The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-08-30

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GEO. COzAD, -
JAS. W. WUfFlNDlN, EDITORS
THAT Government IS BEST walcH GOVERNS LEAsT
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MONDAY -. - AUGUST 80,
-1uE New York Tribune traces the dis
as'er to its root, the political disfranohise-
luent Of the Confederates, and says:
"Disfranchisement was naturally
stronger in Tennessee, than elsowhere-it
had fortified itself with extraordinary
vigor and skill-yet it has suddenly and
utterly broken down, as we have never
doubted that it mast. It is not possible,
in a republic, to deny the right Of suffrage
to . large and intelligent portion Of the
community because of their past political
,ransgressions. You can shoot them or
hang them iii the flush of victory. if you
will, though at your own heavy cost; pos
sibly you might con6scate their property
aud drive their leaders into exile; but you
must do'either with celebrity, and before
popular passion has had time to cool
Thereafter, the inevitable drifts toward
universal amnesty. and it cannot long be
successfully resisted. And we rejoice that
tvch is the case"
Tus New York Tribune, speaking Of
the nomination Of Mr.. Pendleton for Gov
crnor Of Ohio, says:
."Jf the Democrats can carry Ohio with
my candidate they. can carry it with
George II. Pcndltton. They have put up
their most popular mamie would not
have consented to run unless, both in his
own judgement and in that Of the devoted
friends who have given him this nomina-
ton, the interests Of the party required
hin to accept, and they believed that they
could elect hiul. There has been good
deal Of disafcction, not to say dcmoraliza-
T sion among the Ohio Democrats. 1t viii
not do to count any longer on that The
nomination Of Pcndeton shows their
alarm; but it shows that they mean
business"
For just once We see things with the
Tribune, and believe that George II.
Peudlcton will go into the Governors
chair with rousing majority. The Ohio
people are tired Of being cheated out Of
the protection Of low by patriots md
plundered by thieves who we're believing
treason" to divert mems eyes from their
own lawnessncss.
Tns Springfield (Mass.) Republican
shivcrs at the prospect Of coming defeat.
1t warns its party contemporaries thus:
It's plaiu enough that the republican
minority in Massachusetts, is to be largely
reduced, this year. Instead Of the seventy
or eighty thousand minority Of 1865,
Governor Claain must content himself
with twenty or thirty thousand; instead of
two Senator'S and dozen Representatives,
the opposition in the Legislature will show
"a formidable front, aud on the question
OF temperance, many entirely reverse the
action Of the republican majority Of this
year.
TINS New York SUI, q radical sheet,
throws the following rays on tho pros
poets Of the republican party:
"The republican party seems to be
passing through dangerous crisis; the
Southern elections arc all against it, and
il the current is not changed its doom is
certain. Three causes are working fol
the destruction Of this great party +; the
conspicuous failure Of Grants admins.
tra.ion; the universal amnesty notions oil
Horace Greedy; aud the instability Of the
negro vote"
A plsdrsrED but not sclf.dccciycd rad
ical in Virginia writes to the Tribune tina
the result Of tho recent election in tina
State will be the extinction Of republican
ism, followed by future Democratic vic
tories This is the simple truth; and
is as true Of Tennessee us it is Of Vir
.ginia. Republicanism has become idcnti6e
throughout the South with the wors
'excesscss Of lawless despotism ever in
;ficted upon a free people in our time. IT
very name is and must be ms odious no,
10 all honest ,nen at the South. Of what
ever color Qor its votaries have cbeate
the negroes badly as they have abused Il,
whites as it will be to all Honest men q
the North when the glamour Of the wa
finally rolls away from tho eyes Of til
~ people, and the hideous things done in til
name Of liberty for eight years past AT
seen in all their llidcousness.
TnE declination Of Rosecrans Ia
brought out some pointed proofs Of III
shabby way Of politics. After abusin
the General most heartily aud completed
for month, some Of the radical journa