The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-09-19

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spicy and vigorous little paper
hailing from Clayton, Delaware
1t is edited and published by Mrs
R, s. McConaughy, and the lady
pen is making the fur fly from th,
hides of the copperheads in it'll,
Delaware. We subjoin an articl,
from the Herald which will afforC
a taste of her quality as au editresl
land in another place we print {
communication from the same pa
per, which exactly reflects oul
views on the Grant and johnson
question.
Shall we have another Presi-
Dental Election?
The Louisville journal, the old
organ of Henry Clay, still edited
| by his ardent and able friend, Geo,
D. Prentice, says:
ave don't wish to sec any dis
cussion at present in regard to the
question Of tho presidency. Yet
events are undoubtedly destined
TO occur before spring, events which
must exert vast and controlling
influence upon the decision of that
question. Perhaps We shall not
have another Presidential election.
Nobody knows whether we shall
or not. 1t seemed incompatibly
more unlikely at the close of the
war that such condition of things
as now exists would be brought
about in brief period, than it now
docs that the last presidential
election in the United States will
remain the last forever"
Will Prentice inform us what he
means by "thc last Presidential
election being tho last forcver2"
Docs he suppose that Andy is 60.
ing 10 proclaim himself Dictator
or KingP We know he would like
to be, and would not be surprised
if he were to try it, if there was
the ghost of a chance. As q poo
pie We have too long enjoyed the
blessings of Freedom ever to sub
NIT to tyranny and oppression, and
were his Accidency to attempt
such q thing, the men who have
fought and bled 10 preserve Re-
publican form of government, be-
sides hundreds of thousands who
had no hand in the late struggle,
would rise in q mass to rid the
Garth of such a wretch. Tho NJ.
tional Intelligencer publishes com.
munication in which the writer,
after predicting that "tho South
will send twenty-five negroes to
the next Congress- adds tho quail.
flying words: "If one ever con.
venes." The signs Of the times in.
dictate that tho traitors of the
land, with Andrew johnson at
their head, contemplate and are
preparing for the destruction of
our liberties and form of govern
ment by forcc of arms, and to cs.
tablish on their ruins a monarchy.
But we caution them to beware.
We gather abundant evidence from
our past history that this govern
merit has been established, pro.
tccted and pcrpctuated thus far by
an overruling Providence, whom
we verify believe intends to per.
petuate and purify IL; and woe be
unto all who stand in tho way,
for they will assuredly be ground
to powder as between "the upper
and neither mill stones. The Uni.
ted States monarchy? Never.
Does any one suppose that the
thousands who have fallen on eve.
ry battlefield would rest quietly in
thcir graves were such thing at.
We imagine we see
.hem now, an immense army, as
hey pass along with the noiselcss
read ofspirits, keeping guard over
what to them was dcarer far than
lie; and should almost look for
hem, together with our Revolu-
ionary Sires, to walk forth from
heir graves infused with new life, |
IS did the dry bones seen in a Wis.
on by tho prophet Ezekiel, and
weep from this land all who
would destroy what they suffered
md died to obtain for their de. 6
cendants-"lifo, liberty, and tho
pursuit of happiness" uHder a Re-
publican form of Government.