New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-26
x1s1osaR1Es AND norrERs.


sist that the principles of the reform move
ment shall either be faithfully adhered to,
1 or. if abandoned, at least abandoned openly
and honestly-are called boilers, Missionaries,
! and impracticables. Well, if boiling means
persistent devotion to the cause of principle
and right, and refusal to follow the treacher-
GUS and pusillanimous defenders in their
devious courses, bolt. And 1 decline to
speculate how much good may, after all, come
out OF this deliberately organized evil. l
cannot be brought to think that what is be-
gun in fraud can end in honesty. | believe.
with the old supplemented historian, What
is base in its inception is base in its out
come" While am impressed as much as
any one with the necessity of purifying our
political life, 1 do not hope that this puritica-
| ton will be effected by filthy hands. How
ever urgent the demand for reform may be,
prefer to wait its accomplishment by agen-
cies over which the men who took possession
of the Cincinnati Convention have no con-
troll.
Judge Sta!lo then considered at length the
question of revenue reform, and the relega-
! ton Of that subject BY the Cincinnati Com
vention To Congressional districts, closing
this portion of his speech with these words:
"Under whatever light it is examined. the
| tariff plank in the Cincinnati platform is an
unmitgated sham, and the adrnonition adj
advantage of the opportunities afforded by
the nomination of Mr.. Greeley for the cleo
ton of revenue reformers to Congress--to
fire our guns after they have thoroughly
drenched our powder-an unparalleled au-
dacity."
I'm regard to the dangers Of the new Goa
lition, the Judge drew strong picture :
Democracy has been stripped of all rrinci-
| pie; Republicanism has been voidcd Of all
moral sense, and material has thus been re-
gained for the organization of party which
| now claims the right to bear alott the stand
ard of political reform! Is it to be wondered
at that the worst men of both parties at
once, as if by magic, rose to prominence in
this new organization: that the Ben. Woods
appear as the first Vice Presidents of the
Greeley ratification meetings, and the John
Cochranes as the diplomatic agents of the
reform nominee for the Presidency of the
Greeley conventions ?"
CLASPlNG HANDS ACROSS THE BLOODY
CHAsM.
Those who advocate the election Of Mr..
Greeley in spite of the irregularity, as they
are pleased to call it, of his nomination, in
sist upon the urgency of effecting recon-
Citation between the North and South, and
a standardization of those who were lately
in arms against the Union. The late rebels,
u IL .
extend their hands across the bloody chasnn,
and it would be unpatriotic on our part to
! reject it.
4 l need not say that every sincere effort to
bring about a restoration of fraternal feeling
and good will between all the citizens of the
Republic has my hearty sympathy. And il a
clasping of hands across the bloody chasnl
promises in the least to contribute to this
restoration, am willing to waive my preju-
dices against dramatic performances of this
sort, in spite Of the signal failure Of similar
efforts in the past, the last of which was
made, / believe, under the auspices of Sena-
tor Doolittle, some years ago at Philadelphia.
But between whom is the restoration of good
will to take place? Who are the parties to
be reconciliated? Obviously those who
sought to destroy the Union during the late
war on the one hand, and those who were
intent on maintaining it at all hazards on the
other. Will these parties be truly repre-
scented, will their reconciliation be apprOpri.
ately symbolized, if the hand extended across
the bloody chasm from the South is clasped
by the Presidential nominee oi the old Dem
Ocraiic party, even il that nominee be Hof
ace Greeley?
Let not the men of the South be deceived
, Reconciliation with the North means recon
Citation with the new order of things estab
| lished by the war, and thorough acquiescenct
in the equal rights Of those whom the wa
/ has liberated. An etiectual destruction o
f the antagonism between those who were OPP
posed to each other in that war involves
J above all things, fusion of the political an
, tagonism among the races at the South. AM
: whatever tends to rerpetuate tins antagonist
Y is an omen of hostility, and not an augury o
D peace. Nothing could have been more un
t fortunate, in any aspect, than re-establish
e ment by the Southern whites of their relation
0 witt, the Democrats party, however SINGER
: they may have been in their adoption OF tn
2 first two resolutions of the Cincinnati plat
r form. There was no garb more inappropriate
. in which they could have clothed themseiyc
1 in making their professions of renewed allie
4 glance to the Union, and Of devotion to tn
t freedom OF all men, than the old uniform c
: the Democracy. For it is not sufficient 70
o them 10 be sincere; il is necessary also tina
t they sh.uli be trusted, or at least give n
# just charge for distrust. Will the emanci
: pated slaves accept the invitation of thej
b former masters 10 cooperate with them for tn
e restoration of the South to the enjoyment c
n self-goyernment and constitutional right
0 the invitation is extended to them in tn
: name of the old party whose sole meaning
a them is slavery and oppression?
It If there was anything which those who air
at the paciiicatlon of the South, and tn
r restoration OF mutual confidence and goo
feeling among all the citizens of the Republi
ought to have avoided, it was the establish
!, ment Of party lines upon the lines of colo
II in the Southern States. And for this reason
!: even tie momentary use OF the Democrat
organization for any purposes which the re
formers had in view, was, in my .iudgmen!
: IN error which. IL W:y take more than on
: Presidential election to retrieve.
. 1t ought to be said in this connection
= that, irrespective of his position as the Off
: cial representative of the Democratic party
+ MIR. Greeley is a very unfit person to perforl
= the ceremony Of clasping hands with tn
II South in behalf of the Unonists of Tia
!, North. For, If any understanding is to b
= brought about, it ought not TO have in it tn
germs of Dew misunderstanding. An.
. whatever may be Mr.. Grecley's sentiments
: there is evidence in the uttcrances of prom
d inent Southern men before SIR. Greeley
!. nomination ut Baltimore, that many Of t'el
u look upon him as the advocate Of a theor
= which constituted their justification of til
late war, and that his election to the Pres
dency imports to them promises which car
: not and ;Esht not TO be fulfilled.
% HORACE GREELEY.
= Gentlemen, | have taxed yoar powers
3 endurance to such degree by the length
N NV remarks that / cannot think OF tletainin