The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-27

puoi shed letters favoring recon-tg lcton
Brigsdier Geoerai Edward File. graduate OF West
Point and at one time commander OF brigade under
General Buell. died at Urbana, Ohio, yesterday.
Aamira! Raphael semmes has Withdrawn from the
editorial mansgom Of tho Memphis BuHsin
The expected fight Acqus Creek between two Phila.
depha pugists did not take place yesterday. as mis-
take occurred ana ono Of lighters did not reach the
spo. in time
senator ConkIIng's Fancy sketch Of the
Republican Party.
Senator Conkling, as President and poet
laureate of the late Syracuse Convention, pre-
sented il q highly colored fancy sketch OF the
wonderful achievements of the immaculate
republican party. He says:-"I came into
existence instinct with progress, humanity and
liberty !" that ait was party Of ideas, not Of
privilege for a few, but Of human rights for
all - that when 1t came into power In 1851
!" the republic was almost extinct, the Trea-
sury was bankrupt, the army was surrendered,
the navy was scattered in distant seas, the
Union was in form dissolved, traitors sat in
the Cabinet and in Congress, . traitor pre-
sided in the Senate, dupe Of traitors held
the Presidential chair, dissatisfaction was
everywhere, and half continent was In
revolt Such predicament had never been
known in the experience Of nationA Was
restoration possiblef The kings and the
cabinets Of Christendom said no. Our political
opponents said no. The foes OF liberty and
its timid friends said no. The republican
party said yes, and moved calmly forward"
Now, whilu the condition OF the country In
1861 is here fairly stated, the glory which Mr.
Conkling awards the republican party, in
trampling down impossibilities, in recreating
tho government, in conducting the greatest
war Of the century, and in liberating four mil
lions Of slaves, and so forth, belongs to the
loyal masses Of the people Of the loyal States.
In 1861 there was hardly show Of organized
opposition in the North to Mr.. Lincoln's ad-
ministration; the rank and Gle Of the demo-
cratic party, with the republicans, were merged
into the great Union war party. Our leading
Union generals, regulars and volunteers, were
drawn from the old democratic party; and
Tammany Hall was as active as any Union
league club in mastering regiments of
volunteers for the war. From the ter
rible disasters of the Union armies
in 1862, the democratic party, in New York,
for example, took bold ground for "a more
vigorous prosecution of the war;" and the re-
suit was the election Of Horatio Seymour cs
Governor by ten thousand majority Penn
sylvania also turned right about face, and had
the democracy held fast to that war platform
they would doubtless have been charged with
| the duties of carrying through the war and the
| work Of rcstsration. Down to the fall elections
charged with the conduct OF the war had failed,
In the Judgment of the people, to give salts
factory report Of profit and loss.
But from that point the "pcace at my price,
follies and blunders Of the democratic copper
head leaders. and Abraham Lincoln's emancl-
patton proclamation, and the victories of Grant
and the great triumph at Gettysburg, brought
over the loyal masses o. the North into an
active support Of the republican party against
| the democratic copperheld cry that the war
Tor the Union was a failure, and that wo must
have peace at any price. SO II was that the
loyal masses OF the North, with lavish offerings
Of men, money, means and facilities Of all
4 xmas never DeiOre kuOWn III tue uistOry O
any people, carried through the administration
Congress and the republican party, to the sub
| jugation of the rebel States and the abolition
Of slavery. And yet, under republican man
agement the war was the most exiravagant In
its expenditures and the most wastcful In men
money and materials Of any war since the
Florida war Of Van Buren,, in which forty
millions OF money were squandered in reduc
ing less than thousand Seminole warriors.
The truth 10 that as the vital elements Of the
republican party were drawn from the ole
democratic party, 30 have the spoils anc
plumber proclivities Of the one been transfer
red from the other. But what says Mr.. Conk
lingi He paints the republican party a. al
angel Of light embarrassed in its path to th'
millennium, chiefly by Andrew johnson, u
angel OF darknesa All our present trouble
are by Mr.. Conkling strapped upon the bacl
Of this convenient scapegoat, Andrew John
son. There Is, however, another side to thi
picture The republican party has been faith
less TO lie pledges and to the will OF th
people. 1t presented 70 the people last yea
a. iis platform OF reconstruction The pendin
} constitutional amendment leaving II to the r.
specsive states 10 choose between siifrag
and representation on the one hand aud r.
l.