New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-11
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TIE SHEETED DH4D.
Many veteran Observers OF tie shifting cur
rent. of American politics are pnz]!eu by 'ne
uncomfortable vitality evmced by the hepuo-
Iican party. Glow is it, they ponder 'l''
" tbis marty. which came into power through inc
" division Of its opponents, who showed u ma
% 1T, &C fullv One Million Of votes, shoulinoW
q" Lo ohle TO defy tho most perfect combination
Z" - III lie c,,cmios? How could it poll, at the
@ fro cmantorv State elections of 1865, tuli
q" cno7ter more votes than in the aTduous Presi-
" Dental struggle of 1850? Why should the re-
" .,lt Of each successive effort to overcome IL
" show it stronger and more inylnclbie than ever
"hcforcY Does it bear charmed llief las IL
made no blunders, given power and patronage
IN no cmbezzlers developed no d.sintcSratinS
&" outiDotbics and antagopiSms in its own ranks
" What accounts for Che firmncsS, the tenacity,
" OF its hold on popular confidence .
We answer:
The Republican party is mortal, like al parties
which rycccded IT, and viii die when its time
comes 1t has made great mistakes IL mas
been mislcd into putting thieves and s"lnHlcss
into power, and these have robbed the Nation
70 It's sore discredit and injury. And the one
paramount reason for The plolonSailon OF It's
mower is the fired determination Of The Copper
heads 10 uccccd Il and tie equally stern reSoite
of the People that trey sha'at
Mcclellan would probably have been beaten
for President anyhow; but he would not have
been so utterly routcd but for the Copperhead''
who insisted on shoyng,undcr him platform
vbercon no man could stand. The Phiiadcl-
nbia arm-in-am Convention could hardly have
unset the Republican asccndancy anyhow; yet
the effort need not have resulted in such sig
nal. disastrous failure. if the most conspicu-
Gus and obnoxious COppcrhcads had not lnsiS''d
on bossing the job. And thc recent EiSlth-oI-
January reyiralS have shown the same tend-
cious resolve of the most notorious and odiouS
Coppcrheads not To let the Republicans give
place TO any rival aspiants to power but them
selves so it looks a. though the Republican
ascendancy must be pretty safe for The next
six years.
The Connecticut gathering was quite large,
considering That 10 ticket was to be nominated
and was reasonably earnest and spirited. The
Hon. James Brooks maIcal0IG and fluent speech
not 20 good as he used to make on our SIDE,
nor so foiciblc as his solemn protcsation I'M
the Whig State Address OF $40 that he would
rcrer consent to the surrender of any more
r..l.ol =, cl.,.o,, Two cr three other, smoke
| less absurdly than might have boon expected.
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all prominent. all speaking or resolving, at
intent on not letting the people forget that,
Whenever the Rcpuhlicaus 20 ont of power,
! thew must be- succeeded by politicians who
! tried in every possible way 20 parlyzc The Ma
tovol arm, clio, ,oi.,d in ,,rcvert tle f,rcihl.
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