National Republican., 1878-04-05

nanny paihpy reiuDi oSys u'u
the same aractedsationpf tho Denscrsg
As familiar and pertinent to the Kresa3t
majority party in the Hcuse<ths majority
which followed naturally from the GREE
LEY detection in 1872. Looking back to that
detection and the subsequent or consequent
war upon President GRANT, which divided
and weakened the Republican party to such
an extent that its success in 1875 was inn
perilled, the Tribune will have no difficulty
in finding its share Of the responsibility for
the present condition of affairs. In attempt-
ing to reform the Republican party, and by
going outside of its lines to do IT,
the ,gribune aided in reforming (?) its
majority in the lower House out
Of existence. In short, It was anti-Admin-
istration then, simply because the Admins
tration had been elected over its former
editor, and as consequence II opposed the
so-called force bill, legitimate offspring of
the reconstruction acts which IL had advo-
Gated and all other measures proposed by
President GRANT or his friends for the pro-
lection and encouragement Of "Carpet-Bag-
ptIs, CtuiuNuEs, unu Nieteis III p'c
South, whose fealty to the Republican party
il had enticed and promised to cherish. In
short, in 1875 when the Confederates and
the Northern Gushers sobbed and cried on
each others shoulders, shook hands over the
bloody chasm at Bunker Hill and elsewhere,
and agreed to forget the past, the Tribune,
in its blind antipathy to GRANT, sustained
the wrong side and professed to believe the
assertions of loyalty and fairness then made
by the very parties who have gained this
recent Confederate Victory. Its columns
teemed with sentimental centennial for
giveness and overHowed with words Of well
come to the malignant haters Of the North,
who then slammed regard for "the Gov
ernnient Of our common fathers" and one
third, ifnot more, ,ofthe aforetime Republican
voters ofNew England sided with the Tribune
thereby forcing the representatives in both
houses of Congress from that section to po-
sitions utterly at variance from the theories
of compensation and protection to Southern
loyalists which had inspired them when
they stood side by side with THAp STE.
VEINS in opposing concessions to the Dough
face Democracy. Thus it came TO pass that
the birthplace of Abolitionism and the era
die of the Republican party was turned
into q nest of weak-kneed recreants, trim.
mers, and sentimentalists Of the most in
consistent stripe. In other words, the "Na-
tons Wards" or, more properly speaking
New Englands prOtogCs in the South, were
repudiated and left to shift for themselves
simply because they had become by the nc
cident of politics the charge of q mar
whose election to be President was Grim,
in the eyes of the Tribune that il coult
never forgive. Anything to beat GRANT,
was the cry, even after Mr.. GREELEY
DEATH and il was joined in by Presidential
aspirants afraid of the Third Term spook Il
,such an extent that the party was attacked
and injured as the only means by which h
could be beaten. Civil-service reform non
sense, repugnant to our institutions and de
structive of party discipline, was thrust for
ward, not rs the result has proved, to i'm
prove the tone of Government employ, bu
to advance the personal interests of anti
GRANT sympathisers. BRIsTow, HAwLEy
JEWELL, and Others of like fragrant mem
ory, ingrates all and trucking sycophant
to the now domina mt Confederate wing @
the Democracy, were the men who receive,
praise, while BEN. WADE, honest, bluff ol,
patriot that he was, Senator MORTON, an,
others who saw something more than tn
shadow Of General GRANTS discarde
shoulder-straps in Republican success, wer
denounced as sectionslists, Bloody-Shir
disciples, and Southern outrage shrieker
ZACH CHANDLER, against whose persona
and official integrity no man has eve
uttered word, and whose unselfis
devotion to party principle is nc
denied, was held up to ridicule, while Nj
SCHURZ, his successor in the Interior De
partment, whose political garments are q
many colors, and whose pockets have cal
ried many political bonus, was exalted a
Reformer among Reformers. WAD
HAMPTON was taken up and made her
of, L. Q. c. LAMAR was dined and toasted
BEN HILL was gazetted as true Conserys
tive, and the red-hsnded Ku-Klux wei
welcomed in gushing terms US fit associate
!, of the Conciliators, the bogus civil-servic
Reformers and the haters of GRANT. To b
brief, General GRANT was the cause, throug
having incurred the opposition of thes
.. malcontent elements, of deeply woundin
, the Republican party simply for the reaso
that their antipathy to him Outran the
, devotion to principle. They called him
second CESAR, military despot, a selfs
ncpotist, stupid anything, and the faintei
suspicion of his friendship for man or mea
3, ure was sufficient to arouse their most d.
termined objection. And what is the r.
sult-simply these Confederate yictorie
besides several other things that are app
/ rent to the naked eye.
pERsnNlE.