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Show NOT THE THING TO DO. The "bloody shirt" flag has not been withdrawn. By n means. It has only ceased to wave in congress, while tbe little iuvuotigatiuns as to where the people's money has gone ' jane going on. Alter the Cincinnati convention the flag will bo Haunted in all its gory horror fur a flu h sectional sec-tional crusade, as an evidence to the world that tbe Centennial year is not thejubileoof fraternal Union, but an occasion to renew the distrusts and hatreds of the civil war. We predict, however, that the republicans will only wave this baunur again at their peril. Tho American pcoplo waut something new, and if tbo leaders ol the party are without tbe genius to resent a progressive platform of national na-tional principles, their army will be signally beaten as they deserve to be. Tbe southern states are within tbe Union, and will hereafter fight their battles under tbe old flag. The next secession movement will come from tbe republicans, not the democrats, ; aud its defeat will bo more speedy and j crushing than was that of lSbl-5. |