New-York tribune., 1872-01-29
TIE SYADOW OF COMING EVENTS.

tons I. Protection rs. Free Trade; 2. Com
plete Amnesty u.s. DiSfranchisement-thc State
Constitution, framed in 1865, having sweep
ingly disfranchised all who had favored the
Rebellion. The "Liberals," so called, framed
a resolve on the Tariff question which the
Regulars accepted; so the two grounds OF
difference were reduced to one. The Liberals
presented an Amnesty resolve which the
! Regulars rejected, but offered to leave the
question open, to be decided at the pOlls-each
voter saying Yes or No to Universal Amnesty
as he should see fit. We thought then, and
think still, that this should have been accepted
that, since it was already morally certain
that all the Democrats and nearly half the
| Republicans would vote for and carry Am
nesty at all events, there was no excuse for
dividing the Republican party on this ques-
ton. The Liberals, however bolted and put
up an independent ticket, which all the Demo
Gratis supported of course, and which was over
whelmingly elected. Just ponder these figures:
SGA President Lincoln. Mcclellan. .91,67S
1856. School Sup. Parker. ...G2,187 Williams. .4095s
1865 GorernOr MClurg. .s2,1O7 Phelps...G27sO
1865. President ..... Grant. 1851 Seymour 66'sS
1870. G0rcynor MClurg.. .G2,8j4 G. Brown G71
GIatz Brown GiberaD ever M'Curg, ai,9f7.
At this election, several amendments to the
proscriptive Constitution of 1866 were voted
on, with the following result:
Gdy Rebels Tote ?-Yes, HISS; No, 16.iGs.
MAY they hold office 2-Yes, 112795 No. 1921.
Complete Amnesty carried by moro than six to one.
Four Democrats, two Liberals Gone of them
a Democrat in all but name), and three Re-
publicans, were chosen to Congress- with a
Legislature whereby Frank Blair was sent to
the Z. S. Senate.
/ IL Al n,,t
| Grant was induced to remove certain Federal
officers who favored the Liberal movement
and appoint Regulars in their stead. This in
reference, however well intended, only served
to add fuel to the raging flames. Between
| Thirty and Forty Thousand Republicans, many
of whom had fought gallantly for the Union.
voted the Liberal ticket and of these large
portion were present or represented in the
| Convention at jefferson City last week which
called a Mass National Convention of Liberal
Republicans to meet at Cincinnati on the 9th
| of May next aud nominate candidates for Presi-
dent and Nicc-President We mean to avoid
prophecy, but it is very safe to assume
that this Convention will not renomi-
nate Gen. Grant. And, since it is NOR
ally certain that the Democrats as party in
tend to evince this year that simple common
sense which they displayed in 1870 in Mis-
sOuri, and which was conspicuous by its alb
"sencen in their nomination and canvass of
1863, he is very rash who undertakes now to
predict the issue of the Presidential struggle
before U.S. proclaiming that nothing but death
can prevent the election of this or that candi-
date. TO say the least, the political atmosphere
| is hazy, and they who would be esteemed
weatherwise will predict with caution.
-"Then THE TRIBUNE is going with the
Boilers 1"
No; The TRIBUNE is likely to be against
the Boilers, since they are almost certain to
make hostility to Protection one of the planks
of their platform, and that THE TRIBUNE can
never abide, no matter who may be the rival
candidates for President. Now that Enamel
patton is a fixed fact Impartial Suffrage
nearly so, and Universal Amnesty inevitable,
there is no remaining National issue which is
half so important in the view of THE TRIBUNE
as that of Protection as. Free Trade. We
have no shadow of doubt that the overthrow
of Protection would be speedily followed Gas
in 1S1G-20, and again in 1S33-7) by sweeping
industrial collapse and commercial bankruptcy,
which would carry hunger and distress into
the homes of millions of our cOuntrymen. TO
such "a calamity, TIE TRIBUNE cannot contri-
butte, even passively, for any conceivable
consideration.
But TIE TRIBUNE's good wishes did not,
any more than Gen. Grants prescription of
Liberals, save the Missouri Regulars from
overwhelming defeat i'll 1870; and the portents
OF coming disaster are such that it would be
treason to ignore them. While our lifelong
adyersaries appear to be acting, or preparing
to act, with wisdom and polite liberality, |
those who have the running of the regular
Republican machine seem to us bent on |
blndly, madly rushing on disaster. To in
stance but two points: they are laundering
sadly in their higgliDg, grudgng mean -souled
dealing with the subject of Amnesty. and in
their attempts to brand every one as anti
Republican who does not favor the renom-
inatiOn of Gen. Grant.
Let us consider first the subject of Amnesty.
The House, at its former session, passed a
measure Of comprehensive though not uniyer.
sal Amnesty, by very decisive vote. That
measure has now been two months before the
senate. EX-GOv. Vance was last year chosen
/ Senator from North Carolina. Having been
I Member Of Congress before 1861, and since
Rebel General and Governor, he is ineligible: