Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-08-13

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Sell being, but to the greatness and prosper
ty of our common country, we see that those
Who, without ability or influence, have been
brown by the aeitations of civil CONFUSION
uto positions of honor and profit, are striving
% keep alive the passions to which they owe
heir elevation and they DANGEROUSLY insist
hat they are the only friends of our Union
. Union that can only have sure foundation
q fraternal regard, and common desire to
promote the peace, the order, and the happl-
ness of all sections of our land.
Events in Congress, since the adjournment
Of the Convention, have vastly increased the
Importance of political victory by those who
are seeking to bring back economy, smpici-
ty and Justice in the administration of our ma
tional affairs Many Republicans have here
tofore chung to their party who have regret
ted the extremes of violence to which it has
run. They have cherished faith, that while
the action of their political friends has been
their motives have been good
They must now see thai the Republican par
ty is in that condition that it cannot carry
out wise and peaceful policy, whatever its
motives may be. It's misfortune, not only
to country, but to a governing party itself,
when it's action is unchecked by any form OF
opposition. 1t has been the misfortune of the
Republican party that the events of the past
few years have given it so much power that
it has been able to shackle the Executive, to
trammel the judiciary, and to carry out the
views of the most unwse and violent OF its
members. When this state of things exists
in any party, it has ever been found that the
sober judgments of its ablest leaders do not
control. There is hardly an able man who
helped to build up the Republican organlza-
ton who has not within the past three years
warned it against its excuses, who has not
been borne down and forced to give up his
convictions Of what the interests of the coun-
try called for; or, if too patriotic to do this,
who has not been driven from its ranks. III
this has been the case heretofore, what will
be its action now.oWith this new infusion oil
men who, without decent respect for the
views of those who have just given them their
positions, begin their legislative career with
calls for arms-with demands that their States
shall be regarded as in a condition of civil
war, and with the declaration that they are
ready and anxious to degrade the President
of the United States whenever they can per-
suade or force Congress to bring forward ne"
articles of impeachment. The Republican
party, as we'll as we, are interested in putting
some check upon this violence. 1t must be
clear to every thinking man that division
of political power tends to check the violence
of party action, and to assure the peace anc
good order of society. The election of De-
mocratic Executive and majority of Demo
cratic members in the House of Representa-
tives would not give to that party organiza'
ton the power to make sudden or violent
changes but it would serve to check those
extreme measures which have been deploree
b ae.Un Oh t6e Uuf5n an7
establishment of fraternal relationship which
the country desires. am sure that the bes
men Of the Republican party deplore as deep.
ly as ] do the spirit of violence shown by
those recently admitted to seats in Congress
from the South. The condition of civil! wal
which they contemplate must be abhorent tt
every right thinking man. have no mere
personal wishes which mislead my judgment
in regard to the pending election. No man
who has weighed and measured the duties Of
the Office of President of the United States
can fail to be impressed with the cares and
tolls of him who is to meet its demands. II
is not merely to float with popular currents
without policy or purpose; on the con-
trary, while our Constitution gives just weight
to the public will, its distinguishing feature is
that it seeks to protect the rights of minori-
ties; its greatest glory is that it puts restraints
upon power it gives force and form to those
maxims and principles of civil liberty fol
which the martyrs of freedom have struggled
through ages; it declares the right of the peo-
pie "to be secure in their persons, houses and
papers, against unreasonable searches and
seizures that Congress shall make no law re-
specting an establishment of religion, or the
free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom
of speech or of the press, or the right of the
people to petition for redress of grievances.
It secures the right of speedy and public
trial by an impartial jury"
No man can rightfully enter upon the du-
ties of the.Presidential Office unless he is not
only willing to carry out the wishes of the
people expressed in constitutional way, but
is also prepared to stand up for the rights Of
minorites. He must be ready to uphold the
free exercise of religion. He must denounce
measures which would wrong personal or
home rights, or the religious conscience of the
citizens of the land. He must maintain,
without distinction of creed or nationality, all
the privileges of American citizenship. The
experience of every public man who has been
faithful to his trust teaches him that no one
can do the duties of the President unless he
is ready not only to undergo the falsehoods
and abuse of the bad, but to suffer from the
censure of the good, who are misled by pre-
JUDGES and misrepresentation. There are no
attractions in such position, which deceive my
Judgment, when say that a great change is
going on in the public mind. The mass of
the Republican party are more thoughtful,
and just than they were during the
excitements which attended the progress and
close of the civil war. AS the energy of the
Democratic party springs from their devotion
to their cause, and not to their candidates, /
may, with propriety, speak of the fact that
never in the political history of our country
has the action of any like body been hailed
with such universal and widespread enthu-
siasm as that which has been shown in rela-
ton to the position of the National Demo-
cratic Convention. With this tie candidates
had nothing to do. Had any others of those
named been selected, this spirit would have
been, perhaps, more marked. The zeal and
energy Of the Conservative masses spring from
desire to make change Of political policy,
and from the confidence that they can carry
out their purpose. In this faith they are
strengthened by the cooperation of the great
body of those who served in the Union army
and navy during the war. Having given
nearly sixteen thousand commissions to the
officers of that army, I know their views and
wishes. They demand the Union for which
they fought. The largest meeting Of these
gallant soldiers which ever assembled was