The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-03-07
The Condition of Radicalisn

One of the best points made by Carl
Schurz. during the acrimonious debate on
the sale of arms, was when his opponent
read an extract from a German paper of
Chicago, favoring the administration. and
called upon the Missouri Senator to mark
how the matter struck the mind of candi!
Germans. Schurz replied that the editor
was an internal revenue collector, ana
his remarks went rather 10 prove how
the matter struck the minds of internal
revenue collectors 1t illustrates very
well the Old saying that if you place a
dollar over each Of mans eyes, he will
see astonishingly little
And great deal of the comment upon
the political situation is of a like charAc-
ter. The head of the party At Washing
ton, whose hopes are strong for a re-clec-
ton, don't like to have the existing state
of things brought up to disturb his pleas
ant visions of the future, and the radical
organs, knowing human nature pretty
we'll do their best to conceal the skeleton
that inhabits the party closet The les
son of the indiscreet Gil Bias. who. con-
.iured TO warn the Archbishop Of his fail
ing powers, acted honestly upon the re-
quest, and fell from favor, is not lost IN
on the Presidential fatterers The high
ways OF our national politics are strewn
with wrecks that split upon the rock OF
infatuation-ot men who sought to inger
when their time was long past, dazed ~
the fatal glamour of hoped for re-elec-
ton. They could not see the truth which
their fAtterers saw and dared not pro-
claim.
1t is doubtful if ever in the history Of
our government, was a party that con
trolled an administration in greater peril
from its own shortcomings, than the pres
ent one. 1t has 50 mismanaged the inan-
ces OF the country that it is hopelessly in
the grasp of the money power-the huge
monopolies protected by high tariffs, the
National Banks that are making enor-
nous gains, the railroad companies that
are absorbing the national domain An
these wrongs and their consequences are
! finally borne by the working men of the
country, who are thus wronged of their
present earnings and the inheritance Of
their children.
The country suffers alike, in some form
of oppression. In the South after seven
years of peace the administration makes
the humiliatng confession that itS people
are not pacified, and that force laws and
military rule alone suffice TO govern 4 dis
satisfied people. In the Middle States the
general stagnation Of business is confessed
and deplored The coast of New Enr-
land is struck by mil-dew blight Chat
must he as enduring as radical rule. while
the British Provinces grow fat on our lost
business. The West, teeming with agri-
cultural products finds no remuneralive
markets for her surplus. And vet the
administration fiatterers, having eyes see
not the danger, and having ears hear not
the roar of the coming tornado.
In addition TO all these threateninrs,
growing out OF the state of the county.
it seems as though madness has seized
upon the party councils. The degrade
ton Of Senator Sumner from the chair
manship OF the Committee Of Foreign At
fairs, because his Judgment refused to
sanction the San Domingo scheme, was
the very acme Of folly. The abandon
ment OF the scheme itself shows in how
unstatesmanlike a spirit it was conceived.
and how deluslve the arguments by which
it was propped up But the consequences
of the folly cannot be so easily got rid Of
Then came the quarrel with Dana and
Greeley, two of the most influential New
York editors. The Missouri folly came
after which gave the Democracy an Z.
S. Senator, and made the breach between
the administration and Schurz and Graft
Brown.
No single detection from the admins
tration party is so full of import, per
haps all combined do not have an aspect
SO threatening-as that of Senator LYMAN
Trumbull, of Illinois, For twenty wears
a republican, or ever since the formation,
of that party, and always prominent in its
councils. he has never heretofore been
without tho conf lonoa and oo,,,,,,o, -: IL
Of both leaders and masses. Indeed, the
strong point which he makes in repelling
the charge Of treachery to the republican
party is, that he stands where he always
has, and that the administration and its
adherents seek to make the organization
subserve the avarice and ambition of a
ring OF favorites. The reply which Mr..
Trumbull made in the Senate to Morton
is full Of significance. He said
"He denied Mr.. Morton's authority to sneak
! for the Liberal Republicans, or for the Republi-
can party; but the Senator from Indiana had
| also denounced the platform of the Liberal Re-
| publicans as anti-Repubcan and essentially
| Democratic, and he would now undertake to
| show that the man who held that view did not
| know the meaning of Republcanism He then
went over the resolutions in the platform one
by one, and insisted that they were all in com
ple!e accord with the principles of the Repub-
lican party. They were the principles he had
commended for through all his public life; and,
God helping him, he would contend for them
| to the end"
Morton sought to parry the force of this
speech by inducing the Senator to declare
that he did not intend to leave the party.
He said
''He has had the confidence of the Republi-
can party for nearly twenty years. If he never
intends to desert it let him say so. or if he in
tends to come forward and support the nomi-
nee of the 9th of June, now Is good time to
say It; If he says he will support that nominee
! It Will give me much joy. l do not want the
Senator or any man to leave us, but if he in
| tends to leave US l want to know it,"
To this NJ Ir1u,h,,u r,aado NJ, ,:o,,lI.