Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-12-16

spirit and purpose, the removal of every
thing calculated to promote sectional strifes
and animosities. On the subject Of educa-
ton he grows eloquent and presents ma
ny valuable thoughts "Fully believing"
he says, "that the nation has never wit
messed an hour, not even in the darkts st
hour of the Rebellion, when there were
presented more pressing claims for special
effort, or when there was demanded of the
patriotic, philanthropic, and pious men of
thought more time, effort, and personal
sacrifice, present this matter as second TO
no question now before the country"
From this general survey, comprehend
ing the duties of all citizens, irrespective
of party, he returns to the special province
of the Republican organization. He re.
marks:
"Its first great duty is administration.
Entrusted by the nation with the seals of
Off CO and sceptre of power it is RESPONSE
BILE for their faithful use. Having pro-
cla med its public policy and received the
nations emphatic Endorsement, it must
carry it out to successful issue, especially
so much us is embodied in the constitu-
tional amendments and their consequent
egislation. Thethirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments must not be permit
ted to be a dead letter in the constitution.
AS the South, for two generations, made
the most of the compromises, in the inter-
ests of slavery, the republicans should ex-
hibit equal energyin using these guaranL
ties of human rights in the interests of
freedom"
With regard to;financial measures, Sen
ator Wilson. thinks there is little need of
other action than to leave the laws of trade
and the legislation already secured to work
out their legitimate results. During Gen.
Grants administration gold has settled
from 131 to ITO, and a continuance of the
same policy must, at no distant day, make
the greenback the equivalent of Specie
About the tariff there is great diversity of
opinion, which requires the Intervention
of moderate men. Neither he who desires
protection nor those who believe in free
trade should demand or expect their ex-
treme opinion to be adopted ms the policy
of the nation. Some common ground
should be sought where existing burdens
may be lightened and the great interests of
the country may be cared for. The Sena-
tor continues:
"To sustain and aid the President in
carving out his pacific and philanthropic
Indian policy, in adequate and persistent
detail is another service to which the re-
publican party is committed; nor is that
policy SAT e in any other hands. The good
name of the nation, as well as the well be-
ing of the Indians, requires its continued
ascendancy to perfect what has been so au-
spiciously begun.
To maintain the dignity and vindcate
the honor of the nation in its relations and
correspondence with other governments is
another duty entrusted to republican hands
which can be safe in no other
Reform in the civil service, by which the
work of the government shall be more
faithfully and thoroughly performed, and
by which there shall be less corruption in
the different departments of public en-
Payments and greater purity in elections,
is another object which has received and is
destined to receive, more of the attention
of the administration than has hitherto
been customary.
To keep out of power the democratic
party and its semi-rebellious adherents,
both North and South, has become mat
ter of supreme importance TO the nation
and to the cause of humanity itself. None
who correctly guaged the issues of the re-
bellion can fail TO deprecate tas national
calamity the return to a power of the par
| ty which nurtured within its ranks the
men who raised aloft the arm of treason,
and came so near to rending assunder the
Union itself-the party that never gave the
nation hearty support in its struggles with
traitors, and has never concealed its sym
pathy with them when overthrown."
Recurring to the position of the republic
can party, Mr.. Wilson says, it cannot of
course, go far ahead of the public senti-.
ment in legislation, and if, therefore, tt
does not wish to lower its standard, it must
educate the people upward. Education,
then, should be inculcated in every party
platform, and become the object not only
of individual and aksociated effort on the
part of all public spAted republicans, but
of appropriate legislations. He concludes:
"A system of compulsory education, es-
portions of Germany, and for more than
century and n half in Prussia, has brought
forth fruits which the world see. France,
with fairer and more fertile country, with
the prestige of a brilliant military record,
but with population ignorant, priest-rid-
den, and emascuated of their manhood,
lies beaten ION every field and helpless at
the conqueror's feet. The lesson should
not be lost on the American people, espe-
cially upon the republican party. Mr..
Hoar's bill for the establishment of sys-
TEN of national education, or something
tantamount thereto, should receive the i'm
mediate attention of Congress and the I'M
divided support ofrepublcans. By so do
| ing the party will add to its many claims
on the gratitude and support OF the nation"
| -BOStOn Journal.