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Tbo RepubIcan Rumpus-The Fate OF
Revolutionary Re0cttOnists'

The singular course of Horace Greeley in
volunteering as a representative Republican
10 secure the release of JEFF. Davis, the CHIEF
of the Southern Rebellion on straw ball. has
been the means of developing very serious
rupture in the Republican ranks; and although
the "narrow minded blockheads" composing
the Union League Club of this city nave
beep bullied by Greeley from their purpose
of expelling him from their associatlon, the
people of the rural districts and throughout
the West will find means of expressing
their disapproval of his act in a different
way. Indeed, it is not in the power of any
league to stop the damaging effect OF this
stuItGcation of party calling itself '1oyal."
II is bornbsheI which has exploded in the
midst of the Republican camp, and it has
form tbe organization all to pieces in this
state and throughout the country. "The
Iittle creatures whom God, for some inscru-
table purpose permits to edit majority of
our minor Journals" and the 'lmpudent
puppies" and 'inseots" who subscribe tor
the Tribune are all denouncing it as crime
TO the nation and practical justification of
the Rebellion.
But although a great deal of astonishment is
expressed at Greeley's conduct, and although
the LOYAL Leaguers mistakenly think him
s'weak sentimentalist, misled by a maudlin
philosophy" he is, after all, only the instru-
fnent by which history is repeating itself. 1t
is the fate of nearly all revolutionary parties
10 have their internal commissions, and to
throw overheard and destroy, one after
another the men who have built them up.
When a great movement has been started,
which upsets the existing order OF things
and originates new era, there will always be
found q party within the party anxious to stop
the onward sweep of the machine in fear that
IL NAV run too far; but those who endeavor to
apply the brakes are generally thrown to the
ground and left crushed and powerless in the
rear. Not to cite more remote history, it was
so in the French revolution, when, one after
another, the reactionists were swept aside and
destroyed Mirabeau, one of the master spirits
who started the revolutionary tide by his bold
resistance to the encrOachments of the royal
power endeavored, subsequently, in vain to
check its progress and bitterly uttered on his
deathbed the significant prediction, CATER my
death the factions will tear to shreds the rem
nants of the monarchy" AT a certain stage
of the revolution the Girondists made their
stand against the ultra revolutionary party,
but were borne down by the fierce impetuosity
of the Jacobins, and the guillotine ended their
attempt to allay the storm they had helped to
raise. Robespierre, after sending the oppo-
nents of his terrible rule to the scaffold, be-
came himself victim. The remnant of the
Jacobins strove to lull the revolutionary storm
and enjoy their power in peace; but in their
turn they were swept away, and France, after
a wild whirl Of confusion and anarchy, fell
into the hands of military dictator. BY the
history of the English Revolution the same
lesson is taught, and it is found that there, as
elsewhere, the men who having Joined their
fortunes with the onward movement, endea-
vored to pause on the road and hold back
their more impetuous associates, have only
brought about their own destruction, without
accomplishing their object.
The great revolution, the seeds of which
were planted thirty years ago in our own SOIL
and which sprang into saetiYe life on the Re-
bellion OF the South, is not exempt from the
general law which appears to have controlled
such events from the earliest period of the
worlds history. When it was found that to
defeat the attempt of Southern traitors, headed
by JEFF. Davis, to destroy the Government OF
the United States, it became necessary to de-
velop the full powers of the Constitutional
make war against treason, to sweep away old
institutions and to maintain the inviolability
of the nation at the cost OF millions OF trea-
sure and nearly a million of iyes-the whole
loyal people became revolutionists 1t was
soon found that the Jacobins of the party
Stevens, Wendell Phillips, Butler and their
followers = like Robespierre and the
French Jacobins were not contented to
pause at the accomplishment of the
Rebellion; and one by one prominent
originators of the revolution have en-
deavored to stay its onward sweep; but
they have all in turn been overthroWn and
politically guillotned. Thurlow Weed was
one of the first reactionists; but he was speedily
upset, driven out of his influential State party
organ at Albany, and compelled to find shell
ter in an obscure corner of this city. Ray
mond made feeble effort at resistance and
wrote trashy address for the great Philadel-
phla lovefeast of Copperheads, Rebels and
recent and venomous apostates;' but he only
succeeded In losing his subscribers his place
In Congress, and his position in his party.
Andrew johnson, very fierce Jacobin at
the start, originated a stop policy, narrowly
escaped impeachment, and only waits the ter
mination of his official career to end his
political existence. Greeley, who bv his old.
time abolitionsm contributed as much or
more than any other individual to the revoln
tion, now steps forward as straw bail for the
chief of the Rebels, declares that there can be
no punishment under the law for the political
eocentricity of treason, gives the lie to all the
former professions of his party, exceeds by his
own act all that the Copperheads have done
and are doing to prove that the war was not
a success and that the Rebellion has not been
subdued-and all for the avowed purpose O
stopping the onward movement OF his JacobiI
associates And now Greeley must suffer tn,
fate of other reactionists, and he and his pape
must 90 to the dogs; for the revolution com
menced thirty years ago is still going on.
will not end with giving liberty and suffrag
to the Southern blacks; and as Greeley has en-
deavored to check it before the proper time, b.
upsettng all its established theories and VIC
lating its most sacred principles, his fate i
scaled. We shall not be surnrsad 10 sea Dana