The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-15

other people. Our good and the good OF the
native populations are not incompatible. They
may 60, and they ought to 60, hand in hand.
General Grant tho Raliyiug Poiat or Popular
Power.
Certain citizens Of Virginia recently wrote
letter to John Minor Bolts and some other
party men and politicians in that region, urging
good reasons why the people of the State
should not be divided by arbitrary political
lines for the benefit Of small demagogues. The
letter Of these gentlemen indicates that they
perceive remedy for the evil They use these
that the great soldier who commands the enthu-
siastic attachment of his own section and the
undivided respect of ours may be the In
strument under God of overthrowlng the des-
potism Of party, of uniting all our people, and
of restoring those fraternal relations which
ought to exist among citizens of common
country" By these words we may perceive
that there is more wisdom in the Old Dominion
than comes to the surface In lis party struggles.
We may see that the men in Virginia capable
of really weighing the present trouble and of
perceiving the only safe way out of II, are not
numbered or named among party leaders
have only an individuality as part of the great
popular mass, and keep to private life. No
man recognized outside of Virginia, as a prom
inent politician, could have seen the mischief
so clearly or have described il so well. Party
leaders there are lost in party struggles. To
them there is nothing else but party. But this
letter of the citizens of Louisa published in
yesterdays HERALD), rising like an emanation
from the general thought of the section, shows
that the popular mind is sound and healthy.
Over the whole country it is the same as in
Virginia. Party strife is the grand evil Of the
hour Faction rules and ruins Faction in
Congress carries certain law, and faction out
side prevents its enforcement. Congressional
faction thus finds its hands strengthened, goes
further, and continued opposition only serves
to furnish it with excuses for newer and
greater aggression and encroachment. Thus
governm INT, law, peace and the national well
fare ara tossed from faction to faction; and
who shall say where they will land It is the
South that suffers to day; but if we permit this
10 60 on against the South shall we not make
the precedent on which future factions will
condemn us also? Robespierres are typical
figures in history, and they die always on the
guillotines that they have made part Of the
law. How shall we stop this war of factions?
History tells us there is but one way. To
throw off the tyranny Of party The people must
have a nucleus for the gathering Of their
strength. They must rally round the person
Of some great leader-some man Of power,
courage, fidelity-and, combining on him, give
him the strength and confidence to put down
the factions. BY making Cincinnatus dictator
the Romans saved the State. Later Romans
would have saved It again if they had done the
same by Cesar before the factions had time TO
kill him. Nations must profit by such lessons.
The only chance for the American people to
stay the ruinous war Of faction Is to gather
around Grant and con6de to him the strength
and the power to pacify and restore the nation.
In Virginia the people see this as the obvious
fact. Elsewhere it is seen also, and as this
idea comes to prevail and the people act on it
through the ballot box we shall have satsra
torily solved the great problem Of our national
troubles.