Year: 1868

There is no interest in nation constituted like
ours that does not feel blow aimed at the ma
tional Executive; and when as now large part
of the function of the Executive comes to a
standstill, when his relations with Congress
cease, when even the very executive depart
ments are insubordinately directed in hostility
to his will, the country suffers in all regards,
and especially do all commercial and financial
operations sympathize with the disordered
state of the national life. Radicalism, there
fore, in seeking to postpone this case again,
deliberately determined to keep up all this
trouble rather than not carry its point deter
mined that the country should endure any evil
rather than it should fail in its purpose
determined that, come what might to the
nation, come what might to the busi-
ness interests of the whole people, 1t would
force its partisan madness to the last extremity
In this we see furious men driven to despera-
tion; and from desperation what but such
course was it wise to expect? These men
were like housebreakers caught in the fact
and who commit murder to escape-taking any
chance, burdening their souls with any crime,
if it only afford some hope, some promise of a
better fate.


But what of the party that has been thus
far controlled and driven by these men? Has
it cast them away by this votep Does this
refusal to act on their dictation drive the But
lers and Stevenses-that noisy and reckless
minority-into back seats and to make divi-
sion in the party if they can9 All this has
been simply struggle for supremacy in the
party between the spoilsmen and plunderers
and the conservative, able men; and now the
spoilsmen are put down, but they are men not
likely to remain in such position and it may
thus result that their defeat will simply pro-
duce serious rupture in the republican party.
And this is the best result that the party can
hope for; for if it should otherwise prove that
this is only temporary check to these dan
gerous men; if they should still assert them
selves with the same noisy extravaganza; if
there is not wisdom or power in the republican
ranks to put them down; if that party has not
the power to assert its better purposes against
these wretches; if they are yet to control it, if
Butler, Sumner and Stevens, the villany, the
cant and the resolved fanatical will of the party,
are to govern it to the exclusion of such men
as Chase, Fessenden, Grimes and Trumbull,
then Its history ends with the execration Of
the whole people. The name Of Grant will
not save it. The name of the great soldier,
the leader of the nations heroes in so many
desperate battles, is tower of strength for
any party; but that great name will avail
little before the American people If it is to
serve only as gloss and cover for principles
and acts that the people know must be insepa-
rable from any party in whose counsels these
men are power.


And what, then, becomes of the chances Of
the two republican candidates who come be-
fore the people just at the close Of this great
blunder-candidates of party
that will split into innumerable factions if these
men are driven out and that the people will re-
pudiate with certainty il they are permitted to
remain in?


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