The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-11
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE New York HorM protests against
a sudden crushing out of Mormon polyga-
my by force, under color of common law,
affirming that it is not demanded by the
public opinion of the country or authorized
by either Congressional or Territorial law.
THE New York Ecening Post takes
dispassionate view of the Mormon question,
and says: "iThe people of the United States
could safely leave such local questions as
polygamy to be solved by each State for
themselves. Indeed this subject is so plaus-
IDLY connected with that Of religious free
dom that statesmen should hesitate to in
terfere, lest in opposing by force religious
tenet of the Mormon sect they should es-
tablish precedent dangerous to liberty
The true secret of our Just hostility to the
position of the NIormons is the fact that
they have formed among then selves hier-
archy subjectng themselves to the supreme
control of religious officers"
THE logic of British Free Trade lets the
strong loose to prey upon the weak-gives
the rich the right to devour the poor--makes
the markets of the world melee of ma
tions, in which the one possessing the most
money and the most machinery will trample
the others out. 'Yis freedom, as Elder
has grimly said, precisely like the privilege
the rough-shod jackass offered the chickens
in the barn-yard, when he proposed a free
dance, with unrestricted liberty to the part
ners. In that unequal breakdown, the
American mechanic will decline to be
youthful rooster. And he will keep on de-
clining till he has passed the pin-feather
state and come to the maturity of his spurs.
h.,, ,t1 ha NTH fha Rri-
tish bird on call.-A. \. Tribune.
AS the election ret Irns continue to come
in, the magnitude OF the Republican tri-
umph in the State becomes more apparent !;
our latest fgnres show even a more decided
Republican majority in the Legislature.
The Assembly now stands 96 Republicans
to 80 Democrats, and the Senate "a Repub-
lcans to Democrats. This looks very
much like breaking up of the Democratic
party in the State, for which they have the
Tammany Regency to thank. The majori-
ty for Scrbner, for Secretary of State, is
/ vet undetermined, but now stands at IL ,057 /,
though it is likely to be increased or dimin-
ished as further returns arrive. AT any
rate, the victory is one of magnificent pro-
portions, and is ample enough to encourage
every friend of reform in the work yet re-
naming, as well as compensation for the
arduous labors of the canvass just con-
cluded.
From other States we have no special
changes from results heretofore announced.
! The majority of the Democratic candidate
for Governor in Maryland is considerably
reduced, being more than 5000 less than
that of the Democratic majority Of 1870.
| In the Maryland Legislature, too, we have
gained fifteen yotes-one in the Senate and
i fourteen in the House of Delegates. Mary
land is slowly but surely redeeming her
self. The end of tyranny, ignorance, and
theft in public affairs, really seems to be at
handy. y. Tribune.
WHETHER or not the logic of the last
defeat will be understood Alright we do moi
know, but we can at least state our conclu.
sions and proffer our advice. Two parties
so widely separated from each other, so op.
posite in their aims and SO different in theil
material, as the Republican and Democratic
strange as it may seem, are destined to al
ways strive against each other in this coun.
try. We are still moving under the i'm.
pulse of the war, and with greater momen.
tum than at any period Of our recent his
tory. An organization distinctive in its
hostility to progress, as is the Democracy
must always exist. 1t supplies a.healthful
if sometimes inconvenient, inertia. But
the rule of such a party is incompati
BILE with the safety of life, liberty
and property. When Democracy considers
honor more than yictory---when it reeog
nizes its inferiority, accustoms itself to tn
new condition of things, submits to the in
e.