Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-04-05
Has the Republicans party accomplished
It's mlssl9I!

peace. The presidential malcontents
are tired of the peaceful solution OF
the question of Hayes title TO the
Presidency Butler is tired of COM
paratiye silence and fidelity to fixed
ideas. Men are tired of honorable
occupations, and are rushing into wild
speculations, or leaving warm and
cheerful New England firesides, for
tolls and privations III the western
wilds, or on the stormy seas. Organ
lied bodies of men having the same
as0wed purposes. are arrayed against
each other IN tenfold more bitterness
than ordinarily divide men Of different
purposes. Therefore, there being men
in every organization, large or small,
good or bad, who are covetous Of
power or control, and who are soured
because they cannot bring every other
,nsn to their id1as, and especially to
think themselves fit for higher pos
tions; it is not remarkable that such
should be found in the Republican
party. 1t is quite marked fact, or 8
curious coincidence that such men al
ways cil&acc to be among the unsuc-
cessfhl aspirants for place-aud in the
wild desire to be the author of some
thing, some are conceiving and writ
ing plans for the organization Of a
new party. One distinguished Lib
writes evidently under the impression
that tie organization Of /: national
party, and the substitution Of another
@oGid be made an accomplished fact
as easily as it can be planned or stat
ed. He assumes that the Republican
organization has carried the country
triumphantly through the war, and
has q ereditablc record but having
given freedom TO the slaves, and re.
stored the country to harmony. it has
fulfilled its mission and is functu,
06lcto, and ought not to be perpetual
ed. He refers to the fact that frou
the foundation Of the liberty party il
1914 to 1850, an anti slavery senti
ment, which finally ripcned into thu
Republican party, was constantly all
sorb;ng the old WING party, until i
became the controlling party, and thu
agency through which a peace founded
upon progress, liberty, and justice wa.
established. But when all this wa.
accomplished, he questions whether
mistake was not made in continuin.
the Republican organization. If h,
comedies that it was the available
means to accomplish such results, doe
1t not necessarily follow that it wa
the only available agency through
which they could be secured perma
ncntly? l...
There were but two parties at tn
close of the war, one the anti-slaver,
party; add the other the pro-slavery
Many Northern Democrats approved
of emancipation, but the opposite sen
timent governed the party by larg
majority. Now. if AS recommended
the Republican organization had bee
dissolved, it would have left but on
party, and that containing all the en-
nifty to the grand results Of the wal
Now We arc at loss to know no,
to properly chara terize such posi-
ton as that. 1t comedies that tn
party ''helped forward human pro
gress and add, d an immortal chapte
to civilization !" and then question
whetbcr it would not have been bette
for the defenders of liberty and justic
to have committed suicide. and lei
the results of the battle entirely in tn
hands of their enemies. Is that arrl
ment FGHering to what are UNIVERSAL
conceded 10 be the true results of tn
war! Is it friendly to them? T
care for the results of the war was O
necessary as to achieve them. Blu
SAYS the critic, "the more unforgiyip
cauie to the front, and Haunted the
"bloody shirts" and postponed til
era of reco Citation" Does this Ii
gician secretly wish in his heart I'll,
the "less unforgiving' had reorgani.
ed into one party, and The "more III
forgiving' into another, and thus d
vided have given an easy victory
the "solid Soutlr" Is the argumel
friendly to:afieedom2 Is 1t ,possjbI
that it wassinlendod to be otherwise
WHAT 6es7tbc author mean by cay
ing thAt''the organization ought ne
TO be perpetuated," because thessmor
iaaothnable, crednlous and unforgi,
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