The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-27

As relief ia this article, as refreshing
diversion of the mind from the terrible scenes
of confusion, fire and slaughter which all this
week have given to Paris the demons and the
| CHASTITY horrors of the Internal regions, let
the reader suppose that he is taking morn
ing ride with us among the peaceful scenes
aud vernal glories Of our charming Central
Park, while we explain the new departure Of
the democracy as defined In their new Penn
sylvania platform, and take glance at the fine
opening thus presented them for the great ap-
preaching Presidential battle Of 1872. The
contrast between our beautiful Central Park
and the dismal Bots de Boulogne, as they ap-
pear to-day, will serve, meantime, to illustrate
the difference between the fruits Of American
republican institutions and of French rspubli-
can ideas; and 50 we shall proceed at once to
the subject before US. We are now entering
our great Park from Fifth avenue. Here
10 bust of Humboldt, q contribution from
our science-lovlng German citizens. Pretty
little lake, that, below, and the hill fanklng
it. with its dense evergreens, not only screens
it from the glazing street boundary, but brings
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that arrangement. This old arsenal before
us, with the buildings behind II, serves very
good purpose, for the present, for sort Of
menagerie; and those grizzly bears are jolly
dogs, though, cooped up there, the
American eagle is not at home. But
this new democratic departure? All yes
At the Chicago Democratic Convention of
1854 few unfortunate words introduced into
the party platform, significant of hostility to
the Union cause and of sympathy with the re-
bellion, defeated the democratic ticket in ad-
vance. Those words were that s'the war for
the Union is failure" and that it ought to be
stopped. This Interpolation came from Mr..
Vallandigham, of Ohio, peace democrat
during the war, whose outspoken hostility
against the Union policy of the bayonet had
caused him to be arrested by General Burn
side and shipped off into the Southern Con-
federacy. After an absence of some months,
on returning to Ohio, his political friends, re-
garding him in the light of martyr for demo-
cratic principles, set him up for Governor, and
he was defeated by a hundred thousand ma
jority; but he nevertheless maintained the
truth of that ancient dogma that
man convinced against his will
Is OF the same opinion still.
And SO, in the great National Democratic
Tammany Convention of 1868, we find Mr..
Vallandgham conspicuous again among the
stage managers and scene shifters. and active,
Eot only in the nomination of Seymour with
the failure Of Pendleton, but also active with
General Wade Hampton in putting into the
party platform that fatal resolution declaring
the whole reconstruction system of Congress
Unconstitutional, revolutionary, null and
void" Yes, those bushes with their white
flowers are very pretty.] We say that fatal
resolution, for, coupled with the nomination
of General Frank Blair for Vice President, on
the strength of his famous Broadhead letter,
looking to the undoing Of the work of the army
and the carpet-bag governments down South,
that resolution was but the repetition of the
blunder of 1864, which defeated the party in
advance.
General Grant in 1868 The is great admirer |
of this Park on the platform of the issues of |
the war was, like Lincoln In 1864, triumphantly
elected, and in 1870. under his administration,
we fiLd, in addition to the thirteenth amend
ment [those vines on the rocks are natives,
and are very common down South abolishing !
and interdicting slavery, and the fourteenth |
declaring all persons born or |
in the United States citizens there
of and of the State in which they reside, and
that all are entitled as we see them here1 to |
the equal protection of the laws in their civil |
rights, &C. We have the fifteenth amend |
ment, declaring that "neither the United |
States ner any State shall make any abridge-
ment of the right of citizens to vote on account !
of race, color or previous condition of servi- |
tude' AT the beginning of the year 1870 we |
find all these amendments in practical opera
ton, and yet we can find not word from
any democratic convention or conventicle
recognizing their validity, but all the pro-
ceedings of the party bearing upon these
amendments dead against them.
Here we have the Mall. Webster defines a
played with malls and balls but our ball
ground lies beyond These rows of elms have
grown finely. There are two varieties, you
observe-the English and the American elm.
The foliage Of the Engishman is Of darker
green; but he has stiff unsocial look about
him, compared with the graceful, flowing
drapery of the American tree. Beautiful
walk, this, and on a fine summer afternoon,
when the music of Dodworth's band brings out
our citizens to enjoy it, it is beautiful scene.
Yes, these deep-cut thoroughfares across the
Park are neatly done. They are so cleverly
disguised that we can only here and there get
glimpse at them In the Park, and their en-
bankments and bridges add much to its
charming varieties of landscape gardening.
Next we have State election in New
HAMPSHIRE In which, from the disturbances