The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-23

Spirit of the New York Press.

headed Make Ready" aud has the fol-
lowing passages:
T" Few now living ever witnessed Pre-
sidentia contest which convulsed the
country in every part as will be stirred by
the contest of 1872.
We renewedly urge, therefore, the Re-
publicans of every State to begin at once
their quiet preparations for the momentous
struggle, by severally inducing every man
whom they can influence to take and read
some Republican newspaper. .
"Republicans who are alive in off years
gou must do the work that is now press
ingly needed Each of you know from
FIVE to fifty persons who will vote in 1872
if then living, yet who are taking no polit-
ical journal whatever. You can induce a
part of them to take good one if you will
make the requisite effort. If you have a
good cheap Republican paper issued in
your vicinity, give that the preference If
YOU must look further to find one Of the
right sort, do not hesitate; if one will take
certain journal and another another, ac-
commodate each but do not let month
pass without having every one within the
range your influence supplied with some
Republican journal that he will take to his
fireside and read in the hours of his leisure.
This is the duty ofthe hour; do not post
pone or neglect it,"
The Times has leader headed "Demo-
Gratis and Republicans" in which it says !:
Wherever Democracy becomes as pow
erful as it is here, it will inevitably pro-
luce the same fruits which it has produced
here--those, and no other. There will be
"Boss" at the head of affairs, and a
handful of rascals doing all his dirty work
in consideration of having their fortunes
made. 1t is because we know this so well,
from painful xperience, that we are more
anxious to see Republicans maintain their
ground than to see Senator Sumner "ro-
venged" on President Grant, or General
Butler "get even" onsSpeaker Blaine. o q
We earnestly hope that our friends in
Connecticut will prepare to silence the
premature rejoicings of the Democrats
over their recent victory. On the first
Monday in April they will have an
opportunity of doing their part to-
ward handing the country over to
the Democrats, or keeping it under Repub
lican rule--a rule, remember, which has
been the means of reducing the debt about
$204, 500, 900, and the interest about $11,-
100000, which has restored public credit
and brought gold down to eleven premium
All the abuse that can be heaped on Gen.
eIal Grants administration-all the cow
ardly ISLANDERS leveled at his wife and chill
dren by disappointed office-seekers- cam
not get rid of these facts. There they
stand, big enough for the whole world to
see. Under Democratic rule it is quite
probable that very little of the debt would
have been paid off, although some of it
might have been oipea off. Let. us not
run any risk of this or similar dangers.
We beg our friends in Connecticut to be on
their guard against Democratic surprise,
and to rebuke the cravens and fanatics
who are going about whining that it is all
over with the Republican party, because,
forsooth, majority of the Republican
Senators refused to replace Mr.. Sumner on
one Of their committees.
The Democratic Herald thus warns and
walls over its party prospects. All is not
so lovely in the "happy family" it seems
d "The Prospect and the Danger to the
Democracy-What Says Tammany Hall 2"
and thus concludes
Upon Tammany Hall the eyes of the
Democracy throughout the country ore
now fixed as upon the great central nucleus
and head and front Of the party. The ad-
ministration of Tammany in New York,
city and State, holds to the Democratic
party relation analogous to that which
the administration at Washington holds
toward the Republican party.
1t is the embodiment and the financial
centre of the national organization. 1t
cannot be said, however, that the Tam
many measures of reform, passed and pend
ing, for this city and State, tax levy
included, are calculated to shine as Demo-
cratic examples for the national govern
ment or unity of the party. Upon the
Tammany basis of twenty y-five millions of
taxes for this city, witha population Of say
one million, the annual taxes for the forty
millions of people of the United States
would be a thousand of millions of dollars.
This will never do. Compared with this
Napoleonic taxation Secretary Boutwell's
assessments and collections are mere trihes.
Tammany must show to the country,
from her government of New York,
an example which will be good for the
government of the United States, or she
must prepare to keep in the background in
the Democratic National Convention.
Otherwise, in contrast with the lavish inn
perial expenditures of Tammany, the re-
trenchmenss of General Grant will stand
out in luminous and glorious relief be-
fore the American people. If Tammany
is simply legislating for the spoils of New
York, and upon the old rule of making hay
while the sun shines, it is one thing; but,
if, for instance, she is looking for the pro-
motion of "the Boss" to the United States
Treasury, it is quite another tune, aud
must be played to different music. What
has Tammany to say2 Is she bound up
or DOWN.
ENGLAND AND THE CONFEDERATE
STATES, Earl Granville has denied in
the House of Lords that there was any
truth whatever in the statement ascribed
to Baron Won Gerolt that Russian influence
alone prevented the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy during the war in
the United States. He declared, that as
a member of the Palmerston and Russell