Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-04-11
FROM swAsH1rGToN.
The Late Elections and their Lessons
Sumner, Schurz, TrumbulI and
Greeley Fallen from their
High Estate.


Sumner, Schurz, TrumbuII and
Greeley Fallen from their
High Estate.
WASHINGTON, April 4, 70. |
The result of the elections in Con-
necticut is the event of the week,
and(eauses much comment among
politicians OF the different parties
at the capital. To the friends of
the administration it is cheering
and encouraging. TO the Demo-
Gratis it is the reiterated verdict of
condemnation of their principles
and policy. and to the malcontents,
it is the voice of rebuke for their
treachery. I'd. 4.
Following SO closely upon the an
CRY debates which were planned and
melted in the Senate by Schurz,
Sumner, and Trumbull, for the pur-
pose of defaming the Administra-
tion and defeating the denomination
Of President Grant, it cannot but
be hailed as a triumphant vindica-
tion of the Administration, and of
the fidelity of the Republicans of
CONNECTICUT. New Hampshire had
redeemed herself and had again
placed her victorious flag upon the
Republican ramparts, and sent forth
an encouraging shout to the sons OF
Connecticut,and they have glorious
ly responded by a larger majority
than has been given for the Repub-
lican party for several years. '-
The. results in these two States
teach an important lesson, which
will not fail to have a good effect
upon the country.
1t will teach Messrs. Sumner,
Schurz, and Trumbull of the Sen
ate, and Mr.. Greeley Of the Tribune
that great party is not to be con-
trolled nor dissolves at the will of
men who are actuated by personal
ill-will or malevolence. Great polit
ical parties in this country are the
out growth, from convictions in the
minds of the people of their neces-
sity, in order to carry into effect and
sustain great and beneficent schemes
of policy, and are not the personal
property of any set of leaders, how
ever much they may have been hon
ored by that party. s, ...-.t. .....
Mr.. Sumner has been honored
and trusted because he identified
himself with the great principles
which underlie, and upon which the
Republican party was built. When
he ceases to consider those great
principles as paramount to the graf
ifications of personal ill-will or ha-
tired to the accepted and honored
chief, chosen by the party, to admin
lister their government, the people
cease to trust and follow him, and
when he throws himself across the
track that they wish to pursue, with
the expectation that he will stay
their progress in that direction, he
will find that he is utterly powerless
and that instead of battling the will
of the people, he will be crushed to
powder. ..........'..l..... .....-
Greeley has welded q powerful
pen in advocacy of Republican prin-
ciples and exerted apotent influence,
because he sustained those great
principles of justice and humanity
which called the Republican party
into being, and which through its in
strumentality have been; engrafted
upon our Constitution, and are now
the pride and boast of every true
Republican in the land. But when
Horace Greeley from the effects OF
wounded pride, or from disappoint-
ed personal ambition, sewers the ties
which bound him to the men, who
through many years of toll and bat
tie, marched with him in the Repub-
lican ranks, and won great and
priceless victories, turns away from
his old friends, and seeks to defeat
the will of the vast majority of those
with whom he acted, he will find
that the Establishments of the reform
Delilah have shorn him of his locks
wherein lays his strength, and that
he has become as weak and power
less as othermen. '-- -'
General Grant may not have hon
nored Mr.. Greeley as he should
have done, but does that fact, if it
be a fact, render the Republican par.
ty useless organization? r-.'.
The great body of Republicans
have the greatest confidence in the
Presidents administrative ability,
and they wish to retain him at the
head of the nation for another term.
Mr.. Greeley will not submit to the
will of the vast majority with whom
he has heretofore acted, ,and by whom
he has been honored and trusted as
a leader and lie must not think it
strange if his old associates look
upon his refusal to submit to the
will of the majority as an act of bad
faith, and his desertion of his post
as a watchman on the Republican
bulwarks, as q base betrayal of his
friends. i'"i -i.' -. ''''''i
He follows the example of Davis,
Toombs and Floyd, who, when they
could not rule the country in accor-
dance with their wishes, attempted d
to destroy the Government and the
Union. His detection springs from
the same unhollowed and base mo-
tives. If he cannot rule the party
he will consort its enemies in order
to defeat and destroy it. .,...
He falls like Lucifer, and he who
had place in the memory and graf
itude of millions of people, will be
remembered for his perfidious deser-
ton Of friends, who still cling to
the Republican Organization as the
only hope for good government, for
a continuation of the policy which
Mr.. Greeley has advocated, ,and still
approves, and which has so wonder
fully developed and enriched our
country He, too, will learn that
the people are not to be deceived,
and cannot be led astray IN order to
crafty the personal lanimosity of
even such q man as Horace Greeley
has seemed to be. He has preach
ed universal amnesty ever since the
war closed, and he would have us
believe that the generous throbbings
of his heart led him to bail jeff Da-
vis,-whose Internal rebellion caus7