Year: 1871

How NOT TO PREPARE FOR TIE SIRUGGLE'


To support the Administration is one thing.
TO advocate the denomination of its head Is
another. We support the Administration.


To us the treatment it has received, even Do
the hands of many who helped to make IT, anu
still belong to the party of which 1t Is 'no oA
ponent has seemed most unfair; ana ',o ""
success Of one of its great measures V'o :"
iustment Of the difficulties between 'i'A' 'O"
try and Great Britain, now cic'HS


affords ou occasion for considering VIC SUI
stantial success and worth OF It's gehefai poiicy'
Co,ta;riy tbe Administration has not peeh
ca br,Uio,+ no many might desire; but IL mas
ham hattor than we had right to expect
wo .oole n man without civil experience. VI
courso we expected him TO mako blunders IN


no,v matters of detail; but in what great
oneslion has Gen. Grant disappointed The just
bopes of the peoplef


lie bas made an economical Administration.
Over two hundred millions of the National
Debt have been extinguished end the reduction
still goes on. Over eighty millions OF taxes
have been taken off and the payment OF DEBT
relieves us besides of an annual burden Oh
twelve millions of interest.


He has made peaceful Administration
The Quaker policy has kept MS out of serious
contests with tho Indians. If wo have not
done all that the case of Cuba seemed TO
demand, We have at least had no war about
IT, when war would have been easy, and, with
the baser sort, would have been popular
If we have not had the South thoroughly
pacifed, we have at least avoided the harsh


measures to which soldier must have been
often provoked by the excesses in that quar-
| ter. but from which we could only have
expected further posponcment of the day
of perfect peace. We have kept the peace on
the Canadian border, even when the temptation
to the cheap popularity of winking at Fenian
| invasion was the greatest. And now we nave
put the Alabama question, with all Its terrible
possibilities, behind us forever


| lie has made law-abiding Administration.
| He has had no will to enforce against the VIII


of the people Strongly sympatbizing with the
| Cubans he has yet recognized and respected
the popular dissemination, especially at the
West, to assume any responsibility for their
struggle. Ferventy anxious for tho annexa-
ton of SantO Domingo, he has yet waived his
policy, in Difference to the opposition OF some
of our Oldest and ablest Republicans and has
remitted the whole question TO Che decision OF
the Country.


And vet this economical and peaceful and
law abiding Administration is open to such
plausible attacks and liable TO such popular
prejudices on petty but Unlocking points, that
it is not clear that it has added to the Repub-
lican strength with which it came into power.
A few thousand votes then. in three States,
would have changed the result;-it is by no
means clear that we have any greater security
now. In 1872, as in 1858, We may still be
found dependent on the follies of the enemy
for success. But if the enemy should abandon
his folly -


What is the Empire State doing in this emer-
| gencya We tell Republicans, real and DoIni-
nal, that the business in hand is not the de-
struction of party to secure the renomina-
ton of President, but the preservation OF a
| party for the election of President yet
| to be nominated mot the reduction OF our
ranks to a number convenient for the dis
tribution of the offices, but the et-
fort to make sure that we shall
have the offices to distribute;- warfare
among our own factions, but warfare on the
enemy. We are utterly weary of this per-
petual reorganization. The defeated side
always bolts the "outs" always demand a
reorganization, and once more the strength
that ought to be united for the I'M
pending struggle with the Democracy Is fTit-
tering away in struggles among ourselves.
We have not thought the action of the State
Committee in ordering this last new deal
warranted or wise; and the spectacle
the political announcements OF the day
present is the best commentary on our Oft
expressed judgment The motives of this
wrangle are perfectly well understood all
know that the struggle is not to advance Re
publicanism but to wreSt the Republican
organization from its present hands In the
interest of candidates these do not favor; and,
whoever may gain by the struggle, we are
sure that those who have precipitated 1t will
lose. This is not the way TO prepare for 1872.