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Show W.i. Lloyd Garrison deems it necessary to explain why he supports Hayes and Wheeler. Garrison is the man who med to proclaim "the constitution con-stitution of the United States a league1 with death and a covenant with hell." He succeeded in getting slavery abolished and the constitution amended. Now be has discovered that the Tilden canvass is a demo-; cratic conspiracy to "disfranchise the whole body of colored voters and then reduce them to a state of abject vassalage." vas-salage." Luckily Garrison is a fossil belonging to the past generation, who has lost his power to perpetuate sectional sec-tional politics and incite revolution and war. lie h:i been able to accomplish ac-complish more evil than most nu n, and should nov bo content to rest on his laurels. His late letter is simply a confession of the failure of tho fanatical fanat-ical efforts of bis early years, nnd the same tiling may by Raid of the present campaign it is nn indictment indict-ment of the republican party by itself an admission that the war and its results have not commended themselves them-selves to a majority of tho people ol the nation. Ami liitrn will never he an end of war limes, or a practical restoration of the Union until an administration is seated whoso interests inter-ests do not lie in maintaining a sectional war rrcord. |