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NO. l&r Grant Side by Side with tlio Fath ers of the Country. .The character and reputation of President Grant is not likely to per manently suffer from the weak asper sions of the Imbecile writers and pigmy maligners of the present day, when the American people remember how, when "there were giants in those days," the great Fathers of the roun tryWash ington and his compeers were more fiercely and ably assailed than Grant now Is by the cheap pack of penny-a- liners at his heels. It might be supposed that If any mortal roan in this country could "cen sure 'scape." It would have been Wash iricton, but Grant has not been abused with more virulence. Speaking of the treaty which was concluded In 1795 be tween this country and Great Britain Sparks, In his Life of Washington; p. 4C7, says: . - The controversy, occasioned by it, in creased the violence of party discord to al most an incredible extent; and even the motives and character of Washington did not escape a full measure of the abuse, which was re tired out upon all who approved the acts of U;o administration. Regardless of truth au-1 decorum, his detractors assailed hfm with a license and malignity, which showed an uiter despair of accomplishing their ends by honorable means. But, how ever, they might excite his commiseration, they could not disturb his peace of mind. I have long since resolved, said he, writ ing to the j Governor of Maryland, for the present, at least, to let my calumniators procee.i without any notice being taken of their invectives by myself, or by any others with my participation or knowledge. Their views, I dare say, are readily perceived by all the enlightened and well disposed part of the community; and by tho records of m'y administration, and not by the voice of faction, I expect to bo acquitted or con demned hereafter.' " WASHINGTON'S INDIGNATION. If Washington's peace of mind was not disturbed by his calumniators, as Sparks tells us, yet there were moments when he did feel Irritated and annoyed by them.! Jefferson, in his Ana, Works, Vnl. ixl n. 164. eives an instance of this kind, which occurred during a Cabinet meeting, and which illustrates the extreme bitterness with which Washington was maligned. Jefferson says: j Knox,' in a foolish Incoherent sort of a speech, introduced the pasquinade lately printed, called the funeral of George W n, and James W n. King and Judge, Ac., where, the President was placed on a guillo ttne. The "iresldenfwar ranch -frtel f ran on much on the personal abuse which had been lx stowed on him ; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government, which was not done with the purest motives ; tnai he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since he was inaugurated; that be had rather be in his grave than in his present situation ; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made Emperor of the World; and yet they were charging him with wanting to bo King. That that rascal Freneav. sent him three of his papers every day, as if he "thought he would become the distributor of his papers ; tba he could see in this, nothing but an impudent design to insult him:" he ended injthis high tone." In a letter to Jefferson, dated Mount Vernon, July 16, 1796, Washington says : ( Writings, XI, 139.) Every act of my administration is tor tured, and the grossest and most invidious representations of them are made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that too in such exaggerative and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a no torious defaulter, or even to a common pick-pocket." WASHINGTON ASSAILED IN CONGRESS. During the very last lession of Con gress before the termination of Wash ington Presidency, a complimentary address was prepared to present him on! the occasion of his retirement. So many amendments were offered, and so much debate and criticism took place that Washington, at length, deplored thp fact that any such address had been contemplated. In the course of the debate, Thomas Blount We quote from Gales and Seaton's Annals of the Fourth Congress, 2nd Session, p. 1667: " Moved to strike out the following clause in the last paragraph : For our country's vake, for the sake of Republican liberty, it is our earnest wish that your example may le the guide of your successors ; and thus, after being the ornament and safeguard of the present age, become the patrimony of vour descendants. " " Even in favor of such an excision there were 21 votes. After a fiery ordeal for the address, and after various amend ments, alterations and suppressionsliad been considered, it came up for final passage. Then Mr. Blount we quote from the same Annals of Congress "wished the yeas and .nays might be taken, that posterity might see that he did not consent to the address." There were 12 votes against the adoption of it 12 who resisted to the last. GOVERNOR GILES AGAINST WASHING TON. As a further specimen of what was said in open Congress by men of prom inence, we will cite a paragraph from the remarks of Mr. Giles, himself a Virginian, and afterwards Governor of Virginia, He said: "As to those parts of the address which speak of the wisdom and firmness of the President, I must object to them. On re flection, I can see a want of wisdom ana firmness in the Administration for the last six years. I may be singular In my ideas, but I believe our Administration has been neither wise nor firm. I believe, sir, a want of wisdom" and firmnesss has brought this country into its. present alarming situ ation. If, after such a view of the Admin istration, I was to come into this house and show the country a quiet acquiescence in this address, a gentleman would think me a very inconsistent character. ; If .we take a view of our foreigh relations, we shall see no reason to exult in the wisdom or firm ness of our Administration. I think noth ing so much as a want of that wisdom and firmness has brought us to that critical sit uation in which we now stand." Such were some of the scenes in Washington's last Congress; but when his Presidency had ended, and he had entered into that private life he so longetl for and coveted, there appeared the following paragraphs in the edito rial columns of The Aurora for March 6,1797: ... .- r., : - THE AURORA'S IMPEACHMENT OF WASHINGTON. Lord, now lettest thou" thy servant de part in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation,' was the pious ejaculation of a man who beheld a flood of happiness rush in upon mankind. If ever there was a time which would license the reiteration of the t exclamation, that time has now arrived ; for the man who is the source of all the mis fortunes of our country is this day reduced to a level with his fellow citizens, and is no longer possessed of the power to multiply evils upon the United States. If ever there was a period for rejoicing, this is the mo ment. Every heart in unison with the freedom and happiness of the people ought to beat with high exultation that the name of Washington from this day ceases to give a currency to political iniquity, and to legal ize corruption. A new era is now opening upon us a new era which promises much to tho people ; for public measures must now stand upon their own merits, and ne farious projects can no longer be supported by a name. J "When a retrospect is taken of the Wash ington Administration for eight years past, it is a subject of the greatest astonishment that a single individual should have can celled the principles of Republicanism in an enlightened people, just emerged from the gulf of despotism, and should have car ried his designs against the public liberty so far as to have put in jeopardy its very existence. Such, however, are the facts, and with these staring us in the fafc?, this day ought to be a jubilee in the United States. Is President Grant denounced in- worse terms than this by the most vir ulent and malignant of his opponents ? : Chief Justice31ftrshall, in his Life of Washington, Vol. 11., p. 37U, says: MARSHALL CONCERING THE ABUSE OT WASHINGTON. j Washington's military and political character was attacked with equal violence, and it was averred that he was totally desti tute of merit, either as a soldier or a states man. The calumnies with which he was assailed were not confined to his political conduct; even his qualities as a man were the subjects of detraction. That he had violated the Constitution in negotiating a treaty without the previous advice of the Senate, and in embracing in that treaty sub jects belonging exclusively to- the legisla ture, was openly maintained, for which ah impeachment was publicly suggested'; and that he had drawn from tho Treasury for his private use more than the salary an nexed to his office, was asserted without a blush. This last allegation was said to be supported by extracts from the Treasury accounts, which had been laid before the Legislature, and was maintained with most unblushing effrontry. Though the Secre tary of the Treasury denied that the appro priation made by the Legislature had been exceeded, the atrocious charge was still con fidently reported, and the few who could triumph in any spot which might tarnish the lustre of Washington's fame felicitated themselves in the prospect of obtaining a victory over the reputation of a patriot, to whose single influence they ascribed the failure of their political plans." Georgia Tactics. The next Legislature should take some action towards compelling Sheriffs to col lect poll taxes from black men as well as white men. The Sheriffs have grossly neg lected their duty in this respect. No man black or white should be allowed to vote who has not paid a poll tax. That's the rule in Georgia, and why not adopt it in. North Carolina? Charlotte Democrat. : Every man twenty-one years of age and upwards, and all naturalized citizens are voters under our present State Constitution. There is no quali fication for voters save age, residence and naturalization. A law requiring any man to produce a receipt for his poll tax before being allowed to vote, would be unconstitutional. ; Forney on the Fight. The following from The Philadelphia Press of the 14th October will be cheer ful reading for : the cowed "Conserva- tives,1 distressed "Lemocnus" unu iof "T.ihpmis." we wauuusro the question worked out in The Aeics arithmetic: ' j Republican victories in October have monopolized the glory of the November triumph. It is like the first race won by a favorite horse, who distances every compet itor and holds the track against all new comers. There is no rapture in a new bat tle when the foe has been beaten from the field The Presidential election is reduced to a question of arithmetic-net how many bs cast for General Grant, but how few will be given to Mr. Greeley. Let us have a rousing majority for Grant and Wilson in North Carolina. ,1 Things OrganizeWork ; . ; f Poll a Full Vote. : i Press on the good work, and let there be no flagging until final victory is achieved. We have routed the enemy, Land his demoralized forces are fleeing in terror before our advancing columns. "Push things" with energy, and send them whirling up SaltRiver. 1 Now's the time, and now's tho hour. Organize, if you have not. Perfect jfdur plans to bring out every Republi can voter. Hold meetings often, for in counsel there is wisdom v Let each have his allotted task there is power ia personal effort. See that there are one or. two good men in every Town ship active in strengthening the weak, laboring with the doubtful, and pre-i -pared to bring every Republican-voter to the polls on election day. . j l)ivided but systematic work is the most effective. First the county or ganization must perfect its plans. Then th several Townships must divide up thir Work among trustworthy men. TKese men must go into, every Town sh,pand in every Township must be ap pointed atieast one man to visit every house, and furnish the necessary docu ments, papers and arguments.; The recent "elections make this work not only easy but pleasant. Victory is assured ; but we must bury the sectional monster, which now takes the shape of Greeleyism, sd deep that we shall never have to confront it again. ; Secession, in the specious guise bflreeonciliation, musB be crushed for ever. " ': Our platform of reconciliation is the Constitution and the laws; and ouf conditions are the guarantee to the citizen of the fullest enjoyment of his rights' ; every where. This for the Na tion, j In the State, we demand the suprem- acy, ot tne same spirit oi loyauy anu patriotism. We see everywhere that wKenthe disloyal element gets control, violence, extravagance and robbery of the public treasury, follow. Under the reform leadership of Pool, Settle, Dockery, Phillips, Erwin, J. H. Har W( ing election, so that it shall never tempt and seduce Democrats or Republicans again But, to accomplish this good result, we must not relax our efforts, but work as we have never worked be fore. Let us make "a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together," and strike for a deliverance that shall be conclusive and lasting. In the counties and Townships the work must be done. Let it be done with a will. Destruction of Another Printing Office. it. Tow that "Democratic" writers have golf their hands in, we look to see them employ their pens somewhat in a hith erto neglected task. Jhe destruction of the oflice of The uiherford Star, a Republican paper, yan armed band of "Democrats" and uoi nseryatives" on the night of June i j 1871, cannot have escaped the minds hflrmr "Democratic" contemporaries. !hn"4 thpir Inner silenofi on tllft subiect may be attributable to the fact that they were unused to writing on sucn ubjects. Now, however, they have no "uc)i excuse. Their hands are in, and fter acting with such emphasis on mere. resumption in the case of 7 he Sen- Viiiil, we expect to feel the earth trem Welfrom the force of their denuncia- iiopsof an outrage which everybody admits was perpetrated for political purposes and for party revenge. ! It has been said that "the fare bell atf.;midnight is ominous of impending evil.".- Was there anything ominous in he presence of an armed band of dis guised ruffians at midnight, plundering ana destroying a printing omce; xaK ing a citizen out of his bed, whipping ' ' J1 li IX X? 1 ' lino: omerwise inmireating mm : f The following from The Wilmington Post should not be lost sight of by the j' democratic" press and appealers: I AVhen an armed body of men in disguises destroyed The Star office in Rutherfordton, po jjfeat cry was raised over the State, nor was the pnblic appealed to for aid to rein state it. TheJStar was known to have been Ctestroyca by men lor political purposes, svhile The Sentinel disaster is shrouded in mystery. Both were outrages which should be iieverely punished, but let us remember hafc the Superior Court was not denounced farits failure to apprehend the perpetra tersof the former outrage. Consistency, eritlemeii, is charming. Denounce both Outrages. ? The country expects every Republi Push I CIO C W awi " "Vj" " 5 must kill the serpent, at the com- " Liberals " a spoils-seeking raid upon can; of North Carolina to do his duty in his campaign. Let every township, c&iinty and district, be thoroughly can vassed, and let every Republican voter be brought to the polls. Thi3 is the las: effort of the opposition. Over whelm them now and the future pro gress of the Republican party will be undisputed: SK;4 :: . OCTOBER E XTIONS. Pennsylvania, Ohi ;,nd Indiana. 1 PKESIDENTIAL CO: ST DECIDED. Comments oi" v Press. From Albany N. Y. THE TRIUMPH" ' The lustrous victory not diminish in its sj! Rather, indeed, does i t into still grander am. proportions. The maj The gain on Congn yond our expectation norship.of Indiana, points at stake r'e' .Whether. ii. - ;mni Journal. RIGHT. ' Tuesday does :did .results. :row and swell ; ore imposing ties are rising, i en is Avay be The Gover--of all ihe certain that Indiana Viftbe for. Grant in November, and the substantial fruits ofvietorvare with us even now.. We 1 have the Legislature, all but three of the Congressmen, and Senator Morton as his own successor. There is not a cloud in all the sky not even a tran sient morning mist to cast a haze upon the brilliant sunshine of triumpru The great result, settling as it does the Presidential battle, is the victory of the sober popular judgment over a erisrantic swindle and sham. It pricks and collapses a stupendous imposture. The whole Ureelev movement nas Deen a false pretense from beginning to end false in its origin, false in its profes sions, false in its claims of strength. It has been a pretentious bubble putted and blown into boasted proportion. but utterly hollow and needing only the touch of truth and the test of actual trial to show its emptiness and make it vanish into air. The managers of this swindle sought to carry it through up on brag and bluster. They hoped to cow down the people before this imag inary revolution and impress inem with the belief, that it was idle to re sist it. In its essence as well as in its surface it partakes of the same character. It has no honest principle and makes no leal issue, What are thegrounds upon which it anneals to the people? Can any man name one which is not either a sham or a falsehood ? The "Liberal" movement started out with the cry of " revenue reform ;" but that was made ridiculous by the nomination of Mr. Greeley. . It pretended to be for civil service reform ; but that became ludi crous when every sorehead office-seeker hung upon Greeley's skirts, and wncn he said: he should govern his appoint ments wholly by the question of ser vice to himself. And so of the talk of 44 reconciliation "there is nothing in it. All of these professions are simply a sham, simply a piece, of hypocrisy, the Treasury, and on the part ol tne others an insidious attack on the honor and safety of the nation. Even these professions, hollow as -iney are, nave nearly sunK out oi signi, as ine uiu- eral campaign has degenerated into mere personal calumny and abuse. j And now this pretentious, swollen, political hypocrisy has been struck down -and crushed by a tremendous blow from the people. The sober in telligent judgment of the masses has Eenetrated and condemned it. .They ave seen through its flimsy disguises. They have comprehended that, instead of giving us 44 reform," it would bur den us with such corruption as the country has never seen before. Iney have realized that instead oi producing reconciliation it would renew the cru sade against the results of the war, and would place the rebel element in power with all its malign purposes, in a word, they have grasped the fact and they seized it at the very beginning that this Greeley movement is a creat imposture, and they have pronounced it such, me result is a iriumpu ui reason over humbug- a triumph of clear judgment over cunning pretence and arrant cheats, it gives us new faith in the sober sound sense pi tne American people and in the security oi American institutions. It teaches us that we can confidently trust to the in telligence and virtue of the great mass- es. we nan it as one oi me giiiimi-si and most cheering: victories in tne whole history of the nation. Fronrtbe Missouri Democrat. THE VICTORY. The Republican victory of Tuesday ! is conclusive. The great fraud set on . foot at Cincinnati, and seconded by tne Baltimore Convention, has Deen con demned by the people and will receive its final doom inweer. ne game of brag which has been kept up by the Greeley managers with such persistence for so many weeks has failed at last, and the sober common sense of the peo ple has asserted itself in a most decisive and emphatic manner against the ar rant pretensions of the reckless schem ers who have struggled with such des peration to obtain control of the na tional government. With Pennsylva nia, Ohio. and Nebraska Republican, the Greeley mongrels, have no margin upon which they can base a hope, of possible success. Nothing they can do in November can give them more strength than they exhibited on Tues day last. - V In Pennsylvania-and Indiana the Democratic candidates for Governor wTere, without exception, the abltst men of their party. They had both; served with distinction in the Senate of the United States, and were unani mously nominated and supported by the Democracy, while they received in their respective States as many Liberal Republican votes as can possibly be counted on for Greeley in November. There was no room in either of these States for the assertion of the hostility of Democrats to Greeley, which will certainly develop itself in great strength between now and the November elec tion, and it is quite certain that Grant's majorities will be far in excess of those given for the Republican candidates on Tuesday last. . " ,' In Pennsylvania, Mr.. Buckalew did not risk his reputation as a Democratic statesman by champioriing the Cincin nati abortion, and throughout the can vass the friends of Greeley were given to understand that if there was .not Liberal Republican strength enough to elect Buckalew, the Pennsylvania De mocracy c.ould not be relied on for Greeley in November. In Indiana; hundreds of Democrat including such men as Graham N. Fitch, formerly Democratic United States Senator from that State, and E. P. Edgerton, once a candidate on the Democratic ticket for Lieutenant-Governor, are bitterly opposed to Greeley, but supportedIendricks and the State ticket in the late election, and the Re publicans of the State are confident of carrying the State for Grant even if Hendricks is elected Governor. : ifhe election of a Republican Legis-: lature insures, the return of ; Morton to the Senate, and saves the people of the State from a gigantic canal bond swin dle which would have been imposed upon them by a Democratic Legisla ture. ' " ;Th9vgain"titi Republican Congress- if of the great' victory. To make and keep Grant's administration strong and popular requires a good working ma jority in the Senate and House in sym pathy with the principles of the Re publican party. This we now have and will keep during the j next 'four years beyond peradveuture. We can not take leave of the subject without expressing the gratitude of the Repub lican party to the selfish and ambitious Senators who have so signally failed in their erforts to destroy the party that has honored them so long with its con fidence. To Mr. Sunjner, Mr. Schurz and Mr. Trumbull, more than to any other agency, are we indebted for this splendid vindication for Republican administration. Their malignant as saults upon Grant induced a critical examination of his official acts, and has resulted in an unqualified indorsement of his course. They assumed the lead ership in the campaign, of personal de traction, and by their violence and mendacity put to shame the Democrat ic orators who were content to retail their villianous slanders second hand. The auspicious result is especially op portune and cheering to the Republi cans of Missouri. If we shall be wise in our day and generation, and are wil ling to deserve a victory by working for it with the zeal and fidelity that has marked the conduct of our brethren in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Ne braska, Missouri will hold her place in the column of Republican States, and secure us a release from the imbecile and disgraceful management of such stupendous political frauds as Brown and. his disreputable srancr. To this end let us strain every energy, victory will be ours. and From the New Orleans Republican. THE VOICE OF THE NATION. The people of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska, and as we hope we may add, Indiana, have spoken, and their voice have repudiated the unholy alliance formed between the Democracy and the vacillating followers of the Repub lican banners, and established a prece dent which will be followed by the whole nation in November. It is evi dent that the people of those States that held elections on Tuesday, were influenced by the same reasons that have been the guide of The Republican in Louisiana affairs. They were in favor of reform, but were not willing to trust the great work to 'Democratic agents. They are not prepared to give up the Republican party and take into confi dence the old Democracy, through whose mismanagement, dishonesty and selfishness a huge wave of trouble rolled over tho country, carrying j desolation to nearly every home in our once hap py land. The capture of a figure-head from the Renublicans was not a suc cessful ruse. Through the thin white ! hairs of the leader, the people beheld the army of flowers, and rushed to the polls to condemn the whole concern. Not even the popular name of Bucka- lew, nor the great fame and abilities of Hendricks were enough to ally the; hosts opposed to Republicanism, the Union and the reconstruction laws in numbers great enough to achieve a victory. The presidential contest is virtually decided. The States that voted on, Tuesday will in November confirm their work by increased majorities. The Democrats of Pennsylvania and Ohio, dispirited by .defeat, and having no heart in the present fight for the Presi dency, will not care to make any extra exertions in a hopeless cause, and the November election, so far as those States are concerned, will be what rac ing men call a Vwalk over." Having put forth their best efforts to secure the local offices in their respective States, with nil the conseauential advantages Of -emolument and ofScial power, and signaUy failed,, they will not rally with a will within three weeks. As we have already informed our readers, the vacil lating politicians in every State in the Union will now declare for Graut, and endeavor to make up for their former tardiness by redoubled zeal in the fu ture. Thousands will loudly proclaim themselves original Grant men, and the Republicans will sweep the whole country like a tornado. Louisiana will not be exempted from this influence. The Republicans will be encouraged and stimulated to do their best and poll their last vote, while the Democracy, catching the universal feeling of de pression that will seize their party, will make-but partial and feeble efforts. This State is certain for Grant and Kellogg by twenty-five or thirty thou sand majority, against which all at tempts to cheat in any manner will be utterly futile. For, let it be borne in mind, tbere is a power higher than any in this State that may be ealled on to decide any contest that may arise in either case. In case, therefore the friends of either Kellogg or McEnery shall have reason to believe their can didate has not had a fair count, they Can claim his election and refer the ouestion to Congress for. decision. Ac cording to the doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court of the t United States, in the great Rhode Island case, commonly known as the Dorr rebellion, whomsoever the Congress recognizes as the Governor of any State, is the law ful executive, against all appeal. Our Dpmnnratie friends have nothing to gain, therefore, by resorting to fraud and trickery. We can rest easy on that point. Members of the Legislature and minor local officers may be counted -in successfully here and there, but there is a revisory power over the election of presidential electors, members or Con gress and Governors of States that is able to protect all the people of the Union from local cheating. From New York Herald. j. ' . - i . . ...... The JLate Instructive Ejections The Safety of the Kepublie Un der the Sovereign People. The late instructive elections re-affirm the intelligence and the Independent- action upon public affairs of the American people, and the safety of our republican institutions under their sov ereign authority.? These elections teach our unscrupulous politicians and parti am journals the foiiy of attempting to delude the people from the real issues at stake by violent denunciations and debasing personalities against this, that or itre oiner canaiaateior ,r-i:n nre-i TS7t?!sk&:j!X3&i ment of the people, in Pennsylvania especially, how impotent are those would-be leaders who assume to divert the people to their selfish purposes from the real issues before the country. It was supposed by many honest and intelligent citizens, one short iyearago, that the corrupt chiefs of the old Tam many Ring, with all their means and appliances of corruption, were so strong ly entrenched that it would require a close seige- at least of several years to dislodge them ; but in the first charge of an indignant people their works were carried and their garrison captur ed. It was feared by many thoughtful and patriotic men that when; our long and embittered sectional agitation had carried us into the most gigantic and sanguinary civil war in the history of any nation, the enbl of it would be a military despotism, or two or three, or half a dozen republics of the Mexican type, or several European protectorates; but the rebellion was ; suppressed, sla very was abolished, and the Union, stronger than ever before, has been re stored on the basis of universal liberty and equal rights. - j The moral of all this is that for fif teen or twenty years past, or more, our party politicians, including party lead ers, cliques, conventions and organs, have been far behind the people, and have presumed too much upon popular ignorance and credulity. Our party managers have proven themselves gen uine Bourbons in adhering to their be lief that the country should be, and still may be, ruled through such conve nient devices as Albany regencies, Rich mond iuntfis and kitchen cabinets. But these little oligarchies were broken up and dispersed with the introduction of railways, telegraphs, and the independ ent newspaper press. The greatest, per haps, of all the great mistakes of the Southern conspirators in plunging into a rebellion for the establishment of their isumrxi ponme ner-stone of African slavery, was the mistake of basing their calculations of success upon the American rebellion of 1776, when telegraphs, steam presses, railways and steamboats were un known. But the printing j press, the telegraph, the stdam-boat and the rail way, with the tremendous power in these potential instruments of peace or war, held by the! North, rendered the success of a Southern Confederacy an impossibility from the beginning. But more powerful in behalf of the Union cause than all the material ad vantages of railways, steamers and tel egraphs was the education which this people generally had attained through these agencies and the press in the du ties of patriotism when called to war for the Union. A Southern Confedera cy had been created, Southern armies had been organized and put in the field : United States forts, arsenals. Na vy Yards and mints in the South had been seized and t appropriated ; Major Anderson, in Fort Sumter, had been quietly encircled by hostile Southern batteries and it:was greatly feared, even in the loyal North, -that. the Union against these dreadful warlike prepara tions for its overthrow would prove but a rope of sand. But we need not here relate now tne loyai JNortn, witn tne news of the first shot against the flag of the Union, rose as one man in re sponse to President Lincoln's procla mation calling ior troops to mainiain in the South the sovereign authority of the United States and the integrity of the Union. I In the election ;Of Lincoln the Union loving people of the North had partly foreseen this contingency of war and were prepared for it; but our politi cians oh all sides were far behind the people. Even Lincoln followed m their wake and did not seek to lead them in the prosecution of the war. t They car ried him and the country through it h$ war they carried Congress and Gener al Grant through the'wprk of Southern reconstruction and restoration, on the basis of the new amendments io lhe constitution ; and if in these late elec tions the sovereign. people have indica ted their purpose to irive Gen. Grant, another Presidential term it isbeeause,! in their judgment, the time has not yet come for a change in the administra tion of our national aflairs. The politicians, we say, are far be hind the people, and the people have risen to a degree of independence of party leaders far beyond the vain cal culations of these mere Creatures of public opinion. Party leaders, in fact, have become a cheap commodity in the public estimation. Thetime was when in the bolt of such conspicuous party men as Sumner, Trumbull, Greeley and Brown. Schurz, Fenton, Curtin, McClure and Forney, from their regular party nominations, they would have overthrown the ticket ; but now the party leader in bolting may whistle for his followers, but he will , whistle in vain. "We have in this and other cities numerous politicians, each with his band of followers, more or less ; but he is as much their servant as they are his claquers, and they all signify nothing in a great national campaign. It is one of the lessons of these late elections that our most conspicuous party! leaders are greatly mistaken in undertaking a new departure upon the presumption that the world will follow them i that they are the masters and not the servants of the people. As it was with Webster so his own account. As it was with others r oetore them so it Is now in Pennsylva- ;, nia with Curtin, McClure and Forney, in assuming to make 1 their personal I grievances or dislikes, superior th leading public questions of tho day. The Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention. .with i t liberal il:itform . mm us nnerai ticket or t ... .... . Uive'eyand Brown, was at the outset a promising movement for a new party onraniza tioh : and when tho late Baltimore Coil vention adopted the Cincinnati resolu tions and candidates .as the nrincinles and standard bearers of the democratic party there was for a short lime tin arv- - I parent uprising inr public opinion in la-vor of this new departure exceedlnirl v encouraging -to the Men i)ntraetincr uarties. But from North- Carolina in.- I August, to Pennsylvania in October there has been no encouraging response j from the "people. - And 'wherefore-? ' Simply, because tills coalition move- ,t Orient of democrats and liberal republi- J '. SSs concerned 41. WLiUMnf-JulULr man oi uiopeopind'' . . ... - r because it rapidly . degenerated'. iuta a v- quarrel over the sjoiis and ceased to promise any definite or substantial re- : formations in the government. . So much for , the thorough -discussion, through the public press which the, subject has undergone before tlio dis criminating tribunal of the people. ' In this discussion nearly two-tliirds.of tho party journals of tho Union have been against the administration; but tho'" American people, upon the facts, tho . law and the testimony, judge for them selves. : . ' ' ,i" We have heard much of the danger' -of tho establishment of a regular mili- ; tary despotism from the re-election of General Grant ; but we had the same ' foolish apprehensions expressed in ref- r erencc to General Jackson. If a bold and ambitious party leader in the United States at this day could lead his followers like Ce3ar or Marc Antony, or like Napoleon tho First, or even like the revolutionary chiefs of Mexico, to : any extremity, wo might talk of tho perils of a military despotism ; but all such alarums are absurd among our free , , people, possessed of all the advantages ( of free schools, telegraphs, railroads and the printing press, and of general intelligence and self-reliance to an ex- . tent that is the marvel and the admi ration of the world.. From N. Albany Evening Journal. Why not Return? There are some men, heretofore Re publicans, who have been inclined, with good I motives, to support Mr. Greeley. They were . mistaken, but honest. They had admired Mr. Gree ley in the past,, and had faith that if elected, he would make a good Presi dent. It was not because of a desire upon their part to join the Democratic party but because of a regard for Mr. Greeley himself that they have given tonn.ne.ft to this "Liberal" no'Urtai are sum me" ui vrgng thft ti resent circumstances c Mr. Grce- r . r . ... nfetrr i ntterlv out of the oues tion. No man in his right-mind has any longer the remotest idea of such an. impossibility. The class of "Liberals" of whom we speak cannot render him any service ; even if they continue 19 support him. The October elections have shown that he must in any event be the worst beaten candidate of years, and that all such support will be wast ed. If, with this fact staring them in the face, these men still adhere to Mr. Greeley, it can only be becauso they mean to go .squarely into the Demo cratic ranks and to act as members of that party, ok of its remainsin the fu ture. 1. - Do they mean this? Do they mean to become Democrats and to identify themselves with that party Just as it is on tho point of sustaining tho greatest of all its defeats, and just as, utterly broken and demoralized and disorgan ized, it is about entering on a hopeless and imbecile decay V If they do, wo have nothing further to say to. them.--Let them go. But we ha-vo assumed and believe that tins was not tho pur pose with somo of them, that they countenanced the Liberal movement becauso they thought they could do so ' without sacrificing Republican princi ples and without incurring the odium -of Demoeeruy. The mistake is now ; apparent. Do .they not understand that to go on is to go irretrifvaldy into the? Democratic camp? Do they hot ' comprehend that it is to ally them for ever with a -party posting a shame ful record in the 'past and a hopeless doom for the futures? Do H'y l Per ceive that ev-'ii the best elements of the . old Democratic party are repudiating its present degradation, and that it is with the worst part Jiiat they will bo associated? And why notthen, I rain- , Iv acknowledge iii'ir .ir.staici and re turn while there is yet opportunity ? 1 It is a question which h ;s a more vi tal interest to themselves than tcvany bodv else. Their return is, not impor tant to thu Republican party it is im portant to themselves. 1 .Some liavo crone out from owr ranks whom we should under no eircnmsLinei Wel come back. WVaru fur hvii-.-;- oil' with out than with' them. Tii-.-y hypocriti cally cried " reform," and they have rendered some service. to the cause of reform by taking themselves - where they will ho longer be in a portion to , embarrass it. They have purified tho Republican party by leaving iU It is not to these corrupt ion ists and sore heads that we ad-Ires:, oar words ; but , to those who were drawn toward Mr. Greeley with honest motives, and who must now see their mistake. All such will be welcomed baok,and it behooves them to consider well whether they had not better return. . , . ; ' Reaction. , , ' Nov' that an excited and over-willing press has had its "blow off" on tho "blow up" the country has settled down' to somewhat of its wonted quiet, and some of the first to eagerly charge the: outrage of last week to tho Republican, party, after putting this and that to gether, have partaken somewhat of tho suspicions of a very suspicious circum stance, and the general sentiment now, is, that the destruction of The Sentinel office-is- an affair which "Democrats',t and "Liberals", cannot afford to iiivcr- tiv-: ; ..;v,,;:ok.-".-. .' 1 11 t ! 1 . 1 : 1: ; I si ir;
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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