Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-06
WILMINGTON, DBL,
Thursday Afternoon, June 9.
TIE DEFENsIBmlTY OF LIBERALISM
AND CONSERVATISM COMPARED,

pOLtlcal ul5appOlutuellHs tue pAlAiuS VI amul-
tous DESIRES ana the failure TO secure the spoils
OF office. The latter, however, for time, pre-
served a separate and distinct party organiza-
ton, while the former at once proposes to
coalesce with the Democrats upon any terms
which will insure the defeat of Grant and the
overthrow of the Republican party
But while tracing their origin to a common
cause, we recognize wide discrepancy in the
plausiblty Of the defence of each. The ayowed
controlling agency of the Conservatives was the
blow aimed at the destruction of Slavery. and
the fear of the concomitant ills which they pro-
fessed to believe would thereby be entailedupon |
their own race. Born and reared beneath the |
institution, and trained in the lessons it nculca-
ted, they were led to regard it as constitution
ally guaranteed right and to yeHerate it AZ be-
ngnant condition for the promotion of both the
temporal and spiritual welfare Of the eolored
people. 1t was a subject all-potent and al-ab
sorbing, appealing as it did directly to the pas
sions and prejudices and the following which
it seduced away from party fealty was numerous
and powerful. In this it found some iustifca-
ton, some rule of propriety, some defensible
yindcation of it's act OF secession. 1t was an
error of education, imbibed for almost a century
aud firmly implanted within the human breast.
Not SO the Liberal Republican movement OF
the present time There is nothing defensible
about it. 1t is void of all propriety, all reason
all justice without the least palliating circum
stance for its course Its alleged reasons for
withdrawal are puerile and ridiculous. They
exist more in Imagination than reality. They
are wholly without foundation, and stripped Of
the glittering generalites with which they have
been invested are but the shadows of a band of
disappointed office seekers who have seized upon
this pretext to crafty coveted desires with an
avidity equal to that with which drowning man
clutches at a straw, The Government is wisely
and economically administered, the revenues are
honestly collected and faithfully applied to the
liquidation of the national debt. the debt itself
is gradually growing smaller amnesty has been
granted to the rebels and peace smiles once
more upon a reunited country; while the ad-
mnstration itself is as pure and free from
abuse as any of its predecessors The move
ment is only shuhlng of the coil of Republic
elnism dieguise it you will, and its orignators
and defenders almost swallowed up and lost
in the Democratic fold.
Lest we be misunderstood. we will here state
that we arc not apologists for the Conservative
withdrawal, Our only object is to show the in
defensibility of the Liberal movement as com
pared with another of similar origin, and which
promises to be productive Of the same results.
ltis scarcely necessary that the Gazette should
remind its readers that it was only few weeks
since The COMMERCIAL was ready to do homage
to both Simmer and the y. Y.) TriJ,ue" So
long they labored in behalf of Repub!i-
principles and forthe promotion Of the party
M4al the ('ONIFuFrAT IN. nrtlpff 1rtira ~
BOTH but it does not propose to follow them in
their political syrationsr nor yet to descend to a
common plane with Democrats. But as the Ga
4'te has educed from the TriJtmts fulsome
praise Of Summers late speech, the likelihood
that Greeley never Join fortunes with
the Grant party again it viii not be in
the least surprising if Its columns soon TEEN
With admiration Of the TyiJWe philosopher,
whereas they lately could give vent to nothing
:. hut abuse Both Greeley and the Democratic
party is moving and with all its yeueration for
I'd time customs, the CARTE will hardly lie Ike
i to assume an isolated attitude
n
The near approach Of the fall campaign con-
strains our Maryland Democratic exchanges tc
lay aside their squeamishnesz and couple with
tie name Of their own party that Of their po
lueal ally. which is discarded at all other times
: 3 They could i'll anord to part friendship with
ti'r Conservatives and hence the compulsoryre rec
o5nit9n. But the proposed junction, with til,
a Cincinnati soreleads vii. he likely to add still
another name to the party, and We zuppos,
that il VIII hereafter be known as the Dem }.
Conservative Liberal Republican part
4 higa flown and lengthy name, to be sue, bu
Maryland Democrats have long since exempt
tIAl flpir fNr %, IL
Uresass Hil,lug Submission TO the title.
Ectry Eredaj mistaken in the suppositol
that Mrs. Dr.. T4rr who has assumed editori'
clutrol Of the Denton, Md journal, is I'll
'r,t" lady editor on the Peninsula Abol
.ree ears ago Mrs MeConaughy established til
Nr0d, at Clayton, and ran it successfully unit
her death Mrs. Tarr, however, is possessed
line mental culture and judgment which wi
enable her to maintain the reputation Of Ii
Jo,pndl as good family newspaper. She is Il,
altogether without experience, for to our pc
sonal knowledge she has welded the pen edit,
iial in manner wlich would be highly creditab
70 mary experienced journalists.
A sraly affair Delawares recent raid G
ulr lsEelnen.-Sa >iuelard.
Yes, but not more SO than New Jerseys ra
upon our FISHERMAN. People who live
glass Louses should not throw stones
Gold closed Yesterday at ll4-9 Goyernmei
seeusi,ies Advanced al for some issues. al
declined fraction for one or two others. I'll
Philadelphia stock market was dali closu
STEADY. Cotton advanced
: The President has issued proclamation.
accordance with the Amnesty act dsmissing a
penal prosecutions against those coming und,
Il; provisions who holl office IN violation of Il
fourteenth Amendment.
Incomplete returns of the Oregon eectio
held on Monday indicate that the Republican
have carried the State AMI that they will have
sufficient majority in the Senate to elect L
Senator.
PHss.tge Ofthc Tarid Bill YESTERDAYS.
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