New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-30

who have nearly all passed away from Its
councils. Lincoln, Seward, Chase, Sumner, are
dead. and the last three saw themselves ostra-
cized by their party before they died. Trum-
bull, the leading Republican jurist, has been
ousted from the Senate. The first scholar,
orator and soldier who represented in
the Republican party those hundreds OF
thousands of liberty-loving Germans who
gave it such formidable strength, has
been driven out of the organization, because
he could not submit his conscience to the
dictation of men az careless of law as of lib
erty. Almost all the leading journalists who
fought the good fight in the press, have found
it impossible to retain their companionshlp
with the present pillagers OF the victorious
field. Whenever q sincere and clear-headed
man dares to think for moment for himself,
he is prescribed by the oarse-graned die
tators of the party caucus, as Messrs Foster
and Phelps are to-day, as Gen. Morrow will
be. The party is honey -combed with the
doubts of timidly honest members, who
thoroughly disaDprove of their leaders but do
not yet dare to disobey them. They see how
veteran Republicans like Bryant and Cooper
and Evarts are denounced, vilified, and carl
catured for joining in manly protest against
the abuse of power, and naturally hesitate to
expose themselves to a similar chastisement.
Who are the men who exercise this ostracism
Of lifelong Republicans, and who claim to
embody the history and the glory of the party
which abolished slavery and saved the Union
Their recent representative in New OK Is
Gen. Dix, Buchanan Democrat, an associate
nearly all his life of Tilden, Seymour and the
rest, who opposed Mr.. Lincoln's election, and
as late as 1864 refused to suffer his name to
be used on the same ticket, on the ground
that he and Mr.. Lincoln were not in polltlcai
accord. In Massachusetts it is Mr.. Butler, 1or
whom Buchanan was not DrO-slavery enough.
In Illinois it is Mr.. Logan, who said on the
eve of the war that he was proud oil the dlrty
work of catching runaway slaves. In WIS
consin it is Matt. Carpenter. pro-slavcry
Democrat I'D to the end of the war. In both
Houses of Congress these caucus leaders are
composed Of corrupt alliance of carpet-bag-
gers without honor or history and ex-Rebcl
officers who have changed their principles as
readily as their coats. The House OF Represen-
tatives swarms with men from the Rcbe! army
who swore at Greeley and Sumner all the way
to their graves, for what they called the
"treasonn of these historic Republicans. In
the Cabinet, who is there to represent the
Republicans who built up the party, sustained
it in its weakness, and carried it to strength
and Triumph Not one, and 1t would puzzle
more than half of them to produce the evidence
that they ever voted for Abraham Lincoln. IN
the White House, the great visible head ana
master of the party is n Buchanan Democrat
who never cast Republican vote III his Ire,
unless for himself or Boss Shepherd.
Into hands like these the work has fallen of
preserving intact the traditions and the honor
of the Republican party. 1t seems only neces-
sary to state this to show the absurdity of the
idol-worship of those who still think there is
no salvation forth country outside OF the Adj
minislatiOn caucus. 1t was this which caused
general rejoicing among many honest people
when Dawes was elected from Massachusetts
instead of some such dangerous man as
Adams; and which Occasioned general dismay
when Judge Chrstancy was chosen by Demo-
cratic votes to succeed Mr.. Chandler. 1t is the
only weapon now welded by the Administration
leaders, and it does not seem possible that it
could last much longer. Yet while it is flour
ished, it seems eilectual to prevent the only
proceeding which the country now needs
the common consent of all men OF good
will to support good men and good
measures, without regard to their party
designations, and without asking what any
caucus has resolved. Honest and sincere Re-
publicans, by hesitating to do this, are merely
preparing q Democratic partisan victory in
1876.