Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-20
The Now Party ,1sv,u,n,.

The breaking up Of the Cabinet is an
incident Of the new party movement. The
President has completed the business Of
swinging around the circle" so far as to
give direct encouragement to the Philadel-
phia Convention. and to oppose the ratif-
cation by the State Of Tennessee of the
Constitutional Amendment. We do not
discover in this, evidence that Mr.. John
son is a traitor, as is f~ippantly charged,
nor do we hold him exclusively response
BILE for the u~nfriendly relations between
himself and Congress, though we regard
him as ~singularly wanting in tact, and
driven BY his headstrong combativeness,
and the ~menacing demeanor Of the Radi.
calls, into a false position that is unfortu-
nate for him, and unfortunate for the
country.
No dis~passionate observer can have
failed to mark. during some weeks past,
the growing importance Of the Philadel-
phia Convention. II has derived its i'm
portance chiefly from the abandonment,
by many Of the Democratic leaders, Of
their party organization TO 60 into it, and
from the favor with which it has been re-
ceiyed in the South.' 1t is to be a Con-
vention that, in q geographical sense, IS
national. and will be remarkable as the
frs, assembly Of representatives from all
sections of the Union, since the secession
lists left Congress. That this will furnish
an advantageous base Of operations need
not be denied.
The question is whether those who oc-
cupy it will have the sagacity to use it ef-
fectually. The Union party. upon the
close Of the war, had the means in its wi
hands to rule the country for forty years.
As for sectional parties, il was a sectional
party that controlled the Government tor
a generation, and it was built upon slav-
cry. The National debt is, taken by IT.
self, a prodigious element OF political
power. Join to it the victorious National
sentiment, predominant in the North, and
it becomes nearly invincible, and can
build up a party in the South as slavery
built up q party in the North. But a
good deal Of the original power OF the
Union party has already been wasted.
The strivings for the unattainaole have
fruitlessly exhausted energies that might
have accomplished many things useful If
rightly directed. There would not have
been a breach between Congress and the
President If the former had started with
the views and in the temper that prevailed
six moths later. We have spoken Of the
actual want of a strong and respectable
opposition party. The majorities OF the
Union men have been too great,
and the opposition to them too dis
repu,able-too closely associated with
t~reason-for the good of the party IN
power. In a Republican form Of Govern
ment a sturdy and legitimate opposition is
good We have been wanting in that
element Of health, and the Union party
has naturally run into excuses. 1t is not
impossible that the Philadelphia Conven-
ton may bring forth a new party that
will do the country good service as an
opposition party. The possibility is that
Of uniting that portion Of the Northern
Democracy, which is not reasonable, with
Southern men who are not r~eactionary.
Give such a combination the support OF
the President, and it will not be contemp-
,ible. At any rate it will be wholesome
to have the Union leaders held to a more
rigorous accountability. The Union party
has enough to do to take care Of itself,
without %shouldering all the debris OF the
old Wing party, and adopting all the
vagaries Of fanatical agitators. The new
party to be organized at the Philadelphia
Convention will be outgeneraled IT the
Union men in Congress stop where they
are. check up peremptorily the strong ten
denotes developed to legislate for class in
,eres,s, abate their immodsrate restrictive
policy, aud indicate confidence in the
healing efficacy Of Time, and the good
sense Of the people. But If Radicalism
on all subjects is relentlessly pursued-if
the hobby Of negro suffrage is further rid
demand dis,rust Of every body outside
the old liberty party is further displayed
if there is extortionate taxation coupled
with proaiga,e expenditure-she new
party will be in every respect formidable.
Cincinnati Commercial July 24th.