Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-04
Grant, Peace and Prosperity.

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Grant, Peace and Prosperity.
SINCE the nomination of Seymour the
real issues of the campaign have become
apparent The platform adopted by the
Democratic Convention declares "uncon-
stitutional, null and void" all the efforts
Of the general government to reorganize
the Southern States under the Reconstruc.
tion Acts of Congress. Gen. Frank =.
| Blair was nominated as the candi.
date for the Vice.Presidency for
no other apparent reason than be-
cause in his bid for such nomination
| he virtually promised revolution in the
event of his election. Wade Hampton and
other unrepentant rebels who helped
| 20 make the Democratic platform go back
South and assure their old comrades that
the spirit of secession Is not dead and
that the Democratic party now offers 1t an
opportunity to rule the whole instead Of
part Of the United States This gray
CLEAN of Confederate hope is hailed by
rebel yell that resounds from the Alber-
marie to the Rio Grande, and Union men,
white and black, are offered up as the
initial sacrifice TO the aroused demon.
connected events, that, like so many rebel
Oommbiads, seem designed to rouse the
nation to the necessities of the hour They
are having this effect We are beginning
to see that the work of putting down the
rebellion which was thought to be finished
when Lee surrendered TO Grant will not
be complete till Seymour is compelled to
| do the same.
The rebellion was a conflict for the mas
terry on this Continent of two irreconcil-
able Ideas The dominant idea Of the
| North is that all men are equal before the
law, and that each one is to be pro-
tected in enjoying the fruits of his own
labor The idea of the South Is that all
men are not equal before the law, but that
a privileged few are to be protected In
enjoying the fruits of other mems labors
Under the former idea is industy, thrift
and respect for law and order. Under the
latter is Incidence, waste, a contempt for
honest labor and an appeal to the bowie
knife or revolver. These two ideas are
the Inheritance of both race and latitude
from across the Atlantic, the English OF
the German yeoman being the type of the
one, and the Spanish bandit Of the other.
They could not both rule this continent,
hence the conflict that eliminated in the
rebellion. For four long years the contest
ragged. The Northern idea, after the sac
rifce of three hundred thousand lives and
three thousand millions of dollars, gained
mastery upon the battle field, and the
Southern idea acknowledged itself beaten,
and we supposed accepted the result as
final. But in this we were mistaken, for
no sooner did labor and capital seek the
South, to work the beneficent miracles in
that region that they had already done In
the North, than they were met by social
ostracism, violence and massacre. And
now the victory won by Northern bayon-
cts must be crowned by an overwhelming
triumph at the ballothox to give perma-
nent peace and prosperity to the Nation.
As might be expected, the candidates OF
the two great parties in the present cam
paign are fit representatives of the two
conflicting ideas Grant, the tanner, and
Oolfax, the printer, who represent the
Northern idea, both sprang from and are
in sympathy with the common people.
Seymour, the Mephistophiles of the Cop
perheads, and Blair, the fre-eater of the
so-called Southern chivalry, are both born
aristocrats with no more trace of pulsa.
tion in common with the workers of the
nation than Arctic icebergs.
Passing over the moral considerations
that underlie the struggle before us, there
are reasons enough for the election o
| Grant and ColfaX to be derived from mer,
business foresight. So apparent was l
that the permanent peace and prosperity
of this country demanded the prevalence,
of the Northern idea under moderate bu
firm administration, that long before the
Republican Convention met in Chicago
the movement for the nomination of Gen
, Grant was inaugurated by such men as A
, T. Stewart, whose business interests were
at once dependent upon the prosperity o
the whole country, and paramount to any
/ partisan ties. Elect Seymour and Blai
and the damage that will result to tn,
I business of the North from the mere ap
prehension of reputation will be incal
, culablc But great as this will be, it viii
be nothing compared to the damage that
, Democratic triumph will entail upon tn,
South, With the assured prevalence O
the Northern idea that must follow tn,
: election of Grant and ColtaX, the peace o
. the whole country will not only be secured
q but the South with its splendid materia
q resources will settle down into the Quie
! industry, thrift and prosperity that mari
| the North, The rights of labor and capita
will there be secure and the triumph of tn,
| Northern idea will make that sunny clim,
/ the garden of the United States, affordinl
+ not only a market for Northern wares, bu
! making its own growth in population anC
! wealth source of revenue to the Nationa
Treasury that will assure prompt ant
easy liquidation Of the national debt
> while 1t settles forever all the vexed ques
tions that await our immediate future
Let every man, woman and child, then
, who loves the national flag, who is inter
! ested in the honor and material prosperit,
! of this nation, exert themselves from nov
4 till November to secure an overwhelmin,
triumph at the polls of the Northern idea
T Nottill then is the country safe.-AdUdnc
, (Chicdgo)