The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-09-24
The Work Before Us.

The Chicago .faernal, Ola late date
has the following called out by the Yer
mont election. It gives the situation''
in nutshell, and IN plain, forciblc
manner. 1t is just what we should have
written, only the Jousmol man got ahead
of US. Read it Republicans - and
Democrat too. i
At no period in the history of the
country, not even during the most event.
full days of the war; were we making
history faster than to. day. The month
of September and October, in the year
1868, are big with fate. The first week
in November decides whether we go on to
sublime nights of power and Strengths
people or whether we go backward toward
barbarsm and national death. There Is
| n, installing there is. Life and death
are before us, as they were in 1864.
Our peril is no less than it was then.
although less apparent The deep
seated convictions of right and justice to
be found in the ranks of the Republican
party, convictions that carried the coun
try safe through the war. the acknow
edge popularity of the candidates for the
office of President, both men of pure
life, noble deeds and unchallengcd hon
esty, indicate that we shall come safely
through the struggle, aud that blood
and treasure spent IN VAN
But let there be no hating Keep the
Columns steady in motion. Victory VII
come only By tireless vigilance. Every
man must be made to feel that he h S
something to do in securing the success
of the ticket, ard therefore every man
should comprehend and be made to fec,
as far as possible the peril Of the boar.
Only let the masses get an insight into
the base purposes of Democratic leaders
how hollow are their pretentionS, how
full of dead mems bones the whited SCI :
ulchres they inhabt that success with
them means the rubbing out of the wars
record, restoration OF the traitors to ruic
and ruin, utter ruin to four MI ions q
blacks and death to all whites in the
s nth, whose sympathic+ are with 'avo'
and then we shall see h orgih "a d
which boasts of its strength North ana
South, buried in eternal oblivion.
From present appearances, it wond
seem that the Democratic party is nct
meeting with the success it anticiratcd
in administering the sugar coated 4 :
trines of Pendletrl. In fact they have
made fatal mistake in undertaking the
intelligence of the masses, and now
when it is to late, they see, it They arc
beginning to read the handwriting on
the wall. Like the devil they are very
mad knowing their time is short;
THAT he is mad It's true; It's true It's pity,
And pity It's, It's true
Hence the resort to personal vitupel
alton and bil}ingsgate. Hell itself would
be Mortified to hear the base things utter
ed by this parry, now III the las, bittel
throes Of death.
We say let the work go on, and let the
coming election be rrmation Of tie
wars verdict. Let the party who on
retiring from forty years of power, leit
on our hands the terrible war, and who
while we were bringing it to a successful
issue, found it pleasant pastime to tigh
us in the rear, and who now reach out
for the red hand OF traitors, pledging
to restore them what they lost, let thi5
giant fend die, let this great traitor low