The national Republican., 1869-03-01
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To Ae Repvbitear;
nm v,yyxrsyu AMENDMENT.


that great revolution In favor Of increased
popular rights and liberties can occur with
out Injuring any valuable interest Of society.
II is clearly comprehended there that In
stead of being in anarchy or impoverished
by the circumstances attending this reyolu-
tlon In our laws, Institutions and IDEAS, our
Government Is far stronger than before, and
our people much more enterprising and pros
porous; that the interests Of capital are In
better position than before, while those Of
labor have advanced a. nowhere else on the
globe In any age In the same space Of time.
It is duly comprehended on tho other side Of
the Atlantic that the arts, sciences and litera-
ture have sprung forward among US since
the war with astounding strides. These SO
palpablo facts of course lmmcasursbly
strengthen the position Of tho practical lib
eralists OF the old world, who arc pleading
with their Governments for reforms that con-
template advancing European popular rights.
Had our late rebellisu been success, Irish
Church reform and the extension Of the fran
chise In England would be things unheard Of
for peThaps half century to come, and Louis
Napoleon would be sitting on much flrmer
throae than he now occupies.
THE AMENDMENT In EUROPE.
Realizing these facts, all advanced think
ers in Europe watch the inevitable changes
in American policy springing from our revo-
luton, as they break upon the attention Of
the world, with absorbing interest. None of
these changes can produce more profound
sensation there than the Congressional ac-
ton Of which write above.
THE eIsT OF TIE AMENDMENT.
That embraces, literally, but the theory
on which this Government was founded,
which, after all, Is but the fundamental
basis Of the Declaration Of American Inde-
pendence, that all men arc created equal. II
was emphatically the doctrine Of the fathers
Of the original American evolution-Wash-
ington, jefferson, Adams, Hancock, and
their eompeers; not one Of whom ever justi-
aed human slavery, or looked upon Ii in any
other light than ss stupendous national
wrong and evil, to be gotten rid Of at the
earliest possible moment.
/ sLLvBRY's WAR ON OUR opIoIsAL RBvoLU-
TIosARr PRINCIPLE.
The great American champion of prece-
/ dent and privilege, Calhoun, nrst seriously
1 oroached among us the contrary idea. The
remarkable facilities for realizing wealth in
this country raised up class to his hand-a
class Of unread, ignorant mon, with purses
made plethoric BY slavery, who caught at
his idea of the better policy Of class domlna-
ton in the United States through positive
legislative enactment. That which the
fathers Of American liberties denounced as
the great blotch upon our great political
| system, and as being the sum Of human in
l Justice, thsp deihed under Calhoun's lead,
l and sought to secure for 1t the entire and ab-
l solute control Of our national future. It's
lntagonism to everything elss American and
the boldness Of Its encroachments upon all
American rights and the interests of oil not
inder the shadow Of Its wing, rendered II
certain that the contest would come sooner
or later; when the question would be de.
cided, whether Ii would be tho power over
all and grinding down all, or should be swep,
out of the path Of all other American prin.
ciples. Its imperious. impatience and self.
confidence led Ii to make the contest one OF
arms. How comparatively weak 1t really
was all the time the world now know. The
wonder Is that 1t should have been permitted
to domineer and hector over the rights Of oil
other American interests so long and will
| so much turbulence as It manifested for thirt,
years before Its overthrow.
sLAvKRT's LEGAcY. :.
r The legacy 1t has left US Is neither NOR
4 nor less than the existing repugnance Of ,
large portion of our people to tho theory o
! our declaration Of independence, that supe
} riority Of mind, morals, intellectual enter
tainments and public and private utility ar
the only legitimate titles to popular respec
and Influence.
! THE CLIMAX OF THE RHvoLUTIoS.
Congress, in passing the 18th amendmen
proposition, have reafirmed this theor
under circumstances as impressive upon tn
the world at large as those amid which
l. was born Of the brain Of Thomas Jefferson
Up to this Congressional action, 1t was n,
assured to humanity. The destruction G
American slavery, the sweeping success Q
the arms OF the Union cause, and the over
whelming election Of Grant as the repre-
sentative of tho principles aud Ideas tha
triumphed In our war, could not have
more appropriate climax than the final es
tablishment of the immortal Jefersoniai
theory as the basis of our national system o
progress.
M'cLURB's MISTAKE CORRECTED.
In the course Of very recent conversa
ton with a member of Congress Genera
Grant took occasion to say that the pub
: lished report Of his late conversation will
Mr.. Mcclure, Of Pennsylvania, relative t.
his proposed Cabinet appointment from
Pennsylvania, was substantially correct ex
cept In one particular, viz; that Mr.. Nc
Clure had entirely misunderstood him in re
porting that he had dlsclaimed being
plrty man. In answer to Mr.. Mcclure
objection to the selection Of Mr.. George II
Stuart, Of Pennsylvania. for . Cabinet pos
tion, because he (McClure) did not knoN
Stuart as member Of the Republican party
q Grant remarked that not very long sine
few knew what his (Grant's) party q
:, fnities were. He by no means designe
intimating that he did not consider himself
i, member OF the Republican party. In tn
. course ofthe same conversation, after statin
n that he would be glad to have SO able and 8
pure a man and so sound a Republican q
lie Mr. Stuart in his Cabinet, he remarked tha
IN the condition OF that gentleman's healt
he rendered that impossible.
Al. ANOTHER usHLEss conBIsATIos.
at The movement OF the Southern Represent
NJ tives and Senators to recommend q gontl
In man to Grant for position In the Cabinet
',n understood to be In tho Interest Of N
~ Horace Maynard, OF Tennessee, gcntlemr
," who, though In every rcspcct qualified +
IS. such position, possesses fur too much c
IIs perIenco In public atialrS aud Judgment
III approve OF any such combination and efc
10 nominally in his behalf Tho Cabinet beiI
IA doubtless made up, no such demonstrate
"A con further any ones chances, and II I