New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-05
THE PREsIDENT AND THE UNION
PARTY.


PARTY.
Tile n. L. Times, discussing the late speech
of Senator Sherman, says:
The most striking points OF Mr.. Sherinahs aoe
speech and which desire TO impress upon our raol'
cal friends were as to ptd 90 gam by an open
rupure with tho President in tie great cause oil have az
heart FIT be the protection of the negro IN al ms
legal rights the securing him his wages aud ireedOin 70
labor when he WILL his personal safety MS educs'ion
and moral instruction. aud his power TO own land and
accumulate property il is obvious that We risk all these
priceless fruits of victory by driving the over
10 the Democracy of the North and the south.
viii the right. minded and humane men throughout
the nation who seek st OF all for Justice 10 the Heed
man. and 10 start this recently enssVed rece on new
career OF progress and freedom. RISK all the results
gained BIZ the Tor distant end. which may not DO
practicable for many yearshut lie. for Universal Suf
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| Remarks By The Tribune
! AT our last Union State Convention. the
Editor of The Times was placed at the head OF
the Platform Committee and reported such
resolves as he saw fit. The candidates also
were mainly the choice Of himself and those
who. with him, were accounted johnson men,
par ,neeilenct Though the Convention was
Radical in sentiment. the Conservatives had
their way in it. because it was deemed best 10
attach President johnson more firmly to the
Union party, and not "drivs him over to the
Democracy"
so the canvass opened and mass meeting
in support of the Union ticket was to be held
in this City. 1t was deemed expedient and
proper that the President should. no matter how
cautiously, avow his sympathy with the party
which elected him. Strenuous efforts were
made to that end. If we are not msinformed,
the Editor OF The Times made a journey to
Washington on purpose to obtain such an
ayowa-but III vain. No syllable was lisped
| by the President, during the canvass, that
cvinced any desire or preference on his part
that the Union ticket should succeed. But Mr..
Montgomery Blair traversed our State, prasine
the President and urging his hearers to support
the Democratic ticket; and We arc well assured
that he privately told the Democratic leaders
that, if they would carry the State, the Custom
House and other "spoils OF victory" should be
their exceeding great reward.
They did MT win, and have Mt yet clutchcd
1.-The spoils." But they had Democratic festival
in Tammsny Hall on the Sth of January, and
had letter from the President-such as we
could nj have for our mass meeting.
| For some time past, the entire Copperhead
and Rebel press Of the country has been enrap-
tured with tho President. The Rebels evidently
expect to regain through him all they lost by
rebellion, civil war and discontinue. The cor
nament Of meek and quiet spirit, which they
displayed for some months, is now entirely dis.
carded. They talk as in tho bad old days when
they supposed King Cotton autOcrat Of the uni-
verse Gen. Neal Dow lately had O converse
ton with two South Carolina aristocrats, who
declared that the South would insist on being
paid Two Billions Of Dollars for her slaves, and
for all the devastation she had suffered during
the war, and have her crippled soldiers and
soldiers widows put on the pension list the
same rs ours. We hear from the West Indies,
aud from various other quarters, that the eY-
Rebels consider themselves masters Of the situa-
ton, through the President, and are acting and
talking accordingly.
The assumption in the Veto Message that
Congress has no right to act on such questions
as are involved in the Freedmen's Bureau BILL
until the States lately in revolt shall be repre-
sented goes to the root of the matter. We
know of no pretensiOn ever set up on the part of
the Rebels that goes beyond this. If it is well
grounded, the representatives Of those States
may fairly and legally vote to repudiate the
National Debt contracted while they were fight
ing to destroy the Union.
From every quarter, the Copperheads and i'm.
penitcnt Rebels b, the Veto Message end the
22d of February speech as their thunder. We
are not aware of adissenting voice among them. |
Democratic fossils who have lain for years buried
under the weight Of popular Indignation at their
undisgused sympathy with the Rebels and pro.
claimed hostility to Coercion, are thawing out
like adders in May sunshine, and evincing an
almost juvenile yivacity. Some who barely
escaped mob violence because Of their disloyal
tendencies, are hurying to Washington in vul.
ture-lke focks. and profess to be there admitted
to the inner councils Of the White House. In
short, they seem to have 1t all their own way.
Congress Is daily bullied and threatened with
being cleaned out by journals which, through
ont our late Civil War. never pretended to con-