Year: 1876




And shout for Whe. Ter, too;


Thsy both are men wi winning ways,


Ale honest, strong ard true.


Special Correspondence of the Republican,


NORTHERN POLITICS.


The Outlook.


BOSTON, June l9, 1876


With the failure to nominate Blaine at Gin
cinnati as the Republican presidential stand-
ard bearer for 1876, We have another Of those
sudden sharp turns in public affairs which
have characterized the era of revolution
against the spirit of caste inaugurated by
the election of Abraham Lincoln to the
presidency of the United States in 1860.
During the sixteen long and eventful years
intervening between L,nccln's nom nation
at Chicago and Blaine's defeat at Cincin.
natl, we have had developed from time to
time, and in one phase or the other, all the
characteristics of the French revolution
and the irresistible activities of the social
forces which, under that revolution,
changed the map Of Europe and the
face of the world. But let no
one suppose that the fires which produced
either the American or French revolution
have died out. They only slumber. They
slumber in the hearts of men in the Old
World as in the New. They are vital
part of humanity to-day in stagnant China,
as they have ever been even in the past era
of Grecian liberty. Like storms which
hide themselves in caves, to come forth
with renewed power under new conditions,
90 the slumbering human fires of political
revolution only need the hour, the occasion
and the man to leap suddenly into exist
ence and deluge the world in blood; and
all party management or compromise rac-
tics' or conservative diplomacy" whether
at Paris or Washington, are powerless
to stay the final onward sweep of this spirit
of revolution. Compromise is as powerless
in America az repression" is to hold down
human nature in Europe. These are no.
idle words. An hour and an occasion for
such a revolutionary uprising has just
passed by in this country. Its leader is
date, but he is to-day the real leader
of the North, and all the efforts of
the political managers and compromisers,
North az we'll as South, to control this lead
ership or ''repress" it a la Europe, will
prove futile James G. Blaine is the head
and front of the new purpose of the anti
slavery Republican North. That purpose
consists in the utter overthrow of the Con
fedsrats power as an organized political
force within the American Union-by COM
promise if possible; by force if need be.
The people were ready to follow the flag,
which represents a power solution Of the
Southern problem, If the Republican con-
venton at Cincinnati had raised it. This
storm of popular passion has not spt mt
itself. 1t has not even subsided. 1t is
simply held in check. Let those who have
felt it's fury from 1861 to 1865 beware.


The nomination of Hayes and Wheeler
is double compromise. 1t is not only
compromise inside of the Republican party,
bat it reflects the spirit of comprO rOmise be
tween the revolutionary purpose OF the
North and the Confederate party of the
South. The ticket means that the Repub-
lican party propose, in the next Repub-
lican administration, to inaugurate the
work of moral and material reconstruction
at the South. through the aid of such con-
eervative and American elements as may
be found in each of the late slave States.
The experiment will be made in good faith.
If this good intent fails, then look out. This
experiment involves one or other OF the
three following alternatives:


[. The success of the policy OF reconcilia-
ton between the South and North, under
Republican auspices; or


=. The increased il Ltluence of the COnfed-
crate party at the South and ia the Union;
or


3. Blaine and revolution in 1884,


First. the success of the policy OF reconcilia-
ton depends on the influence Wheeler will
exert az Vice President in the new admins
ton. He may prove to be the Bsistow OF
the HAYES administra ton, and permit him
self to become the pivot on which the enc
mics of his chief may cause their opposition
to turn. Or he may from the first be recog-
nized as holding the same relation TO the
Republican party that his compromise IN
the Louisiana question holds to Southern
reconstruction. In every case the Wheeler
policy will prevail at Washington under
the next Republican administration. 1t
will represent the eincere desire OF the
North to terminate the long drawn out con-
aict over the negro question by an adjust
ment which will give the country peace, ii
even for the moment. How far this peace
will be honorable, or the adjustment per-
manent, will appear when we come to con
eider the second alternative which lies be-
fore rs in the political future.


This second alternative involves the
question whether the proposed policy OF
Republican reconciliation Of the Confed-
crate party will not increase the power OF
that party in each late slave State OF the
Sou tn as we'll as throughout the Union. The
proposed policy Of Republican reconcilla'
ton will turn on the spirit and form OF the
Wbaolar comnromise in Louisiana. How