National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-12
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND UNITY IN
THE PARTY.

The New \ ork Times, the organ OF the
English ship-builders in their efforts to de-
stroy American commerce, the covert
enemy of the Republican party and of re-
publican institutions, and the paper which,
edited by an unnaturalized Englishman,
has no more influence among thoughtful
people than the mouthpiece of any other
Jeems- Yellowplush- ola lackey would have,
assumes to lecture the Republican party
and the Administration upon the result
of the New Hampshire election. 1t would
be simple waste Of words and time to
pay the slightest attention to this lecture if
it were not for the fact that the New York
World and other Democratic journals will
attempt to foist IFS contents upon the public
as the reflex OF Republican opinion. For
this reason we call attention to it, and for
this reason only.
The Times writer properly attributes the
Republican success in New Hampshire to
the inherent love of the people for the prin-
ciples Of that party, and goes out of his way
TO drag in the Third-Term proposition,
characterizing it as disturbing element.
II Sudl SG6 lldl he ANA4IONAL 1NbEODLl-
CAN "has repeatedly advised the public to
"take into their favorable consideration
" the Third Term idea" This is a bare
faced liza lie out of whole cloth-as is
also the further statement that THE Ma
TloNAL REPUBLICAN advocated the passage
of the bill to Protect Electors-the "Force
Bill" the Times calls it-merely on parti-
san grounds. What We have said about the
Third Term our readers well know, and
we are willing to repeat it at any time and
under any circumstances. We have never
intimated that President Grant is a candi-
date for denomination and reelection, al
though we have repeatedly asserted the
opinion that if the people desire his re-
election there is no more reason why that
desire should not be realized than there
was why Mr.. Benton, Mr.. Sumner, or Mr..
Conkling should not have been reelected
time and again TO the Senate. We
did say that the bill to Protect
Electors was needed to preserve to the
Union and to the Republican party the
electoral votes Of the Southern States, and
we defy any one but Democrat or be-
sotted and conceited ignoramus like the
ing the war, when the Times man was
writing anti Republican letters to the Lon
don press, predicting the success of the
rebels, it is possible that he was incapable
of approaching the loyal exertions of that
party, and it is further possible that when
l. hnnly oh 1,a lovunf fall Nf
republicanism in Hamerica he was also
incapable of approaching the efforts of
the same party TO restore the Union.
To our mind the Republican party ap-
pears to be both the Preserver and the
Restorer of the Union, and it is for this
reason that we urged the preservation of
the electoral votes of the Southern States
to the Union and to the Republican party
We know that if those votes are cast for
the Democratic party they will be cast for
State Rights, for Secession and for Trea-
son-coverttreason, it may be, but treason,
nevertheless. If the Democratic party
were loyal to the Union, loyal to the re-
suits of the war-results made sacred by
the sacrifice of blood and treasure-and if
it were honest in its professions of submis-
sion 10 the Constitutional amendments,
the case would be different. But we know
that with Gordon and Lamar as the chief
opponents of its principles, it cannot be,
and the Times scribbler, if he knows any
thing, must also know it.
Now, as regards 'that unity" which the
Times urges as the need of the party, and
(which has SO long been lacking in our