Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-10
The two things are aliens and

it. The two things are aliens and |
strangers to each other. No more |
conclusive evidence can be given of |
its lack of the elements of success /
than the means it uses to win success. !
The social movement of the last 1
two years is summed up in the consti
tutional amendments, which assert all 1
that the republican party has advo-
clted. and all that the democrat C
party mas opposed. during that period. .
The democratic party now demOnst n
lively and osteutatiou>ly accepts the. C
amendments; not, however, with tie
grace OF preicndino TO hove them, fr
to he satisfied of their value to tie /
ccrntrv, but a. Il party so anxious to |
be uppermo St that it ceases to contest /
wrong measures. and enters itself IS
a competitor for the honor or admin |
istering them. Vital power has so far !
left it tnat it has forgotten there-is
such thing, and contemplates politi- |
cal success merely as an art 1t is
| bind to the fact political success is
hut an outward exhibition of ac.ual
power. The elements of political
power carry forward that part of the
people most iu accord with their on
ward tendency. Society has its front
and rear, and shapes iLselito a natu al
| order of advance. If the Democrat
party should adopt all the measur, 8
of the republican party. not changing
its own General structure and spiIi',
it would he no nearer success than
before The country can not con
venieutly move that end foremost.
After such change it would stand on
the same line, il is true, with the re-
publican party. But their relative
chances for success in the race would
be the same as ii two horses were So
placed for trial OF speed, one with
his head foremost ard the other re-
versed. One would run natural and
easy race, the other would back round
the course. The difference would
not be limited to the place of the head,
but would extend to the legs and the
whole structure of the animal, which
, would not be conducive t. speed in
/ that direction. An imperfect percep.
ton OF this difficulty has led some Of
| the leaders of the democratic party
to form plan for cngrafting another
head on the launches. Looking
| around for heads with q forward vision
, they have named some excellent
! heads. Their impression seems to be
, that it is not the animal which runs
f the race but its head. The head oi
Mr.. Chief Justice Chlse, and one u
, two other grand heals, have been
mentioned. L would myself not
choose such a place for any of the
leads referred to. But it would be
, q sight TO see. In ancient times they
had pictures and statues of animals
calico Centaurs, consisting of human
neck and head on the body OF q beast
But the head was always where the
head Of the animal shoald be. l have
! NO recollection OF seeing or hearing
of Centaur with q human head en-
. grated on the launches ofthe animal
fhey had in those early times respect
for human heads Notwithstanding
oar dem o cratic managers are disposed
to try the experiment, no one outside
: of their circle of halluciuation would
, expect it to make difference in the
result OF the race. The uar:y would
f still be seen bacGingdown to posterity
always presenting itself stern fore
most.
The democratic party has been use
less to the country for many years
} 1t has given the country no vqlu ible
advice. Ii has not even well perform
ell the duties OF all opposition party
When the republican party erls,
aud neglect its work, the democratic
party has shown itself thoroughly in
capable of taking advantage of the
occasion, for itself or for the country.
} Instead of facing the future, and olfeI
r ing to Go what tie republican party
! ought 10 do on such occasions, il
seizes the opportunity for backward
5 leap. Nothing can exceed the ludi
? crous sClemnity OF surprise when il
discovers as it always does, that the
, leap has increased, instead of Gimin
ishing, the distance between itself and
t success. Its continued existence is.
moreover, 4 prolonged public mis-
chief Having stood the friend ot
| slavery, it assumes to intepret the
| feelings and purpose OF the opponents
: of slavery to the people of the Soutl
1t interprets them uniavorably.
: Am' ng the causes chiefly instru.
) mental IA, prolonging the bad feeling
| between the north and the south, the
. democratic party is by far the most
pernicious The futurity of southern
leaders is conspicuous in the fact that
} they study the purposes ofthe people
ofthe north only through this channel
blind leading the blind. This wor1-
out sectional controversy is now the
: only life of that party. Like babe,
with no source of nourishment but
, the breast of dead mother, its fate
can not longer be delayed.
, Mrs. Quickley's description of the
death of Falstatf will soon be appli-
cable:
, Now I, to comfort him, bid him a
, should not think of God. I hoped
; there was no need to trouble himself
with su:h thoughts yet. So "a bade
me lay more clothes on his feet.
put my hand into the bed and felt
} them. and they were as cold as any
, stone. Then L felt to his knees, and
50 upward, and upward, and upward,
and all was as cold as any stone"
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