Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-23
UNION STATE TICKET.
Thu End Orthe Third Party Move
mant. L .--

DlCnNs .
The adoption, by an overwhelming ma
iority in both branches of Congress of the
wise, prudent and patriotic measures OF
reconstruction embodied in the Constitu-
tioAal Amendment has sealed the fate OF
the third party movement. The signs OF
the times indicate that the President n
his friends, beaten st all points and really
alarmed at the unity of the Northern peo-
pie against them, have abandoned their
attempted tresehery, have laid aside their
loud-mouthed devotion to "my policy"
and will passi7ely submit to, if they do
not actively sid in, the ratification of the
Amendment. The National Union Club
Of Washington, run by A. W Randall,
Green Clay Smith, and a few more ad-
berents of the bread-and-butter party, has
been dissolved. The President has semi
officially announced that if Congress will
let him alone he will let it alone-in
other words that while he cannot
commit himself in favor of the
Congressional policy, he will not, if he
can avoid it, commit himself against it.
Add to these facts that the Republican
party in Congress, always excepting the
apostates Doolittle, Cowsn and Norton,
stands united in favor of the amendment,
and that the Johnson papers al over the
country are giving in their adhesion tO.it,
and it becomes evident to the most care
less observert that the unity of the party is
~unbroken, and that tmy policy" and the
johnson party have died the death Of the
unrighteous. Bee 5-rr
An illustration Of the way in which
the current is sweeping may be found in
the events of the recent State Union Con-
yention. The day before that Conven-
ton assembled, the clique Of Federal
offce-holders which has been working SO
hard to get control of the party in Ohio
were loud in their boast that johnson
would DO endorsed and his policy sus-
tanned in that body. But when it assem-
bled they were thunderstruek at theirlack
of supporters. No johnson men were TO
be found am ong the delegates. The sp-
pointment Of the Committee OF Resolu-
lions was made by each district delega-
ton withthe greatest cAre,And not one ofits
facts, tn a ofice-hOlders aforesaid were sur
prised and delighted at the mAgnanimity
o fthe majority. They knew very we'll
that the most radical doctrines would
command the personal assent of nineteen
twentieths OF the delegates, and they
were pleased to be let off as easily as they
were. They saw that the party
was sure oftriumph at the fall elections
by fly thousand majority and that a
third party would not have members
enough to make up a state central com
mittee; and they at once turned tail on
"my policy, and announced t1eir adhe-
sion to a cause the success of which they
could not prevent. The result is that the
Union front is unbroken and that the
Union party of Ohio stands undivided in
support of the policy of Congress.
As it is in Ohio, it is everywhere. The
johnson party is dead, dead, dead Con-
gress is triumphant The Reconstruction
Amendment viii receive the ratification
of every Northern State within a twelve
month. The traitors to the Union organ
~izstion, who have declared that the use
fitness of the party was at an end and
that it ought to die, must come sneaking
back, begging for mercy, or, scattered and
alone, find friendly refuge in the bosom
of the Democracy. To US it matters lit
tie which they do.