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Show POLITICAL ERRORS. The extreme wings of the two great ' political parties of the country seem, each, to be pursuing a line of policy which the people at large do not aud will not endorse. The Kepublte has undergone great changes in the past five years. Subjects for the grave consideration con-sideration of statesmen have sprung up, and are receiving a degree of attention; at-tention; but with these the extremists crowd in others that the people wish buried in oblivion, as far as possible. The extent to which either of the parties par-ties will be swayed by radical Republicans Repub-licans or rabid lVmoerats, will influence influ-ence very greatly their prospects iu the next Presidential election. The first will endeavor to enforce the policy of strangling the South by the conqueror's con-queror's power; the other seem determined de-termined to drag in issues which have been dead se long that they have become be-come olVcnsive to the public nostril And neither policy is satisfactory to the country. If the PcuKvratie party will frankly accept the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. eeiKwie that the ne.-ni is a mau W ith the rights of a man, recognise rec-ognise his citi'enship. his right to vote and to tcsr.fy in the courts, and confine con-fine themselves to the icadtugqaestions of the present. with a broad and liberal piatfortu. they have strong chances of suayss. Iv.t: if they seek to revive a struggle i:i the last two am.ndmeuts to the Constitution, and resurrect cpes-tions cpes-tions buried u:;der lr.euf.tai'cs of slain, they wi'.i no t. to scad their candidate to the White House than they did in On the other hand, if tl.e Kepub'i-cat-.s esuitiue the pol.cy ef high taxation, taxa-tion, and exere;0 the t itter and implacable im-placable power of a c-ga-.u-.'rejr without magnatiitiiity. over tue t-tates .ately in rvbeliion, they too wlh be uasaeccssfu!: and the country at Urge wlil meet any party which may spring rrvra the rains ef both. orTertng a iibctal, ev.iservative policy tor the e tilers: ugr.t of :.. pe- |