The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-07-25
stand Firm.

stand Firm.
The political sky is becoming o'ercast
The Republican party, the President,
and the Democratic party are having a
triangular fight. The Republican party
hold that the States which have lately
rebelled against the general govern.
ment, should not yet be admitted to
have full voice in the administration
IF that government which they SO
earnestly sought to destroy, and the
preservation Of which has cost us so
many thousand lives, at least not until
they have brought forth some fruits,
meet for repentance.
The President, who was elected Vice
President by the Republican party,
takes the privilege Of differing with the
party and says those States should be
admitted Immediately, provided they
come with representatives who are per
sonally loyal.
The Democratic party, who would,
Judging from their past course and pre-
sent policy, admit them with any repre-
sentatiyes they might chose to send,
being unable to carry out their party
creed, pat the Presiden. on the back
b, sustaining his policy for the reaamis
sion Of the rebellious states, accepting
this as the greatest consolation they
can obtain, and as an important enter
ing wedge for the splitting of the Re-
publican party. In the mean time the
President put poorly reciprocates their
fictitious love for him, by failing t. give
them any Of the tangible crums that
fall from his provisional table, in the
shape of appointments. lie is almost
daily removing, Republicans who were
appointed to Office under the admins
tration Of Lincoln, and supplanting them
with other Republicans who endorse
more fully his policy.
Congress aajourns to dav, and after
this the ak vii undoubtedly fall more
rapidly than heretofore. o. the l4th
Of August next there will be held wha
is called the National Union Party con
vention, at Philadelphia. Conservative
Republicans, such as Doolittle of Wis
consin, Browning Of Illinois, and few
| others who endorse Mr. johnson s
policy, called It, Mr.. Seward, we I'm
derstand favors the convention In
this convention the Democracy quickly
d scovered another opening wedge with
which to divide the great Republican
party; therefore they endorse it. Not
a single Democratic State convention,
held since the Philadelphia convention
was called, has failed to appoint dele
gates to attend the latter. Now, a. the
Democracy will undoubtedly greatly
outnumber the conservatives at that
convention they will manipulate the
affair SO that it shalt be just as Demo
| cratic as the conservatives can stand,
while they Of course beready to swallow
| anything they can get. They will after
ward loudly applaud the acts of the
convention, and thus commence
gradually swallowing the conservatives,
who viii perceive by the time another
+! convention Of their stripe is held at
| which nominations are to be made, that
they have not only been very nicely
swallowed but that they arc actually
being digested by the Copper Demo.
cracy, to their advantage just as they
intended to serve these new party-mak-
ers from the start. Now ia view Of The
present ana prospective state Of affairs
we advise and earnestly urge all Re.
publicans to stand firm. The Republi
can party has saved the country from
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and ruin, while the
| Democratic party under their Presi.
dents and especially under Buchanan
plunged our country into one Of the
greatest rebeliions that past history
can furnish. DO not let us be led
astray BY any Of the new dogmas which
have been conceived and hatched in
tho evil brain Of the Democracy. Da,k
clouds are over us and the. political sea
is being lashed into furry but be not
disheartened. Let every true Republican
stand firm to the helm and we will yet
weather the Storm.