Year: 1876

The Combat Deepens.


NEW YORK, May q, 1876.


Long before this letter reaches you, the


news from Washington" }" being the latest


move Of the silent man who sits in the


White House watching the end of the great


contest which he led for 90 many years on


the field Of battle, will have been discussed


by your readers, and become % An old


story. And yet it will be many weeks be.


fore the public mind of the North will re.


cover from the agitation produced by this


sudden change in the Presidents Cabinet.


This move of Grants strikes the political


world like eudden fash of lightning from
cloudless eky. Who would have thought
ts And 80 there 10 to be . fight alter all9
Yes. And Conkling is to lead7 Yes. And
Pennsylvania and New York are certain for


the Republican ticket Yes. And New
Jersey is issbsolutely sure for Conkling on the
] school question: Yes. And New England
| is solid in opposition to the Southern and
Western sectional alliance9 Yes. And
the West is the battlefield Yes, and the
only remaining question with US is, Who
shall we take from the West for Vice
President with Conkling9 In answer
ing this question We meet the gallant Re-
publican State of Ohio, ready to lead the
Western wing Of The great army of free
dom. And Ohio. among scores of Repub-
lican leaders tried and true" have none
truer and none more thoroughly tried than
Hayes. And SO the combat deepens, and
the standard-bearers of tho Republican
party begin to take their places in the con-
victiOn and affection of the rank and file of
the party. 1t is a. clear. therefore, as any.
thing can be in the future of political prob
abilities that the Republican presidential
ticket at Cincinnati will be: For President.
Conkling, of New York; for Vice President,
Hayes, Of Ohio. Will any experienced
Confederate political leader figure out how
that ticket can be beatenf


The opposition in New York is already
busy IN the work of sapping and mining
this Republican ticket by sowing the seeds
of rivalry in the ranks of the Republics an
party and in the hearts Of the Republican
leaders. And here is the "mora" philoso.
ply which gives hope that this work Of
discord can be successfully prosecuted.
quote from the World of to-day:


Republicans have done more than Demo-
Gratis to make the country regard it as q
vile thing to have supported Republican
administration. Political comrades in arms,
honestly leagued together in q good cause,
could never thus have betrayed each other;
aud the attitude toward each other Of the
Republican leaders tells the story of narty
shame and corruption more eloquently than
all the invectives of the opposition. 1t has
produced and is prOducin G its natural effect
upon the tone Of the Republican party
throuhgout the country. Nowhere has there
been any uprising of the Republican masses,
fused together and glowing under the stress
OF some strong political feeling and purpose.
The party as party has no definite aim in
action, NO inten SO purpose to carry out; no
reform to effect. Its best and ablest mem.
Ders frankly admit that they are ashamed
Of its recent past and dismsyed and dubi-
oas about its future policy. Nothing stirs
within the organic alton q pulse Of stimu-
lated life save the truggles between the
friends of one or another leading candidate
10 get control of the party machinery.
Everything is made question Of personal
ciple, or even policy.





Democrat to understand the make up
and divining power Of party like the ma
tiOnal Republican party. The national Re-
publican party exists in the heart of it's
members by the force of the very elements
which the World declares it does not pos
sDss. The World ssys: "No where has
there been any uprising Of the Republican
masses fused together under the stress of
some strong political feeling or purpose"
reply to this that deep and strong waters
run quietly. The day of uprising sp-
proaches. The day of flint and steel is not
far off. When the great battle fairly opens
in the West then the World will know the
cause if freedom has lost its power over
the human heart; if the love Of union has
lost its hold upon the American people,
and if coalition between the Confederate
leaders of the South and the Pendleton
Democracy of the West can come in at this
late day and rob the nation of the dearly
bought fruits Of the war waged against
slavery European monarchy, papal inter
yention and national disruption. "The
people Of the North can not be fused
into one burning political mass on any Re
publican ISSUE" the World editor says.
Why the recognition Of the Contederacy by
the Papal See makes in itself an issue suf
ticient to set the North in a fame of excite
ment. Senator Conkling does not de-
sire to make the school question lead
ing Republican issue IN the next presi-
Dental election. General Grant also
deprecates the idea of making the
school question an issue in our politics.
But there are issues which make them
selves g, and this school question is one of
them. Americans are Americans, and not
or aristocrats, and consequent
ly they will stand by the things which
stand for American ideas, principles and
in fluence. Furthermore, Americans, as a
mass, are Protestants. Add to these facts
the memory of the late war, the recogni- |
ton Of the Southern Confederacy by the !
Papal government, and the dabbling Of the |
agents of the Roman hierarchy in our do |
nestle and national politics. and then tell |
me, Mr.. Editor Of the World, if you can
End a stronger issue for the Republicans
his centennial year than this very school
question forced, as it has been, on the party |
BY the fanatical aggressions of the Roman
PRIESTHOOD Then we have the issue of
revived in an aggravated
Form. We not only have Southern Sec
6onaiism renewed in negro serfdOm, but