National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-15
GRACE AND maGNaNIMITY.
a Certain Class of Republicans Who Get
Vgeak-Kneed After Election

! 10 me EGti0f OF Inc Rcpat1tcua:
Why is II that after every election which the Re-
Publican party happens to carry class OF men
calling tficmscivez Republicans, and who are so
recognized, turn out in clamor for the party 10
show grace and s,agR,BRiy TO its defeated Oppom-
cntr IL puzzles ne | cannot understand il. Do
these pseudo Republicans believe in the princ;-
pies of the party of which they profes-edly form
part: If they do. why desire 10 hand over for
Democratic preservation and maturing the results
of the battle 50 iotiy contested? In the face ofthe
most infamous outrages aud fraud committed By
the Democratic party, Nj. Hayes was elected
President. and inauguraled only after Democratic
deyiltry had exhausted its resources in the
vain attempt to prevent it. What the ut
tItude, actions. AID practices OF the Demo
Gratis III that canvass were to entittc them
TO magnaHimity i'll their defeat I have always
been too thiCk-headtd TO discern. II seems rather
tina; the remaining duty of the Republicans toward
The Democratic party (hayins seated President
Hayes was to unite In an earnest and aggressive
movement to stamp out forever what life yet re
manned in party SO disioyai and Of such mis-
chieY0uS and revolutionary tendencies No
sooner had Mr.. Hayes been inducted into office
than this sentimental emotional element OF our
party sent up cry for msgnanimity. For fotr
years now we have had it and its belongings.
Last fall the cOnciliated rebel element. in return
for the maSnanimity given, forced us 20 enter
contest handicapped. with 1SS out of lS5 electoral
votes perverted and stolen and packed against
us. No wonder their success seemed so assured,
nor that life became a series OF insults and
ISSOLENCE TO EPCBiiCAXS
here i'll this city last summer and fall. There in
suit and insoence on the street, in the street cars: in
the stores, and in the Departments everywhere Re
pibitcans met It, Ii the old rebel spirit of the
South that Enthusiastically sueaks and crawlS
and dlSSemblcs when ii must, appearing i'll its seq
ond edition drunken, bold, and defiant with pro-
spcctiye success. Heaven be praised, they were
thrashed and the banner of Republicanism kept
eloft. No sooner had Garfields election been
placed beyond cayi or doubt than this pestifcTOus
tribe DOTTED the garb, of insolence and got back
into their accustomed role of pcuitents. Then.
almost cOeya Herewith, came the old cry for mag
nanimity, division of offCe-nee civil service
recognition of Democrats in the Cabinet, Thur
man on the Supreme Court bench. and other like
twaddle. Is ii not time the party turned a deaf
ear TO such sIiyelings? If Republicanism means
what ii processes, its principles are eYeraStingly
right" and the opposition to them wrong and only
wrong. The people who elected General Garfield
expect and demand his adherence to Republican
ideas. If the Democratic party is wrong, why
alive? Why not let it die: Least of all, why should
it aid liz pcrpetuating Bourbouism which the peo-
pie so cnphutically condemned when it
DEFEATED GENERAL HANCOCK?
The Republican party is not CLOSE corpora
tom; il excludes nobody, and its doors are open.
lfmagnanimity, after which many effUSiye Re
publicans are just grOanng III great travail, is
anXlOusly wanted, let the would be recipients come
into the Republican ranks and get tit after probation
has proven they fit for it but let there be 10
quarter to an armed foe. Amnesty only comes
after surrender, but defeat and subsection by no
means imply surrender. Z" solid South should
teach us. Armed rebellion met defeat i'll 1853, and
rebellion again Ill the November of 1880; but has it
surrendered its principles lift has there will be
no need Of niagnanimity, for the future viii have
no Democratic party hunger for that sort of SuS-
tenance. At all events. if the principles of the Re-
publican party not thinly disguised lies, favor
to the democratic party should be the very last
proposition to which il should give thought.
principle compromised IS q principle lost. F.