The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-06-26
CANDIDATES AND ISSUES.

Candidates at New York must not be Sc.
psst must e There mas BE- an oS
livion of 1t. The simple question should be,
who can now, upon great vital issues, get most
voissP Who and what shall best conduce 10
suecessi There must now be among those who
are or should be friends by the
,'Brunt Of equal blows,
union, harmony, concession; everything for
the cause, nothing for men.
stale names issues. way, and devices mSs
modern record, SO to speak, and platform In
the nature of an indictment, with more or less
counts against radical usurpers and revolu.
tionists, will secure success.
To lift up, to rescue the white men Of the
South from negro and military bondage, to
break and trampie on the chains imposed BY
since to insure the freedom Of the whites OF
the South secures the nation from peril for
neutrality-suspicious. IHieliigcneer.
Soft is all out at last. Success is the duty, no
matter how or by whom 1t is achieved, so that
we get in and get the Radicals out. This Is
the confession Of our opponents. We always
knew that they were INSCRIPTIONS In regard
to means by which to accomplish their ends,
but we did not expect that they would SO
readily confess 1t, as in the above paragraph.
The past, in respect to candidates and princi.
pies, must be ignored at New York; every
thing must be sacrificed to success. We arc
not surprised at this. The party has a record,
especially during the war, which we should
suppose the leaders would much deslre to
have ignored. We do not wonder that they
want to let II go to the land OF forgetfulness.
But how to do 1t is the question: g. The world
will look in upon that Convention, and what
will 1t scel The same men, George H. Pendle-
ton, Horatio Seymour, Fernando Wood, c. L.
Vallandigham, Alex. Long, Brick Pomeroy, O.
q. Burr, and Henry Clay Dean. These, and
Z ~. - H..
Certain managers in this Convention, as is the
case with certain newspapers now, like the
InicHigcEcer will try to hoodwink the people
Into the belief that this gathering is not made
up Of the same men and is not controlled by
the same spirit and principle which opposed
the war, and gave aid and comfort to the re-.
bellion; but the people cannot be deceived.
There is the "Sdne old COON"
The IHieHigGncGr may talk of "piial issues''
that will get the "moH rotes." This will not go
down. The old party hacks are still there, and
the old doctrines which controlled the Demo
cratic party for some time before, during, and
since the war, will crop out. They will not
go down, nor be hidden out of sight at the bid
ding of the sly and sleek manipulations Of the
new management which is attempted to be ex.
temporized for a brief period, and for pur.
pose, at New York. The faint of secession is
there, and the damned spot will not out " at
the bidding OF any. No waters can wash away
the stains. No spices of Arabia can give to
these principles a perfume that shall make
them sweet. You cannot "mAke silk purse
out Of a sow's ear" Men do not gather
grapes of thorns, nor figs OF thistles." Dis
guise 1t as you will, 1t is the same old pro
slavery, negotiating, wsr-opposing party thai
it always has been. The blight is there. Tn.
moral leprosy is more than skin .deep-it pene
trates even to the bone.
This pretended regard for the white mani
. rights ia a sham. No white man has been de
spoiled Of his rights. Rebels, disloyal men
have been refused the right to control affair
in the South, and are forbidden to despoil boti
white and black loyalists, and have beer
obliged to take "back seats" in reconstruc
tion till they shall have purged themselves
and shall have repented Of their evil deeds
and shall have given evidence of genuine re
pentance; that is all. And this our neighbo
we'll knows.
Let the managers at New York make sucl
shifts as they please. Be its candidates whor
they may, and be its platform ever so char
and non-committal, nevertheless, 1t Is the sam
old party, led by the same men, and permeate
by the same principles. And so the people wi
account 1t; and on this ground will defeat
and its candidates In November. Mark tina