The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-14
General Grant and the Third Term
Question Ignored.
REVIEW OF THE PAST.
Republican and Democratic
Rule Contrasted.
Three Great LabOrS Yet To
Be Performed.

WASHINGTON July ID, 1874.
After the adjournment OF Congress, the mag
mates OF the republican party. z. Chandler, J. NJ.
Edmunds and others held several meetings TO de-
wise ways and means towards the Inauguration OF
the Congressional campaign, and IL was finally de-
termned to request Senator Howe to draft an adj
dress to the people OF the United States. The
paper Is considered by the leaders the best pos
sible defence Of the party, and is said to be char
acterlzed by great adr0itness. 1t is intended to
be the basis upon which the party Is to be united
and the Congressional battle Is to be fought 1t
contains the essence Of thousand campaign
speeches. The remarkable features are the aD-
sence OF all eulogy or even reference to President
Grant, and the admission that upon the currency
question the party is divided. The transportation
question is treated in the most conservative man
ner, which it was deemed wise to do, since the
feeling about railroad regulation runs nigh in Wis.,
cOnsin and the West. This manifesto which Will
be sent to all local republican journals in the
Union, with request to be copied, constitutes the
initiative OF the campaign and the common rally
ing point. 1t is the first issued since 1866, when
republicans waged war on President Johnson and
his followers.
FOREIGN RELATIONS UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE.
The document would make about a page of the
HERALD, and purpOrts to be O review OF republican
achievements since the party was called to the adj
dents Message, 1t begins with alluson to our for
eign relations, and declares that Of the thirty
years OF democratic control, prior to 1851
there is hardly memory left at
which the nation should not blush Under
this rule Austria was bull1ed out OF O Hungarian
refugee, Mexico despOiled Of portion OF her ter
ritOry, GreytOwn demolished and millions jingled
In the of Spain as lure for Cuba. The Ostend
manifesto is satirlzed; ana, while our conduct to-
wards weaker Powers was firm, during the years
OF democratic control naturalized citizen could
not safely revisit his birthplace and letters couid
only be sent by paying enormous postage. OF our
relations towards Great Britain during this time
the address contains a significant paragraph, in
harmony with the recent letter Of Speaker
Blaine:->
ave taHely relneuished to Great Britain por-
ton OF our territory in the Northeast another and
larger portion IN the Northwest. We described
the line agreed upon in the Northwest so loosely
that Great Britain Immediately laid claim to
| large Islands on our side OF it. That insulting
claim was neither resisted nor admitted. 1t was
compromised by permitting the claimant to hold
armed possession of one end OF San Juan, the
most valuable Of those islands, while we quietly
squatted on the other end; and while, by success
sive concessions, were constantly adding to the
area OF the Canadas, we stupidly relinqushed TO
their products free access to our markets, as the
equivalent of being allowed TO send similar pro-
ducts from the Northwest through Canadian chan
nes TO such precarious markets as they could find
on the other side of the Atlantic"
ACHIEVEMENTS OF CONGRESS.
Having disposed of democratic diplomatic
achievem ents the story OF home rule prior to the
advent OF the republican party into power is
dwelt upon at great length and pronounced sadder
than that OF the foreign policy, pointing out that
hnHc WI frOn me- tn
time by loans. The prolonged sessions Of Congress
prior to 1861 are denounced as worse than waste
OF time and Money. - =
The address then recites the scanty appropria.
lions made to improve harbors and rivers, and on
this point it Is the evident intention OF the CON-
mttee TO prejudice the granger element of the
West against democracy by showing up its past
record Under this head, the history OF the origin
and completion Of the Louisville and Portland
Canal is given at length, the manner in which
democratic administrations refused to take charge
OF it and relieve the steamboat interest of gigan
tic monopoly, while the corporation was virtually
swindling the government and the people through
influences in Washington.
THE REBELLION RECORD.
The record Of the democratic administration
while the rebellion was yet in its incipency next
approached. or the army it says 1t was offcered
far too largely by those who had been educated Ia
every sOldierly grace save that Of allegiance
The navy was scattered IN remote seas
while the doctrine Of State rights was
preached on every democratic house top that "the
people Of the United States' may not forget that
slavery is dead. THIS subject is elaborated and all
the democratic sins OF omission and commission
laid bare to the world, until the greater sin OF
fomenting wicked rebellion was committed.
THE GREAT NATIONAL REFORMS AND TRIUMPHs.
tied unfitQcgS.
Gin the opinion or the Congressional Committee"
why democracy should never be resurrected, the
address takes up the great and glorious course OF
the republican party since March 4, 1861. The
Union has been preserved, slavery abolished,
human rights have gained the sanction OF three
new chapters added to the national constitution;
murder, organized In several States, bearing the
name OF ku Klux, has been exposed, convicted
punished. The new era In diplomacy growing out
OF the Treaty OF Washington, the REIMBURSEMENT
of the San Juan claim and the payment OF the
Geneva award, are pointed TO as republican
triumpns The establishment OF postal treaties
with every nation on the earth and cheapening the
postal rate Is alluded 10 with pride.
THE SPANISH DIFFICULTY.
This Is all the committee find suitable in regard
10 the virginius outrage:-''When, in October last,
q Spanish Vice Consul in Cuba so far forgot the re-
spect due to the United States as to seize upon a
We ssel sailing under the protection Of her nag
Spain promp thy, without the firing OF gun or
spilling drop OF blood made that honorable rep.
aration which every Just government Is glad to
make for wrong done.n
THE UNPARALLELED PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY,
increase Of inland commerce, extension OF rail.
roads in every direction and an increase Of our
population are all traced to the benefcent admin
istration OF the government by the republican
party. The policy of discontinuing subsidies to
railroads is indorsed after which the bird OF free
dom Is let loose and a gush Of rhetoric more bril-
liant than the comet INDUCED IN at much length.
Coming back to facts, the address details the prog