Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-06-24
The Dissolution OF the RadIca, Party.

II the leading journals Of the Republican
party furnish q fair exponent of the con-
dition of the Radical party, the deduction
is irresistible, that RadicaliSm is now IN
the throes of dissolution. The new York
Tribune warns again and again Radical
leaders that persistence i'll the course hith-
erto pursued, leads to destruction. The
Sun and Standard pronounce the party de-
funct, The Missouri Republican and the
Cincinnati Gazette arc now as outspokcn
against Radicalism as they have been de-
mandatory of rebelism so-called, and the
Chicago Tribune, the leading organ OF the
West, outstrips both the RepuJHc04 and
the Gazette.
George Alfred Townsend, the Washing
ington correspondent of the Chicago Irib-
z1ne, presents a diagnosis of the condition
of the Radical, ''the Barren Tree party,
and fortells its dissolution with the phleg-
matic science of Paris physician, deliver
ing his opinion upon m important patient
sick of q hopeless disease. Townsend
says that the party will die in 1872. From
the stand point of Washington he portrnys
thu5 the dying aBon1es
The Republican party will undoubtedly
have as much as it can do to keep its ma
lority in the House of Representatives. -
It will lose seats in New York, and, | sns-
pect, in every Southern State, and will be
hard pushed in Connecticut, New Jersey,
Ohio, Missouri, and parts of Pennsylvania.
BY the Executive Government and the
Senate, Is will be ablo to hold the leading
strings of power for at least three years
more, but the experience OF the past is
that the Senate is ductile and malleable
body, seldom leaning far from the true
sentiments of the Lower House, and if
Won ever find the House to pass m import
ant bill and the Senate to non-concur,
you may generally conclude that the
House, having the fear Of the people be
fore its eyes, legislated hypocritically and
afterWard went up to the Senate and
begged non-concurrence. This was the
case with the repeal OF the ranking prlVi-
lege, and even with the Houses impoach-
ment of President Johnson. The I'M
changing Senate, therefore, is by the con-
ditions of itself, thing Of change, re
fecting the wishes of the Lower House,
as the mirror of Athene showed persons
the face Of the Gorgon. Let the Senate
stand IN the way of q determined Con-
gress and the noses Of the people will
tefrify ii as Wellington and his peers grew
pale before the roar of the reform party
With the Senate against Andrew johnson,
is was never able TO do more than to irri-
tate him by rejecting few of his appoint
ments. The history of a Senate against
the President is that it becomes corrupted
by his patronage, and of a Senate against
the House, that it yields to intimidation
and the will of the country. Nevertheless,
on grave occasions, it is the citadel of the
State against all.
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Lower House is equivalent to general
change of policy and expenditure, and
yet, singular as it may appear. change OF
majority in the House of Representatives
at present might be substantially Repub.
lican victory. Much of the present Con
gress is only Republican in name and or
ganization. The purposes for which the
party was organized, and the spirit which
animated il, are retained by q minority O
the Republicans in Congress only. The
Republican party was the party of free
homesteads, but this Congress has sweep
down the homestead system and substitu
ted the land-monopoly system. The Re
publican party was the party of no section
but of national freedom; this Congress con
siders Pennsylvania 20 be the Union, ali
insulation to be enlightenment. The Re
publican party was the party of all, and al
equal chance for them all but this Con
Rrees mas represented o lew, ana they no
fhose whose daily cry is, "What shall VI
eat, and what shall we drink, and where
withal shall we be clothed ?' The Repub
Ican party set up @ new man as the typ
of the State and asked that he be unre
strained in his industries. adventures ant
enterprises, and be left free to es
tablish confederacies of freemen Xix
himself in his own way the ma
iority Of Congress would create Il Stat
modelled upon it's OVID pet theories an
private interests and compel the man t
lnhsbit ana conform TO it. This is tn