The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-29
MASSACHUSETTS, POLITICS AGAIN.
A i'New Departure" of the Repub-
lican Party.
General Butler Nominated for Governor Of the
"CM Bay State by Leading
Republican Journal.
Prospects Of a Lively Scrimniage Between
the General and DR.. Lcring

Tie C6uCrdl anu LIZ. LCKluE.
BOSTON, June 2s 1871.
The fact has been generally known for long
time that General Butler is about to seek the n0m-
nation of the republican party for Governor but
none of the politicians or party press have until
now brought MS name prominently before the pe0-
pie. The Newburyport Herald, published in Gen.
eral Butler's district has finally spoken IN leader
OF three columns length, and boldly nominated the
General on
A NEW DEPARTURE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The article referred to is as follows:-
The doctrine which Pythagoras professed con-
cernlng the human soul MI Vallandlgham mas
brought TO bear in actual lie upon politics; for If
ever party could be held To have undergone trans
migration the democratic party has done so In the
past few weeks under the operation OF that states
mans co1nses u Is no Longer the de emo
CATION unparalleled In political annals, has yielded
up all the convictions IL has entertained for the last
ten years, recanted not repenicd and at one step
accepted the position and prnciplcsof It's triumphant
opponents; all tins IN accepting, as 10 Is now under
stood TO do the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution, which are at once
the august results and browning glory OF republican
supremacy since 1861. Whether real or pretended
cham OF conviction, or the sincere acceptance Of q
situation now seem to be irreversably and eternally
fixed for the psfpose OF making the best OF II, or
whether piece OF political cuckOois, so TO speak,
stealing into the republican nest for the purpose or
keeping warm for the time being and eventually
OF hatchlng ITS peculiar dogmas INTO new ire.
Others can judge as well as We but the future alone
can determine. With MI. Greeley, however, we are
not disposed to ascrlbe bad motive for righteous
act, and so dealing with the new departure In
spirit OF good faith we are constrained TO admit that
it IL fact or no ordinary significance and Oae upon
which the republican party would do well carefully
TO reflect
1t may with truth be sad Of any party whatever
that q long lease OF power absolute and uninter-
rupted, as that of the dominant party has been
in the United states especially under the circum-
s Of great WAR and the exse
cles to which war gives rise, thus greatly en-
larglng the scope of It's activity ana influence
naturally tends TO weaken from day 10 day its
claims to popular favor. That to q greater or
less extent this is true OF the republican party,
however much 1t may be regretted, Is not, therefore,
matter OF surprise. Faults or mistakes Of admin
istration, the corruptions unavodaply attendant
upon the conduct OF a war vast in its dimensions,
for an expenditure OF millions daily; the
greed of office. the Claims OF rival Ambitions,
ing from the collisions OF faction and the
scramble for offices AID contractsall these things,
coupled as they have been ana could not
but ne hitherto with generally disturbed condition
OF affairs caused by fluctuations In business. oner-
Gus taxation and arrangements OF the currency.
lead us less to wonder that the republican party,
now alter ten years or supremacy has lost some.
what OF its original hold upon the country, than
inJrench itself within TIE bulwarks Of popular sup
port.
t0no cOnirvance or completeness OF party or organ
EatioD, however perfect that organization may be,
but 10 the earnest conviction OF the American people
upon the political questions ont OF which the war
arose. and which have turn arisen therefrom; their
determination that these questions should be settled
in ACCORDANCE with those convictions: and their I'M
Willingness TO trust any other than the republican
party with the great interests at stake. We thus
perceive that great as the republican party has been
and now n, under Me political leadership OF the
Great Captain who conquered the rebellion 10 arms;
welding control Tor years not only Of the federal gov
ernment but general fact, OF the local State gov
ernmenrs as we'll and IN States some OF which are en-
pires in themseves admirable as has been It's devO-
lon to the ideas OF its political creed immortal as are
the vfsible proofs OF that devotion, now at length
realized ~ reunited country, me emancipation OF
Cnlsement; the equality OF all men before the law
great powerful triumphant as IN all these respects
the republican party Is. 1t should remember that
IL became such not otherwise than as an instrument
10 these great ends IN the hands OF the people
themselves; that IL can only continue to be such by
SO shaping It's courses and aims as TO respect their
rights, convictions and sentiments stlll and that
whenever II shall prove rccrcant IN these regards
the SURFACES OF the people Will be transferred else
where and u new party elevated To power BY which
their interests and rights VIII be respected and their
Now, It Is IN the temper of such reflections as
these that II becomes the leaders OF the republican
party and the party ITSELF take cognizance OF That
new departure. as expressive OF another course by
which the democracy are hereafter to steer may have
dlstasteful meaning OF departure from those high
seats or authority IN which they now SIT supreme
ana so QOlIg 10 C0unSel together whether there
not important things to be done or TO be left undOne
II they would assure to the future that success of
which the past can boast
1t has been our wont TO speak complacent!y OF
the democratic party, not with any language Of
posi-obit eulogy, as dead; but we begin now to
rouied, scattered though it has been, its lett
wing, that OF the rebeious states enguliel IN
maelsrom Of blood and fire. all the States OF the
Union, with one or two exceptions, snatched from
Its grasp, time has shown that in what seemed COM
piee humiliation It's organization was sull perfect,
leans cannot admire the vitality or that
party, II does at least excite wonder, illustrat-
ing as 4 does to their minds the principle
(which makes calamity OF SO long lIie." We may de-
clare the democratic party to be dead, but with
what natural gusto might not one OF Its partisans
reply, pointing to New York or New Hampshire,
That If 1t is the kind OF death which swallowed
up in victory. That Il 10 not dead the republicans
VIII have full reason to know, before the campaign
or 1872 Is fought and won Nay, were
it as dead in fact as 1t 70 believed by them to
be IN trespasses ard SINS 1t needed but such
to recrcate IL; as when Ezekiel rrophesled in the
valley, and the dry bones stood up and lived, and
they were the whole OF Israel once more so has
yallandigham restored his party, so breathed into
it's nostrils new lie, SO terminated IT, that there Is
to-day an emotion IN IT'S favor; men WHO denounced
him as traitor now speak OF MIN as patriot, anu
the Chief Justice writes OF the new democracy with
final sympathy as the free-soil party Of hts early
faith TO meet This party, thus reorganzed ana re-
inspired TO contest with II for victory and to over
come IL ii possible, that is the duty Of the repub
can party-One which 10 owes both to the country
and sel.-and how is this to be accomplished is the
question vi the hour.
10 we apprehcnd danger TO the republican cause
In the coming contest are we assed, that we dwell
thus seriously on the attitude OF the democratic
party, and tie prospects OF the campaign We
answer both yes and Yes, If the republicans
shall fan to perceive the true events and
TO guide their course In conformity with the needs
Of the country and the just demands OF the people,
No. IT, On tnecontrary, they shall learlessly meet the
OF statesmansh,p and patriotism IN
this os they have done in every preceding emer.
geDcy.
Were the questions at issue those simply OF the
war, those TO which the three amendments TO the
have given an organic settlement
were these all, there could be little doubt TO which
party "a parties are now marshaled, the people Of
the country would conde the control OF the govern