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Show SCMNEBAND RECONCIllA- :tion- Senator Sumner's farewell address, upon the eve of Lis departure for Eu-rope, Eu-rope, touches the point moFt. crave and important to every lover of his coun-trynnd coun-trynnd upholder of Itepuhlican institutions. insti-tutions. Thw point U the reconciliation reconcilia-tion Utween the two sections of our lnn.1, and the escape from- tho threatened threat-ened peril of two portions of these United States becoming distinct sections sec-tions and races. Hero the senator touches tho popular heart and sentiment. senti-ment. That geographically and physically phy-sically the South seems a distinct and :ieparato portion of the continent is apparent ap-parent to every calm, dispassionate and thoughtful student. Dr. J. W. Draper, in bin works upon the "American Civil War" and the "Future Civil Polioy of America," considering tho natural laws which lie at tho foundation of the future policy of this oountry, and aiming aim-ing to deal with tho deeper and hidden hid-den causes of national prosperity and national disaster, points out carefully, with the dignity of science, as a dispassionate dis-passionate judge and on acute observer who haa niado tho history of his oountry ooun-try a philosophical study, tho shoals and quicksands which we, as a nation, must steer clear of. He cnllA the attention of his fellow countrymen to the antecedent causes of our late civil war, and urges with fervid eloquence tho necessity that every wound be healed, every cause of estrangement be uprooted, every interest in-terest of tho north and south harmonize harmon-ize if wo would go on as one peoples-divided, peoples-divided, and inseparable. Whatever personal or partizan fcclinga may be entertained in regard to senator Sumner, Sum-ner, whatever views may be held as to his course during the last sis months, every true lover of popular government must feel constrained to admit that there is no utterance of the mere politician poli-tician or of the tool of party, no outburst out-burst of personal prejudices when Sum-nor Sum-nor writes In considering the reasons in favor of Horace Greeley I find two, differing in character, but of chief importance : first, that he represents a retbrmed civil service, beginning with the one-term principle, without which this reform is too in ach like a sham; and secondly, that he represents reconciliation, not only between the two sections, but bo-twecn bo-twecn the two races, which is essential to the repose of the country and the safeguard of equal rights. No matter whether or not Horace Greeley be considered the representative representa-tive of these two principles, or whether thcyui iy be deemed dependent upon this man or the other, to senator Sumner Sum-ner must be accorded a true love for his country and a statesman's prescience and concern lest the ehip of State be dashed upon tiie rock rising so threateningly threat-eningly before it. Tho .New York "Herald" touching upon this subject, and the distinct emphatic utterances of Sumner, says; This is the rock ahead of the administration, admin-istration, and it is one on which the republican shipmay be dashed to pieces, unless it should fortunately be carried round it in safety by the financial tide which just now seems settling so .-trougiy iniavorol'President Grant. We have warned thePresidentof the danger, The Southern people have given all the evidences they can offer of their sincerity. The soldiers who fought under tho rebel flag men ot courage and honor have united in the support of a Liberal Republican candidate for the Presidency, and have done all in their power to conciliate the North. - The people are lirtd of the incessant excitement kept up by the politicians, and they say,with senator Sumner, "the war is ended; there must bo an end also to belligerent belliger-ent pasMons, and the freedman, assured assur-ed of his rights, must enter upon a new career of happiness and prosperity." pros-perity." And senator Sumner here feels the pulses of the people who, unblinded by political tricksters, will, we think, demand tbat the great dancer be boldly conidcfed and carefully avoided, whoever who-ever is elected to the office of Prei-deer. Prei-deer. Men who cannot, or who will not, .-.inking personal or party (t'eiiogs, bear in mind the principles considered in Sumner's farewell addre?s, are dangerous dan-gerous enemies to their country's peace, safety and prosperity. |