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Show THE PASSIVE POLICY. Two woutln a. t!d .iO-calioJ "pas-.ii "pas-.ii vo p'.it!"-?" v:tsiiii: prominent politic polit-ic il Nim: wiili jiiiiii:ii.s ol" all shades ol prtrty ojiinio;-!. I'm' i voir h-.!orfi that tiiiu; Ih'J tk'ini-tiui:" v.';u the lVsiiiotialjlo puliLiitl moveun:nt. That w.w K'ViiU tho fcO-by lor houio reason. Tim people tor whom 'it way intendod ili.l not hanker al'tcr it, many could s;x' nothing in it; it purely a neg-a'ivo neg-a'ivo policy, onl'iinin no new principles; prin-ciples; but mert'ly an adhc.-ion to certain cer-tain id'.-a-t, whi'.-li nohoily really ilisjm-t:d. ilisjm-t:d. Tho uuth is often luL siht of, that a irioiit party is never created for a po-lhical po-lhical campaign; it prow. 4 out of the csiijcnciL's of the tinier and the popular popu-lar neciisiit'tes. ThU has hecn the case wiii all the parties that have existed in tui.i country. The people cannot Le moved 10 united action without a common com-mon cause, in which their interests are cn.L'acd. The trouble with political leader- Li (.hat they fear to move out of their beaten tracks. Just now the sails of both tho great political hulks nrc shivering in the wind, without their pilots knowing how to shape their course They have no original ideas with which to go before tho people; peo-ple; nothing to umto and arouse them us they have been aroused at various periods in our history; but wo can sec in tho distance a moving of the dry bones; a marshalling of tho elements of political action in a movement which we believe is destined to sweep over the country like a hurricane. In that movement the people will participate partici-pate and the old party linos and iesuoH will ho pushed asido liko cobwebs. It may not ripen into full life during the next year, but before the election of 1876, tho new party of the pooplo will have become the overwhelming political organization of the country. |