Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-11
q NEW PARTY.
Great Division Among the Republican
and Democratic Supporters OF An.
drew JOhnsOn's Policy.


Washington Correspendenee Philadelphia Press.l
a good deal Of amusement has been
excited by what proves to be a thorough
break between the johnson Democrats,
led by Montgomery Blair, and the john
son Republicans. The first sign is in the
htelligcncer of this morning, which, with
| Characteristic caution but badly concealed
bitterness, denounced the johnson meet
ing last evening, because that meeting
dees not abuse the radicals, and stamps
the men who managed it as the 4" jHe6ect-
i've eOlg7terpaTts" of the Democrats who
constitute the great majority of the new
johnson Organization. The secret history
of this break, which could not be avoided
in the natu e of things, and only proves
the impossibility of mixing oil and water,
is about as follows; Montgomery Blair
has organized what he calls a johnson
National Club" containing a representa-
tive or member from each of the States of
the Union. Of the whole list of officers,
committee and all, there are not more
than five or six Republicans, and one of
these, Senator Van Wrinkle, declined tie
moment he saw his name in print. The
remainder are the active supporters of
Lane and Breckenridge in 1850, and of
Mcclellan and Pendleton in IS64-inclu-
ding a number who voted for Jefferson
Davis as the President and Dictator of the
rebel C~onfederacy, and sustained him in
all his cruelties and outrages. NThis "
ment alarmed the conservative Republi-
cans. One of the indications of their
feeling was the reputation of the H1teIi-
genoer by the State Department-the IN
tetHgeHeer being the organ Of Blair, and
Blair being the most constant asssilant of
Secretary Seward. The meeting which
oaHaOAH Lest evening -AduS-tiz Ia
take place on the 2sth ult, but was post
poned, the reason evidently being to pre-
vent its falling into the hands of the Cop
perheads under Blair. This will account
for the fact that not a single Copperhead
or Democrat took part in the meeting;
also, that the resolutions contain the ex-
Jruordinary avowal that the meeting is in
favor of the admission into Congress of
July elected loyal members from the South
I0ho can take the celebrated iron-cLad test
oath. Now, when you recollect that the
22d of February meeting held at Growers
Theatre, in this city, was simply a re-
petition of the worst Copperhead SLAM
ueIE-cNG eli gong ~ AdE Is " clQOIo6 the
right of secession, and to declare that it
could not be punished, and also to take
grounds against the test oath" or all at
Jempts to impose conditions upon the re-
turned or seeded States and the admission
Of Representatives from their districts,
you will perceive at a moment the cause
Of the divergence. Montgomery Blair is
working with the returned rebels in all |
the Border States TO force the repeal of
laws restricting rights of suffrage to those
who have been true to the Government, |
and of course must work against the test
oath" in Congress and all kindred ~restric-
tons. This is a bad business both for
Blair and the InteLIigencer, especially in
view Of the preparations made by both TO
take possession of the Administration. |
The LntsLligenceT, full of Blair's idea of
driving Seward and Stanton out of the
Cabinet, and of controlling the patronage
of the Government, made a second attempt
to establish a Sunday paper, the first num-
Der of which appeared last Sabbath. 1t
is rather a poor encouragement to the
enterprise that, just as they expected
to begin to gather the harvest of their
hopes, a chilling frost has blasted them.
v bAAAo 4C3NOo TX ASoAAulAb1 N0Pt- |
nent sayeth not. That Blair has been his
intimate friend there can be no doubt.
That he has spoken for johnson in num-
Der of the States is beyond question. 1t
is even asserted that the secession resolu-
tions of the 22nd of February were first
exhibited to the President and approved
by him, and it is now claimed hat the
second resolutions, adopted by the meet
last evening, were also read and sane
by himl This is a matter, how
ever, for the c~ontending parties to adjust.
It contains the valuable moral that men
cannot, in a crisis like this, hold together
by hatred to others. No party
can exist that stands upon prejudice alone.
the patronage of the General Gov
eminent cannot c~oalesce johnson Repub-
Iicans and johnson Democrats. On the
other hand, the great radical, earnest ma
in Congress, representing three
Of the people of the United
States, standing upon the gospel of free
iom, conscious of right and full of the
determination to succeed, have here an
,ther encouragement to continue the good
light, and to scatter to the winds all doubts
md dependencies.