The American papers are beginning to discuss the election to
the White House, which comes off in November, 1868. Both parties are sadly puzzled. The Democrats have not a chance unless they can run General Grant, who will not speak out, and they have not much even then. On the other hand, the Liberals, who would like to choose him, doubt his opinions, and are half inclined to name General Sheridan. In this dilemma President Johnson has given his enemies valuable assistance, having dismissed Mr. Stanton as not supple enough, and given the Secretaryship far War to General Grant. As Mr. Johnson could not place a true Northerner in his Cabinet, this nomination will probably decide the Liberals, and we may almost venture to predict that the next President of the United States will be an unknown man. The extreme Liberals are making the singular blunder of insisting on a dark Vice-President. Colour is no disqualification ; but then it is no qualification either, and the negro vote will not necessarily be thrown on grounds of colour alone. There is some- thing attractive in the idea that within ten years of John Brown's death a coloured man might be President of the Union ; but it is not clear that the gentleman generally named—a Mr. Langton or Langston—would be a fit man for the office.
