The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-09
The Great I-sue-The Nation Against tn
Puritan and the Niger.


The result of the election in California is the
knell of the republican party, announcing the
absolute reputation by the people of all the
dangerous notions that constitute its political
programme, as well as the Reputation of the
dangerous men who are its leaders. Parties
that no longer have the will OF the people be-
hind them may linger feebly on the stage for
while, but their end is not distant When all
the successes ofan organization must be secured
by corrupt means, when its triumphs are due
to bargains, not to innate force, when its pur-
poses are not the peoples purposes, il is evil
dent that It's real power is gone, and that it
must be hustled from the sigat of the nation.
The first President of the United States whose
election was not an expression OF the national
will, but was a defiance Of that will and the
result Of bargain, was John Quincy Adams.
Before the people the decision in 1924 was in
favor of General 'Jackson-Jackson had the
largest popular vote-but as the election was
not secured by the peoples voice i! went to the
House of Representatives, and there the Presi-
dency was handed over, by bargaining to
candidate who had no. been the first favorite
with the people. Mr.. Adams had popular
vote smaller than Jackson's; Crawford and
Clay had each still smaller vote; but through
the influence of Clay combination was made
on Adams, and the popular will indicated in
Jackson's plurality went for nothing with toe
scheming leaders Adams was President and
Clay had the first place in the Cabinet.
Mt fn- uirch n Adams
and Clay, was what John Randolph called So
corrupt coalition between a Puritan and
blackleg" The people agreed with Randolph
in their opinions of this game, and did not for
get the men who had sold them out Not one
of those involved in this bargain ever recovered
the national confidence All, even Clay, with
his great Abilities were remembered, to be kept
from all places ofhigh trust and power; and four
years later, when the people chose President
again, they gave their most unequivocal voice
for the favorite, Jackson, and declared the pur-
pose of the people to be tree from the thral-
dom that corrupt leaders had established They
blotted out at once the whole party and the
whole political edifice Of The corrupt coalition
and the leaders of that coalition, despite all
effort were kept down forever by The deter
mined purpose Of the nation.
We have been four years under The thraldom
fixed upon us by another corrupt coalition
that of the Puritan and the nigger-only this
was a more atrocious bargain than the other,
as the national purpose That has been betrayed
was one nearer the national heart than any
mere choice OF a magistrate, however high.
With all their might, with all the emphasis of
ballot and bullet, the people made their will
apparent, and the politicians scorned it and
traded it away in their games To vindica.e
the will of the majority and maintain the exist
ence of The nation the people made every sac
rifice that is in q peoples power. With an
unlocked for exercise of strength the nation
put down the greatest rebellion Of which there
is any record, and then required of the domi-
nant party only that it should pacify the coun-
try and restore peace, exlcting from the con-
quered merely such guarantee as would
theoretically provide against the recurrence Of
the war; for, practically, the nation looked upon
the defeat Of the South in the struggle fairly
fought out as the best Of all guarantees for
future peace. And what dill the leaders in
view of this plain purpose: They ignored it
entirely, treated the known will of the nation
with an insulting indifference supposed to be
characteristic only of Ceiarism. Between
Puritan and niger was made the bargain TO
give to the half civilized slave supremacy over
his former master, in order that the political
balance of this brutal, ignorant and unreason-
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That s the exact present position of the radi-
cal party. In accomplishing its purpose thus
far IL has traded away every title of principle
it originally had from the sources of power,
and has reduced the business of government to
a grand swindle, filling high places with cor
ruption beyond all parallel VIII the people
submit? win they consent to see the prnci-
pies upon which the nation stands traded to
sand fro. between scoundrels TO whom the
gamblers. thmble-riggers and pockeibook-
troopers of our streets are, by comparison,
homes. dealers? Will they see the very heart
and life of the nation rotted out, that craven,
brutal people, to whom slavery was more
benefit than degradation. may be set in
power above the white men of the country
California answers "No.r And in her voice we
may hear what Is to come from the people of
New York and Pennsylvania--th doom of the
political traders. The people are no longer to
he deceived by the shibbolcth Of party cries
that have covered with the name of freedom
all this atrocious scheming. They will make a
sautary example of the schcmcrs.
The Nausatuck Railway Accident.