THE DAILY --EVENING- TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA,' FlilLAY, NOVEMBER, 8," 18C7.
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Abovt Grant Clubs.
From the iV. Y. Tribune.
"The king is dead; liv the king!" The
Hepublioan ssoendanoj having been designedly,
purposely broken down by professed Repub
licans, they are now busy telling us how it
may be restored. All we have to do, in their
Tiew, is to say no more of Republican princi
ples, but go it blind for General Grant as next
President.
We bare an abiding conviction that our
ableBt and most worthy statesman 1b Chief
Justice Salmon P. Chase. And we hold con
ceded ability, wide civil experience, and emi
nent private worth, qualities that the people
appreciate and take pride in. We deem no
man entitled to the Presidency, and do not
desire Mr. Chase called to it for his own sake.
He has a great office now one in which he is
eminently useful and honored. The same is
true in equal measure of General Grant. If
either of them shall be summoned from his
present to the one higher station, it must be
because the place needs him, and not he the
place.
General Grant we esteem by no means a
great man, nor even a very great General .
Yet he has, in every position he has filled,
evinced a modest good sense, a practical, un
ostentatious sagacity, which have justly won
for him a large measure of publio conQdenoe.
lie is not by training a statesman; yet his
negotiations with General Lee and the terms
of capitulation conceded by him at Appomat
tox evince a wisdom and breadth of view
Which few among our statesmen could have
equalled, and none of. them has surpassed.
We do profoundly honor and esteem him that
he has never uttered one syllabel that savored
Of exultation over the defeated Rebels, or
called down vengeance on their heads. The
blood-and-thunder policy of execution and con
fiscation, which we intensely loathe, has had
no more effeotive opponent than this taciturn,
reticent first soldier of the Union.
. . Let it be forever understood, then, that our
reference of Governor Chase is based on no
alike to General Grant, nor even a low esti
mate of his abilities. We presume he has no
judicious friend who would pronounce him
equal in capacity or experience, as a civilian,
to the Chief Justice; we trust no friend of the
latter will fail to render the General a hearty
support should he be made the standard-bearer
of Republican principles in the great struggle
now -opening. We, at all events, shall not
hesitate, in that oase, to do our utmost for his
election.
But nr interest in the sucoess of any candi
date will be based upon and measured by his
devotion to impartial liberty; and here is
where we think those who are now grooming
General Grant for the Presidential race are
utterly mistaken. We can elect no Republi
can on the spontaneous combustion principle.
We can only triumph by the systematic and
thorough enlightenment of the masses, who
always vote for what comes to them labeilod
Democratic, unless a good reason i3 shown
them for voting otherwise. The war being
over, we can no longer carry elections by read
ing bulletins of Union victories and exhorting
the people to "rally 'round the Hag." And
those who are pushing General Grant for Pre
sident will land just where the Whigs did
with Scott in '02, if they are allowed to have
their own way. They utterly mistake the
time of day.
The Republican party rests under two great
and solemn obligations. The first is to the
freedmen; the second, to the national creditors.
It is bound, by every consideration of honor
and good faith, to go to the very extent of its
power in protecting the blacks in the full
enjoyment of their rights as freemen and citi
zens, and to take care that every one who
loaned his means to the Government to sustain
and prosecute the war for the Union shall be
paid, principal and interest, to the last far
thing. If the blacks are to be reduced again to
vassalage and semi-slavery, or if the national
creditors are to be defrauded, that result must
be reached over the Republican party, not
through it. Defeat may be misfortune, but it
is only misfortune; while infidelity to the blacks
or to the national creditors would be crime
and immeasurable infamy.
We cannot betray the blacks. To do so is
to oompact the entire South in solid phalaux
against us. The. moment we assent to recon
struction on any basis which recognizes the
black man as entitled to fewer rights than
the white, we consent that every State shall
be locked and chained to the car of our adver
saries as Kentucky and Maryland now are.
And to say that we are for manhood suffrage
in the South, but not in the North, is to earn
the loathing contempt and derision alike of
friends and foes. We have thus, thank God I
no choice but to stand fast by our principles,
our allies, and the inalienable rights of man.
We mav be beaten in this position, but defeat
is the worst fate that can befall us; while, if
we recoil, we shall certainly be at ouoe dis
graced and ruined. If we are "between the
devil and the deep sea," we shall brave with
stout heart the perils of the stormy main.
, We objeot to the Grant movement that it is
of the nature of the ostrich's simple strategy,
that deooives only himself. There are times
in which personal preference and personal
popularity go far; but they are not these
times. Does any one imagine that General
Grant, supported by the Republicans, would
carry Maryland or Kentucky under her pre
sent Constitution against Seymour or Pendle
ton t He could not carry either State even
against Forrest, Semmes, or Quantrell. We
are involved in a great struggle, and must
conquer or tall and pass away.
If our principles do not sustain us. we must
go down. And, if we shall attempt evasion or
concealment, we siiuu deserve to go down.
Any candidate who represents our principles
and glories in avowing them we shall most
heartily support, whether it be Chase, or
Urant, or uoiiax, or any ouier. ir it were
possible that the Republicans should discard
their plain obligations, and start on au un-
tmnoinled race lor victory, we should feel
little interest in their success. Rut this they
will never do.
Coagrasi and th Soath What Shall b.
n th TV. 71 Timet.
As one of the results of the elections, we
jaay look for an organized effort to induce
Coneress to modify Its plan of reconstruction.
Northern men and Southern men will oombine
lo effect a change in the conditions prescribed,
and a stoppage of the proceedings by which
the neero element has obtained tne mastery
The grounds on which these appeals will rest
jnay be easily conceived. The .refusal of the
pyuttwrp jrWtes to p W?w 14 w vns. o
reconstruction under the law wilt be used as
an assuranoe of its ultimate Ailnra, and per
haps of very serious trouble between the
whites and the blacks. And the check whloh
the Republican party has received wherever
it has submitted negro suffrage to the popular
vote will be represented as evldenoe of hos
tility on the part of the North to the principle
of the measures which Congress is forolng
npon the South.
We consider it certain that these endeavors,
however vigorous and persistent, will fail to
accomplish the purpose intended. Congress
will continue its course. It will adhere to the
law as it stands, and will do whatever may
seem necessary to render It effeotive. Nothing
has occurred to warrant any expectation of
change in the will of the majority ef Repub
lican Senators and Representatives. If indi
vidual utterances elsewhere than at Washing
ton, and the unvarying tone of the party
press, form any fair criteria by which to judge
of probable party action, we must oonolude
that the determination to enforce the law as
it is, remains as strong as before the verdict of
Ohio and Pennsylvania had been pronounced.
Extreme projects no longer obtain favor. The
impeachment scheme is no more encouraged.
Confiscation is mentioned only to be hooted
down. And the neglect exhibited by Con
gress towards the material interests of the
country the indifferenoe shown to the de
mand for retrenchment and a revision and re
duction of taxation forms a subject of com
plaint, and an assigned cause of disaster. But
so far as the reconstruction policy is con
cerned, not a single sign of concession is ap
parent in any quarter.
The obstinacy of the Southern whites fur
nishes a plea for firmness, not for compliance
with their wishes. And the enfranchisement
of the negroes is justified as the creation of a
loyal bulwark, and an act of justice which is
in no degree impaired by the refusal of
Northern States to establish impartial suffrage
within their own borders. These reasons and
purposes may or may not be good. For the
moment, we have no-hing to do with their ex
pediency or their reasonableness. We simply
reproduce what we know to be the prevailing
feeling in the Republican party, from which
we inter that there is no probability of any
material modification of the Congressional
plan during the coming session. In our
opinion, there will be no surrender, no yield
ing on any essential point. On the contrary,
we expect to see the entire work pushed for
ward energetically, with a view to the earliest
possible reorganization of the Southern States,
and their readmission to Congress on the basis
laid down.
These anticipations are not incompatible
with a recognition by Congress of the temper
indicated by the elections. Their lesson, as
we understand it, is favorable to general mode
ration in the application of Union views not
to the pretensions of those who were engaged
in the war against the Union. It suggests the
exercise of no more severity than may be ne
cessary to secure the results achieved by the
war, as against the harshness and intolerance
of those who would add to the horrors of con
ilict the penalties of spoliation and proscrip
tion. The stage at which Congress may be ap
pealed to with the greatest probability of suc
cess will not be reached until the preliminary
proceedings now in progress shall have been
completed. The elections as held in Louisiana,
Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas must be
respected, and the elections ordered in the
other States must go on. The Conventions
will follow as a matter of course, and we may
assume that the constituencies represented by
the delegates will, in the main, uphold their
work. The several Constitutions will come to
Congress for its approval, and then will arise
the opportunity for profiting practically by the
moral of the INortuern elections.
It will then be the duty of Congress to ex
ercise its discretionary authority in the in
terest of moderation and conciliation. . There'
is undoubtedly danger in the spirit which will
actuate the majority of delegates to the Con
ventions. The passions and prejudices of the
people they represent are not unlikely to be
reflected in their proceedings. We may ap
prehend provisions of an intolerant and pro
scriptive character, framed in the name of
loyalty against tLe great body of the white
citizens. We may look for disfranchisement
and disabilities, and for other provisions at
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vanuuue wuii vne jiarmony ana prosperity or
me ooutn. Against evervtninir of this nature
CongreEs ought to take a determined stand.
It will be bound, as well by considerations
affecting the future of the Republican party
as by others suggested by the events of this
iau, to supplement the fact or reconstruction
with acts securing adequate protection and
equal rights to the whole Southern people.
uaving secured tne iounaations of Htate
reorganization, it cannot wisely acquiesoe in
measures that have no necessary relation to
tiiat object, f-oiae or Its most prominent
members have more than once disclaimed the
purpose of maintaining the disabilities now in
force. They have said that the penalties
enacted shall be revoked so soon as they
ctaseio ue requisite. That time will surely
craie when reconstruction shall have been so
far perfected as to seoure the organization of
tue myai elements or the south, with ample
guarantees for their strength and safety.
From that moment, penaltios imposed ou
account of the Rebellion will bo Inexpedient.
They will be irritating as well as useless. And
by guarding against their introduction in any
6hape into the new Constitutions, Congress
will effectually outflank the Southern malcon
tents, take from the Democrats one of their
most potent weapons, and respond satisfac
torily to the all but universal desire of the
Northern people. The magnanimity of which
we sometimes hear can take no better form,
nor any one more calculated to secure tho
permanence of Republican reconstruction.
How Long, O Lord I
F. oi the y. Y. Tribune.
It is within a month of sixteen years since
Louis Napoleon struck liberty au assassin's
blow and laid her dead upon the soli of Frauco.
lie stole upon her in the n'ght, while she
watched with faithful eyes the land she had
redeemed, and her mortal blow came from the
hand of him whom Bhe had set to guard tho
gates against the foe. Never was there a
worse treason since the world began; never
was there a treason so little looked for; but
never was there one so successful. From that
day to this, one of the most cunning, oold
blooded. unscrupulous of tvranta hag held hia
throne, not only against all foreign foes, but
against murmurs, discontents, and warnings
tioin his own people, and there seems no rea
son why he should not keep his grip upon the
sceptre until death and old age come hand iu
uauu bug teaa mm soitiy to a peaoeful grave.
Such lives as his, such deaths as his may be,
put to shame all the aoueDtd tli.uVH nf
vidence; to a casual eya they show a God to
whom the evil aud the cood ATA nna sn l if 1j
not possible to explain the exUtenoa jpf such
unmixed evll, working widespread ruin aud
misery unchecked and uncontrolled, by auy
doculas of any sect. Before suuu mvuterlea w
, esa Cfc! stol ia fcilfcaca, layuy tf they do
not 'Strenghten our doubts or drive us into
disbelief. '
In one sense it may be allowed that, if the
French people like this sort of government, it
is no one's business but their own. If they
like to have a chain about their necks, let
them have it. If they like to have their press
gagged, their freedom of speech taken away ;
if they relish being perpetually watched in
their houses, dogged in the streets, questioned
for every act, called to aocount for their com
ings and goings, told what they may read, and
what they may not read, what plays they may
see acted, and what songs they may sing if a'
nation be sunk so low that it can love such
things, for God's sake let it hug this loath
some corpse of life in peace ; we oau hold our
noses and keep to the windward. Meanwhile
it is not a little absurd to hear such a nation
forever bragging of its high civilization, and
claiming the right to lead the world of ideaa
as well as the world of national progress. But
bragging, though offensive, hurts nobody, aud
France may be permitted to grovel and to brag
unquestioned within her own domain.
It is only when "this vice of kings, this
pick-purse of the empire and the rule," steps
out of his own kingdom aud undertakes to set
straight the affairs of other nations as he has
done those of his own, that we have a right to
complain; and Louis Napoleon has now re
duced his meddling to such a system that
there cannot be a movement for liberty in any
part of the world that he does not send his
armies to crush it, if possible, at the very
least to binder it, by every cruel, desperate,
and insulting means.
And so completely ha3 his will domineered
over the rest of Europe, that until Prussia
rose and confronted him there was no power to
say him nay, or that even dared hint dis
pleasure at his acts. Fnglaud lies at his feet
cowering like a threatened hound; her only
conquests of late are over the wretched
Fenians, whom her own laws have made
beggars and exiles, over Indian savages whom
she frightens by a bloodthlrstiness more awful
than their own, over the merchant vessels of
a nation with whom she is at peace. Austria,
whose simple-minded heir has been inveigled
by his cunning arts into a shameful death,
makes haste to Paris to kiss the hand that
shed his blood; Russia sends her Emperors to
eat his salt who has brought her to open
shame, and for a whole summer kings,
princes, and nobles from every land that is
owned by them have made crowns and coro
nets as familiar in Paris streets as the citi
zen's hat.
When we were in the mortal agony of our
civil war, this man put all his infernal engi
nery at work, and tried both to secure our
ruin and to destroy the life of a great neigh
boring State. Gladly would he have done
both, and long and hard he worked to accom
plish his purpose. It was a bitter day for him
when he found that Americans are not French
men, and that Mexicans are not Italians; a
bitter day when the bone to which he had set
his teeth was snatched from his paws, and he
was beaten to his kennel. But Louis Napo
leon learns no lesson. Male the laughing
stock of the world by his disgraceful defeat in
Mexico, sneered at for a prophet, scorned for a
promise-breaker, he tried again to meddle, and
this time with l'russia. All the world kpows
the end of that meddling, and perhaps there
never was a jest so relished by the world as
Napoleon's defeat by Bismark. It might
almost seem as if fate were bent on forsaking
her favorite, if his heel were not still planted
on the neck of England and on the hoad of
Italy.
Three times now has this man, actiug from
his own sellHh desires to be thought the con
troller of events, aud driven by his own fears
of liberty, prevented Italy from ordering her
Government as she thinks beat. Wheu he
first set his blood-hound army at tho throat of
this fair fugitive from tyranny, all the world
cried out at the enormity of his crime. But
he defies the conscience of the world, as he
defies God and justice, and sat lor fifteen years
by the side of prostrate Italy holding her
chains, and threatening her with his sword
bince then the world has watched, heart-sick
and weary, waiting for the time when he
should release his hold, and lend an ear to the
mjngled threats and pleading of the world.
But we wan lu yam. While this man draws
his hated breath Italy shall not live, nor her
children draw a tree breath. Coward that he
is, he has at last found one nation too weak to
shake off his bonds, and the luxury of tyranny
is too great that he should easily forego it
Thwarted in Mexico, snubbed in l'russia, kept
in order by America, uneasy at home, he has
of late been stinted in his craving for med
dling, and must bully Italy while as yet she
has no friends to stand up for her. How long
shall Napoleon rule to hinder Europe in her
yearning for unity and freedom ? How long
must the world be obliged to sit in patience
while one man thwarts the will or millions,
and by the mere virtue of a name quenches
every noble aspiration of the peoples of Ku
rope, and mate them ins own slaves f
Th Counter. Revolution and Its Result
-urBiitiion ox a urui I'arijr,
From the N. Y. Herald.
The political tempest that has swept over
every loyal State of the Udion this fall, up
rooting and scattering the enormous Republi
can majorities that have prevailed since 1800.
might readily have been predicted by any one
curious enough to study and intelligent
enough to understand the indications of the
political atmosphere for the past two years
When the war closed the loyal people ex
pected at once to reap the advantages of neaoe
in the restoration of the Southern States as
productive and 'Industrial portions of the
Union, the decrease of national expenditures
and taxation, and the restoration of cominer-
uitu aiiu social intercourse between the several
sections of the country. It was thought that
when the Rebels had Riknnwli1,ra,1 iu Hfat
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of their r auee and conformed to the new order
of things resulting from the war, all serlou3
difficulty iu the way of reconstruction was at
an end. But the trickery and dishonesty of the
politicians on both sides soon dis
lufcions.and the disgraceful quarrels that sprang
up ueiweeu vne lixeouuve and Congressional
branches of the Government threatened to
undo all that had been accomplished by the
Union armies, and to plunge us into as seriou3
complications as those from which we had so
recently escaped. The loval 8tat. althnnrrh
not wholly satisfied with the part taken by
uongresn, supported the reconstruction policy
of that bodv. as nmbraned in t.linV.mutit jitirnul
amendment, with singular unanimity; r.nd if
the Republican party had adhered to that set
tlement, there would have been an end to the
matter. But the radical, whn imd ni.tnfnod ih
position of leaders in the organization, drove
their party into subsequent attempts to force
negro eupremaoy upon the South at the point
of the bayonet; and these acts, with their ter
rible blunders ia questions of finance aud
taxation, have brought about their present
reverMftfl. Vor a vtrnr nnst tha n.inr.L Imva
beeu frnwlntr tnnra nvid mnra ilicutili.i.l uifli
radical misrule,' until the gathering clouds of
uuum auu uiscomeni nave at last burnt into a
storm that threatens to sweep the whole Ke-
pulikkU party UvUX xiatvuw unless they de
termine npen a total change in their recent .
policy.
lhe great counter-revolution commenced in
Connecticut, when the Republicans, confident
in their supposed strength, made a nomination
disgraceful to any party, for the important
office of Congressman, in defiance of common
deoency and the duty they owed to the publio.
They were properly rebuked at the polls;
their boasted power was broken, and their
whole State ticket was dragged down by the
dead weight of their Congressional nominee.
Since that time they have gone on from bad to
worse, caiirornia, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Now York
have, each in their turn, declared against
their violent, destructive, and revolutionary
policy, and either driven them from power,
or so reduced their large majorities as to show
that the whole country repudiates their doc
trines and refuses them its confidence and
support.
The lesson to be learned from these rooont
elections is easy and plain. It means that the
people condemn the Military Reconstruction
laws, the Tenure 01 umce bin, and an tne vio
lent coercive measures of the last and present
Congress, and declare that all such legislation
shall be swept away. It means the repudia
tion of both the Copperhead and Jacobin fac
tions, and a determination to take a new de
parture with new men and a new line of
policy. It means that while the loval men of
the North demand the full consummation of
the freedom of the negro race, and fa7or their
enfranchisement under State laws, with a pro
perty qualification, as iu the Northern Mates,
they also demand the instant abolitlou of mili
tary governments in the Southern districts,
the generous treatment of the white citizens of
the South, and their speedy restoration to
their lost rights. It means a rerorm in our
whole financial system and a reduotion of the
national expenditures and taxation.
There is but one way to insure that the
popular will shall be fully carried out, and
that is by tue immediate nomination ot Gene
ral Grant for President of the United States by
a grand popular movement, independent of all
parties, cliques, and factions, bet the people
of New York, of all shades of politics, call at
once a great public meeting for this purpose,
and thus form in the commercial metropolis.
whose voice is loudest against radicalism, the
nucleus of a Grant party which shall spread
all over the country. Under such a leader
success is assured. Grant's whole career in
the war and since the war proves that the
principles endorsed by the popular voice are
those which actuate his course of life. A3 a
soldier he was brave and determined, as aeon
queror reasonable and liberal, and as a publio
officer in time of peace he has esta
blished a grand reputation for economy,
retrenchment and executive ability. All
the prinoiples he has contended for during
the war and since its close assure the country
that reconstruction on a fair and liberal basis,
and the reduction of the national debt by two
hundred and fifty millions the first year, would
be the immediate fruits of his election to the
Presidency While he is dumb to the persua
sions and blandishments of the politicians, he
would respond to the voice of his country
men, appealing to him without distinction of
party, and his words would be such as to show
that the confidence reposed in him would not
be tnisplaoed. Let such a movement as we
indicate at once be made iu New York, aud
the now party, with Grant, retrenchment, and
reform for its watchwords, will carry the whole
of the States from the Atlantio to the Pacific,
and sweep into the two oceans every vestige of
Copperheadism and Jacobinism, with all their
stock in trade of secession, African barbarism,
national banks, class legislation, aud enor
mous taxation.
The Future.
From the IT. Y. World.
Tho zeal with which the World has labored
in the canvass dispenses it from any necessity
of saying how deeply it is gratified with the
auspicious result. It may therefore proceed
at once to state its views of the new situation
It is of the first consequence that the Deuao
cratic party, in the position of influence it
now assumes, should neither misconceive the
causes nor miscalculate the consequences of
these great successes. It will not do to assume
that we. have won by a simple exertion of our
own party Btrength. The fact is true,
whether we recognize it or not, that we are
indebted for this magnificent and manifold
triumph to citizens who have not, for the last
few years, acted with the Domooratio party.
In this city and in the neighboring towns
of New Jersey, to our knowledge, Republi
cans have voted the Democratic tickets; and
we suppose we must have had more or less
assistance of this kind in all parts of the
country.
But a larger propoition of Republicans have
staid away from the polls and lent us indirect
aid almost as valuable, uur success in the 1 inure
will depend upon the continuance of this co
operation; we shall be fatally blind if we do
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not cultivate auu Keep it. it is our true puiicy
to render it easy, or at least not dilfloutt, for
liberal Republicans to aot the same part in the
Presidential election which, they have acted in
so many State elections this year; a result
which an attempt to revive the identical
politics of 1708, or 1832, or 18."G, will have
no tendency to accompnsn. u uaiever was
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good in the Democratic policy of those save
rai eras, anil peruneut 10 iuo anu;uiuu ui hid
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country, can stand on its owu reason? witn
out opening any venerated coflius to fiud pre
cedents, it is not expedient to brandish
winding sheets in the eyes of living men who
mav have a superstitious antipathy to the
habiliments of the grave, especially it asked
to use them as ordinary wearing apparel. We
suspect that the living generation may object
to wearing not merely the grave-clothes, but
even the coats of the generation that is past
Our garments must be made to our measure
fitted to our iorm; even though of the same
material. Nor would it be disrespectful to
our predecessors to change the cut and the
fashion If taso of movement, or grace 01 ap
peaiauce may be thereby promoted. Uu
political institutions, like our garments
are worn our for comfort, and intrinsic fitness
needs explore no old wardrobes to keep itself
in countenance. uur predecessors were
wise, but we, with the advantage of both
their experience and ours, ought to be wiser,
Wa owe them manly appreciation, not super-
stitiovs servility. If each living generation is
not wise enough to manage its own n flairs
the Democratic theory is all wrong. It would
bebtt'erto accept of hereditary rulers who
live with the generation they govern, and
theieby know something cf its wants, thau to
take for our governors even the wisest of the
dead. They knew nothing or our times, how
ever well they understood their own. Sense
and self-reliance, not servility to obsolete pre
cedents, is the spirit of a people truly demo
rratlo. The great merit of our fathers con
slated in the self-reliant courage with which
they broke loose from inapp'icable precedents;
and if we act In their spirit w shall make
some precedents, break some, fellow some
aud act equally upou our own juJguieut iu
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Vfcalr Ktek f Rye WhlikUi, III BOHD, tomprlin 11 th ftrorlU krtaf i
Kant, mmA ruat through th various noilbi r lbO,'00, m of this rar. up t
prcacnt data.
Liberal contracts for lota to arrlva at Pm Hlflvaala Railroad Depetl
KrvtcasoB. 1.1 na M bar I, or at lion dad Warahoaaaa, as partial mayalect.
It is not merely courtesy to acknowledge.
but polite to appreciate, the aid we have re
ceived in these elections from Republicans. A
lew itepuDiican politicians ana presses have
covejtly aided m as a means of facilitating the
nomination of General Grant by their party.
The reasoning of these schemers has been cor
rect, but their influence very slight. The
great body of the people do not enter into the
spirit of finessing tactics. The Republicans
by whose assistance we have won these great
triumphs nave acted from -more simple and
siraigniiorwara views. Their sense or fair
ness has been violated by the domineering
and extortionate policy of their party leaders;
and it is chiefly in the interest of fair play,
according to their sense of it, that they have
given us their cooperation. It is a repug
nance to extreme measures, a desire to see
these agitating controversies settled on a
basis just and moderate enough to secure
general acquiescence, and therefore likely to
be enduring, that has led some Republicans to
vote with us and more to abstain from voting
against ns. But they will no more follow us
to extremes than follow the radicals, iiut if
we do not stupidly insist on cutting a winter
coat from summer cloth, and fitting it to the
measure of a past generation instead of the
present, they will have no great objection to
wear the uniform of our regiment and continne
the march.
We stand on a strong vautage ground,
which may be cut from under us if we fail to
"understand our epoch," and to seize events
by the forelock. If the people entrust U3 with
the government of the country, it will be be
cause we convince them by a large, liberal
spirit, and a broad grasp of the situation, that
we are capable of devising a policy which will
settle tTublic tranquillity on a solid foundation.
The people covet national harmony; harmony
between the diuerent races in the couth; such
a settlement, in short, as will prevent either
the Southern blacks or the southern whites
from constantly recalcitrating against it and
appealing to one or the other political party
in the North to disturb and upset it. It should
be obvious to all thinking men that we must
have more harmony in the North to accomplish
this desirable result, lhe breach which the
Republican party has opened between the two
r&es in the South can never be closed, so
long as one of them can confidently appeal to
half, or nearly half, the Northern people to
support them ia an effort to have things one
way, and the other race can as confidently
appeal to half, or nearly half, the Northern
people in an eilort to have things In a diiiercnt
way. Whatever the united North (bating a
powerless body of radical factioulsts) may
agree upon as a final settlement, will ba ac
quiesced in by both races at the South from
the sheer impossibili ty of changing it.
Now the assistance, direct aud indirect,
which Republicans have given us in this elec
tion, is quite a step towards that unity of
fooling which alone can bring harmony to the
South and durable tranquillity to the oountry.
At least half the Republican party are little
behind those who have assisted us by staying
away from the polls. We are opposed to any
barter, or negotiation, and to every sort of
politioal dicker, both as degrading in itself,
and as recognizing the nauseous and absurd
claim of political leaders to traffic upon the
people. The thing for the Democratic party
to do is to form a correct estimate of the situa
tion, and plant itself on a policy adapted to
that situation and just in itself. If this be
done, and done promptly while the Republi
can party is floundering in the confusion of
defeat, we shall have the almost unani
mous support of the sound and moderate
part of the people. True leadership
does not lie in the spirit of intrigue, but
n ideas which hit the wants of the time,
ideas so obviously just, which so perfectly
match the situation, that they shine by their
( wd light, with little aid from argument. It
i." by such ideas that the country must be led
and harmonized;- and the party which
puts thorn forth is the party of the future.
A broad, robust, courageous common sense
exerted on the actual circumstances, not the
piddling refinements of political metaphyslos
nor stupid adherence to inapplicable prece
dents, is the source from which such fresh,
living ideas are to come; and when the right
tune is struck, the dancers will fail into their
places. - The patriotism, the honest feeling,
the craving for tranquillizing justice, already
exist In the hearts of the people, and furnish
a soil in which the seed will quickly germi
nate. By these elections the Republican policy of
reconstruction is a demonstrated failure; but
no policy can be a success which does not
recognize what is true and honest in the aspi
rations of large masses of tho people, because
it is only by satisfying these that the North
can be far enough harmonized to prevent one
half of its people being a perpetual inoentive
to mutiny by either the black or the white
race in the South. Whatever just arrange
ment is substantially agreed upon by the
North, both races iu the South will accept and
abide by. . Nor is a durable settlement at
tainable on any other basis. We shall have
inoie to say on this subject, the present sug
gestions being rather the key-note thau the
tune.'
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