Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-24
The Republican parry.

party which has saved the country from ruin.
The movement with which he is connected
makes no issue against the republican party, be-
cause it can not do so with any show of good
reason Nevertheless, it aims (vainly indeed
to destroy the republican organization and re-
store to power the old democratic party. 1t may
surprise Mr., Greeley to notice that not
many republicans are inclined TO aid him Gin
such work as this, for his mind has been, for
some Time, more influenced by an astonishing
force of morbid egotism than by reason. 1t is
true, however, that bis republican followers are
very few in number, and that they will be fewer
still before November. Republicans generally,
not having forgotten the history of the last ten
or Twelve years, hold that the republican party
is far more important than any man in it, and
their purpose is that the party shall not be de-
teated at the coming presidential election.
Any man who reflects can see easily how
defeat of the republican party would disturb
the welfare of the country, by unsettling conf
dence in the future and bringing financial and
business interests to condition of uncertainty.
The country has been prosperous under the
present administration; the finances have been
managed with admirable integrity and econo-
my; and there has been steady progress to-
wards a gust and complete settlement of all
questions growing out of the rebellion. Time
aud jndicious administration of the govern
mcnt will fully naugurate that new era in the
history of the republic, which will be for
every part OF it greater and better than the past
defeat of the republican party would revive
the old preiudiees and passions of the beaten
slave power, which should die and disappear.
There would be a new struggle to undo what
has been done to remove the influence of bar
barous institution and make the whole country
free; and, consequently, there would be a new
disturbance, and postponement of that wise
reconciliation and harmony between north and
SOUTH which ought to be realized
No reasonable and lasting harmony between
the two sections can be established by the old
democratic party, nor by any method which as
sumes that the rebellion was right, or that free
dom and equality are wrong. The rebellion |
was neither right nor excusable; slavery was a |
barbarism by which the republic was dishonored |
and demoralized; the attempt to organize the |
old passions and preiudiees it created, and use |
them as "kukluxism." is a crime against the |
whole country. That man does not hon
estly seek peace, harmony, and prosperi- |
", who takes the opposite ground and aims |
TO keep alive the old madness, in order to use
ii for partzan purposes. He may be an
INSCRIPTIONS hunter for political power at any
price; but he is not wise and patriotic citizen
Those who eudeavor to Withdraw public atten-
tion from the actual character of the political
situation, by loud talk over petty details of adj
ministration, forget that the American people |
are sufficiently intelligent 10 see aud Judge tor
themselves. Mr.. Greeley is not likely TO see |
them become servants of his egotistica and I'M |
scrupulous ambition; nor is the public senti- |
ment Of thecountry now ready for restoration |
OF the democratic party TO control of the gov
eminent. The republican party is powerful in
its reason for existence; it is unbroken: the
country needs it; and it will not be defeated
The full reconciliation and harmony 50 much
needed will be realized by such transition of
the southern ex-confederateS from the old dark
ness to the new light, as will enable them TO see
that the republican party is not their enemy, |
and that no other party has ever sought so |
truly to promote the welfare of the southern
states. The old supporters OF slavery and its
mad passions will at length understand, that
they needed to be saved from themselves; that
nothing has been lost in the south save the bar
barous obstruction which made impossible the
welfare and great prosperity OF which the south
ern states are capable; and that the great for.
bearaRee, at the close Of the war, which made
the government abstain from indicting and pun.
ishing snbdued rebels for treason, means some
thing very different from hatred of the southern
people If the republican party represents the
Old antagonism 10 slavery and its WAYS,
1t can for this reason do more than
any other party to promote such har-
mouy as should exist between the two sections. |
thinking men at the south are beginning TO see |
all this. What some of them are thinking and |
what will at length become general in that part |
OF the country, may be seen in the recent letters
OF Col b. S. Ewell, of Virginia, and Gen. Henry |
Z. Wayne, of Georgia, both men of character. DO
sltlon and influence at the south. They express
strongly the opinion, that the welfare Of the
south requires that the republican party should
succeed. We print Col. EwelPs letter in another
place. Gen. Wayne, writing at Savannah
speaks thus: "The only hope the country has,
as 1t seems TO many Of us here, TO secure good
"uN 9ta'hits lies lu tflS cltcilOa OIL u Fe8u-
lar republican candidate"
Norepublcan who understands the condition
oil tue country, can feel that this is proper time
to amuse himself with "liberal movements"
Al no time has it been more important to up
mold the republican party and give it all the
strength possible. Its continuance in power, for
the present, is necessary to secure such a con-
diuon OF the country, north and south, as will
make 1t as free, as great, and as prosperous as
1t should be, in the future. Therefore, il is
the republican party, and not this or the
other man in it, that should be sus.
tanned. The liberals may play their lit
tie game and think it amusing tina
eonceled, pretentious, shallow-brained nincom
poop which calls itself " independent journal
ism" may affect profound indifference to thu
reasons why the republican party should b.
supported earnestly; but the political situation
of the country remains the same. Sincere re.
publicans will NOT consent TO have their party
overthrown in congress or in the executive
mansion, while the need of its control of the
government is so manifest.
InHa# II.