Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-18
CINCINNATI DISCORDS.

another before the day of convention
arrives. Fierce war has broken out, the
consequence Of which no man can fore
see. If an intended bride and bridegroom
commence to quarrel on the way 10
church, the conclusion is that the welded
life will not be very happy or continue
more than three weeks if divorce can
be obtained. The condition of the parties
bound to Cincinnati is somewhat like a
fighting couple on the way to matrimonv.
The New York meeting, which was de-
signed as love feast, has proved to be a
breeder of discord. This was the first
time the supporters of the Cincinnati
scheme had an opportunity to look into
the faces of each other, and the result is
as most people outside predicted, mu-
tual repugnance followed by blows and
thrusts savage and deadly.
On the next morning after the meeting,
the New York Post, which represents the
Free Traders, expressed its disgust with
the resolutions adopted and stigmatized
the Tribune's pet child, the one-term idea.
as not principle but a mere political
fetch" This scurvy treatment of his
much cherished political bantling, aroused
the indignation of Mr.. Greeley, who re-
turned as follows: 1.-The Evening Post
which gives the Cincinnati movement any
quantity of advice, but no hearty sympa-
thy,-stigmatizes One Term as no princi-
pie but mere political fetch We are
consoled under this rap" &c. The next
issue of the Post takes up the subject
again, and tells the Tribune in sweet.
tempered way that the one term principle
.was no part of the liberal movement un-
til foisted in, here at New York, to meet
the crotchets of the editor Of the Tribune"
Not satisfied with these affectionate
craps" at the Tribune, the Post publishes
long and significant article, inquiring
"Is Hamlet to be left out of the Play ?" in
which it reads out of the movement the
Tribune and all its followers. 1t says the
chief reasons for calling the Cincinnati
convention were to make a stand against
protection and the Capitalization of power
in the federal government. 1t declares
that ''it was to counterfeit these two prime
evils that the liberal movement was origi-
nally begun in what was called the New
Departure at Cincinnati 1t continues
as follows: 1.-The patriotic men of all
parties, who gave the impulse to that no.
bic start. proclaimed !, as their first prin-
ciples that the only legitimate purpose OF
tariff is to provide necessary revenue,
: and that the general government must b.
confined to the strict limits of the Consti
!. tuition, while all rights beyond are re
served to the States The liberals o
= Missouri came together, organized, an'
conquered on the same ground. We arr
in favor say they, of as rapid reduc
;. ton of taxation as will be consistent witt
/ the conscientious discharge OF our public
a obligations, and such reform in the rev
: enuc service as will simplify the mode o
II collecting taxes and reducing the numbe
of officials employed for that purpose
and that we are opposed to any system o
taxation which will tend to the creation o
monopolies, and benefit one interest at the
expense of another. jed -o
) Now, it was in pursuance of these re.
} solves that the reform convention was
summoned to Cincinnati. The language
+ of the call is explicit and unmistakable.
, All men, it said, who are in favor of am
, nesty, who are in favor of extricating tho
, civil service from the hands Of trading
, politicians. who are in favor of a revenue
. tariff only, who are in favor OF decentral.
ization--who' are in favor of not one OF
these reforms merely, but Of all Of them
} are asked to consult and deliberate and de.
eide upon the future course of action
Q They demand universal reform, and par
! ticularly the reform of those chief and 81
= gantic abuses out of which all the minol
e abuses spring. WY .
: What must be the surprise, then, of re
9 formers all over the nation when they shall
come to read the petty resolutions passet
at the Cooper Institute meeting, the Other
I night, as the voice of New York! Messrs
Trumbull and Schurtz, in their eloquent
speeches, true to the popular inspiration
which has created the liberal party, rec
ognized in clear and emphatic tones the
great principle for which we plead. But
: the resolutions were as mute as the tongue
: less caverns of the earth they mutiled
+ the whole matter in a few vague and gilt
+ tering generalities; and that which should
have been stentorian trumpet-call to the
vast army Of progress dwindled into 8
: thin and timid whistle only meant not tc
offend the politicians" a --
l And SO opens the war between the fac
tionSgoing to Cincinnati. They begin tt
see that they have no affinity lo
each other, but decided and un
: conquerable antipathy They might a