New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-28
POLITICAL ITEMS.

me iSturgie journal comes ont in column
editorial favor of Mr. COliax for the Presidency We
quote
The man " no should be our chosen leader ought to
have clean record as TO his lifelong devotion TO the
great principles Of human freedom and 10 he willing
AT once his position ana prlucl-
pies. We ought to have such a record to fall back
npOn a. guarantee that shall not again
Zoe betrayed and such unhestang aN0wal OF principles
give far possible assurance Of safety. II Gen
why forward trembling for the safety OF the country
when we have those In whose hands an are sg,ed inc
Government would be safe and the nteretts Of humanity
fy subserved. Why not at once rally around Coliax
the Peoples Candidate e.
BRICK POMERoY's RIVAL.
There is paper called The SentiReI-on-the-
Border issued at Louisville KY, aud edited by Alfred 3
Kieroif which is rapidly overtaking in its peculiar
toroy The La Crosse Democrat which claims to be the
leading Democratic journal in the West. We clip few
paragraphs the only copy Of The Sentinel that
have seen:
Democracy is religion itself ORA wing its inspiration
from the fountains Of Truth Right and Justice. Hence
20 we he friend en- Ie Of ernSi union the cham
piOn OF law and order the advocate ot peace! 1t IS
IN $500 and came into power the following year
mistake. jefferson not the author utthe promoter
pies OF Truth and Right upon which II is based mad
their birth centuries before God sent his second sou
20 America. Christ the first Democrat, and his
twelve chfe Apostles the first converts to Democracy
The Democratic creed spread upon every osacred
moral and natural history III Is The sister OF masonry
going hand in hand TO plant the seed OF fraternity and
the against the tyranny and power OF the few 80
Christ IL is the friend OF the poor and oppressed
Christi 1t seeks to build up, not 10 tear down This
Chrss missonl 1t asks justice for all men, and equality
for the salvation Of the rhe race such was Christs
He did not affiliate with the negrol lie worked with hie
men Tor the beneht OF Uhde men or all his apostles and
associates, not one was niger!
a scRUBBY SET.
Truly the people afflicted with manifold evils It's
bad enough TO see the country going TO ruin. its nsu
tons openly assaied the people ground down with
IN
lious Of victims. These are crying evils but the
inflicted is the army snappish bigoted and
malignant Jaeobn ohceholders living off the wealth Of
the people Among these OF all stations and grades we
know none SO inefiaely contempt1lc and pusianmOus
city Office he dstin guished by his orlly atoySnt and
domineering airs; If the possessor Of village etferhon
nse with none Of Their good ones Hell surely %as
dragged long and perseyeringy for Jaeobn material
masters They are the monstrousnOscd night-caTtmen
OF the =" God and Morality party. II Democratic edi
scrher paper the village postmaster IS the TO nose
~ oni Dnt u JseoDn printer on mongrel committee
mankind, it all right with your scrubby and scabby T.
struoton" II is certainly the POST Office. How long,
Andy, how long must we waits
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND JEFFERSON DAvIs-A COMPARISON
Lincoln and Davis the chieltains Of cOntending
principles and communities. The first was the head OF the
fedcfaistc element the other OF Sovereign Democ
rdcy by the power OF numbers the triumphed and
the other FELL 80 far as principles be said 10 fall by
the defeat OF armies The unsettled shifting
Vulgar rOckng man-the other serious grave dignfed
and determined. The Plebeian by nature-the
other nObeman. As between these contestants men
the rise and fan OF armies has done he else than bring
them out into stronger contrast The triumphant party
dead-he fills the OF unwept tyrant, and
will be- e1ecrated the the wheels or time roll
tanning Tire ehah from the wheat LincOn cared nothing
Tor the triumph Of princple-he Isatised with the
din ard clash Of the hour And so, the sacrifice of
principle and the nations honor IN an hundred ways, he
trumphed over his opponent. What the results
secured by that bloody triumphi What questions
seitledi The states further from union now
thnn eYerthe people are bound under monsrOus load
OF expressions and rannes and at last and not
expeetedly, cufsing the being wbOss triumph their
ruin! How stands his opponent : Bowed with the
IVws OF his people he stu stand erect the grave
OF s dead foe and excaim Shake not your CORY locks
st me- "Thou ddst ~" Had Jefferson Davis sacrificed
tbose principles upon which his people went into
hgge the arrogant North, and not the South would DE
e quicken land Had jefferson Davis departed from
ue'efmined defensive warare'-had ne enlisted the
~i, Tue south IA his armies under the flag OF eman-
siaf"eht ~ ~ the North would have been smoking
fb,srst But the banner OF his people had
h nen M preeze and under It's waving folds he and
oill vet y,d .osothtr Ia Spartan embrace History
.,a,g. ,'nucan the truth and Jefferson Davis the
fincoins o. se,noih and hero will Ouye an hundred
.ra o .poe pages Of his cOuntry's history where
aud stlfsacrhcng. F'' All" 'i"e INC n'p'c
. Tie reason money l. 40 scarce 49, a. la ,..o
aion htu has got " ~ his Want ,n the Wv IN en-
@""oo" 'eh's' taxes tthes aud tariffs, The way 10