The New York herald., 1866-07-09

EuCc5 VI IciOIiu, unS tioAasc0 Tvs plouSeb III Ue
most outrageous manner, and has wholly for
feited the confidence Of the people. The old
democratic party, now disbanded by an official
manifesto from its Congressional representa-
tives, was SO imbecile and corrupt that nobody
could regret to see it superseded by the repub-
lican organization but in every respect the
change has been for the worse, with the single
exception Of the fact that the republican poll
ticians were shrewd enough to adapt themselves
to the loyal sentiment Of the North during the
recent rebellion. While the war lasted the
people were fully engrossed with Its incidents
and its necessities, and the enormities practised
by the republicans almost escaped attention.
Congressman robbed the public treasury and
aided corrupt contractors in their extortions
but when the elections came round the people
voted for these dishonest representatives be-
cause they were thought to be more loyal to
the Union than those democrats who declared
our righteous and triumphant war . failure.
Thus it happened that at the last Congres
sional elections we had only the war
issue. All the candidates professed the
warmest attachment and devotion to the ad-
ministration. No political or financial ques-
ton was involved in the canvass. The people,
therefore, had practically no choice but to give
their votes to the Union candidates and against
the peace-tainted, shent-per-shent democracy.
Now that the war is over, however, that one
vital, absorbing isVle has passed away. There
are no copperheads and no war men any more.
Consequently at the next elections new issues
will be developed, and a new party must be
formed to meet these issues.
The old democra tic party is dead The re-
publican party only waits for the popular ver-
dict to be also annihilated. As represented by
the radicals in the present Congress its policy
is q complete contradiction of its platforms
and pledges Started as Union party, IL has
now become the party of disunion. Originally
opposed to slavery, it now attempts to impose
Northern slave drivers upon the negroes, who
were freed, not by proclamations or politicians,
but by the armies of General Grant. More
than this, it maintains that anomalous institu-
ton. the Freedmen's Bureau, for the benefit OF
agents and officials OF o vast expense to the
government, and connives at cruelties which,
to the reports of Generals Steedman
and Fullerton, exceed any ever practised by
Southern slaveowners Promising financial
reforms and an economical administration of
the government, 1t is more corrupt than
any other party that ever gained
power. Where democratic politicians stole
thousands of dollars the republicans have
stolen millions. Under their gross mismanage-
ment during the war FIVE dollars were wasted
for every dollar necessarily expended. The
people could nave endured this with patience,
however; for no price Is too great to pay Cor
the Union. But not only does the public plum
dering continue, now that the war is over, but
the Union, for which we have paid SO dearly
in blood and treasure, is not restored. On the
contrary, the President, whom the republicans
elected and whom the republican Congress-
men vowed before the people TO sustain, is
now denounced as o traitor and persecuted
with the utmost malignancy for pcrsisling in
the work of restoration and for vetoing the
Congressional jobs During the present scs-
sion alone Congress has engaged in transpa-
rent swindles amounting to over two hundred
and fifty millions Of dollars. The infamous
Freedmcn's Bureau bill, which the President
vetoed, would have disposed of fifty millions,
and another bill of the same character, appro-
priating six millions, is now presented. Ben
Wade's Montana job, also vetoed, gave twenty
five millions to . party Of grasping specula-
tors. The national banks are presented with
a bonus OF thirty millions, drawn from the
pockets Of the laboring men. Jay Cookies
millions. Twenty millions are to be bestowed
upon the contractors for building Mississippi
levees, If the urgent appeals of the radical
organs are needed. Jobs in regard to Mexico,
footing up from twenty to fifty millions, are
already proposed-one of them by Mr.. Thad.
Stevens himself The Internal Revenue bill,
just passed, is crowded with private jobs.
The Tariff bill, now under debate, takes
from thirty TO forty millions from poor laboring
men to make manufacturers more wealthy.
Some of Its provisions are obviously intended
to increase the prices of stocks Of goods on
hand, and others are openly acknowledged to
be designed for political effect in Pennsylvania.
Such corruption Is unparalleled, and will be
followed by an unprecedented revulsion in
politics.
We have given the indictment against the
republican party somewhat in detail but the
issues OF the next election may be generally
expressed in two phrases the reconstruction
of the Union and financial reform. A party
that excludes eleven States from the Union
when We have sacrificed so much to bring them
back into the UNION that legislates for mo-
nopolies and against the working classes that
augments the taxes and spends the revenue in
jobs, and that increases the tariff in the face Of
an income of six hundred and twenty millions
Of dollars, cannot retain power in this country
Conservative republicans oppose It for its dis
unionism the democrats denounce 1t for its
corruntion and even euch ultraists aa Wendell