The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-10


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The Great Issue-The Nation Against the
Puritan aud the NigRer.
From the ~ Y. Herald.
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 men who are its leaders. Parties
that no longer have the will of the people
behind them may linger feebly on the stage
for while, but their end is not at all distant
When all the successes of an organization
must be secured by corrupt means, when its
triumphs are due to bargains, not to innate
force, when its purposes are not the peoples
purposes, it is evident that its real power is
gone, and that it must be hustled from the
sight of the nation. The first President of
the United States whose election was not an
expression of the national Will, but was
defiance of that will and the result of bar
gain, was John Quincy Adams. Before the
General Jackson-Jackson had the largest
popular vote-but as the election was not
secured by the peoples voice it went to the
House of Representatives, and there the Presi-
dency was handed over, by bargaining, to a
candidate who had not been the first favorite
with the people. Mr.. Adams had popular
vote smaller than Jackson's; Crawford and
Clay had each a still smaller vote; but through
the influence of Clay a combination was made
on Adams, and the popular will indicated in
Jackson's plurality went for nothing with the
scheming leaders. Adams was President and
Clay had the first place in the Cabinet. This
association, for such purpose, of Adams and
Clay, was what John Randolph called "cor-
rupt coalition between Puritan and black
leg" The people agreed with Randolph in
their opinion of this game, and did not forget
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 of high trust and power;
and four years later, when the people chose a
President again, they gave their most unequi-
vocal voice for the favOrite, Jackson, and de-
! clared the purpose of the people to be free
1 from the thraldom that corrupt leaders had
established. They blotted out at once the
whole party and the whole political edifce of
the corrupt coalition; and the leaders of that
coalition, despite all effort, were kept down
forever by the determined purpose of the
nation.
We have been four years under the thral-
dom fixed upon us by another corrupt coali-
tion--that of the Puritan and the nigger-only
this was a more atrocous bargain than the
other, as the national purpose that has been
betrayed was one nearer the national heart
than any mere choice of 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 vindicate the will of the majority and
maintain the existence of the nation, the peo-
pie made every sacrifice that it is in peoples
power. With an unlooked-for exercise of
strength the nation put down the greatest re-
| bellion of which there is any record, and then
required of the dominant party only that it
should pacify the country and restore peace,
eXact1ng from the conquered merely such a
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 did the leaders in
view of this plain purpose They ignoted it
entirely, treated the known will of the nation
with an insulting Indifference supposed to be
characteristic only of C@sarism. Between
| Puritan and nigger 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-
! ing vote might reta n the Puritan in power.
That is the exact present position of the radi-
cal party. In accom- plishing its purpose thus
far it has traded eaay every little Of principle
| it originally had from the sources of power,
and has reduced the business of government to
grand swindle, filling high places with cor
luptiOn beyond all parallel. Will the people
submit? VIII they consent to see the priuci-
! pies upon which the ma ion stands trad, d to
and fro, between scoundrels to whom the gem
blers, thin ble-rggers, and pocketbook- drop
pers of our streets are, by comparison, honest
! dealers Will they see the very heart and
life OF the nation rotted out, that a craven,
brutal people, to whom slavery was more a
benefit than a degradation, may be set in
power above the white men of the country
| California answers "No! - And in her voice we
may hear what is to come from the people o.
New York and Pennsy lyania-the doom of the
political traders. The people are no longer to
be deceived by the shibboleth of party cries
that have covered with the name of freedom
all this atrocious scheming. They will make
a salutary example of the schemers.
The Peace of Europe.
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