The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-19
the men Of the largest fortunes here are MOI
idlers nor spendtsrifts, but ths hardest working
men in the country.

men in the country.
The Soldiers and tho saiIvrs-Thsia
Duty ms Citizens.
For thirty years this country has been agL
tated by parties inconceivably corrupt With
indiscriminats rapacrty they have plunAsersd
and deceived the country year after year, and
it long since became impossible to make .sny
distinction between parties in respect to the
corruptness of their motives and acts. All th<S
old parties were so much alike in this that they
could be fairly classed together, 80 that the
country was simply divided into the people
and the parties. On the one hand the people
hearty, honorable independent race thai
builds railroads and steamboats,, clears away
the forests, mines and develops the great re-
sources OF the continent; and on the other hand
the PARTISAN isolated section of the commu
nifty, separate from the people, and banded
together for the purpose Of plumber, under tho
pretext of carrying on the government
But these parties, with their villanous
schemes their rancorous quarrels their general
violence and folly, finally ran the country into
state Of discord that resulted in the late SEQ.
tional war. And the important phenomenon
of that war was that the people had to como
out from their ordinary occupations and settle
the troubles that the politicians had brought Oh
in their wild spirit of party hate. All our
armed forces were simply the American people
under arms for that purpose. The farmer lefs
his plough, the boatman his oar, the woodman
his axe, and the shoemaker his awl
the parson his pulpit and sore throat, the
lawyer his case, and the dandy his diamonds
and dimity--all parts Of the people band
ing together in the common cause simply to
prevent the ruin that the politicians wese
bringing on and the people thus generously
coming out did save the country, after the
grandest struggle of which there is any
memory.
The important question now is whether the
country shall fall again into the hands of these
corrupt politicians from whom the people have
thus taken it. Shall we lapse once more into
the old way, and thus lose great part OF the
benefit of the sacrifices the people have made
No; it must be kept forever out of the hands
Of the politicians, who brought on the last
trouble, and WILL if left alone, bring on another.
The soldiers and sailors-the men who saved
it in battle-must now save it in the peaceable,
constitutional way as voters. They are tho
proper nucleus for an association of the PEG
pie that shall supersede the parties. They have
the heart and brain for the occasion. They are
bold and intelligent While they have braved
danger they have studied and argued with
one another over the causes of the war and
the necessities of the country. The bivouas
has been their school, and while they have talked
patriotism at night by the camp fire, they have
practised it on the morrow in the face of the
enemy. 1t is in their nature deeply, and Is not
the mouthy trash Of the stump orator. They
are earnest, too, and are just the men to inspire
great aggregation of the people with grand
purposes tor the good of the country. WIN
they do it,