New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-05

" Capitalization" He thinks that the 0ou''l
made a mistake 10y beginning the war; that
with Democratic Senate and Democrauc
majority of the people they could have ac-
compished all they sought without IT, Du'
that" he saws, ais of the past we mus.
now lock to the dangers of the present anu
"the future. A few years hence we VIII I've
liable TO indicate with certainty what tnf
present Democratic majority in Congress anu
Gin the country should have done to counter
{" act the centraiizng tendencies OF the
Radicals, where, rs at present, our
Statesmen are much at a loss to kho" """'
"measnres TO adopt to check IN theT hlau "a
"reer those designing politicians VINO seem u'-
"termined TO bring on another despel".e
" struggle between the conservative anu TAU
"ical elements of the country MI peau'e-
,,orn evidently means something by this,
though il Is hard 10 say what. II the mum
bers IN his wheel are as Thoroughly miA'u uP
as this sentence Is, no one can ever cohp'a'h
of unfairness in his drawings. We cannon oe
far wrong, however. in expressing as the
shirt of this extract and other passages III
the letter. conviction on the part OF Mr.. Beau
regard that the country Is in great danger nom
the centralizing tendencies OF Che RADICALS
and that nothing but q Democratic triumph
can cheek these Radicals in their mad
career" Unexpected rs this expression "i
uatllotic anxiety from such source may
seem TO some it will be observed tiht NJ
Beamegard has exhibired in IL not fine
slightest Inconsistency. The centrahzlng
tendencies" which he So earnestly depre-
Gates are the same that he took up arms
against in 1861; the party he opposes now
the same be fought against for four years :;
the party whose cause he iavors, the same
whose defeat in 1860 he and ms associates
resented with armed rebellion; and the
triumph he looks forward to, and hopes 1or'
the same his armies longed for, and cheered
the slightest token of, from 1861 TIL ls6o'
1t is hardly possible TO mistake his meaning
in this particular, OF to charge him with any
change of principles or doctrines, or any
sacrifice of political consistency.
The men. too, whose "mad career " he
deems it so important to check, are the same
he has striven to checl, before. lie did check
them when they undertook 10 send provisions
to n handful of Government soldiers garrison
ing Il Government post, and perhaps at other
times; but never permanently. They kept on
their "mad career until the United States
Government, which Mr. Bcauregard Is
now 50 anxious about, was in actual
possession of all its own posts and
fortified places and all its territory,
and all the men who had fought against it.
authority, slain its citizens and committed
treason against its laws. had lain down their
arms and. with G. T. Beauregard among them,
were prisoners OF war and the subjects OF It's
cienrency. They ran their mad career" Of
general amnesty till every rebel found in arms
was freely pard0prd; their " mad career " ol
reconstruction till every rebelhous State stood
whole and sound, without a right impaired,
within the Union, the equal Of every other;
their &" mad career" Of confidence and trust
in the professions of their feliow-men, untll
all surveillance of lately foied conspira-
tors and plrdoned rebels was withdrawn,
and they were left TO work their own
sweet will unhindercd; their mad ca
"reern of public faith and honest payment,
till every dollar of the public debt was worth
its face in gold, aud the public credit, which
they found below par and staggering to bank
ruptcy in 1861 was raised to the level OF the
wealthiest nations in the world; their mad
career" of foreign policy, till the nations Of
the earth that stood waiting in 1861 to see
the Union tumble into ruins at the end OF
Democratic rule, to-day vie witch each other
in admiration OF its achievements and respect
for It's position; their mad career" OF domes-
tic administration ill the unprecedented devel-
opment of our resources and our magnificent
prosperity are the wonder of the world. And
n, tbn xuha,l Of his lnitap,
to let the world know, with some confusion
of utter nee, that he Is depending upon Il
Democratic triumph and the adoption Of
measures by "Our wiseSt statesmen" of that
marty to check the Radicals" in their " mad
career" We fear that Mr.. Beauregard wastes
bis time.