New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-22
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Tho ipcratitude of Republics is proverbial, and II
tho proverb had addeS something TO the same effect
about tho Republican party, it would have met with
the same cordial assent that has been given to the
original statement We blush indeed, for our species
when we read, day after day, the columns of abuse
that are showered upon Mr.. johnson, Mr.. Seward,
and the Other hard-working gentlemen who make up
what is called tile Presidential party. We really do
not WONDER that even so meek and patient man as
Mr.. Johnson-a proud and sensitive man, as Mr..
Beecher calls hm-should have, once or twice. al
lowed himself to speak Of the press that permits such
abuse in its columns as "base venal and subsidized
But, to our thinking, even If the newspapers
had all these bad qualities, they would not
DO so reprehensible as their ingratitude
makes them. Just let the candid reader
think moment. We are at the beginning OF
most important political campaign, in which, a few
weeks ago the prospect was that the South would be
able TO gain by chicane and fraud at the polls what
she had lost in fair fight on the battlefield. good
many of US felt decidedly blue Our enemies went
about like roaring lions. and sharpened their claws,
and dashed themselves into good rousing fury to
deyour US as soon as killing time set in, which they
said would be very soon. 1t was hard enough to see
the carcass of the Confederacy which we had left for
dead rising up from the CORY field like another Fail
staff and shouting out grim defiance that it had not
been much killed after all but il was harder still to
see the sneaking band Of Northern Copperheads
who as soon es the trumpes of victory sounded,
erawled away to their holes like toads at sunrise,
now hopping about as happy as if they felt sure the
night were coming agan-as, indeed, Mr. Raymond
assures them it SHALL if his party is defeated Every
IT. l.. u oil ae1 1alft i
ent over this state OF things only few weeks ago.
We saw before US a long, expensive, Woodworking
campaign. We saw that, if we would carry the day,
we must expect to work like Titans and spend money
like water There were thousands upon thousands of
tracts to be printed, campaign documents, CAMPAIGN
TEIBUgYs and these must be circulated, sown broad
cast over the land at further expense and further
trouble Then, again, there were the speeches. Our
ablest men must put on harness, and work night and
day for weeks and weeks. They must travel too, and
at what expense Think Of car and steamboat bills
Think. if you dare Of hotel bills; and there is the
charge for halls and platforms and music and pop
guns and defeat perhaps very like to be theend of all
this deuge of money, wit, eloquence and patriotism.
Such was the prospect before US a few short weeks
AGO, And now what difference! How the horizon
has cleared. Behold how brightly breaks the morn
! ing, way down East, over Maine! See over brave
Vermont God bless her the Northern lights like the
spears of an army with banners Of silver and fame
And New.York is sure to follow and Pennsylvania,
who can doubt And Indiana is no longer aquestion,
and every loyal mans pulses throb with exultation
over the redemption that draweth nigh Who did
this thing1 Who wrought this amazing change
Who lifted this burden Of toll and expense which,
necessary as it was We all felt to be at best a
sordd charge, from our shoulders and set US freel
OF course, It's the Lords doings, but who were the
mortal instruments If these scurvy Radicals are
not ashamed to look us in the face and listen to US
we tell them that to the proud and sensitive Johnson,
and the oily and prophetic Seward they owe debt
they can never pay. Mr.. Seward alone is bill
they can never foot. How these men have worked for
us. How they have spoken, in season and out OF
season, without yielding to their own WEAKNESS or to
that Of their hearers What pleasing power OF humor
the Secretary has showed How he has condescendedt to
the lowest capacity and gamboled with US IN the most
| niantile way. How he has not been ashamed to
prove TO the mob that age is not necessarily veneer
| able nor experience necessarily prophetic, nor the