New-York tribune., 1872-08-16
TIE QUESTION OF STABILITY.

From The Chid1o 7ffbunt p,,:
A common assertion OF the NIamT Naanpd nc ond
cas Una" W. o Of No reason why could be charged
with this weakness unless 1t be thit et'o. % Tho
ism his honesty nor his capacity can be alackeu'
nrincipaI obeciou found against him before MS non
nation at Cincinnati was MS oDSlate ,itist an
set ~ oninone He was Obstinate Ah0nuOnlsl, an
obstinate Temperance man. an obstinate ProecuoHHs,
The fact is Mr. Greeleys whole me shoSS onno
nenis char rye as an mmOvable Obstinacy are noraSe
Greeeys chief mental characteristcs S MI tbat onv
peaceful and constitutional means shouu pe %
e in Opposing it. ever But CHANGE Sa ee'AnE me always Ia
bored for Emancipation ana for peace peace ~, On re em
idea for which he had labored in the Whig party IN,
cuding especially Protection He has never changeg
his views that question. lie could not be
20 abate one lot or little of his hostility TO KnowN0thlng
ISM though It lost him nomination for Governor OF
NewYOrk that would probably nave Deeh suoeoSsn
throughout the he never abated from MS poslu9
that Emancipation should be one of its means ana endr
After the he never changed his position tnat
sal amnesty and impartial suffrage should De tDe pasls
for the reconstruction Of the Union and on one OCCASION
he voluntarily sacrificed the SenatOrsmp rom new
i'm order to reerate these two principles nener vi
which was then accepted by the Republican party. On
temperance, specleresunpuOn, OF any onor @ ~ insta
nc has never changed. To accuse such man VI hS~F
bity is the hight of absurdity A.. -, .,o ,,onr,,can
Now compare with this record tnat OF tne IeIuuoah
pary as represented in its National and state Confe
tons and Platforms II mas never nan te dctIv in
three years at time, and mas usually acIea oa ~
violation OF its platform within less than tnlee Sca
after adopting It, PoG IF the Renubcan Convention at
Chicago adopted, denOunclng lnVaslo I anu
guaranteeing Slavery, RcpubnCin IItslucht
ing regiments of Northern States militia INTO the Sou
ern States, and within two years Fremont BueI anS
Saxton had issued prOclamations OF emancipation
met the general approval OF the Republican party anu
were soon after followed by from President inco'
The invasion was justified by the RebelllOn; put Ihis
being So Republican party should not nave ucldIe
i'm advance that it could be justified, mo matter Oh
what preteXt" ,,,- ..,... l..
Again i'm the Spring of 1861, the Republican party IN
Congress introduced and passed through bOtn liOuse'
by tWohiIds majority, proposed Ihlrtecnth Amcni-
ment 10 the Constitution, fOrbdding that any future
amendment should ever be made aoollslng Savery, M M
Fortunately this amendment was never ratlhed Dy te
states The actual Thirteenth Amendment passed suo
seuuently by the Republican party was OF cAacy
the oppOsite tenOr-abOishing slavery IN al tne Sdtes
Again. while the first battle or Bull Kun was pehune
Republican Congress passed through both Houses areso
out interfering with Slavery or the state Governments
vet within short time il overthrow both Agdln Wnen
President Johnson started Reconstruction on the Dds
of the white vOte-a vote which would nave eecteu ty
mour over Grant in 1865 by 100000 notes.-the republican
party i'm several State Conventions under the ledd
the independent Republican press, and such statesmen
as Sumner Stevens, schuTZ, ana Greeley OppOSeu II;
Even the Republican National platform OF 1865 emDOueu
the proposition, which Horace Greeley llne
diatey condemned and which the party ITSELF III pass
ng the Fifteenth Amendment reversed, VIZ that thefe
white suffrage at the North, If the Northern states,
separately desired. Here are five sweeping contra
dicons between the officially declared views OF the
Republican party and their Immediately subsequent
action and this too, on the leading question WIN whcn
the party had to do. This shows that the republican
party l. e. the class OF political spouters and Dummers
who represent il in conventions have no very popheuc
foresight determining what the party VIII or OuRhl 10
do Tney are as likely not to pledge the party never
TO do something which 1t Will actually 40 wilh year