New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-25


WHO ARE TIE TRUE REPUBLICAESi
The great work which the Republican party
set before itself in the first years of its exist
ence has been accomplished. Slavery is de-
stroyed. Equality of all men before the law
is permanently established. The right of SUI
fragc has been extended to all classes. Inc
danger of disunion has been removed forever
But the principles which animated Republic
cans in their long and severe contest to secure
these results are principles of general appiica-
ton, not designed only for n particular emer
gency but applicable to the whole course Oh
public affairs. It is the duty of honest Repuo-
licans, therefore, in choosing nleir stand dur,
ing the present canvass, to inquire winch Vi
the contending parties represents the more
truly those doctrines of equality, OF justice, ol
popular suffrage which insured the kepuDh-
can triumph in the war, and which must pre-
vail in consolidating and utilizing the results
which the war has accomplished.
Mr.. Greeley, during long and busy HE,
has been one of the most conspicuous ad-
herents to the Republican creed. lie was one
of the founders of the party. lie has STOOD
by it in prosperity and in disaster For his
devotion TO it he has sometimes been honored
and sometimes been hoOted at and mObbed.
The most distinguished of the older RoDubll-
cans. like Sumner, aud Trumbull, and Chase,
are among his stanchest supporters And
what is much more impOrtant-the purposes Oh
bis marty are identical with those which the
truest Republicans have always pursued. Inc
Liberal party contends for equal rights, fOI
the white man as well as for the black. II
contends for impartial suffrage, without need
iOsS .s..d o.'..I s.t;-. aisa""li6"otions 1t oon
| tends for true union of the States, not held
together by bayOnets but cemented by
| brotherly feeling. 1t contends for honest
elections as the very basis of popular govern
ment and the best preservative against CEN
tralization. It contends Cor free speech even
| for Oflice-holders
Gen. Grant, on the other hand never was a
Republican. He was good soldier from am
bitlon and professional instinct; but he had
no sympathy with the aims of the Repub-
lican party during the war, and he has shown
no sympathy with them since. The policy OF
his adherents tends to the destruction of Re-
publicanism. 1t is at variance with every
point of the Republican creed. 1t is the zone
man" policy, which seeks to perpetuate
power by the forcible control of unwilling
communities, by prescription, by fraud, by
setting brother against brother, and prolong
ing the sufIerings and animosities OF
cruel war; That is but q swim
ding imitation of Republicanism which
DISTINGUISHES 10000 men in a single State
takes cOnvicts out of the pententlary so that
it may the better force their accomplish into
the governorship sends multitude of coarse
and Overbearing deputy marshals to make
domiciliary visits by night TO quiet citizens in
order that it may secure by violence vote
which it can get in no other way, truclles to
the great Powers of Europe and insults the
little free States of the West Indies, and
spreads all over the country a frightful pesti-
lence of corruption. And this is n picture OF
the administration of President GTant-an adj
mnistratiOn which has not merely brought
republican institutions into disreputc ut lone
and abroad, but has exposed them to danger
only a little lighter than that of civil war.