New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-07

of tho masses, who always vote for what comes
70 them labeled Democratic, unless good
reason il shown them for voting otherwise.
Tho War being over, we can no longer carry
,,cct;ons by reading bulletins of Union vic
tories and exhorting the People to rally
round the flag" Aud those who are pushing
Gen. Grant for President will land just where
the Wings did with Scott in 80, if they are
allowed to have their own way They utterly
mistake the time OF day.
The Republican party rests under two great
and solemn obligations The first is to the
Freedmen; the second, to the National credit
ors. Il is bound, by every consideration of
honor and good faith, to go TO the very extent
Of its power in protecting the Blacks in tho
full enjoyment of their rights as frecmen and
citizens. and to take care that every one who
loaned his means to the Government to sustain
and nrosecnte the War fOr the Union shall he
maid principal and interest, TO the last farthing
If tho Blacks are to be reduced again to vas
salage and semi Slavery, or if the National
credtors are to be defrauded, that result must
be reached over the Republican party, not
through it, Defeat may be misfortune but IL
Is only misfortune; while infidclity to the
Blacks or to the National creditors would be
crime and immeasurable miamy
We cannot betray the Blacks. To do 80 is
10 compact the entire South in solid phaanX
against us. Tho moment we assent to
Reconstruction on any basis which recognizes
the Black man as entitled to fewer rights than
the White, we consent that every State shall
he locked and chained to the car OF our adver-
sa,es as Kentucky and Maryland now are
And 20 say that we are for Manhood Suffrage
in the South, but not in the North, Is to earn
tho loathing contempt and derisiOn alike
of friends and foes. We have thus, thank
God! no choice but to stand fast by our prin-
ciples, Our allies, and the inalicnable Rights OF
Man. We may be beaten in this position, but
defeat is the worst fate that can bciall us )
while, if we recoil, we shall certainly be Mt
once disgraccd and ruined. If We are " be-
tween the devil and the deep sea- we shall
brave with stout heart the perils OF The stormy
main.
We object 10 the Grant movement that 1t Is
Of the nature of the ostrichs simple strategy
that deceives only himself. There are times in
which personal preference and personal popu-
larity go far; but they are not these times
Does any one imagine that Gen. Grant, sup
ported 10y the Republicans, would carry Mary
land or Kentucky under her present Constltu-
ton against Seymour OF Pendleton lie could
not carry either State even against Forrest
Scmmes or Quantrel. We are involved IN
great struggle, aud must conquer or fall and
pass away.
If our principles do not sustain us, we must go
down. And, if we shall attempt evasion or con-
ccalment, we shall deScrre to go down. Any
candidate who represents our principles and
glories in avowing them, we shall most heartily
support, whether he be Chase, or Grant or Col
fax, or any other. If it were possible that the
Republicans should discard their plain obliga7
tons, and start on an unprinciplcd race for
victory, We should feel little interest in their
success. But this they will never do.