The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-02

which they neither advance nor recede. And
| this being so, there are general causes, which,
| during the present century, have operated to
the prejudice of morality in both the private
and public affairs of the world. Under the
pressure of these causes, the moral cast OF the
| American has refrigerated to fearful degree,
and it is still moving in the same direction.
All of which is truth. But had you
read your Horace with profit you would
have discovered that every generation gives
glory and greatness to the last, and claims
nothing for itself. That shows how wor-
shipful and dutiful we are, and how
modest. We all concede that our fathers
were better than we are. Therefore, Mr..
Vhiq, cease your blowing, and go and
hear how Miss Maud Stanley can blow
the trumpet at the theatre.
And last, but not least in our affections,
comes the Enquirer. Like sturdy oak it
stands the blasts of lightning and the rage
of storms. We would that our space were
larger, and we could dilate upon the re-
newed virtues Of that venerable jade. She
has become as coy as maiden of sixteen,
since she went into the blouse of the
good Shepherds" and now teaches us po-
litical philosophy as if she were walking
amid the academic groves, listening to the
disciple of the Great Thinker, and talking
about nature, first principles, and innate
ideas. But we are are general. Let US
come to the concrete.
The Enquirer in the course of we'll
weighed article upon the "next Congress"
quotes from the Herald to show
that the minority has, in this "off year,"
creeped up little, and concludes from
that, that the Democratic party has some
chance of again getting into power. Our
neiehbor, more hopeful than even Japeth
when searching for his father, says.
IT'S small, very small crumb, yet it is
crumb not to be despised. The backbone of
Radicaism is sprained, If not broken. This is
a step-very short tits true, yet it is step,
and we indulge the hope that there IS yet In
reserve for us a prospect OF a brighter DAY.
The outgoing Congress mas q naa maus En- pre.sy
10 confession, we must admit its way to have
been very bad one. We have seen nothing
to admire in the present or preceding Congress,
and we can but hail even modicum of change !
as little improvement on the past. The dying |
Congress may yet eclipse its own "ways that
ire dark in the passage of the ku-klux Dill,
but we place much hope on its successor.
And why? IT'S true that the Democratic |
party in the House of Representatives per Sc is |
mpotent, but when we remember that there
ire some Republicans, with Farnswcrth at
heir head, who have higher regard for their
country than for their party, we cannot refrain
rom lively hope that reason will in the next
Congress control, and not passion and preju-
lice.
We tell you-and mark our words--that |
t is as true in politics as in philosophy ; |
hat no moving body that has attained the
height of velocity, can be stopped short OF |
is level--which is the foot of the hill. |
When the Republican party reaches that
point, it will have expended its force, and |
hen it will leave the old Democratic faction
% pick up aud classify the debris.