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Show AW OPPOSITION WANTED. iiie rit. Louis Jitfiublicuii devotee a i 'kimu in descanting upon the want uf ft p.uty to contend with the Republicans Re-publicans in tho next Presidential eontist. Tho writer 6eems to think that if all the voters who arc opposed to tho paity now in power could become be-come united there would be but little dlil;cult,y iu pushing that rotten fa c-r c-r m to tho wall. The li'tpuUican be-. be-. .'.Is the f'H that the Apparent ae-tiuittcenco ae-tiuittcenco in tho Mobilierisms of the times would aeem to indicate a degen- " eracy on the part of tho voters of the country. And it is right. We presume pre-sume the history of the world cannot r'l'.nv a smile tr.taiiee of a procrastinated procrasti-nated civil war iu any government wiuretho people were not more or K5J ilemo:"ari.-,jvl. Xoue can deny hat tho American people have seriously seri-ously suiiercvl iu their moral health. On emerging from the battle-neld the' Participants in the blootly etrugglo 1 v. v :n c or less corrupted by tho Miiiva ..Iii-.s of battle, and in their -irso with non-combatants im-more im-more o: less of the bad princi- i; imbibed by that c-'ass of persons. A'.v tho war, what ? Well did that patriotic statesman, Tinry Clay, understand tho conse-1 juvneeaof the elevation of a mere' :.:i:itary chiei'tsm to the Presidency ' I. .a Lie said, iu EubaUuce, that bet- ter would iL be for tho country to be j ar'.ietcd with "war, pestilence und ; famino'' than to be subjected to the' rule of such a man. After the war came this man. who has since j achieved an unenviable fame a tl champion gi.'t-reeeiver of the world, j is it any wonder that Credit Mobilier-J :s'.n l;as run rampant during his :e;g:i .' Sp'Oiihiiion, peculation,; b;.lvry aud corruption these t';o legitimate fruits cf the war 1 axd t::o clej'.i'Mi of Vl;sses cr. t.ira:;t to tiio l'residetx-y. Here ; in Vta'u p.; v-lo are . uo- gcna-: sapp-al to care much about poh lienor indeed do suppose that 1 ilu- carpet -b polilkiaus, backed bv Jio power of a tulwlued Prcsulent ; .iud Mohilieri-d Cvagres,;utcud thki ' c hou'.l pOdc;S any olil:--il leges, uct indeed ti.at we have any rights 'd'.xor than such ;vs they may; .eo lit to aconl to us, and yet even; here a ma:i may feel that he is a man and may fj rui xil cypres political opinion. 1 Our readers are aware that i ho j Herald I.as heretofore tx-J p res; ed i ts opinion that Grant ai:d Ids friends had d:gus on a third term. Wc do not pretend to ' yaesticn too fact, or wtstumk many circurrstanccs go to prove it, and siioi;id it turn o it that Gran! is ncltt-inated ncltt-inated by the Kep;i;.::;e.m party, or,' indeed by Any' party icr a third term. ! W2 have no douht the St. Louis i;-:-u:-U m will find what it U lvinl'r.-' r"r an oppositioM pnrty. ! |