The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-12-21

ment aud good sense Is men. While it
would be claiming more than the facts
justify to say that this experiment. in .
limited field, has demonstrated beyead
. doubt the perfect fitness Of woman ~
al times and under all circumstances for
taking part in the government, it fur
nishes at least reasonable premmptive
evidence in her favor, and she has right
to claim that. so long as none but good
results are made manifest, the Law should
remain unrepealed."
There are pleasant assurances tha. a
good many Republican Prodigal Sons
who have been tending Democratic swine,
and spending their substance in riotous
living, will return to their farther house
before long. Indeed, some of them are
already on their way back, and are anx-
ions about that traditional ring and fat
ted calf There is Senator Trumbull.
who is foot-sore and weary and with not
much to cover him except few old copies
of the Chicago Tribune before the great
fire; he has felt called upon to say in the
United States Senate that he is still
Republican, and so is not likely to be the
passive candidate for the Presidency
And Carl Schurz, who has been feeding
on husks, is getting tired of his folly, and
thinks of the many mansions that he left;
while General Grant stands in the char
acter of the father in the parable-his
bowels yearning with compassion oyer
their waywardness, and without remov-
ing his cigar from his mouth, is placid
ly saying to the t-uant boys, "Come
back, come back. "-Scntanel.
The Savannah (Ga.) Republican talks
plainly about the family troubles, ard
says: ''It is a fact that since the Demo
cratic army lost its Southern leaders, it
has been disorganized political mob
No man North seems to have the sagaci-
ty to blaze ouea way for the party. and
they have all come to the conclusion that
the Southern leaders, under existing cir
cumstances, would be the death of it.
Thus embarrassed, the party is rapidly
going to the dogs"
The appointment of ex-senator Will
liams, of Oregon, as Attorney General,
IL the place of Akerman, is one that will
be generally applauded by the people
Judge Williams is an able lawyer and
an honest and upright man. who will
adorn any station in life to which the
partiality of his fellow-citizens may call
him. We thought the President did an
unwise act in the appointment of Aker-
man, in the first place, who was a prom
incnt rebel during the var, and we have
not yet come to regard that bloody strug-
gle with much, complacency as to feel
willing to have those actively engaged on
that side, to occupy the highest seats in
the synagogue.-Sentinal.
The New National Era, edited by Fred.
erick Douglass, has An honest, manly ar
ticle in favor of the reelection Of Presi-
dent Grant in 1872. The reasons which
MIR. Douglass gives for supporting the
reelection and denomination of Genera
Grant are admirable, and they are pre-
sented very forcibly. He says, among
other things: 1--WE do so because he is
firm and unfinching in his measures to
enforce the Constitution and the laws for
the protection of all the rights of our
newly enffanchised people, and thus to
secure to that people. with all others. an
equal chance in the race of life. We do
SO because, whatever mistakes he may
have made during his term of Office are
as the spots upon the sun COMPARED with
the eminent success which has distingui-
shed his administration. We do SO be-
cause, among all the able and patriotic
statesmen thus far named as possible can
didates for the Presidency in 1872, there
is not one the certainty of whose election
is so well assured as that-of u. S. Grant"
The San Francisco Alta, in an editorial
On the presidents message, says:-
President Grants views concerning hu-
man labor, as expressed in his message,
are very noble, as well as true. After
congratulating Brazil on the first taken
toward the emancipation of slavery and
encouraging that Government to abolish
entirely that species of seryitude, he elo-
quently concludes as follows. The true
prosperity and greatness of nation is to
be found in the elevation of its laborers.'
Will now the laboring men tell US who
are their best friends, President Grant
and the party who advocate such high
sentiments. or the otEer party. who is
mainly composed of ex-slave holders, who
lived once luxuriously upon unrequited
human labor, and will never forgive the
Republicans because they emeancipated
their slaves without compensation 7'
Concerning the effort to reconcile Sena-
tor Sumner and the President, it is our
opinion that General Grant owes it to
himself not to make any advances until
some of Senator Summers offensive Ian
guage has been withdrawn. The Presi-
dent has quietly and silently received the
assaults of his opponents, waiting for
time to vindicate his character and mo-
tives. M. Sumner appears to be im-
rlacable, but will have to wait some time
before General Grant takes the iniatiYe.
! GENERAL NEWS.
The elections in Spain show important Republican,
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