The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-21

that the most intelligent and thoughtful
women of Vermont everywhere rebel against
the State laws for women, whose heathenism.
despotism, and absurdity were so we'll shown
by Mrs. Nichols, of Vermont nativity, but
now living in Kansas in q recent number of
the Womdn'S J0uTndt-all these facts are
proofs that the sentiment of Vermont women
is not represented by the Constitutional Con-
vention now in session at Montpelier They
are silenced-shut out from the press-re-
fused the right of petition-not allowed to be
heerd-gagged--subjected. Their opinions
and wishes are ignored as ruthlessly as their
rights. They will yet be heard, however and
before many years. "There is a day after
to-day" and though ''the mills of the gods
grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding
small.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY-ITS POSI-
TION.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
''Close up seems to be the word in the
Republican party. In the days when the
boys on the march we're taking things easy;
when some little immediate purpose of each
was more in thought than the great purpose
of all; when groups were down to rest in
shady places by the roadside, and parties
were off across the neighboring fields for
fresh water, while others made domiciliary
visits to points that promised chickens, eggs.
butter, or the tasty corn cake, or plunged
into the secret recesses of barns and corn
cribs; when, indeed, the whole line was scat
tered and loose, at such moment the word
to ''close up, passed down company by CON-
pany, from the head of the column, was
piece of magic that brought every man to
his place, one hardly saw how. Its hint of
something in front, its whisper of suddenly
seen necessity, its intimation of reason re-
lated to the great general purpose compacted
the whole line, brought all together and gave
the shoulder-to-shoulder unity, the tone force
and cohesion that moment before might
have seemed impossible. SO it is now with
those that adhere to the great leader in
the new way. Once more they seem to have
heard the familiar word all down the line.
and still as ever it gathers and consoidates
the force and puts aside the discursive dspo-
sition.
Within short time it has appeared to the
enemies of the Republican party as if there
was no possible point of unity in it, Nay, its
friends have not been altogether confident of
the contrary to this. AS a party it was GER
tainly composed of many elements naturally
hostile and antagonistic one to the other
elements tending to different courses if once
freed from the harmony of action forced upon
them by the great national crisis and necessity
in which the party arose. There were the
protectionists and the free traders side by
side How could men differ more widely
than these? And how few are the topics that
take more intimate hold of mems whole
lives than those in dispute between them!
With what bitterness and tenacity the pro-
tectlonlst denounces as mischievous errors
every point in the creed of the free trader.
and how calmly the free-trader could consign
the protectionist to the nearest lunatic asy-
lum Recognizing the force of this opposi-
tion, it was not unreasonable to regard it as
great danger when, on the one hand it
was imperiously demanded that protection
should have place in the platform,
and on the other it was urged to make free
trade the necessary sequence to free labor in
party founded and originating in a crusade
against slavery, which, after all, was only
kind of monopoly. Just as this opposition
ragged within the lines of the Republican
party, SO there were others scarcely less
threatening on the questions of the banks,
taxation and several subjects. Within few
days even subject came up that was scarcely
counted before as disintegrating force-our
foreign relations With the brilliant bun
combe with which the friends of Cuba
splurged and snorted, it certainly seemed as
if something must be broken, and as if the
bond of unity that kept Republicans together
would snap like the green withes that were
made into bracelets for SAMSON.
1t was perhaps not unnatural to doubt, in
view of an agitation so likely to test party.
If it is divided on the question of free trade,
the constitution of banks, the propriety of
many taxes and even on an idea that has so
much stirred the people of this country as
our relations with the small republics, our
neighbors, and with their European oppres-
sors-if the Republican party is divided upon
all these points, what is there to hold it to-
gether? Was it not war party, and is
not the war over? Was not the saving of
the country its great mission, and is not that
mission fulfilled? What, then, is left to give
this party vital power? 1t may be said that
the war is not over. The fighting, to be sure,
is done with, and the country is no longer in
any danger from the armies of secession, but
there remain the consequences of the great
exertions to which this party was obliged
to force the country that the fighting
might be brought to triumphant close. The
present administration has been charged by
the country with sacred trust-a legacy of
the war. Its mission is to restore us to that
happy condition we were in before the great
necessity came-when the American people
hardly knew what taxes were-when there
was no national debt-when the citizens of
the United States were more comfortable and
easy in their circumstances than the citizens
of any other nation on the earth. Its mis-
sion is to reduce taxes, to pay the debt, to
develop the resources of the nation, and in
an administration thus entrusted with great
duty growing out of the war the Republican
party has bond of union only less potent
than the war itself.
In the case of Cuba we saw the President
declare what he conceived to be the only
policy consistent with the performance of his
duty to the country, ana we saw the party,
with only as MANY straQolers as a battle