The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-22
COMMUNICATED.

Editor COnSerUdtiue.:-Allow me
to congratulate you, and humanity,
through your prospective influence,
shat through the inspiration of this
progressive age, you have been en-
bled 10 take a long stride in ad-
vance, as evinced by the appearance
of our County Prohibition Ticket
at the head of your columns.
Humanity's guardian angel shall
twIne an additional sprig of laurel,
another branch of immortalis, in the
chaplet for the brave of ali those
noble workers n the great army of
the Worlds Reformers, Happy the
man who feels an inword conscious
less hat his rOrks entitle him TO
their appreciation.
Although having been myself
identified with the Republican Par
ty from its organization, and rejois
cling with It's most Jealous cham
pions, over the glorious achieve
ments which. through its influence,
have been wrought for the eleva-
ton ofhumanIty, felt, not only over
the whole American Continent, but
which has sent a thrill of JOY thro'
every humanitarian heart in all
the civilized world, by the enfran>
chisement of four millions of bond
men in the United States, and the
demonstration of the faith of a
great Nation in the lmmutable
principles of eternal justice. Yet,
while L e and rejoice over these
glorious achievements, it is also ap-
parent that the great object and lam
mating principle in the organlza-
ton OF that party has been accom-
plished, and It's leaders seem inca
pable of comprehending, or ayerse
to graphing with the great and
comprehensive interests and de-
mands of this happily progressive
age. And hence the necessity Of the
organization of a neU party, whose
very foundations are laid in the re-
eogEition of the worlds greatest
necessity sober, Industrious, and
moral people. And this happyfy>
ing condition is always reversed by
by the manufacture and sale of In
toxicat:ng beverages, which lnvari-
ably eHgender Drunkenness, indo-
lenee, and depravity.
The worlds history furnishes We
ry few evidences of the achievement
of great reforms by ENGRAVING new
objects and isms upon old parties /;
but only by formation of new ones,
with a new rallying-cry for their
TalIsman, and new objects and IN
terests for their inspiration. And
il does seem to me that Republic
ans are the last men who ought to
ignore the philosophy of the FORM
alton of new parties, which they
are so loudly boastful over the
achievements of their own cOmpar-
atively youthful one.
And if such glorious results have
been attained In SO short a time. by
a party organized for the accom-
plishment of a local purpose, what
Ineffable glory may nota party hope
to achieve whose object is the en-
franchisement Of universal humani-
ty from the greatest curse and most
degrading influence of the age, and
whose field of operation Is the entire
habItable globe =? No one, surely,
with any faith in the ultimate pro-
gressIOn of the race, can doubt the
inevitable success of so laudable an
enterprise ; and all that is neeessa-
ry to secure the triumph of the
Prohibition Party, and tho unIver-
sal adoption of its principles, is sim
ply to present its objects and aims
so as to secure their consideration
by the masses of the people. But
there are so many who depend up
on others to do their thinking that
1t is hard 10 bring a new truth TO
their torpid consideration, unless it