New-York tribune., 1869-04-15
THE DANGER or THE REPUBLICAN,
PARTY

| To tAs Bd,tor OF The Tribune.
! SIR: To solve this problem, and find the
practical means OF sustaining the party s at this time
the imperative duty Of every friend Of freedom.
Why It that after the Republican party has given
such immense proof OF It's patriotism saving the
try and her free institutions from the ves kind OF des
potsm and Slavery must still struggle hard to hold
its groundf Why is 10 that with the popular
in the nation for Republican Presidential candidate
$4,000 Democratic votes properly distributed as Is
sad would yet have elected Seymour instead OF Grant,
How does 1t happen that after the Democratic party
leaders have been often convicted OF practicng
favoring every kind of vice and all forms Of in
order gain power the Democrats still gaining
us in our large cities and nearly holding their
in many Of the rural distrctsi Is II not certain
at least probable that the following Is the true solu
The loss Of German vote p towns and cities
Is undoubtedly owing 10 Republican legislation in depri
wing them OF their religious as well as social rights for
own way viz, by attending TO religion in the forenoon
and recreation In the afternoon-as the custom with
also to couple with their social right the drinking u their
national beverage which, believe, tends to promote
temperance rather than inemperance. and is not only
less Injurious than alcoholic quorsbut s more healthiu
than even tea or coffee ia proved by the fact that tho
long they conne themselves their national customs
Another cause OF weakness In the Republican party Is
and fraud practced by Government officials and espe
eialy those appointed through the influence Of Seward
and the recreant Senators for all Of which propose the
Fira Restore to the Germans their lager and per.
suade our temperance friends to refrain from their mis-
taken argument that we let the Germans have their
msnd their whisky: Second Make thorough change
OF office hoders Let the Republican party positively
refuse 10 De responsible longer for the frauds and
thefts Of Democratic and renegade Republican Office
S Sat h sy or % By sn
haze certainly no right there Il ever 50 honest for how
that capacity and honesty should be the rule Of
promotion, they, would never adopt Il when IN
In Scripture wiser In their day and generation than tho
children Of light" The renegade Republicans should be
suppressed their Republican sentiments and in either
have fortified their claims While Ihave great sym.
years also have sympathy for the moral soldiers from
the avery and Free Soil ranks who have fought for
tary efforts would have proved futile In conclusion let
P f 81 e ss s an
50 no9y adopted by President Grant viz effect gen
leans there being doubt greater necessity for chang
Ing the subordinate than the superior oficehoders
aer every new Administration; for 1t the latter that
AREPUBLIcAN FROM PRINCIPLE.
Comments by The Tribune.
we are obliged to our correspondent for
making his points so squarely. We are thus
enabled to leave to the good sense of our
readers much that we might otherwise fancy
needed elucidatiOn. Let us come at once to
the Main Question fH4Iu|
we Americans-bofn have mainly inherited
from our British or Cow Dutch ancestors GER
tam traditions and customs respecting the OBJ
servance of Sunday as Christian Sabbath,
Our laws-which we also inherit-are (yery
naturally shaped in conformity thereto.
Our Adopted Citizens, especially those of
German extraction, likewise inherit the Con.
tinental conception of Sunday, which s in !
iacD a forenoon attendance on Divine Worsbin
by those who see fit, and an afternoon of on.
loyment' hilarity. festvity, for ali. And the
demand is tnat we SHALL change our laws into
with this conception.
Now 1t seems to us-and we mean to be very