The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-08-26
The Question of Tho Hour.

1
New York Herdid-'The Terrible Counter
Revolution Approaching" The Herald
| is Grant paper. 1T is the opponent OF
Seymour; but it cannot close its eyes to the
inevitable tendency Of public opinion In
| rs issue of the 18th, it discusses "the Fres-
ldental campaign. !" From this editorial
we extract the following
For eightyears tie Eepublcan party has
been in power, and the arrangement of all
the machinery of government, an almost
incredible corruption in office anCka weight
in taxes that bears commerce and labor to
the earth. Will the people longer have
patience with party that has such histO-
ry2 This is the question of the hour Is
there any fear in our future, that should
move the people to trust this party again
even despite the fearful chance that it may
continue the ne destructive career that
has already been so disastrous to the ma
toual prosperity? Can any other party in
h;ct upon us evils worse than those we now
suffer as the consequence Of Radical mis-
lule2 Reccay' uctioa GH Sp5tem Of ieg,sla.
ton Mat deltoerdtetg .fbl6.S calamity .tor q
lcaole,pcopte cad pTe, ,)afe8 sae $0ciai rG,a Of
ten States 10 seci:Te p0JScr to q cole ne of
p0iit,ctdns--ihis rs the polttical cril.'e thai
stan IS the Radicai cctioa as utterly dam
aabic bei0re the pea 1's lhlen inquire. Whht
the faction would stop at that would pu.
chase such an end by such means, and they
know that ii will not stcp.at anything sacred
in the law and will respect The rights Of
the people in the North as little as it has
done 10 the South. Doesthe name of Grant
furnish any guarantee for the future of the
Radieals? The people are rot ready to be-
lieve it. Grant is politically only promise
and u possibility, Respectable men are not
willing to doubt his honesty or his upright
puipose but hese do not always quality tor
success in sucn strife as he must control
to save the people from his party. He may
prove capable; he may not, and it is time
when the people cannot trust their future to
such change. Therefore the doom Of
Radcalsm seems to be burned into the po-
pplur brain, and SO such reasoning as we
have hiuted the people appear to DRIFT to.
ward what they regard as the least ct two
evils, without tai h in the Republicans and
little hope in tie Democrats. Men or eth
er side count for little; it is the history Of
the Radical party that condemns it. De-
aaocsucy has a bed history too, bsst rs ssaS 6lg
t,@cial Iy comparison. Ifthis faction ever
desired to reconstruct society, is was in the
interest Of the white man. The word toDa-
ton hddlg occurS m as history, end I aeCcr
diased dtoU at tie s 5fepe C6a7t or
SouQlst to c,Fie;1te tie GorerR,ae.'t' an the per-
son Of tie E Eocoatise # synpathized with
the South in he war, and that can b3 for
given by people who are at last coming to
look upon the RepuF licans as the South
looked uron them when the war began. II,
therefore, the history OF the Democracy
we're darker than it is, the history of Rad
icalisn would be infinitely beyond it in in
fanny. 1t is upon these broad views and
judgments Of parties that the people move,
The common mind averages great results by
processes Of its own. Isolated facts are fer
gotten; this or that virtue or vice seems to
pass away; but the balance Of history is
made up at tie polls, and Kentucky indi
Gates the tend ncy. 4
If there were loop>hole even to hang
chance for Grant upon the Herald would
not talk as it does Throughout the War,
aud until quite recently, the Hega'I abused
the Democratic party without measure and
besought the people to put no tycst IN it
So infamous, however, has been the ad-
minstra ion Of the Government by the Re-
publican palty--so shameless ana wanton
its pronigate wasteiulness of the people
money--so disregardtu OF the Constitution,
OF the rights of States and of the welfare OF
the peope--that it is compelled to bear
testimoney to the fact, that however bad
the Democratic party may have been when
you come to compare lis wickedness with
that of the Republican party, it is Of very
small account According to tie Herald,
and in this the Hera1d speaks ttuthiul'y,
the Republican leaders have devised q
scheme Of "Reconsiructior, by a system Of
Legislation, that deliberately forges calamity
iol, whole people and prepares the social
ruin Of ten States to secne power to a
cotcrio of politicians This, the Herald
CLAIMS, is the political crime that stamps
the Radical faction as utterly damnable be-
fore the people," 1t should damn it to all
eternity.