The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-12-15
THE RADICAL PARTY DEMoRALIzED.

IL Deen SO thoroughly dlSOrganlACd as now
Its cohesiveness is gone. On all sides we
hear complaints loud and deep against its
leaders, and particularly against Gen. Grant.
The administration now represents but Il
wing of the organization which placed it in
power, and a small wing at that Influential
papers in all sections of the country that have
heretofore been among the ablest support
ers of the President, support and defend him
no longer, but on the contrary can hardly
find language strong enough to express their
disgust of the course which for some unac-
countable reason he has seen fit, as the chief
magistrate of q nation of forty millions of
people, to pursue. We desire that our read
ers should know something of the democrat
ization which prevails in the Radical organi-
zation, and for that purpose lay before then,
the following extracts, taken, every one OF
them, from influential Radical journals:
From the Missouri Democrat
The President has delivered himself over, a COM
plete captive, to the most unscrupulous men in
Congress. At their dctation he abandoned pledges
and professions, dismsses his most trlsty and
tons, and makes war upon the earliest and ablest
Republicans for adhering to the very policy which
ne pledged himself to support. If he tancies that
all desire for reform can be overpowered bv his
single name, he is very much mistaken.
From the Chicago Tribune
1t shows lis a President who virtually acknowl-
edges himself to be in the hands of the worst an,;
most INSCRIPTIONS men in the Republican party,
and who readily sacrifices faithful friend AMI an
able minister rather than make an issue with them
General Grant all the inc sable i'm
matter because of the great flourish with which, on
his accession to the Presidency, he announced his
thorough independence of politicians and his de-
termination to keep entirely aioof from them in his
administration of the government. Johnson's folly
made the 4th of March, 1869, welcome day to the
American people. Grants laundering imbecility,
if persisted in much longer, will convert the 4th of
March, 1878, into lit occasion for national thanks
giving.
from the Chicago Post.j
The President has made mistake-a mistake
that is painful and Notifying. He has been sur
rounded, jostled deceived cajoled, bullied and at
last made prey of by the swarm of political bum
mers who live and thrive by division of the spols.
Misled by these knavish partisans, he has been ir-
duced to countermand the orders of Secretary Cox
for the puritcaton Of the Interior Department, to
overrule and defeat his efforts for the Inauguration
of the much-needed civil service reform in Wash
ngton, and finally drive him into premature retire
ment.
From the Cleveland Herald.
Gloss it as dispatches may, explain it to the ex-
tent Of the ingenuity of Washington correspond
ents, the people believe that the resignation of Sec
rotary Cox is due to his firm endeavor to reform
the civil service.
From the Cincinnati Tines
We notice that the partizan Republican press
seem disposed to find encouragement in the result
Tuesday-probably because i. is no worse than it
is. They had better tell the whole truth and look
out for the new departure" that is essential to
success in 1872.
From the Jew York Post.l
Wherever the administration has attempted to in
terfere in the elections It's candidates have been
beaten; and it is believed that General Woodford
would have done better had he not been so con-
spcuously supported from Washington.
We might furnish several columns of such
extracts; but it is unnecessary Any one,
who knows anything at all about politics and
the condition of political parties, knows that
the disorganizing influences which have been
for some time at work in the ranks of our or-
ponents, have finally resulted in Il scism
which threatens the destruction of that corrupt
and wicked band of conspirators. To show the
scoundrelism practced by Republican lead
ers, as well rs to give our readers another
lesson in Radical sincerity, we repro duce the
tlItulti, WHICH " US tNlthSlNtiS
circulated in Virginia, during the recent
campaign in thai State, and especially in the
district where the colorcd man Norton was a
candidate for Congress:
HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL EN-. }
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
To Chairman Executive Committee of Virginia:
Fearful times are upon us. Another negro in the
Senate of the United States, and the whole North is
lost to the Republican party. We implore you by
all the hopes of the future not to nominate negro
Tor Congress; should you be OVerrueu by them and
one of their color nominated, then he must be de-
eated for we had better lose the whole State of
Virginia than the whole North. Let us save this
election this fall ut the North at all cost, and by the
time the Presidential election takes place III IT, we
will haye party thrown into the Southern
States seven hundred thousand German families,
and from two hundred thousand to one million
coolies; then we will be fully able to take care of
then be gotten ril of by being sent to Africa or,
all events, We as Republicans, will have no further
use for them.
(signedl HENRY A. WILSON, President.
J. H. PLAT, Secretary.
What a commentary is this on the sincerity
of the Radicals. And yet it was undoubted-
ly necessary for them to throw the negro
overheard, to succeed The latter is no help
to them anywhere. Whenever the battle has
been fought with the negro issue distinctly
made, they have been defeated The Balti-
more American, the leading Radical organ
in Maryland, declares in the bitterness of its
recent defeat, The negro has proved to be
an element of weakness everywhere, and of
strength nowhere" The declaration is true
but what shall be said of a party, that, pro-
Tossing love for the negro deliberately throws
him overheard to insure party success, and
even advocates the sending Of him back to
Africa simply because they have no further
use for him. Out upon such II party, Its
very existence is stencil in the nosrIs of
honest men.
There's lot Of impudcnt knights of the
quill that delight in poking their fun at the
placid and peaceful editor of this unotfend-
ing sheet. Here, now, are couple of speci-
mems
Simpson of the Belfast Journal accounts for the
unusually large number of marriages that occur
ring just now that the parties dread the cold of the
| coming winter. He says the arrangement is better
than stove extra pair of blankets, and he
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