American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-07-27
The Growing Of the Ediflce.

The Growing of the Ediilce.
The revolution which has been wrough
in our politics during the last six months
has been really one of the most remarkabl
! recorded in the annals of cur country
Its suddenness has only been equaled by
its completeness, and the immense results
which are now sure to follow it in the
overturn of the existing misrule, and
| the substitution of genuine Republi
can Administration of our affairs once
more.
When, in this journal, at the close OF
| the Old Year, we called aloud for the
formation of National Reform Party as
a necessity Of the hour, and invited all
the honest men of the country, irrespec-
tive of old party ties, to unite in its for
nation, we knew how difficult the task
would be, and did not anticipate the
rapidity and the thoroughness with
which that great measure of deliverance
and liberty would be effected. A few
earnest men in and out of Congress, and a
few Independent and patriotic Presses,
set the ball in motion, which now rolls
| irresistibly onward, beyond the power of
placcmen or of party hacks to impede or
| arrest.
Baltimore has most effectually and
worthily crowned the cdifice, of which
Missouri laid the foundations, and
Cincinnati reared the superstructure,
and now all that remains to be done is
the solemn popular dedication of it in
November next.
What seemed doubtful possibility in
January, and only probability in May,
has become almost a certainty now, and
every day makes it more so. The big
popular heart has been stirred to its
depths by the appeal to pride and patriot
ism, and the great work, not of sectional
but of national reconstruction, and the
restoration of fraternal feeling throughout
the whole country, goes bravely on to its
triumphant conclusion.
When we see such moral triumph as
the Endorsement at Baltimore of the Gin
cinnati nominees, to the utter oblitera
ton of old party lines and partisan
hatreds and when we see the leading
men of both the old political parties cor
daily cooperating in the movement, we
may, indeed, congratulate ourselves on
the restoration of an era of good feeling,
and believe that the reign of terror and
corruption is soon to be succeeded by one
of publication and pacification-which
the whole country grOans for. Our Canute
has planted his throne on the seashore,
but the waves of popular Indignation are
daily rising higher and higher to drive
him from it, and his terrified courtiers
cannot fail to see and heed the warning.
The twin instincts of self-preservation
and love of place prompt them to resist
it's encroachments to the last, in the des-
perate hope of turning back the rising
waters by force or fraud; but even the
energy of desperation will not avail them.
The defeat of the Grant despotism is now
as sure as any mortal thing can be, and a
new and brighter future throws its bow
of peace across the stormy waters.
The triumph of the reform or Liberal
party in this campaign will not be par
tisan triumph-for the supporters of
Greeley and Brown comprise names most
eminent hitherto both ON the Republican
and Democratic sides. Trumbull joins
hands with Seymour, and Carl Schurz
with Governor English, while the rank
and file are made up from men conspicu-
GUS hitherto for their fidelity to their
respective parties-so long as those par
ties offered Il real dividing line, and be-
fore common purpose compelled union
for the sake of the Union.
That supreme law-the common safety
is the true cement which has joined to-
gether these opposites, while "the cohe-
sive power of the public plumber now is
the only cement of the army of spoils
men who rally under the banner of Grant
the party of a man, not of even one
solitary principle.
The contrast between the ardor and the
energy displayed on our side and the cold
ness and want of heart manifested in the
Grant ratification meetings throughout
the country marks the immense difference
in the feelings and the hopes of the two
parties.
AMI Just in proportion as our ardor
and our hopes rise with the heats of sum-
mer, just in the same proportion will
those of our opponent wax more chill in
of the blishting autumn
which is to witness their interment We
have killed the party already, and shall
bury 1t without hope of resurrection in
November We do not say this in any
boastful spirit, but in thorough conviction
of its truth.
He must be willfully blind who cannot |
or will not see the signs of the times, or
the inevitable results to which they must |
lead, in all human probability.
The verdict of the American people |
has already been pronounced against the |
Grant Party, and now remains only to be |
formally recorded at the polls Nothing |
short of providential interposition, in |
the shape of a special miracle, can |
save it from the doom it has SO richly |
earned.
For the Party of Reform there is now |
left only the duty of browning the edfice,
by relaxing no effort and no energy until
that popular will is solemnly recorded
But because our success seems certain,
we should relax no jot or title of our
energy and effort to make security doubly |
sure, lest we incur defeat 10y over-confi-
dence. For the enemy we have to con
tend against is both strong and unscrlI-
pulous, and rendered more so by despair
Both the purse and the sword are in the
hands of our opponents, and the seduc
tons of patronage, as strong as either;
and these will all be employed to bully or