The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-01

and do not even aHcCtte put ptt anF
share oft or the shoulders oeGrnnt
or fancy that I've can or will lrud
anybody, or anything. They sec in
him tool, not ~ leader.
Faulty and oefcctvc ms tho Re
publican party IL, still II holds in ITS
hands our only chance Of safety l.
IS a party without principles or lea.
dors. It's selfish men cannot lead ia;
and ita honest men will not follow.
But, spite Of all lbie, il either has
within rs ranks, or represents the
loyal massus of the Nation. They
have chosen it for their instrumcn'.
! Success, II il comes at III during
this generation must come through
It's help. Whether ouo-halt Of thc
legitimate results of the war shall
be lost or saved depends on this
| Presidential election.
Our latest criticism Of tho Repub.
lican party is that they by sheer in
capacity, have put the nation ia,o
unnecessary peril When The mn
parchment failed 1t was madness
to 20 on and admit the rcbol State.
to their old places Without land,
without arms, with but iitlo organ.
lzation, the loyal vote lies at the
morcy Of rebels Go 10 Lowell and
announce that Whoever votes ill.,,
Democratic tickot viii be discharg-
cd from the mills, how many WI
risk suffering TO support their prin'
cipIcs? The negro not only risk'
staryal 'on, but walks 80 the ballot.
box with q pistol at his breast. |
in such circumstances he stands 10y
tn, flag we shull hrncclo' IN main.
tam that the black race is superior
to our own--thcro is no page IN a
merican or English history whicl
records evil rlght maintained by
tho masses under such fearful con-
ditons. Congress betrayed ITS tl'us
when it subjected the nation to sucl
peril The mombcrs proved them,
, selves thoroughly incapable or dis.
: honest when they adjourned in IN,
presence Of such a donerr,
Still the heart of The nation beat
in the Republican party, and every
loyal man must hope aud work lo
its success in this canvass
Wo have littlo confidence II
Grant The best thing about hin, i
that hc seems dCsirous to cxccut
the Nations will. lie Is no trdto
Ike Johnson, neither has he an,
strtesmanlike comprehension Of tn
: hour. We fear he belongs more t
Morgan, Conkhng and Howard thar
: so Summer and Wade. He wa
drunk in the public streets siuc
the first day OF January. This il
fact as patent as the sun at noonday
none but those too dishonest to b
trusted with public journals lbu
passing themselves of for owls dc
ny 1t. lie IS a West Point sradu
ate with his sympnthics all in th
!. wrong direction lie has Just bee
through war which was God
command to one race TO do justiC
to another--a war whose root wa
slavery and whose fruit was Frccc
l ON, Yet of tho half dozen cate
words that the Nation las eXtorto
from hIs lips, not one has any rel'
, tion to, Liberty.
The notices he has lent to polite
Or history, are such as a bull dog migi
have growlcd forth A nation ba
T. Ting FOR an idea takes for its leader
man conicssedly destitute Of idcuH
stout soldier an honest 0dministruti1
N officer but had the nation been maC
up Of Grants, there would not have be,
an anti-slavcry enterprise an cman,
!, patton proclamation, any North
any South France might as ",
have taken Murot for her Nopoleo
or England put Rocbuck in Pee
p place, Our King Log is not impos'
upon us; we select him ourselves,
Nevertheless hc is but a shallow m
4 shortsighted critic who secs only Gra
to before him, Grant is only the almC
+ invisible point Of the broad, and eve
,o day broadening, mass of purpose al
:, resolve and necessity behind him.
" Though the nation has not been lift
~ to fine full comprehension Of its oy
Il work, it builds determinatoly, by
n stinct, as It were, 1t cannot oompI
IL hend, much more accept, princip
1t gropes, half in light, hOlfin darkne
GA has found out Fessendcns incapaci
IN but still hugs the delusion Of his he
esty. Like Nilton's lion it has n
' wholly emerged into shape or fire
''its hinderrarts But its purpose
'h clear and full over no matter h,
n, many prejudices, it will put boyol
re contingency the nation and leave