Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-17

III President had been chosen in the
autumn Of 1862 he would hsve been cham
| pion of National restoration by means ol
| giving the whole country up to the revolted
Shareholders and bidding them work theii
will with it; if one had been chosen in the
| August of 1864 he would have been pledged
TO peace on any terms with the Confederate
rebels. Had the builders of the Chicago
| Platform Of that year evinced the simplest
| common sense-had they briefly resolved
| that they wanted Union and Peace, and
didn't care what became of the Nigger-nay.
had they known enough to say nothing nj
| all--Gen Mcclellan could have barely bee n
| beaten, even with the dead-weight OF Pen
dleton hung to his skirts. That Platform
cost him more votes in this State than com
posed Lincoln's majority we presume il
was the same in Connecticut, and elsewhere.
| We consider that Lincoln's election was Sc
cured by Sherman's capture OF Atlanta and
| Sheridan's victories in the Valley of Virgin
| a but McClellan's overwhelming dscom-
future was engineered by Vallandigham 4;
Co. at Chicago.
The Republicans owe their victories of
lsG0 primarily to Mayor Monroe and his
subordinate Thugs in New Orleans; but
Andrew johnson & Co. greatly intensified
them by their haIangues while swinging
round the circle" somewhat later Elimi-
nate those two elements from the canvass,
and we could not have called out the full
vote that gave us Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey, and New York. There may have been
no more Republicans in either State after
than before those performances; but good
many more of them found their way TO the
polls than would have done but for Mcssrs.
Monroe and johnson.
The Republican party need not depend
for its victories on the persistent misheha-
vior of its enemies 1t is strong enough 10
rule by its own merits, Independently of
their own follies and crimes But 10 this
end il must |. Complete promptly the Re
construction Of the Southern States on a
basis of blended justice and magnanimity
2. Systematically educate and enlghien the
People. The necessity and urgency of
the broad and safe basis of Universal Am
nesty with Impartial Suffrage is now so
clear that we will not dwell upon it. Events
are more cogent than arguments. We will
speak to-day only 10 the second point
Ii there were neither a newspaper nor II
common school in the county, the Demo-
cratic party would be far stronger than il is.
Neither elementary instruction nor know
ledge of transpiring events is needed 10 teach
the essential articles of the Democratic
creed: 'love rum and hate niggcrs. The
less one learns and knows, the more certain
he is 10 ''yotc the reglar ticket from A to
i'IzZard."
But Republicanism rests on a radically DIFF
tcrent basis, and is sustained by wholly di-
verse considerations. 1t lives by Intclli-
gence; ii dies in the murky, sitting atinos-
phcre of Ignorance. Canvass almost any
township in the land, and distinguish those
who take from those who fail to take a
newspaper, and You will find that two-thrds
OF those who take vote Republican, while
three -founhs of those who read nothing but
a chance paper picked up for few moments
in a bar-room vote the Democratic ticket,
and will not be persuaded to touch any
other
If every man in the country could read,
and did habilualy read two good journals,
one Of each party, we should have no more
doubt of clecling u Republican President
next year than of the rising of the sun.
But every voter who does not read is
a peril; and the multiplicity of such
voters subjects the results of our
elections too much to the control of
accident. Fortune will not always favor us
as She did in 1864 and 1866. We can be
sure Of victories only by deserving them
And the duty now imperatively pressing
upon lis is to take care that Crefy pOter
,Cho can read, and aciU read it, OF acho
has some one in his. family aoho can and
sDiU read il So lini, is scctsondbiy sap
piied With a good Rel1a6ticuR journal
for the mhole gear 1865.
We arc not going to succeed so easily as
many have fondly calculated, and we rejoice
that we are not 1t we let the contest 30 at
hap-hazard, and we do not seasonably pro-
vide for and deserve success, we may be
beaten. But if We begin now, and by con-
certed, systematic effort, put good Repub-
lican newspaper into the hands Of every
voter who will read ii, we cannot be beaten.
Flooding the country with printed matter
on the eve of an election is II desperate re-
sort-bettcr than nothing and that is all.
No reliance can be placed on it; little good
ordinarily comes of it. But begin now,
and Systematically insure that every man that
has II vote shall have a newspaper if he will
take it, and all is safe. Republicans. re-
solve to see to it at once