The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-15

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tha+ zig party, to satisfy themselves
a~Tdivided party is, to all intents
a purposes, dead party. No
Oner did the Wing party split in
G NO, than the Democratic party, which
g had so successfully overcome when
it elected Presidents Harrison and
Taylor, regained its lost political
power II the Government, and then
held high carnival throughout the ma
ton until the rebellion, a monster
born of" Democracy, smothered it to
death.
IF Republican leaders and Journals
are DESTROYS of having the history and
the fate of the old Wing party repeat
ed in the case of the Republican par
ty, let them go on denouncing, mis-
representing and making war upon
each other, reading this and that man
out of the party who does not square
his actions with their ideas of what
should be, and do their utmost to TO
ment and perpetuate feuds and fac
tiOus divisions withi4 our ranks, as
do the editors of the Chicago Tri-
bNne. Such course on the part of
partisan leaders and journals, if per-
sisted in, will as surely destroy the
unity, and, therefore, the strength, of
a party, as the continued blows of i
sledge- hammer will, in time, sever
and reduce to fragments the hardest
rock.
Such a result would be very crafty
ing to Copperheads and rebels, who
would then become our masters, but
by wise and earnest Republicans it
would be regarded as the greatest
calamity that could at this time befall
the country.
1t is the wildness and madness of
folly for the leaders of either faction
m the Republican party to suppose or
presume that it could succeed at the
polls or anywhere else without the as
sistanee of the other While the counl
try was In a state of war, all loyal
men felt it to be their duty to stand
and vote and fight together, common
desires, impulses and sympathies ani-
mating them. But all loyal men will
not nOao stand andvote together unless
they can stand upon a platform and
vote for principles that all can agree
to and harmonic upon. The John.
son Republicans cannot say to the anti
johnson Republicans, $ We will or
ganlze our own party, and nominate
and elect our own men; we can ret
along without you, for they cannot
elect their own men withsut the votes
of all other Republicans. f7vs-a---
q the . 0lTsUi4 ssa .sEe = lsal "a az
goFpeafEeads Aga d. nuf sustain the
Feeoss tractien policy of congress. We
ere the Republican party. and ron must
pc counted out We can carry the
election without you. This is the IL
liberal, intolerant and domineering
style OF people, but should they carry
out this spirit in the conventions and
party operations, they will do it at the
sacrifice of success, and reduce the
now powerful party of the Union To .
condition OF imp0tency that would
seal ITS fate forever; for the radical
wing OF The Republican party-that i
those men who follow the leadership
of Sumner and Stevens-could not
carry half dozen States in the whole
Union without the assistance of those
other Republicans who are not classed
as extreme radicals. In the State of
Illinois, for example, they alone, with
negro suffrage, their peculiar notions
OF reconstruction, and open opposi-
ton to the Administration. thew |
could not even hope for success. and |
we presume they will not pretend that (
they could.
Hence the folly-the suicidal follv- +
of those who are lending their In
nuence to effect division of the Re- (
publican party, by the feud they are
daily contributing to perpetuate-the
ostracisms of the radicals" ON the
one hand, and the threats of certain
over.enthuslastic supporters of the
PRESIDENT to organize a new party
against the radicals on the other
1t they really wish to restore theH
wicked and reasonable old Demo
cratic party to power, they could not
ldopt a surer method of bringing
about that end.
We said yesterday, and we repeat
,.o-day, that the only hope of safety
.or the cause of national restoration
Ind the future welfare, rests within
.he great Republican party as a nnit
Divide it, and you destroy its power
ind give the reins of Government into
he hands of the country's worst enc
MES. We must look this fact square
n the face. In unity is continued
Iuccess : in division is sure defeat
lefeat at many Congressional cleo
ions, at State and Legislative cleo
ions, and finally in the next Presi-
lential election. bet Republicans,
hen, stand firmly by their party or
sanlzation, be tolerant toward each
'ther in matters of opinion, and labor
'galnst the one danger, of copperhead /
Iscendancy, than which a greater
'alamity could not befall the country :
lnder present circumstances.
We have, in our humble way, hon l
silly and anxiously endeavored. thus !
ar since the reconstruction question
las been in controversy, to pour oil s
lpon the troubled waters, and pre- j
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