Middletown transcript., 1868-01-25
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"only aggressive and determined measures can
reanimass and lead 10 new victory, The hosts d
The Republican party. - Wilmington Cbsmuoai
Thus says the Gonmercial, in reference
10 the rash. reckless, and revolutionary
measures, but recently introduced into
Congress. Let us ask this journal few
plain questions; Are You right sure thai
the ends aimed at can be accomplished by
such meansf Do you not know that the
aggressive and determined measures'' Of
the Republican party were the very causes
of its discontinue in the elections Of last
year; and that like causes will produce
like effects, in the future as in the past
Is the Republican party and its organs,
like the house of the Bourbons, unable to
learn anything from experience The
aggressive measures of impeachment,
and negro suffrage, with their correlatives,
TO say nothing Of others equally obnoxious,
drove thousands upon thousands of mode
rate Republicans into cooperation with
the Democrats and Conservatives; and
there are thousands more. waiting to see
if their party is capable of learning wis.,
dom in the school Of adversely through
which il was made to pass last fall, ere
they determine to follow their example.
Will the Republican party be admonished
BY the results Of the late elections, and
pursue more moderate course Of policy !;
or, win 1t rush, with blind faulty, upon
its utter annihilaticn. It win certainly do
50 If It should elect to go forward with its
aggressive" measures. The country has
taken the alarm at the reckless revolution
ary tendencies manifested in Congress !;
and their aggressive" measures will re-
pei. instcad Of attracting, all the conserya-
tive elements of the Republican party.
That such viii be the effect. is evident
from the results of the elections Of last
year. How were those results brought
aboutf Not by the Democrats, exclusive
ly, because they had not the numbers.
But BY the aid and cooperation Of the
moderate Republicans, whose conserve
tism prompted them to throw themselves
into the breach to save their country from
impending ruin. They viii do II again,
and the hosts" Of Radicalism will be
scattered like leaves before the autumnal
blasts.
The Commercial virtually admits, in the
above extract, that the Republican party
is dead; for If it be not dead, there is no
need of '.re-animation-g II did not in
tend, perhaps, TO make such an admission,
bat truth viii out. at times, even through
inadvertcnee. The elections, last year.
would really seem to indicate approaching
dissolution, which the aggressive" poll
cy Of Congress is surely calculated to has
ten. We think the chances are, that by
the time the next fall elections roll around
it will be 50 dead, that not even the VOL
taic battery Of Gen. Grant. win be able to
galvanize It even into the semblance of
life. Another inference, fairly deduci-
BILE from It is, that party success, and
not the common weal-is the principle
which governs Congressional legislation.
This Is fact. patent to the most superb
cial observer. Scarcely auy measure pas
ses that body which has not previously
been sanctioned by caucus. Patriotism is
dwarfed and dwindled down to mere parti- |
sanship, and the best interests of the ma
tion are sacrificed to faction. The people
viii ultimately correct these abuses. Their
remedy is the ballot.