Daily national Republican., 1865-11-29
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN
DANGER.

What kind dear old soul father BENNETT
Of the New York Herald, is. He did all he
could to defeat the Republican party in 1856
by supporting FREMONT, and rendered won
derful support " to that same party, in 1860
and 1864, by opposing, with all his force,
the Republican candidates, L-ho trere elected ;
We owe so much to him for services rendered
-" over the left that we don't know how
we shall repay him. Father BENEFITS
son has actually caused some of the best
friends of that statesman to doubt him. But
it is our privilege to assert that they were
mistaken. BENNETT was not in earnest It
was only one of his eccentric jokes produced
no doubt, by the biliet dOur of MARETzEK,
or the recollection of the more recent "What
is it ?" of BARNUMs.
Those whose confidence in the President,
is shaken by Father BENEFITS present ap:
parent support of him, should recollect that
such advocacy never lasts more than one
week at a time. Besides, it should be re.
membered that President JOHNSON relies i'm.
plictly upon the people-an unfailing rock
of Gibraltar-and not upon the straw paper
and printers ink of old Mr. BENNETT. Be.
fore the fall elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio I
Iowa, Wisconsin, New York, NEw JERSEY, |
and other States, Father Bennett did not |
seem to recellect that such an organization
existed as the Republican or Union party |
lie always talked and wrote about the WAR
Democracy" with one JouS b. HAsKIs at
its head-the boon companion of the noto-
rious rebel ROGER A. PRYoR.
But since the fall elections referred to,
Father BENNETT has been us silent as death
about the great HAsKIS, whose guest was the
rebel Pryor. has said nothing about the
achievements of the "War Democracy" has
not even joked about President JOHNSON, nor
ventured to do anything to shake anybody's
confidence, in men or parties, until yester-
day, when it made the following terrible on
slaught upon the Republican party, from
which We pray for it a speedy recovery.
Speaking of this party, Father BENNETT dis.
cOurseth thus
This party has carried the Government
successfully through the most stupendous
and perilous civil war from which any gov
ernment has survived. The people of the
loyal States poured out their treasures of
men and money for the war without stint.
" The Republicans in power pro-
vided able generals, the greatest general of
the age at the head of them. = 4 The
grand result is the complete triumph of the
Union cause.
Father Bennett will confer great favor
upon the Republican party, and render in
valuable service to the country if he will
continue to abuse both as he did during the
presidential campaigns in which LINCOLN
and HAMLIN and LINCOLN and JOHNSON were
elected
During the last fall Father BENNETT used
the brains and machinery of the Heyaid to
belittle and abuse the gallant Major General
BARLOW, the standard bearer of the Repub-
lcan party of New York State, and the
people of that young empire rose up in their
majesty and might, and, regulating the
false doctrines and statements of BENNETT,
elected BARLOW 6y meariy Mirty thousand
mGJorny' Old Mr. BESNETrs advice to
the " Democracy of New York city was to
vote Tor SLocuM and his Copperhead com
panlOns, JOHS VAN BURES 4 Co.. but the
Democratic vote in that city alone fell off
since the fall of 1864 (which was the fall of
McCLELLAE) about ten thousand votes,
Old Nj BENNETT was for years an od,,o
cate of the drama, opera, and art galleries,
like BARNUM's Museum. lie was "D II .,
everywhere. The consequence was, tbnt
theatres, and music halls, and art galleries
were poorly patrOnized. Suddenly the mu.
steal, theatrical and art managers, under the
lead of MARETzEK and BARNUM got their
eyes open, repudiated BENNETT, and with.
drew all their patronage from his Herald,