New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-12
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number Of Executive Committeeman with
sigh of satisfaction we said unto ourselves,
"Now we shall get at it, for what they do MT
"know about the Doctor in Massachusetts, is
"hardly worth knowing" We were strength
ened and, as it were, confirmed In TINS
opinion by the fact that it was the chief
University of that Commonwealth which
took the General and in the twinkling
of an eye transmogrifed him into
Doctor Of Laws. 1t was rather disheart-
ening to find that the Secretary of the Club
was named Doolittle, and that one OF the prl-
yate members was named Slack; but when we
came to peruse the Address itself, disappointed
in all else, we felt these respectable names TO
be eminently appropriate and suggestive. III
is well that the document is of small proper
tons; for had il been as long az it is short
and equally empty, it would clearly have re-
futed the rule that nature abh0rs vacuum
1t contains head piece, tail piece, and three
sections. We coniine ourselves to an analysis
of the last-the others are of no consequence.
We 90, so to speak, for the bowels of the
manifesto, and anybody wanting more infOr-
nation than they can get from us are re-
ferred to Oscar f. DOOlittle, No. Hamilton
place, Boston, Mass.
SECTION 1. This is devoted to an enthusi
astic gorifcation of the Republican party.
Various efforts, we are told, have been made
to disrupt" it, but "disrupted' it could not
be, because depended upon its existence (such
is the intimaticn) all the manifold interests
of society, social moral, and political"
Moreover, we are told that the party has seen
darker days than this, and has weathered a
" storm of vituperation and SANDER to which the
"present outcry of its opponents is but feeble
"and empty sound.n This may be beautiful
writing, but it means nothing. The people are
not so much interested in what the Republican
party has been as in what it is 1t may be
true that it has been useful; it is possible
that it may have outlived its usefulness. What
said the venerable Gerrit Smith in 1869! Did
he not say that permanent party Is heavy
Course and "plants itself with great and too
Frequently invincible power in the way OF
progress, and clings for its own existence TO
"the wrongs with which it is identi6edY' The
conscient0usness the fidelity, the patriotism,
and the intelligence of the Republican party
in the past-what have all these TO do
with the sins and shortcomings of
the Grant Administration The President was
not even n Republican when he was nOml-
mated and elected, and it is the opinion Oh
great many once of that party that he Is MT
much of a Republican, in the best sense OF
the word, now We deny moreover, that 1t
was the party now in power i'll Washington
which carried the nation through the perils
of the Rebellion. There are men enough III
the Liberal ranks who fought for the Union
TO cOnfute such narrow notion. We deny
that the Grant party contains all the old
Unionists We deny that to-day it is in the least
more devoted to the Union than the Liberal
organization. We deny its right to the ex-
elusive honor and glory of loyalty, though we
might say that as to certain points 1t Is en-
titled to the exclusive dishonor of disloyalty.
SECTION 2. Here we have more glorihcatlon.
This Republican Committee. however mighty
it may be, is certainly not over modest. 1t
does MT mean to lose anything by not claim
ing enough. According to this Address, all
these questions can have but one answer
Who won the victory who preserved liberty
who abolished Slavery who established the
public credit who reduced the National Debt
who removed the taxesf who made capital
abundantq who revived commerce. who Sc
cured peace with foreign natiOnsf The Re-
publican Ii. e.. the Grant, Party! Well
may the Address say that " its record
ais matchless.n OF course. all the voters who
all this time have been in and are now out
of the party are not entitled to the least
credit for the good which it has DONE BY
leaving it, they have forfeited all claim to
any of the honors. Thus it is that all the
glory of time when there was hardly any
oil bo Of
rising. is to be transferred to and mOnOpOlized
by a handful of partisans, partly Office-Holders
and partly the tools of Office-HOlders, who
assert that they alone saved the Union, and
that they alone can keep 1t in condition of
salvation! Charmingy modest, is MT it
SECTION 8. Here we Liberals come in for
a dreadful fustigatiOn. We have already vir-
tually surrendered by the abandonment of
"our principles we have been "scourged by
the popular condemnation" and, moreover
Though this we don't understand at alD,
eve have been driven beyond the limits of
"our own organization for candidates" We
are making desperate struggle for supre-
macy in the Government" Of course, the
Grant Office Holders are not making des-
| operate struggle for supremacy" They are
yirtuous. Far be it from them to hunger for
the cakes or TO thirst for the ale! And 80
I with call for "an Old-fashioned and un-
diminished Republican victory" the Address
of Mr.. Oscar Doolittle winds up. II this is the
best defense which the Ofice-Holders party
in Massachusetts, can offer, If this is the best
| attack which it can make upon the Liberals,
the day of its departure must be at hand ana
| it had better set the Custom houses IN order