Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-01-24

Inc tOuulklDn ol ktHdbhNhu purity III
most OF the States South calls for earnest at.
tennou on the part oI our thinking men. It
Is useless to review the causes that have To-
jured the harmony and well nigh destroyed
the efficiency OF the party Organization.
Want Of skill among mon intrusted with
leadership and the machlustlous Of greedy
INSCRIPTIONS harples who fastened them
selves upon the party at Its formation In the
South with the sole idea OF making money,
are among the principal causes OF disaster.
Without indulging In personal illusions, we
can safely say that those indvidu ais who
went Into the party poor and rapidly ae-
qulred wealth are OF the class referred to rs
dlsgraciug Republlclnlsm, and making our
party name a reproach among q people too
apt to be prejudlced. Such men have been
marked and rejected In North and South
Carolina In Geo rgia, AlaOama, Louisiana
aud Arkansas, and TO the great gain Of the
National Union organization. The scum
ever noats to the top, and Is swept away
as scum must ever he when adverse winds
arise. The frothy shams Of our party have
noated away, and the brain aud nerve Of the
party Of tho Unlou are now reorganlElng for
victory. Around the brave men who have
stood up to breast the waves Of opposition
we may count chiefly the poorly-pAid but most
useful members Of the Southern Republican
press. Most Of these editors have labored, In
season and at all times, TO defend and keep
together the weakllngs Of our flock, espe-
clally needing direction aud Instruction in
the South. Other men have captured the
Offices, and too often, for personal ends, used
the patronage Of the Government, neglecting
the party press, especially when able or lnde-
pendent. This complaint Is but too well
proven In North and South Carolina aud
Alabama, where greedy yultures have held
Office to the shame Of the party and disgrace
Of the Government
One by one these men have been exposed
and by the press they have abused.
Ono by one party frauds" have been
driven into the arms of congenlal com
pany outside our party lines. The decks
have been swept. and everybody has taken
his station for the approaching fight The
men now In command have been skilled, be-
cause they have suffered from the bad man
agement Of others, and we expect 10 sec
very different results from these young and
Indomltable spirits who have taken the helm
from the hands OF the cowaTdly and the base,
and who, by the blessing OF Heaven, will yet
save our party ship In those troubled South
ern waters. There are no harbors 10
storms political, and he who presumes
to lead must not skulk In times Of peril
There have been too many followers Of the
Falstaf sort, who clustered and Dragged,
but, like Falstaf, fed and let others do the
fighting. We have had notable instances Of
this 10 North Carolina and Georgia. Gam
blers 10 politics played their game, got beaten,
and then, crying "Ku-Klux left for parts
unknown. The Republicans who did the
fghtinE arc the men who remain behind to
compel respect for the Government and free
institutions. The same class who constitute
the workingmen Of the sOuth-the mechanic,
the small farmer, and the late slave-have
learned TO be self-goyerning, and will no
longer implicitly trust any man or body Of
men; and thus the benefits OF our free system
Of government are Illustrated. False and fool
ish leaders have given way to men from the
ranks, who, guided and Instructed by the Re
publican press, will, II encouraged, yet save
the South.