The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-21
UNITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

UNITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
While the Democratic press of the coun-
try is seriously aattering itself that there
are elements of dissatisfaction enough in
the Republican ranks to secure great ma
tional split in the coming Presidential cleo
ton, it is itself demanding such platform
of principles at the hands of the Cincinnati
boilers as it will be impossible for that
body to agree upon if it ever comes togeth-
er in such force, consistency, and conse-
quence of numbers as to command the
slightest consideration at the hands of the
Democracy. We know that while the
Democrats are industriously harping upon
their own unity and integrity, and the pro-
liabilities of this great anticipated split in
the Republican ranks, there is really less
congruity Of party elements and more ac-
tual diversity, ifnot more downright discord,
in the Democratic camp than will be seen
anywhere among the Republicans, after the
Philadelphia Convention shall. have COM
pleted its labors.
There is no such rule of Republican
orthodoxy insisted upon anywhere as will
of itself make distinction between a
Grant Republican and national one; for
Genera Grant is personally the embodi-
ment Of q national Republican, his in
dvidual platform being this, that the will
of the majority, as expressed through pro-
per and legitimate channels, is what must
govern the party under all contingent cir
cumstances. He does not demand re-
nomination at the hands of the Philadel-
phia Convention-in fact, he does not so
much as ask it-but insists upon the unity
and integrity of the party, and free and
unbiased Judgment of the delegates when
they shall come together.
Democrats may hug to the delusion that
the Republican party is about to split into
irreconcilable factions-about to separate
into integrant parts without political cohe-
sion or affinities-to become, in fact, the
same heterogeneous mass of conflicting par
ticles as the Democratic party itself, but
we doubt if any one of these chimerical
and deceitful dreams will be realized. The
Republican party is emphatically one of
unity and congruity. Its progress has been
ever onward and upward, advancing through
the same continuous series of governmental
reforms as marked its career at the outset,
when the Democratic party went down in
confusion before the advancing column
of national principles by which it was
governed. This party, acting like skillful
mariner, coasts along the great promonto-
ries Of Republican principles, marking the
rocks and quicksands upon which the De-
mocracy drifted in following their later and
more perious charts, and looking constant
ly aloft for the bearings of familiar stars by
which to determine their constitutional
course. .
Every true Republican is satisfied with
the party landmarks which have been
erected in the last fifteen years by those
who have successfully guided the ship of
state through the perilous waters into
which it had drifted under Democratic
guidance, and will set his face inhexibly
againt any new charts, however we'll or i'll
advised they may be at this time. What
ever does not accord with the car
dinal principles of the party-as struck out
by its founders-and worked up into the
great and incompatible chart of freedom
which has thus far determined its course,
will be rejected by the people when it
comes to a decisive question at the polls.-
The unity and integrity of the party de-
mands this, and we have no fears but that
the people will everywhere respond to the
demand. -.egt.
Out of twenty-five states that held cleo
tons last year, fifteen declared for the Re-
publican ticket, and New Hampshire makes
the sixteenth. We believe that Connecti-
cut will soon renew her pledge of party
fidelity, and give in her adhesion to the
popular demand now everywhere made
upon the Philadelphia Convention for the
denomination of General Grant. Politicians
and Democratic papers may pirate about d.
vision, but there is no evidence of it outside
of little party cliques and disaifected leaders.
The great body of the party--the patriotic
masses which give expression to the popu-
lar will-are unmoyed by any such narrow
considerations as actuate the opponents Of
the Administration at this time. The sue
cess Of the Republican party i the one