The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-25
A GLORIOUS ARTICLE.

ments on the Maine election he outdoes |
himself. The leading article i'll the
Tribune, on the morning after the cleo
ton in Maine, is one of the most able,
eloquent and stirring editorials ever
published. 1t u mastery summing
up of all the issues of the campaign, and
the results to be affected by it. 1t ought
to be read by everybody, and we gladly
transfer it to our columns, that our
readers may all have an opportunity to
peruse it. After giving the general res
suit of the great victory, Mr.. GREELEY
proceeds:
"Our readers have no doubt read with
terror and grief the sad news that came
from the western shores of the Lower
Pacific. Along the beautiful and ro-
mantle region of the Incas the messen-
ger of death has swept with irresistible
and appalling fury. The writers have
no words to tell of the misery and des-
olation, the mighty grandeur of the ca
lamity, of cities sinking into the earth,
and huge ships tossed like cockle-shells
on the shore, and deep assures rifting
the angry earth, from which came moi
some and deadly gases. We hear of
the earthquake, and the whirlwind.
We read of the Tidal Wave that swept
along the coast as far as California and
told of the coming catastrophe. What
we saw in this fearful CONFUSION of ma
ture, our Democratic friends will see in
this news from Maine. The great Ii
DIAL Wave of public hOnesty-which
swept V1n Buren, out of power in 1910
and Lincoln into power in 1860-is now
rushing over the country. 1t is the
work of no party. 1t comes from no
political machinery. The earnestness
Gus and eager strife for Office, sink into
nothingness before this majestic swell
of public opinion.
However widely loyal men may diff
fer about minor issues, there can be but
one opinion when the national existence
is at stake. The Republican party fights
for national life and national honor. In
1864, we nailed the flag of Emancipation
to the mast, resolved to sink with that
banner flying, rather than float under
any doubtful and cowardly blazOn. In
this contest we fly the legend "Al
Rights for ALL" Vermont has answer
ed with majority as decisive as that
which aided in rejecting Lincoln, and
Colorado cheerily responds from her
mountain peaks, and Maine exultingly
says Ameni This we firmly believe in
dictates the decision of the American
people. The citizen who quietly cast
his vote yesterday on the banks of the
Penobscot was merely type of the
Americans who are preparing to vote in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. 1t
is possible he was not altogether pleased
with the Republican party. He had heard
PendletOn coyly and slyly deprecate the
national credit, and was, perhaps, rath-
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was as good as it might have been. He
had listened to the insidious sophistry
of Cox, as he assured him that Congress
had ruined the ship-building, and prob
ably he thought that if the Representa-
tives had been more liberal and progress
sive, his ak would be buster with the
oak and the pine. He may have been
vexed with the Temperance issue, and
not content with the taxes. He, how
ever, remembered the boy who died at
Antietam, and the sacrifices that had
been made for Union. He saw in the
man who controlled the Democratic
party the same Toombs who led Geor-
gia into secession, the same Cobb who
made Andersonville worse than the
MalebolZe of Iante's hell, and held
high command over the starving skele-
tons of his neighbOrs and kinsmen the
Hampton who marched an invading
army into Pennsylvania; and above all
the same Seymour, whose meanings
and croakings mingled with every VIC
tory, and whose Civilizations were re-
served for the rioters of the Five Points
and Mackerelville. 'HTake the Repub-
lican party at its worst" he evidently
reasoned, ''admit every criticism upon
its policy and its leaders, and [ have
merely a party which has done great
things, but not without mistakes of
Judgment, occasional errors i'll policy,
and now and then the misery of false
leaders This party gave me country,
and secured liberty to my children. 1t
sustained the national honor, and
brought back to the Union every va
grant and erring State. But for this
party Maine might to-day be an outlay
ing province of Canada, and this much
despised bond, instead of being a de-
sirable investment in every money mar
kct of the world, would be among the
curiosities of museums, or lining the
trunks of triumphant Rebels. Democ-
racy is party of promises, but not of
performance. 1t claims to be for peace,
and dominates Blair for writing a gas
-conading letter. 1t claims to be loyal,
and elects for Congress the traitor VAL
landigham. 1t claims to be economical,
and it presents as a candidate for the
Governor of New York the creature of
the most shameless ring of swindlers
and thieves that ever proved upon the
public treasury. 1t claims to respect
the laws, and yet we find its influence
directly against the most important law
ever passed by an American Congress.
1t claims my vote as the party of Union,
and vet pledges itself to dissolve the
Union just as soon as Blair and his
friends have power to drive out the new
ly organized States. Republicanism,
with all its mistakes, means Peace. De-
mocracy means War;"
So reasoned the sons of Maine yester-
day, and their verdict is written. There
can be no explaining, no denying, no
deprecating this vote. The Democratic
organization sent its last man and its
last dollar into that State. The most
popular Democrat in the country-and
the true choice of the party for the Pres
idency-was sent to charm the citizens
with the seductive tones of his Copper
head eloquence. Every sentiment of
home interest, every feeling of State
pride, every prejudice, was addressed.
Every point was contested with bitter
earnestness, and the result to-day shows
an overwhelming defeat. Maine is
true to the Union. She writes 'DI-
RIGon over this canvass and as she di-
reefs, Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indi-
ana will, we hope, gladly follow. The
Democratic party passes out of existence
as living party. To-day its member
ship represents nothing but the disap-
pointments of greedy politicians; the
ignorance Of political BOufbOns the