The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-08
RECEPTIONS.

RECEPTIONs.
We are authorized to announce that the ladies
Of the Executive Mansion, Mrs. Patterson and
Mrs. Slower, will be home Monday evenings.
The evening has been fixed in lieu of the after
noon receptions, as they were last season.
SPEAKER CoLyAx's receptions are to be every
Friday evening, from SO to II y. m, commencing
Friday, Jan. II.
The receptions OF the Speakers mother and
sister, Mrs. and Miss Matthews, for ladies', and
gentlemen accompanying them, will be every
Wednesday afternoon, from 1 to p. N. Resi-
dence, Lafayette Square, Sixteen and. shalt
street
MRS. Postmaster GENERAL RANDALL will
hold her receptions on Wednesday afternoon Of
each week, at No. 4o2 L street, corner Fourteenth
and l..
Mrs. SECRETARY McCULLocu will receive
her friends on Wednesdays from IL m. to p. m.
The LADIES Of Secretary Browning's family
viii receive their friends, as usual, on Wednes-
days, from II to o'clock, p. m. Residence on
Montgomery street, Georgetown Heights.
GENERAL GRANT will be at home on wednes-
day evening, February5. No csnis of invitation
will be issued. Residence, I street, near New
Jersey avenue.
REPUBLICATION vs.. MONARCHY.
The advancing civilization Of our times Is daily
demonstrating the superior advantages to man.
kind of the new and liberal policies of democratic
Institutions Of government over the declining
and efeie institutions of the Old World That this
experiment might have fair trial, and the work
ings of the two diverse systems of government
be seen side by side, test in the order Of Provi-
dencc has been submitted upon this continent;
so that there can be no mistake in results.
The United States has A government. repub.
lican In FORM and one which derives "a All NJ ia
Just powers from the consent of the povcrned -
On the other hand. we have upon mis- con,,nor,
the colonial svstem. an onsbnt or an imnI.nt.
tion of nonarchic,i i,.,i,,,io,. N. -. 4,
hlind i,Iood ,rh, -. ~. w.. w
knowIedoo ,ho tru,,, 49, ~, a. ..., ~ az
demoer,tjc ideas 40 ,nr,,eJ 10 rnvarnan.n VI
The truth of tbs abnyc st.tsment. n',nn, =.
Illustrated in various w.rs. hut IN ri $50 20
tion we proposc only IN sbow the nronnn,a,a,iu,
advantages in rcsncct 10 Tho ,~.tersi rasna.,.,.
and industrial expansion and rro,,,h o,pe nv,
democrats form, In cortr.s, Mil, ,,,, w.. VI.
under the colonial lenondIn, s,.,au, ~,
who have travelled ,,a h.,.a aS,ss,.., ,'Va
s,ow growth Of .n, 81. s.,,' =. o., ,ne
business Il. tr,na.etoa. n ~, %saoa :. "hi men
of enternrisc vhich ohars,,o,is.. -, "s -.
there. and the conseou.rt Is1.,oro,s. ~ .tI,.I
prosperitv. canno, saiI to ro,,.o ,,,s sh',n'
tnraA NLa If.GA $40.
and these colonies In his regard The ,h,nm e.
so plain that he who runs m az rc.d s -
II ia mi. verv f,.t th,, 49,,
peonIc NJ No,o So. ., ..".,N o"e W she
state almost boraer,nn No. ra,'a,',,'n my "
duees them IN denornco l., ..., ". . ~
the Government Of tho Now nomir,o, .nd
makes them anxious to throw on mi. thrs,dom
that they NAV he annexed N Tho Irni,od So.
The New Dominiop Governmcnt Ia a .ro..ion .,
IT,
at home, ipauuurated To anneasc Tho rs.,Ios.nas.
of the Masses to satisfy them with Tho conditinn
of things and to induce them IN hold On 20 ,h.t
system of pupilage to which the colonisl con
nection with the mother country doom, tt.,n
We shall not be surprised II this last effort of
the aristocracy and the ruling classes shall be-
come the straw that "breaks the camel,s bsck.n
and instead of proving apaclhcator, as intended.
shall, on the contrary, lead to disrdption and
the triumph of republicanism and ultimate an.
nexation TO the United States In further IL
Illustration of the view which we have preseptcd
we may refer to the condition of affairs in
British Colombia Tho desIro m tho $3.50 ..
that COLONY TO be annexed IN the Ir,i,a5 S,s,o.
is known and admitted on all hands, various
public meetings have been held there, and the
inhabitants have declared fully their desire IN
throw off their allegiance to Great Rrit.,n and
to become one of the states of this Union. sev.
eral of the newspapers freely discuss this oues.
ton, and unhesitatinplv approve of ,pnox,fion
The fact is, the people of that colony mo No,
biind.. The contrast between their own nros.
perity and that of the States and Territor,es in
the northwest which border upon this colony Is
too apparent to be overlooked. These States
and Territories over which our Government
bears sway, leap IN and advance In material
prosperity which is marvellous to behold. Wills
everything In the colony is almost at A stand
still. The policy OF our Cover nment encourages