The Plymouth Democrat., 1869-09-09
TylerizatiOn Proclaimed.

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the President entered Immediately after
being sworn into office, and which was
undoubtedly commenced by him some
months before, now stands open and con-
fessed The divisions in the Republican
party in the South were under discussion
in the Cabinet on Friday, and the Presi
dent "a Secretaries Fish, Cox, Rawlins
and r. III had determined to sustain
the COnsU. vatlve movement in the South
ern States So far as the execution OF the
test oath in the Virginia Legislature is
concerned, Attorney General lIoar acted
with the President and the Secretaries
above named.
Probably the regular Republican organ
ization in the South knows what the Con-
sarvative movement is, and what its leaders
intend Does not Stokes know who OPP
posed him in the late election in Tennes-
see? Is Wells igOrant of the elements of
which the opposition to him was composed
in the Virginia election? These two
prominent leaders in the Republican party
say that the men calling themselves Con-
servativc Republicans in the South are
Democrats and ex-rebcls, acting in unison
with few men who have hitherto been
loyal" and that the purpose of the Con
servatiyes is to overthrow and utterly an
nihilate the regular Republican party in
the States which were in rebellion.
This view has also been taken, since the
Tennessee election, by a majority of the
newspapers of the ruling party. Before
that election they favored the Conserva-
4, tive movement. Now they assail 1t, and
/ demand that war shall he made OH Dent
| in Mississippi and Hamilton in Texas, al
though those gentlemen are working for
precisely the same results that Walker and
/ Senter sought TO accomplish in Virginia
and Tennessee Since the election in the
States last named, the Republican press
appears to have gained information about
/ the Conservative movement which has led
it to change front.
/ The President has not changed front.
He was with the Conservatives, secretly,
from the first He snow with them open
| ly- He knew what their plans were, and
/ knew that with his assistance they could
triumph. If the prevailing opinion in the
Republican party concerning the Con
seryatives be correct, their successes are
| in fact, Democratic victories. The Presi
dent and majority of the Cabinet, in con
tempt of this opinion, pledge their support
to the Conservatives, and, consequently
to the movement which proposes to crush
the Republican party in the South.
In this the President is sustained by
General Sherman. What the opinion o.
the latter is concerning reconstruction
and the class of men entitled to rule il
the lately rebelliOus States, may be known
from reading of the agreement with the
rebel General 10. Johnson, at the time o
JOhnsOn's surrender. 1t is as nOtOriou,
that Sherman has a good opinion of the
eX-rebelS, and would treat them generous
ly, as that his influence with the President
is greater than that of any other man
These facts will, in part, account for the
persistcncy and industry with which
Grant has pursued his Tylerizing plans.
Those plans, by the close of November
will not only have taken the States OF
Virginia, Tennessee Mississippi, and
Texas from the control of the Radicals
but they are now working dissension in
the ranks of the ruling party in Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Maine, Maryland, Delaware
and Massachusetts. The fact that those
dissensions exist, and are largely caused
by the Presidential appointments, joined
to the fact that Grant has, to all intents
and purposes, declared that he would Ty-
lerize, by joining the Conservatives, amply
justifies the suspicion that the appoint
mentS were made with view to TvleriZa
ton. What agencies the President has
recently set at work in the Northern
States to disrupt the ruling party will
doubtless, be disclosed before the mex
Presidential election.
There is good reason TO believe that the
Tylerizing movement has been accelerated
by a reaction of public sentiment against
the party in power, which has suggested
to the President the policy of renewa
of mis- connection with the Democracy, in
order To obtain Il second term.
BE this rs it may, TIE question now fair
ly comes up whether the political situation
Is such as to Justify him in Tylerizing. O.
course, he does so at the expense of con
sistency, and in violation of pledges, ex
pressed and implied, as sacred as any
which can be given by politician. 1t i.
the duty of President to do what Ia,
thinks best for the public interests, but il
is also his duty, before he accepts The
nomination of Il political party, and pledge.
himself to stand by its policies and plat
form, carefully to examine its prOposet
course of action, and come to dcfinit,
conclusion thereon. There are such thing
as party obligations of "a grave and bind
ing character, and these, in Tylerizing, tht
President casts aside We hope good ma,
come of it, but it now looks rs if "mora
ideas will meet with sundry pullbacks
because of the uniaithfulness Of the Presi
dent toward them Chicdgo Times, Sept. g