Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-10-17
A Comm on Sense View.

A Common Sense View.
| Put Seymour and Blair in power, and the pro-
cess of undoing at the South at once begins
the rule of the strong hand is restored, and we
are just as far from real reconstruction ever
in fact farther than ever-for the benefcent ef-
fects of the last three years of military rule would
be lost, The idea of respect for the law, as
something higher and stronger than the feelings
of the local mob, which has been slowly taking
root in the Southern mind, would be torn up
and cast out, and we should be worse off than
ever. To govern the South militarily so long is
the best thing that the Republican party has
done next to emancipation, and if it could, with
due regard to the interests of the whole coun-
try, which admit it cannot keep it under
military rule for four years more, it would be
rendering the South the highest service that it
can receive through any human agency Unless
the machinery of government the party has set
up there, however, can be kept going for some
years longer-unless, in short, the South can be
governed by law, and not, as in times past, by
the passions and prejudices of the most passion
ate and most prejudiced of the most turbulent
community in the world, reconstruction will
prove a complete farce. The South of 1869 will
be the South of 1860, minus so many men killed,
so much property destroyed and the destruction
of legal slavery
The danger of Democratic triumph too does
not lie in the fact that Seymour is this kind of
a man, or Blair that kind of man, but that the
party which elects them has ceased to be party
of progress or reform. This has been often said
of it of late but it is usually said, and most
loudly said, with special reference simply to its
opposition to the removal of negro disabilities,
and the charge therefore makes less impr essio9,
on the public mind than it ought The facts
that it is the enemy of all useful changse or
ameorations in the government Judici& pur
! inv n pictr icia n1ora Apafi
the of corporate honor, the striSt admins
tration of justice and, in fact, all restraints on
the evil tendencies of society, in whatever direc
ton, have no wose enemy. IN fact, the Only
principle it can be said to holf firmly and preach
persstently is that liberty is not means but
end, and that so long as a man can do what he
pleases, what it pleases him to do is of little or
no consequences doctrine hostile to social
and political progress any that ever was
preached. 1t is in this fact indeed that the
gravity of the present crisis lies. Usually, an
opposition has the other half of political and
social truth in its possession, and while pursuing
the same great ends the party in power, ad
yocates the use Of different agencies, and has at
its head who, whether right-headed or
wrong headed, are sincerely welded to ideas,
and stand as high morally as their opponents.
The popularity of the Democratic party is-and
the history of the last seven years justi6es in
saying ths-that its sole principle is hostility to
the men in power, so that if the Republicans hit
on the plan of adding twenty healthy, happy
years to human life, the Democrats would devote
themselves to persuadiDg the public that the
boon, coming from such hands, worthless
There is probably nothing in political history
equal to the speeches of the Brookses, Vallan-
dighams and Seymours, since 1861, for empti-
ness of everything but negation and invective !;
and the readiness the Democratic members of the
House Invariably show vote masse with
any Republican, on any subject, who sets him
self up in opposition to the rest of his party, is
striking illustration of their childishness and the
imbeclity of their tactics. Their accession to
Offices, therefore, for the government of any
community, would be great msfortune-much
more for a community in so disturbed and criti-
cal condition as this.-The Nation
THE DIE is CAsT.-The ides of November,
1868, are rapidly drawing near, and signs and
potents grow fast and thick upon the political
horizon. Political parties, and individual men,
bers thereof, are actively marshalng their hosts
for the coming conflict, and the whole world
looks on with interest and wonders how this
last great battle for freedom will terminate. The
"Old Guard of Liberty" that has fought the
battles of freedom at the ballot-box, since 1855,
and which rallied to the support of the Govern
ment, when in 1861 it attacked by traitors,
is again united and marching in solid phalanx
against the fortress defended by the hordes of
treason, and we have faith to believe, from the
DeSL
November will bring another and final and de-
cisive victory to arms, and result in a Wa
terloo defeat to our enemies. Democracy plays
its usual game of brag, and busters and rants
| like a chained maniac, but only the ignorant and
uniformed dupes of the leaders will waste their
coin in betting on the result. The signs of the
times indicate that the majority for Grant and
Cofax will be even larger than Lincon's was in
1864 California, slaughtered and betrayed in
H. L., 1r ,ptA
the Copperhead fold last Fall, is recruiting her
self, and on election day will throw off with
loathing and indignation, the stigma that rests
upon her fair name. We tell our readers
that we firmly believe next month will see the
beginning of the end of the Democratic party,
with rebellion and all its attendant horrors, and
that upon the Inauguration of Grant and Colfax,
an erea Of peace and prosperity, such as no other
country ever knew, will dawn upon our beloved
land. 1t must be so.-Auburn Stars and Stripes.
PRESIDENTIAL ELEcroRs.-The Grant and Col
fax Presidential Electors for the State of Califor-