Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-09-13


The following, which we have
received from a correspondent, we
present as a very neat specimen Of
of the reductio ad dbs,srauna; some
of our Greeleyite friends may read
it with profit:
"There are two occasions when
the party in power in country is
in danger. First when it manages
affairs so badly that the opposi-
ton party grows strong by reason
of its failures; and, secondly, when
it manages affairs SO we'll that it
brushes out the opposition party,
and, being thenceforth the only
party in the land, is exposed to
bolts within it's own ranks. 1t is
needless to say which Of these is
the cause of the present danger to
the Republican party.
ssThe boilers in this case insist
that the Republican party has done
it's work so well that it ought to be
allowed to die-as if it were when
party has done well, and not
when it has done badly that it ought
to die! If it had failed of its work,
or if it were thought incapable Of
doing it, that would be ground
for letting it die. But to insist on
killing the Republican party for
doing we'll and recalling to life the
Democratic party, which had prac-
tically died from sheer crime and
faithlessness, is strange proceed
ure.
"The Liberal Republicans say
that they, by Withdrawing from that
party which has done we'll, and unit
ing with that which has done badly,
will form a new party that will do
better. AS if those who are dis
satisfied with a good party, and
those who constitute a bad party,
were together the right elements for
good party!
"Let us withdraw our confidence,
they say, from the Republican
party, because it has done every
thing so we'll that it has left nothing
more to desire. For, the Republi-
can party having been called upon
to do a certain work, and having
done it well, it should never be
intrusted with doing anything more.
But there being other things to be
done in our country, we should be-
ware Of intrusting them to those
who have done we'll before.
"There is, therefore, they insist,
necessity for new party-a party
that will not be open to the objec-
ton Of having done its work we'll.
This party is to be made mainly
out of the Democrats and past re-
bells; for they alone have not done
their work well, that work having
been to break up the Union.
at seems to us very strange that
any Republican should talk of let
ting the Republican party die when
it is in its greatest strength. Faith
full members of party are ordin-
arily willing to let the party die
only when they see that it cannot
live, or that it is irresistibly going
to dissolution.
"But so far from seeing any signs
of death or dissolution, or even of
exhaustion, in the Republican party,
the Liberals themselves have COM
planned that it is SO strong and SO
effectively organized that they have
had to groan under the party whip
or tension. And SO, not being able
to complain of their party's failure
or of its weakness, their next strong
est pretensc, after the one that the
Republican party should be allowed
to die because it has done its work
well, is that it should be allowed to
die because it is too strong and
vigorous to live. But, as if to
match their logic with their policy,
the Liberals have resolved to let
the Republican party die by with
drawing its unhealthy elements
from it, namely, themselves, whom,
they say, it was in danger Of crush
ing out and killing by its too great
strength.
"And as for the new party, the
most commonly alleged reason for
it's formation is that it might free
the individuals from the tyranny of
party. Since Grant was to be i'm
posed on them against their indi-
vidual preference, they thought it
their duty to take up another who
should be of their own principles.
Refusing accordingly to submit to
Grant because not Of their princi-
pies, but only the nominee of a
party, they submit to Greeley, who
is not of their principles, for the
sole reason that he is the nominee
of a party THAT of Cincinnati). For
Schurz, Sumner, the free-traders,
and nearly every other supporter of
Greeley, including the Democrats,
all assert that Greeley is not their
man, but that they will now support
him because nominated.
"The Liberals accordingly have
cat ont with the nrincinlo not to