtfe iflilmmt Let bis Stand in regard to Cuban interventU% despite Us personal sympathies with Ufokithiggling people, prove how these doubts Usee been dkpe&«L”-JV r «u York Herald.