New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-19
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Sometimes General Garfield has been called
Republican not of the stalwart kind. I'M
questionably he will gain many votes from
moderate men because he has not thought il
wise TO favor extreme measures in dealing
with the South. And yet no man living has
shown clearer or stronger appreciation than
he of the guilt of the rebellion. The Republi-
can party has had many eloquent champions
in Congress but none, it is safe to say, have
set forth the crime of sympathy with rebel
lion in stronger light. In 1870, for example,
MIR. Niblack; of Indiana. insisted that the ex-
penditures and burdens of the war were prop
erly chargeable to the Republican party. Mr..
Garfield Immediately replied, and few words
of his answer are well worth quoting:
desire TO ask that gentleman aud MS party one
question Suppose that in the year 1861 every Demo
cra north Of the Potomac and the Ohio had follow Ell
the lead OF Grant, and Douglas, and Dickinson, and
Tod and all other great lights of the Democratic
party; had thrown away the Democratic name; said
tina, they would be Democrats no ger sad we
would be Republicans longer but all would be Union
men, and stand together around the flag until the
beion been put under our feet desire to ask the
gentleman II these things had happened. how long the
war would have lasted, and how much the war
would have COST do not hesitate to say that 1t could
not have lasted month and the expenditures OF the
war would never have exceeded $l0.000,0o0. I say
as matter OF history hatt the great hope
of the rebels South that the assistance of the Dem
ocratc party OF the North would divide forces and
overcome oil efforts; that at the balotbox The Dem
ocrats at bone would hep the cause which they were
maintaining in the field 1t that, and that alone,
which protracted the war and created our immense
debit come. therefore, to the door OF your party
tlemeu on the other SIDE. and lay down at your
threshold every dollar OF the debt, every item of the
supeDdous total which the great cost OF the
war and say If you had followed Douglas there would
have been debt. no blood no burden.
Are not these words well worth remember
ing at this time7 The Democratic party still
claims, as it did in 1864, the support of the
LOYAL people. 1t nominated in that year also
distinguished Union soldier, and a louder
and longer acclaim greeted Mcclellan, the IA
vorite General of the Army of the Potomac,
than has greeted Hancock The two were OF
the same set They held the same notions as
to the war. Mcclellan. Porter, Hancock and
Smith formed the clique which wanted to die
tate to President Lincoln as to the manner in
which the war should be carried on, and were
particularly anxious that it should not be "an
abolition war; The hope of the election
of General Mcclellan on platform which
declared the war failure caused the war to
be prolonged by the Rebels more than year,
and cost the country many thousand precious
lives and many millions of treasure. Then.
as now, General Hancock was in full sympa-
thy with the peace Democrats who were try
ing to force the termination of the war on
terms satisfactory to the South; and their en-
couragement and aid held the Rebel forces
together, and compelled the terrible sacrifice
of life in the Wilderness and before Rich
mond. The people did not forget all this
when General Mcclellan was nominated. He
was the popular General, called Little Mac. +"
and praised as the Napoleon of the New World