The New York herald., 1871-03-18
Prospccs aud the Danger 70 tho Demo-
cracy-What Says Tammany Halle

Prospect aud the Danger 70 tho Demo
cracy-what Says Tammany Halle
What South Carolina was to the old ante
duvian democratic party Massachusetts, ha
been, is and promises to be to the presen
republican party to the end of the chapter
We have arrived at that point ID whioh Mr.
Sumner, as tniitlneeF against the adminlsira
ton, has taken the place Of Calhoun, and a
which Massachusetts,, on her reserved rights
like South Carolina, seems to be ready to fol
low her constitutional expounder upon ar
independent departure. AS 1t was said thai
"When Calhoun takes pinch Of snuff all South
| Carolina sneezes," 80 it may be said that when
General Grant treads upon the corns OF
Mr.. Sumner all Massachusetts, makes a
wry face. And now General Butler
in his quarrel with Speaker Blaine, creates a
new trouble in the republican camp, charge
able to Massachusetts. The old adage that ''it
never rains but it pours" may be aptly
applied to these never-ending but still begin
ming and constantly increasing discords and
squabbles among the republican leaders.
Surely the republican party, rank and file,
now begin to realize hsw much they are
indebted to the belligerent sandy johnson. /"
His policy of reconstruction, or 'my policy"
as he was proud to call it, against the policy
and followers, unit, and held them together
from 1865 to General Grants election in 1868
as band of brothers. They were harmo-
nized by the imperious necessity Of unity
against Johnson, and in their hard
fight with him they were so COM
pletely occupied as to have no time for
quarrels among themselves until they came
to Johnson's impeachment. Thus it was that
by two-thirds vote in each House of Con-
gress, against johnson and against the DEM
ocracy, they carried through the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution and all their
Southern reconstruction measures to the uni
versal application Of equal rights and cleared
the way for negro suffrage. For all these
grand and glorious results the republicans are
indebted to the war of President johnson
two-thirds vote in each House against him,
complete master of the Executive, and it
reduced him to mere servant Of and depend
ent upon the will of Congress. 1t made
the Presidential issues of 1868 and
cleared the track for the election Of
General Grant and the passage and
ratification of the fifteenth amendment, estab-
fishing negro suffrage. Such is the debt the
republican party owe their great enemy, as
their best friend, candy Johnson"
Now the case is widely different; new
condition of things exists. Having settled all
the issues of the war to the capsheaf of negro
suffrage, and having no great common idea or
common purpose or necessity Of unity, the
republicans in Congress and out of Congress,
leaders and followers, are quarrelling among
themselves and with the President, who has
finished their great work of reconstruction in
the fifteenth amendment, and who has cour-
ageously undertaken to lead the party upon
new ideas and manifest destiny" to new
victories, yea, to a new lease of power upon
new programme of peace, annexation and
commercial expansion. But these grand ideas
and measures of General Grant seem to be
too large for the narrow gauge intellects of
the republican managers, leaders and trum-
peters. Senator Fenton is absorbed in the
spoils of the New York Custom House, and
he finds in Mr.. Murphy, our amiable and honest
Collector, sufficient cause for giving
the cold shoulder to the administration.
Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz, Of Missouri, dis
fiofso dicfr NJ <ha L. IN,
that quarter, make a deliberate bolt from the
party traces, and turn oyer the State to the
democrats, and turn in General Frank Blair
to the United States Senate. Charles Sumner
gets into quarrel over Mr. Motley and ST.
Domingo with the President, and carries it to
such extremities Of personal bitterness that
General Grant feels compelled to complain of
it, whereupon the Senate removes Mr.. Sumner
from the post of chairman on Foreign Rela-
tions, and 10 and behold, New Hampshire,
the Granite State, goes over to the democracy.
Nor does this chapter of republican dis
cords and squabbles stop here. 1t extends to
the duties on salt and coal, to revenue
reform" and free trade, and to the questions
Of Southern amnesty and coercive measures
against the Ku Klux Klans. And all the
time, lying far deeper than these side issues,
and operating over the length and breadth of
the land, the financial policy of Secretary
Boutwell-his fallacious policy of keeping up
our high taxes in order to pay off every year
hundred millions and more of our national
debts undermining the republican party. Let
us again admonish General Grant that this
mistaken policy is full of mischief not only
to the administration and the party in power,
but TO the whole financial system, debt and
credit Of the country-national, State, munich
pal and individual funds, bonds, business, debt
and credit. We would warn the President