New-York tribune., 1872-06-04

and Brown The defeat OF the Democratic party Ia the
elections Of 1871 when II went before tho people on the
New Departure platform, and arragned the Radicals on
their enforcement and KuKux measures, and the gross
corruptions which characterized their carpetoag
Governments, and everything TO which their power
extended, demonstrated the hopelessness OF arrest
ing the progress OF arbitrary and corrupt GOV
gaton ii s indeed perfectly manifest that II has
been solely because this organization mas Deen
have been abe TO drag the people into all the extreme
measures which have been adopted since the war Thus
IL is demonstrated that negro suffrage was estao %
iished Inv the opposition of the Democratic leaders,
by the fact that the people 3tS voted pSSSa aESl
SaBcais S1' bY whom It was established. This is
illustrated by the vote Of Ohio in 1861 which rejected
negro suffrage by 900 majority, and yet elected HAYS
who favored it, over Thurman, who opposed it: The
sentiment n Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and other
ssi S9ss history wss Better S established thar that
suffrage resulted, not from the approval or ~ Dy am
wos made question upon which the possession OF the
Government depended between Repu0lcan ana DetlO a
cratic party leaders, and the people yeueo ,n9 % COW
against suffrage rather than put tne uo
ernment in the hands OF Democrats because Iney
fed that party with the south The DemoeIauo ot she
izaton is therefore not only poweress 10 arrest
despotic policy which the Radical leaders or eJ no
Inoneyed interests which they represent pave au
rated but it is manifest that the hold OF the kadc &
ers country depends their being aDe 70 eeP
aher old Democratic leader opponents in the iont rams ans
Of their antagonists. Whilst they can Keep ~ ,1
situation they egslate themselves INTO perPetiut
power They need stop at no violations OF the Consttu
ton. and their Executive, whilst acting IN the mtep yer
e'qed Mr Eunds %snUn and 'T the Judiciary COMMITTEE Of
sD S sTIy 70 pPre fbe eoga Legislature which was
Democratic, suit Gov. Bullock, ana enaDleu nin "
djoarT Commttee while thus reporting, found fault
with the President for contributing TO the robbery OF he
Democratic leaders only had protested aud their pro
test was disregarded by the Northern people because
they deemed IL exaggeration 70 restore southern SUI
premacy and their power 1t was not tlu the Ad-
mimstration aTraigned by Horace Greeley, Charles
Sumner, Lyman Trumbull, Carl bchuTZ Horace MDltey
Murat Halstead, Samuel BOwes, and other ontand0ut
Republicans that was brought TO BAY and tne Demo-
cratic leaders having been silenced all the past
Winter the first time since the war check has been
put to the progress of Radcasm and teehng mas re- re-
spOnsbe government. No one, not IN alance WIN tne
punderers and not inded by can ran ne ~
our politics out OF the slough OF secuonalSm'
THE REVOLT OF THE PEOPLE AGAINST CORRUPTION
To allay the Northern Jealousy of the
South it IS necessary that the Democracy
should support the Reform wing of the Northern party
This conceded the people viii turn against the punder
ers To oppose such movement because the candidate
OF the Reform party has acted with his section is stick
ing in the bark It only because he has sucha record
and his fidelity is unquestoned that his nomination VIII
silence the sectional issue and enable to make the Re-
pnai yHH NJ revolt Of the people against
leaders of both parties who have failed 70 protect then
GOvernmen-the carpet-baggers, being more notorious
and infamous, but not worse than their party cneis
whose creatures and instruments they are But may
pea oe SSheg % ~ ss S n nm which the deFpotic power of the
present Administration rests and, So how sup
port Mr. Greeley, the great advocate OF PiOectohI 0I
Greeley the advocate of the SYSTEM but Is not one OF
the protected class, and fayors the system not to
the capitalist but TO serve the workers, nOtve
which has enlisted and yet secures, advocates
for the system many Of the most enlightened ana patr
otic men Of the age. But While, by Somtenanehg ing
Protection, he has greatly strengthened one OF the
moneyed interests which forms part OF the ogarchy now
in possession of the Government ths Is more thh cOu
throw the cOupuonsts through his sympathy win the
workers, which alone has made hlm Proteetiohist, %
There are few aDe men, most CONSPICUOUS O N wiroI
are animaedith the zeal Of new converts Wn0 thOgh
committed to the Cincinnati movement by paTuclpaIag
in its pTCceedings now oppose MT GIee1Sy. ~ t
nousy agreed at Cincinnati that Free Trade should not
be made Presidential question. But they now say III
substance, that they dd TINS III the tna no
candidate 20 be nominated and nothing IS more Ger
tain than that Mir. Greeley proposed 1t to enable nm 10
supOrt candidate with whom he expected to differ on
that question not looking to the NOMINATION ior hhae'
TIE FREE TRADE ISSUE.
Is il fair and sound dealing for these gentlemen now to
attempt TO make it issue against him, and not only
against him. but against the great body of the Free
Traders who are supporting him, because they dis
appointed in the nomination Of their candidatel No
such ISSUE be it remembered has heretofore been
made in Presidential election, and they who now press
II &C Knowledged at Cincinnati that 1t ought 10 be
subordinated TO that which all thoughtnl men
feel underles this struggle, VIZ whether we
are to have consolidated, absolute Government, or
constitutional aud responsible SoyeTnment Ihe only
effect OF the diversion which these gentlemen propose
viii be 70 strengthen the hands Ot te nOnOpOsts ms
ma
feet was produced last Winter Free-Irde organ by
"A dinner at the White House! Tic venerable editor,
whose purity all admit, absent from the country az
the time, and have heard promptly dismissed MS
recreant assistant his return But the incident serves
show how the ground mined about him, and that all
who WELD influence over the public mind, and can be
approached by corrupt Influences or whose personal re-
sentiment professional Iyalres can be turned to ac
count will be worked upon by the subtle hand Of the Ad
ministration The Liberal Republicans and Democrats
honorable men, to support the Cincinnati nominees. The
Liberal Republicans by their actual participation in the
conduct clearly implied The Liberal movement
not only invited by the Democratic party generally, but
The Net York World urged Mr. Adams in many articles
and The chicago Times was equally pronounced for
Judge Davis. This conduct yielded rreVOcaOy the lead
in this contest the Liberal Republicans represented at
Cincinnati and conceded the hopeessness OF defeating
1t is Mr. Greeleys nomination was not anticipated
bur that this circumstance does not relieve those who
advocated Adams and Davis from their obligations 10
support Mr. Greeley because they too are Radca me
World admits logic, but denies the fact that Adams
and Davis Radicals But the fact beyond dispute
nat Marty as MT Greeley was have never dissented
from any of It's leading measures and would have
With the nSTty The Democrats. by expressing viii
ingness support can 1idae TO be nominated at
Cincinnati have bound themselves TO support the nOm
nee as we'll as recognized the hOpeessness attempting
to defeat Grant by a straight Democratic ticket and
they cannot advocate the nomination OF such "a
out mparng the confidence of associates in their
judgment or In their principles am, very respecttady'
Messrs Ethan Allen, Benz. Wood, Thomas L. Stewart,
and others, Committee, New-YOrk.
Falkland, Montgomery Co., Nd, june 1871
FROM GEO. w. JULIAN.
DEAR SIR: / regret that engagements here will not
allow me TO accept your invitation. But let me
TO you my strong assurance that the political signs
auspioOus. The old party organizations which have
done their work and outived their usefulness
moned to their final account. The people coming TO
the 'front.' leaving their former leaders bewidered and
helpless in the These revolutionary days, and
no man can safely judge either the present the future
by any political almanac Of bygone times Progress,
not stagnaton the order OF the day; and those