Litchfield enquirer., 1872-06-13

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 THE PHlLADELPHIA CoNVENTIoN-
 The business of the National Republi- can Convention was accomplished with neatness and despatch. We have always thought that the renomination of Grant was desired by a large majority of the Re- publican party. That minority are op- posed to his renomination the Cincinnati Convention has sufficiently shown. Nor would that minority have been propitiat- ed by the throwing over of President Grant by a convention the majority of which was pledged to his support. The action of the convention was in effect de- termined, if it was ever in doubt, by the belt which left nothing to gain by the substitution of some other name for that of Grant. It is, nevertheless, fact that the enthusiasm manifested by the Con- vention was in the main genuine. Gen. Grant is still popular with the Republican masses. His great military career still entities him to the gratitude of. his coun- try. The mistakes of his civil administra- have not been So serious as to destroy that confidence in his good sense and in- tegrity which led to his first election. His renOminatiOn is much more popular than vas the renomination of Lincoln; and his chances of reelection seem to us much better than did those of Lincoln in June, 1884 Taking no account of the ''conven- tioG enthusiasm" that prevailed so re- markedly at Philadelphia, we cannot but believe that Gen. Grant has decidedly a better chance than Mr. Greeley of being Oar next president.
 To the substitution of Wilson for. Col fax we attribute little political import ance. That it will turn Indiana against Grant. as the s%liberals" claim, is not at al probable.
 The NOzrH END MISSION MAGAZINE is 4 publication which IS well calculated to arouse serious reflection regarding the large and increasing element of barbarism that dssgraces and endangers the modern eltys an element that is found in New York and Boston in probably as large propor tS0a as ia Paris. The North End Mis- <Soa pCopOses to do for Boston what the Five Point Mission has done for New YSzk ssIn its immediate vicinity are mp w4ras of four hundred grOg shops and 01e hzndred houses of ill-fame These are open night and day, year in and year OaA and are thrOnged" There are one hundred and sixty-ive ministers in the eIty Of Boston, only two or three of whom reside in North End although its popula- tiOa numbers about 4O,OOO. The respect sbAe citi1eas of Boston retire from this dlssrSct- As the Mission Magaizine says wlfh mach force,
 They build costly houses of worship and draw after them more and more the c01seTv3tive forces of orller and law; and large sections filled with a dense popula ti0a. are left to defiant intemperance, to 0Pea prostitution, and the terrible brood If vices that are linked to these. And ii Is these that corrupt cities and ruir States; that train Tweeds and Connollys that gather and concentrate power il Rings. in Eries and Tammanys. It i: these that threaten to make Boston i'll the fature what New York has been-fou k., that no Citizens Committee of Sevent, can ever wash away.
 Missions like those established in tn, New York Five Points and in the Bostoi North End accomplish much good and deserve the most liberal support; but the. can never reach the root of the evil whicl lies in the peculiar constitution of ou city society. The enormous differences ii condition that characterize that societ the extremes of wealth and poverty, O intelligence and ignorance, of thrifty en srxy and shiftless indOlence- -practicall destroy the republican sentiment Ofequal Ity and the religious sentiment of brotl erhoOl without which free governmen can hardly exist This evil is further az Er@SaEed by the tendency of poverty an degradation tO herd into separate local ties and there degenerate into a savager exceeding the s@vagery of ordinary bal hAEssm- How to counteract this consoli dated @gcary Of evil in city society is on Ss tAe greatest emergencies onr generation has t8 meet The most obvious resource are to be foand in the elevation of labo ts Us true dignity, of woman to a real in 3ep<11e1re, and of Total Abstinence int ARsnexal hmklt- In the meantime som Razll~.saa of existing evils may he foun, Ha saasA emAexpxises as Five Point an,
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