The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-06-30

The Rspt1.ican Party-Ih7 Ed
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Tee Crunbli1g-
When iseral Grant was lnaneura,cd at
Nashlngoa-less a. President OF the t1Ii-
ed States ten d the ''e.cti OF tEe Re
publican rs'y,-ve predicted, !rrom lls
first addrs, that before his term had half
expired, ii course AMI ro!iey, woulc De at
tackled by e very men who bad nommat>
ed him al procured lis election. That
We were ffy justified in our anticlpation
Te need ! better rroo! than the position
OF The Ne York Sun, which, from being
the first ind strongest advocate OF ten.
Grant, la, Tor many months past been his
most persistent and yindIctlye a>sallant.-
But theclmax was reached last week, N
the House OF Representatives, at u ashIng~
ton, wh,n lie Presidents Official delenee
OF the iolicy Of his Administration, as be-
tween S,ain and Cuba, was-laid before the
House. ;nd WIS asSal.cd ty leading lie
publica1s as not only c0TarIly and
unworthy Of the American nation, but.as
being pat Of q plot to speculate In the en-
forced purchase of the Islam OF Cuba by
the people Of the United States. The SUBJ
sequent sustaining of the Message by
small majority only shows to what straits
Administration and the party It represents
are reduced; for that majority was, on its
face, the result Of the judicious use OF the
official whip and the Federal patronage, OF
which the promised reconstruction Of the
Cabinet is the symbol Of hope held out to
hungry expectants.
The Republican party, in Congress and
he Administration, is thoroughly rotten
and ready to fall to pieces; and no better
proof Of this need be asked than the re-
election Of the South Carolina carpet-bag-
ger Nhittemore who only, by 1esigning
his se,t, eyaded expulsion, for selling the
West Point cadetship to which his district
was entitled This fellow, who, if he got
his deserts, woul1 be DOW IN the peniten-
tiary, las again been returned to Washing
ton though tie votes Of the white biood-
suckers saddled on South Carolina By the
Nepubican policy OF reconstruction, and
the ignorant negro fieldhands whom they
managed in politics as they would SO many
black sheep. Yet, though it is only few
months since this carpet bag :" representa-
tire Wis forced to vacate hi, seat, as too
venal even for the stomachs cf the donl-
nant majority in the House, when his new
credentials were presented last week, his
RepuSllcan conireres were not prepared to
lace tie music, but postponed action on
him till this week, when, no doubt, we shall
have great airing of windy virtue-anG
nothing more. There are TOO many in the
Republican ranks tarred with the same
brush; and they fear the revelations which
Whittemorc threatened before he gave up
his official ghost last Spring.
The handwriting is on the walls within
which the Republican party have so long
held revel they have been tried and found
wanting. One ruined commerce, our Ian
gushing domestic trade, the degraded
status of our foreign relations, the disLon-
esty Of their official appointees- all indicate
that neither in policy nor action do they
fulfill the requirements of great national
organization. And when the American
people, next fall shall sit in judgement
upon them at the ballot box, the verdict
rendered will sweep them from power never
more to be trusted By the nation to which
their rule has been like the deadly shade
of the upas. -ItSh american.