| Show the political R revolution a ah auve alave ve all ele elec eie and for this thih wo we fervently thank the god of peace there Is IA an end of the war and audits its bloody iu we shall shail hear no more of war records As aa the berald herald said during the canvas war records are now to eo E o dead dead that mr tilden allden would not lose fifty votes had bad he commanded the attack on fort sumter this thia caliva canvass 9 shows that the americans are a magnanimous forgiving peo pie that when the rebellion was suppressed the rebels became once more our brothers and our fellow citizens and that in inalie the progress of these states in the road to empire the test teat of political rewards must henceforward be merit honesty capacity ity alty not what was done or said during g the civil war for as all candid men must admit many of the finest characters of this generation fought against the north are these men any wone worie american americans cans now for having fought against us ten years ago are they to be despised because they have not joined the republicans are they not better in every way than the murrain of carpet and scalawags scala calab wars wags 11 that now overrun the tile str sor south uth would kuld not even mcconk ieng prefer to see we breckinridge in the place of kellogg Hun hunter terin in the place of moses and lee and jackson if they we were alive in the place of patterson and claytor would ke he not feel feet that the country was better seivel by these gallant and honest bonest rebels than by the miserable riffraff riff radd raff that now dow innest infest deplete and dishonor the south the election on tuesday destroys all war records as claims for political I 1 distinction the rebel rebellion 0 on pas par parees passes ees zes from politics into history the victory has been ho BO dazzling so transcendent so conclusive in its results that we can hardly compre comprehend liend it is dead henry wilson was right when he be said that tile the third term was the hea bea heaviest burden the republican party could carry the next congress as matters now look will be under the control of the democrats the thirteen or fourteen years of republican t supremacy will be severely scrutinized new questions will not be considered so seriously as old ones the democrats will be called upon to show the utmost wisdom thore thero mufit be moderation peace care how far this spirit of investigation will go in the next Con congress grebil is ia a most serious question but nut the na tural disposition to extreme and unusual questions to impetuous aud nud heroic legislation legi lation must be restrained already we have suggestions that the duty of this congress will be the impeachment of president grant gnant butin bul but in this and other propositions congress must not go too fast a the democratic party owes the utmost justice and consideration to grant if the result should be the arraignment of his hib administration before the senate to meet with the condemnation it has already received from the hands bands of the people then the country will feel that u painful duty has been performed with delicacy upil cacy and with a due resal regal regail a alike to the fame of nf the president the dignity of hia his OMM office and tile the rights of the people to hold its tits no rio matter how bow exalter exalt exal teu tea euto to the severest accountability N y herald berald lut ewt us enumerate fiame of the facts we have alluded to 1 to no party belongs a monopoly of patriotism riot ism the idea that the republican party possesses such monopoly as is exploded and cannot be rehabilitated the putting down of i was the of the people 2 the republican party oan ean no longer claim to be a popular party earty a although every mother mothers sen bon or of to a can vote thousands of whito white men werf were denied the ballot for years after the semblance of a reason for such deprivation bad paused passed away and even now white men are franchised disfranchised dis for fur political opinions aake 3 the republican party is ia now directed by scheming politicians like chandler and cameron its men of real character and ability like lincoln heward seward stan ton stevens and chase are dead 4 the republican party part has bas a attempted to tho the people up to an ideal standard it has Intorre interfered red wit U h rights of the cl citizen and sought dought to regulate social tastes cu customs alq by legal enactment 6 it t is ia corrupt and wu wat extravagant the country under the mu A tim eim de perty we wp 00 62 muc mut s in 1860 while the blessed to airty which now presides at the rea tea rv affairs requires hurt nurl iun dred mit mft liina 8 a year to keep the national machinery running 7 so 80 far from the republican party being a popular party it has robbed the people of millions of acres of the public domain of land laud which should be reserved as homesteads for the hardy pioneers who go g into the wilderness wilder ness nesa and hew a way for civilization 8 it has presented the singular and repulsive anomaly of a party offering a safe asylum for every esery variety of political adaven ad and plunderer and bestowing iti favoritism not upon the statesman and the patriot but upon the conspirator and party manager 9 it is in every sense a alantic gL antic close corporation wherein all its effort is applied to the tho advancement of the select few at the ex expense pensel of the many 10 it is at variance with the very corner stone of our democratic idea the drift of the party 14 im in 14 ever towards a despotic centralization of power at washington as opposed to the wiste wise bare sare safeguards guards to republicanism contrived by the fathers ridicule of the home rule policy of the democracy isa is a favorite electioneering electioneer ing missile of the republicans the democracy are proud or of the taunt they are defenders defender of the home rule ideal idea home rule means a literal application of that principle of the national constitution that all powers not expressly delegated to tho the federal government are reserved to the states these are some of the facts to which the republicans can ascribe the overwhelming defeat which they are mourning today to day it wili wiil be bard to realize the extent of that defeat all at once VI everand eveland plain dealer |
