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1868 5 A.W. Series De Bow's Rev. A.W. Ser. 1 (1868)

handle is hein.slavery/dbowrev0039 and id is 1 raw text is: DE BOW'S REVIEW ESTA-BLISHED JANUARY, 1846. JANUARY, 1868. PARTY PURPOSES AND PERSONAL POLITICAL DESIGNS ASSO- CIATED WITH THE RECENT POPULAR ELECTIONS. THE new political game initiated under the management of William H. Seward, the evil genius of the country, threatens to defeat all the purposes of the people as expressed in the re- cent elections. This arch demagogue and subtle political strategist, knowing that he has sinned too deeply ever to be forgiven by the sincerely honest and patriotic portions of the )eople, for his gross invasions of constitutional liberty and law, and for his tyrannical exercise of power, when the sound of his little bell invaded the domestic sanctuary of every household in the land, has revived the movement he sought to carry out eighteen months ago at Philadelphia, with the 14th Amendment Article to the Constitution as the chief feature in the programme; and he is skillfully endeavoring to play out successfully to the end his rol6, as the power behind the throne greater than the throne itself, in view of the presi- dential election in 1868 and the new Administration that shall follow. With this intent his purpose is to divert from the Democratic party the force of the popular reaction, so clearly and unmistakably expressed against negro -supremacy and military rule, throughout the country, and to fetter the people and the policy of the Government again to the car of black Republicanism. All this he hopes to accomplish through the instrumentality of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, and he seems, indeed, to have enmeshed them both in the web of his plans and his policy. Like an accomplished trickster and gambler, he has stocked the cards of the game in the very pre- sence and before the very eyes of the Democratic managers, and with still more consummate address he has administered to the President an opiate which has charmed away his facul- ties and robbed his brain of its proper vigor and judgment. It may not be altogether uninteresting to analyze somewhat this (1)

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