Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-14

gresham who will deny that he has
sometimes made mistakes in select
ions in his own district, where he
knows personally so many of his
constituents, how could any Presi
dent be infallible when he must de-
pend for knowledge as to a very
large proportion of applicants on the
recommendations Of others.
Reconshuction.-By the prompt
and judicious action of the Presi-
dent, under the large authority CIV
en- to him last April, in the closing
hours of the first session of the
XLIst Congress, the work of recon
struction draws rapidly to its close,
and, before the resurrection of fspring
gladdeus our heart, we may hope to
see every State in the Union fully
represented in the National councils.
The Indians.-Under the Presi-
dents firm but humane policy, there
have been fewer Indian outrages and
outbreaks between the Mississippi
and the Sierras than during any year
q. L
settlements is a boon whose bless
lngs and joy few here can adequately
realize.
Cdste.-In nothing has the Ad-
ministration been more positive and
outspoken than in the advocacy of
the 18th Amendment from the day
that it was recommended in the In
augural till the present hour, when
its final ratification seems SO near at
hand. And, before its formal adop-
ton, the President has illustrated
his belief in its justice by appointing
to office, of both higher or lower
degree, many whose race and color,
irrespective of their intellectual quail
ifications, had previously placed
them under the ban of official os-
tracism. The following terse and
emphatic remark of the President to
Attorney General Hoar, and quoted
by the latter at the recent New Eng
land dinner in New York. is worthy
to be printed in letters Of gold:
Il hope to see the time when eve
ry man in this country may have
power to express his own opinion,
to follow whom be pleases, TO vote
as he likes, and to have his vote
counted, without molestation OF
hindrance or insult. If we can on
ly unite in maintaining public faith
and credit, our political differences
will not be Of much account"
The Alobama Cyoinas.-The brief
but pointed illusions in the Presi
dents message to "the only grave
question which the United States
have with any foreign nation" must
be fresh in the memory of all. And
also his emphatic sentence:
"a sensitive people, conscious of
their power, are more at ease under
a great wrong, wholly unatoned, than
under the restraint of a settlement
which satisfies neither their ideas of
justice nor their great sense of the
grievance"
IT any amplification ofthe ground
on which the nation stands on this
question was needed, the masterly
an9 unanswefable argument of Sec
retary Fish, recently published, in
lvesting as it does with new interest,
theme so elaborately argued here
tofore, shows how faithfully the Ad-
ministration is vindicating "the
rights, dignity and honor of the
United States.
| Cu5a-The Presidents sympa
thies with "all people struggling for
self government are frankly stated
in his message. But, while thus
openly expressing them, he frank
ly declares that mo matter how un-
pleasant the task" he has endcav-
ored to execute our neutrality laws
in good faith. On the main subject
he thus spoke:
"The people and Government of
the United States entertain the same
warm feelings and sympathies for
the people of Cuba in their pending
struggle that they manifested
throughout the previous struggle be-
tween Spain and the former colonies
in behalf Of the latter; but the CON
test at no times assumed thei condi-
tions which amount to q war in the
sense of international law, or Which
would show the existence Of a de
facto political organization Of the
insurgents sufficient to justify rec
o9niJion Of belligerency.'
| And he adds: 'Our course should
always be in conformity with strict
justice and law, international and
local." which none Of those criti-
cising him can deny. The Presi-
dent believes, as his whole message
proves, in the Golden Rule for ma
tions al, well as individual. What
ever our sympathies may be, he holds
that we should act toward others
exactly as we would have others act
toward US during our recent struggle
for national existence, or as we would
have them act hereafter if unhappily
another dark cloud Of civil war
should ever overshadow our land
But, while thus performing the un-
pleasant task" he submits the whole
matter to Congress, which, repre-
senting the people, and fresh from
their midst, is certainly a proper
arbiter on question that might
eventuate in war with a foreign
power and its possible allies,and the
increased debt and taxes, diminished
commerce, and renewed bloodshed
that might result, if recognition was
not justified by the international law,
whose infraction by others in our
own case we have so publicly and
| emnhaticallY condemned at the bar