Year: 1866

extensive deposits OF gold and other precious metals
which are well understood TO exist in Utah


Another Of General Buffers seizures while in CON-


mand at New Orleans has recently been in litigation


and been decided against the General Shortly before


the occupation OF the city by the national troops the
municipal authorities made Mr. Pile, the City Surveyor


present OF four thousand dollars which the General


compelled the recipient to restore the city treasury


Mr. Pile has lately sued the city for the amount and


the Judges decision that 1t should be returned to
him.


The Danger to the Republicans-The
Fate or Sectional Parties.
The republican party, in the plenitude of its


power, is in danger of going to pieces. After
carrying the country safely through the most
formidable and perilous rebellion in the history


Of any nation, this powerful party is suddenly
brought face to face with an administration of its


own choosing on the comparatively simple ques-
ton of the restoration of the Union. The asso-
ciate of President Lincoln on the republican


ticket of 1864, representing the principles upon
which this ticket was elected, and pursuing the
policy inaugurated by the lamented Lincoln, is
pronounced faithless to his high trust by


ruling faction in Congress because he rejects
the new platform Of reconstruction which they


have set up. The conflict thus brought about
between Congress and the Executive brings


the republican party to the alternative of a
change of front or o mutiny in the camp and
the speedy overthrow of its adhering forces by


new organization.
In conflict between the broad, comprehen-
sive national policy of President johnson and
the narrow, fanatical, sectional ideas of Thad-
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his faction must 60 down. The battles of the
loyal North against the rebellious South have
been fought ont to the ultimatum of Southern
submission. The war Is over Peace has re-


turned. The late rebellious States, complying


with the terms demanded of them as the prac-
tical and legal consequences Of their rebellion,
are awaiting their readmission into Congress.


In all other respects, excepting the existing
Freedmen's Bureau, the COMMANDMENTS Chief of
| the army and navy and the Chief Magistrate Of
the Union has relnstated them as loyal men,


bers thereof He holds too, that so far as


they can produce loyal representatives, duly
elected, said States are entitled to readms-
sion into both houses of Congress, and in all
this we have abundant evidence that the Presi-


dent is sustained by the public opinion Of the
States which have put down the rebellion by
the bayonet


Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens and his retainers, how


ever, reject the Presidents work and his argu-
ments, and demand a course of treatment
towards the excluded Stats as against Sec
ton disarmed but still rcbcllious, processing
submission but still disloysl, and not to be
trusted short Of new conditions for the security
| Of the black race and the national Treasury.
In q word, the programme Of Stevens Is simply
the government OF tue South xs q hostile eec-


ton by the sectional party to which sectional


rebellion gave possession Of the government


The Presidents plan is to do away with these


sectional divisions of the rebellion, and to


make tho Union war party q Union peace


party.


Now, that mere sectional party under the


peace establishment cannot stand is proved by
all our past experience. The old federal party,
which we may say came Into possession of the
government with Washington, went out with
the first Adams and was extinguished in the
war of 1872, because of its degeneration into
those contracted sectional New England ideas
that Illuminated from the Hartford Convention.


The splendid old national whig party, built up


Northern sectional abolition Affiliations of 1874,


and went down with them in 1852, never to


rise again. In that canvass the old democratic


party, on the national platform OF Clay's great


compromise measures on the slavery question,


carried all the States of the Union except Mas


sachusetts and Vermont Kentucky and Tennes-


see; and from that victory the democracy had
as fair n prospect Of long reign Of power as
had the republicans from the election Of 1864
But poor Pierce and other trading politicians


of his party North, who for years had been


playing the debasing role Of funkies to the


pro avery Hre-eaters of the South, made the


fatal mistake Of the repeal of the Missouri COM


promise as Q burnt offering 10 the South for


the Presidential succession. From that fatal


mistake Of 1854 the democratic party became


q sectional party and, as such, the slave Of


slavery, and started full drive on the downward


road to destruction till 1t went over and was


lost in the abyss Of the late rebellion.
The work Of ruin that was commenced under


the perfidy Of poor Pierce was contaminated


under the whining imbccilty and cowardice Of
poor old Buchanan. Such has been the fate Of


all our great political parties Of the past, on


their descent from broad national policy to
the foolish adventures Of sectional organiza-


ton. The old Jefersonian republican party
died more natural death. From 1900 Il went


on increasing in strength till 1924, when, len


without an opposition party in the field, II was


broken up and disbsnded in the Presidential


scrub race between Jackson, Adams, Crawford


and Clay.


Whether the natural dissolution Of the old
republican party, or the violent and bloody
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