The Lincoln County herald., 1868-06-04

Don Plalt PreneunceS tho Republican
| d. Al Parry Dead.
tcUrspssdesss cinciasa, Commercially
| MAo.A.CHEEK, May II, 1868.
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wish to make few observations, Of
. philosophical sort, touching tho late
Republican party.
I assisted some twelve or thirteen years
since, at the birth Of tho party just de.
missed, having Travelled from the Mac.a.
Check Valley to Buffalo, carrying plank
for the platform, on which the newly.
born was to he Graded, and my affections
have grown with Its growth to such an
extent that its sudden death throw mo
into state Of profound grief, disturbed
by Indignation. passed fiom lamenta.
ton to 10 indignation meeting and from
an Indignation meeting to deep grief.
But with reflection came consolation. /
came to the consoling thought that I was
not the only sufferer, and handing out my
surplus affection to my beloved country
at large, found my share could DO car
ried without much Inconvenience.
The immediate cause Of its death was
dyspepsia, aggravated BY whisky.
But the seeds Of weakness and disease
we're planted in its birth. We began o
party Of reform, Of agitation, Of aggres.
sion, and We took into our embraces the
old Whig party, that was o party Of con.
servatism aggravated by great dignity and
tiuidity. The result has been internal
dissentions. The ultra reform party
could not digest the conservative lump,
and we have been afflicted with collie, SO
to speak, that we'll nigh destroyed our
usefulness. Our actions in consequence
have been contradictory. While at one
time VIC create JOHN Brown, and glory
in John Brown as our greatest, and best
beloved organized huge armies fought
out big wars, and liberated race on the
other hand we have been busy smoothing
our wars wrinklcd front with the decaycd
plastcrs Of past wrong doing. 1t is called
compromse--which means to give the
devil your soul in a digniiicd, peaceful
manner.
The last internal convulsion exhibited
with clearness the different elements.
On the one side we had Butler, Stevens,
Bingham, Logan, Sumner and Drake on
the other stood, in calm rcpose, Eessen-
den aad Trumbull while between floatel
another element, born Of tho rcvohationa.
~ times, that had ITS marketable value,
and fuctuated as either party bid.
Now, am prepared to admit that
Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull were
actuatcd by the highest and the most hon.
orable motives. I do not believe they
could be bought with money, or swayed
by prejudice. They felt they were jurors,
under cath, auswcrable to their God for
the verdict they rendered. Nor do
blame them for responding as they did 10
the solemn question asked them by the
Chief Justice. I believe that the thirty.
Eve voting "guilty" were honorable, hon
est men. But in political life, blundor
is worse than o crime, and Mcssrs. Fc,.
sender and Trumbull blundered in be.
longing to the Republican organization
At all. They should have gone over to
the party Of Stanbcry and Grocsbeck,
whore tho old Whig dignity is preserved
intact, aud where Conservatism is SO in
tense that an ancient wrong is preferred
to new right, and where official position
is so elorified that halo is thrown around
an inebrated mule, that an all wise Prov.
idcncc, through some inscrutible reason,
has set on end and made our President
When impeachment was first broached,
the evidence was as we'll known as it was
at the end Of tho trial. At the begin.
ming Messrs. Fcsscnden and Trumbull
should have made their fight. Failing to
defeat it, they should have resigned their
positions, as honorable men, and washed
their dignti;cd hands Of the responsibility
But they chose to reserve themselves fol
q conflict when their triumplts could b
our death, and arc somewhat astonishsd
at the popular howl Of wrath and indig
nation that comes up over their disuifed
honest and honorable stupidity.
Wecould have survived blundcr great
as this is, had it come alone, but it is the
concluding act Of a long series. Through
tho unsettled condition Of a country suf-
fering from civil wars, ,oe haze developed
more rascality hGn any organization ere,
called in,o aristence. We haze filled the
Offices with thieves and their pockets vitl
stealings. We haze organized rings thai
in turn create office holders and contro
g!e Government. Men go in poor and COM
out miilionaires. For one dollar paid 4
the Government from hard learned tarr'
hundreds stick to the dirty fingers Of off
cial scouadrels. We have WHISKY rings
Indian Bureau rings, manufacturers rings
National Bank rings, railroad rings, land
jobbing rings, and the internal improve
ment rings. From the lo,oess official, ~
to Senator'S and Cabinet officers, the tain
of corruption runs, until tie people daset
and con7nsed confound the right and lister
,oith Indifference to the threats Of exposure
When charged with oil this, they hav,
responded: candy johnson Is corrupt
and appointed scouudrels to Office" Well
Messrs. Fessonden aud Trumbull hav