New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-11
LITTLE BOLTS.

| If there are any irrecOncilables who have
not yet been beard from, we beg them to
come forward at once and have their cases
settled. The Free Traders, pure and simple
who believe that the whole business of politics
is to reduce the Tariff, made their little
demonstration some time ago at Steinway
Hall, and were disposed of with delightful
| case and rapidity, tho only result of their
meeting being TO elicit from the audience a
| strong expression Of enthusiasm for Mr..
| Greeley. The malcOntents from Cincinnati
next had their Conference at the Fifth Avenue
| Hotel, and there the result was about the
| same. The nomination of Messrs. Greeley ana
Brown was ratified by the very people who
had been brought together to oppose 1t. Both
these meetings added strength to the Liberal
party, and showed that the movement begun
at Cincinnati took its impulse not from any
political managers, but from the spontaneous
feeling of the people. Lastly the Democratic
Bourbons have tried their little revolt at Bal
timOre, and succeeded, just as the Steinway
Hall and Fifth Avenue people did, only In
reinforcing and encouraging their opponents.
Messrs Flanders, Van Allen, Duncan 81 Co.
could not command the attention OF fifty per-
sons, and made no more impression upon the
delegates than il they had preached to brick
and mortar. The Convention" as the hand
full of boilers call themselves, has published
an address, which would be ludicrOus if it
were not mournful and pathetic in its weak
iteration of ancient party cries. But, beyond
this the forlOrn band did nothing but recon-
mend that convention be held in Louisville,
Kentucky, next September, "to take such
"steps as may be deemed essential" SO the
only Smon-Pure Democrats snufted themselves
out, and went their way with all the in
effectual bolts into the limbo of things ex
tinguished.
We may infer from these three failures that
the Cincinnati nominations will command the
cordial support both of Liberal Republicans
and of the entire mass of the Democracy, and
that the Cincinnati platform is one upon which
all the opponents of Gen. Grants corrupt,
demoralzing, and centrahzing system of gov
eminent can comfortably stand. Nobody wants
to bolt. Nobody has an excuse to bolt. The
one subject of serious disagreement among our
friends-the Tariff-has been referred to Con-
gress, where it belongs, and the Liberal party
is left free and unembarrassed to prosecute
the reforms for which it was called into
existence
But inc complete IalIuIe VI tnc DOuipoh
protest at Baltimore proves also that the
Democratic party, no less than the Liberal
Republican, is in earnest in seeking for a
complete and hearty union between the two
long-separated and hostile sections of our
country. The meeting of two score imbeciles
and Adventures at the Maryland Institute
was a measure Of the strength of the irrecOn
cilable Democrats who would perpetuate the
reign of sectional hatred, and tear open again
the balf-healed wounds Of the war. The con-
tempt with which they were treated by the
true representatives of their party from the
Southern States confirms the judgment we
have heretofore expressed, that all through
the South there is an honest purpose to forget
the past, to cease broOding over misfortunes,
cherishing animosities. and mourning tor the
Lost Cause, and to clasp hands with the vic
tors-enemies through that long and terrible
contest, but henceforth friends, brethren.
This, to our view, is the chief significance of
the Baltimore proceedings; for, whatever the
result OF the election may be, the compact of
friendship is already made, and the South
itself is now the stronghold of Union sonti-
ment.