Year: 1872




1t did its work so well J IL is such no
BILE party Has such a grand constitu-
ency has such vantage ground Is SO
capable of carrying out the best purpos-
es of the wisest menl 1t seems to me
that such a grand historic organization
has not yet done its work, and is not yet
to pass away. Certainly, not yet ere the
pall.bearers at the door. And If 1t is
not to be the party of the future, it GER
tainly is the party of the present. Where
else is safety?


rejoice at every sign of new de-
parture by the Democrats, every token
that, repudiating their old positions, they
accept the new situation and begin new
life. But whatever they may do as in
dividuals or in individual States, what
title have they. as national party,to The
confidence of the people and the control
of the government? As party they
were tainted with disloyalty during the
war. and have never been frankly, gen.
timely loyal since the war. In the last
Presidential struggle, they virtually in
scribed on their banners reputation OF
the national debt and notification of the
constitutional amendments. The party,
as it has been, is unworthy to exist. 1t
ought to die and be buried. 1t can real
ly live again only on new platforms and
under new watchwords. It's most saga
cious leaders so understand it. The new
platforms and watchwords are coming
have already come in some quarters.
And the nearer they are to those of the


Republican party the better it will be.
Nothing should be more 6 adly hailed


than the hearty acceptance on all sides
everywhere of all the results of the great
struggle-a forgetting of the things that
are behind and reaching forward to those


that are before. Blessed will be that


day when there shall be a return of fra


ternal feeling and mutual good will


when the fraternizAtion of the people


shall be as cordial and complete as the


war was bitter and terrible


We must all pray for that day. Ii


has not come yet. 1t will never come


except by steady persistent Govern.


ment of the nation, in the line which


shuts out all revival of the old issues, ,and
all possibility of revival; until, so far as
| the legitimate and logical results of the


war are concerned, all, by whatsoever


name called, shall become in fact Repub
icans. There must be no turning to the


right hand, nor to the left by the OLD


Guard, until the old conflict is all gone


This is the sentiment and the will O


the people. The Democracy OF Connect


icut and New Hampshire, may put them,


selves ON perfectly acceptable platforms
may present most excellent and popular


candidates but victory is not with them
The people do not yet believe in the sin
ceiity of such leadership in the Democ
f racy, nor in the conversion of rank ant


file. They know that the division be
tween the Republican and Democrali
: parties was founded upon absolutely ir
; reconcilable views of the nature of gov
} ernment of human rights. There was
; great gulf between the industries ant
; theories and life and conscience os ,hes
, two parties. The two sides were teste,
: in the gage of battle. The formal &C
quiescence in the defeat does not eradi
D cate the difference. Simply saying by
E cones shall be by-gones, does not max
: it so That does not take away the oil
. partisan, obstructive, Bourbon spirit
! And when the Democratic party says S
: only in certain localities, and, even wher


it does say SO has its sincerity somewha
doubted, who is audacious enough {


think that TO the keeping of that party
n with its bad history as bad as it can bt
!. the people, whose memories are fres


/
4 with the burdens and blood of the wal
e will commit the precious interests of th
J. Republic?


e The thing is not possible. The d.
s mocracy knows it is not possible. An
i while do not under-rate the power {
s that party, its passion and wealth, il
o able men and anxiety for control, l b.
s Iieve in my heart it has no hope, by i
/ self, of getting possession Of the Govern
e ment.


IS Where, then, lies the danger, if an
2, there be? Right within the Republica
: lines. Outside of those lines, and ba
o ring all aid from within, there is net a
d enemy that can begin to stand up in th
: coming Presidential struggle.


IS Why is there danger in that directior


and what is its extent? There are r
e publicans, some of whom have been
d the very front of the party in all i
i grand career, who declare the preser
d administration so unsatisfactory in man
II of its personal and practical feature
e that they insist it shall not be continue
$, through another term of four years.


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