The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-15
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1866.
The West and RepubIicanlsm.

the late elections 10000 votes over 1854.
Indeed, if we examine the figures carefully,
we shall find that, according to their popula-
ton, the Western States are more thoroughly
and overwhelmingly radical than the Eastern.
A Republican majority of $4,000 in Indiana
is equivalent to majority of $4,000 in Penn
sylvania; and Iowa's 10000 majority is upon
ratio to her whole vote which in New York
would give over 100000 majority.
1t is not long since the enemies OF the
country were felcitating themselves upon an
assumed diversity Of sentiments and inte-
rests between the East and the West. When
the war of the Rebellion broke out, the seces-
sionists and their friends counted largely upon
alternating the West from the national cause.
and "Western Confederacy' was the dream
of more than one prominent Democratic
leader But all these hopes were destined to
disappointment. The West gave It's men and
its money to the cause of the country with an
unsparing hand The result of the great con-
hict has been to bind the East and the West
together more closely, and TO weld them into
one great homogeneous community. Their
political sentiments are identical, and find
expression through the grand Republican
organization. Abiding to this fact, the Rich
mond Wing bitterly says:-
Just as we thought, lust as we said thev
would do, the radicals have swept lie North,
and in that word we include the West aUhlch
seems TO raudt Nelo hng0nd in rOdi?diSSm. We
are accustomed to distinguish the Wes ern from
the Northern States by kind, almost tender
phrases, ar d 10 expect from them manifesto.
tions of conservatism not looked for IN the
former. We will not be apt to do so hereafter
The west Is thoroughly lmbued with the rau-
Corous spirit of radlcallsm"
What the Whiq calls the "1ancorous spirit
of radicalism" is the truly conservative and
liberal spirit of Republicanism. And in that
we rejoice to say the West does "rival New
England" Indeed, there is something mag
nifcent and inspiring in the political attitude
now presented by that portion of our mighty
country known as the West. If we COM
mence with Ohio, the third State in the
Union, we find a Republican mai ority of over
10000; Indiana, so long a Democratic strong
hold, comes next with $4,000; Michigan, with
her intelligent people, her splendid system of
education, and her great mineral and agricul-
tural capacities, rolls up $4,000; Illinois, the
garden State of the West, perfect marvel of
growth, as she is of physical resources, under
the lead of the gallant Logan gives 10000;
Wisconsin, directly north of her, one of the
most reliable of States, displays 25,000; cross
ing the Father of Waters, we have Mime
sofa with her 10000, glorious Iowa with her
10000, Missouri, Just redeemed from slavery,
and an empire in herself, with her 10000, and
tr,,a 10 bar l.
tory, with her 10000. This mighty array of
magnificent States, comprising within them
selves greater resources of all kinds, greater
capacities for growth and power, than any
similar area of territory on the face of the
globe, stands selidly, untedly, and intelli-
gently upon the broad and liberal basis of
the grand Republican party.
There is in this fact great significance and
promise for the future. 1t gives assurance of
the ascendancy of liberal principles in that
portion OF our country which is advancing
with most rapid strides along the pathway of
power. The West is destined at no distant
day to give tone and direction to the energies
of the nation. Political power is rapidly null
tiplying in her hands. She has all the ele-
ments of great and rapid growth, both in
population and wealth. That she has arrayed
herself with such overwhelming preponde-
rance upon the side of republican liberty, is
matter of the protoundest rejoicing to all who
love our free institutions.
There is in this fact, too, additional cause
Of congratulation, in that it assures continued
sympathy of political feeling between the
West and the East. Ever since the Repub-
Iican party began to assume prominence, the
leaders OF the so,called Democracy have
labored necessarily to promote sectional
feeling between the East and the West. They
have endeavored to stigmatize the Repub-
ucan movement as purely Nel1 England
one. We need not set out the matter al
length. Almost any editorial in almost any
issue of our Democratic contemporary in thii
city will illustrate this intense sectiona
feeling. But the overwhelming anC
unchallenged dominancy OF the Re
publican party throughout the Yves
sweeps away the entire basis of this appea
to sectionalism. The policy OF the Republl
can party is fully as Western as it is Eastern
quite as much that OF Illinois as it is tina
of Massachusetts,. Colfax, Wade, Trumbull
Morton, Chase, and Logan are as truly it
leaders as are Sumner, Fessenden, Banks. O
Butler. In truth, there never has existed II
the political history OF our country 30 emf
nently national party as is the Republican
party, because there has never bee
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