The Republican journal., 1872-08-08
Features Of the Campaign.

The most careless observer of the po-
htical events which now agitate the
country, cannot fail to note certain phases
of the contest, which must give to all
patriotic citizens the best assurance, not
only Of the triumph of the Liberal and
Democratic element, but of the best re-
suits to the country from that triumph
In no political period of the history of the
country has there been presented such
instances of self-sacriticing and patriotic
devotion to the common good, as that
which we to-day witness. The great
liberal movement now in progress has
several characteristics which deserve to
be especially noted. One is the subord-
nation, by those engaged in it, of mere
party and party interests, to great patriotic
considerations. The Liberal Republicans
who inaugnrated it, abandoned the party
with which they had hitherto acted, re-
nouncing all the honors it had to dispense
They left it while it was a great and sue
cessfnl political organization, cont rolling
the whole national government, and near
" every local government of the States.
The Democracy, with whom they have
allied themselves, have acted with mo-
tives which originated in honest sincerity
for the return of our government to its
old time purity, and at the cost of the sus-
pension Of all the peculiar traditions,
practices and functions of their party
Passing over proud names in their ranks,
and abstaning from the enunciation of
mere party dogmas, they have accepted
and Endorsed the Cincinnati candidates
and platform.
Another of the characteristics of the
movement, is the espousal of the cause
by the earnest, hopeful young men of the
country, who look more to the future than
to the past, and who are not weighed
down by load of old hates and prejudi-
ces, and are not the slaves of ancient and
obsolete ideas and dogmas. 1t is also
marked by the Joining together of men
who have hitherto been separated by lite
long antagonisms : the union of old
Wings, Democrats and Republicans-not
for personal advancement, but for the
overthrow of 3 dangerous sectional and
| corrupt administration. 1t also proposes,
with no abandonment of national princi-
pies, but in the spirit of honorable and
patriotic compromise, a departure in poll
tics, on the line of permanent reconcilia-
ton between the North and the South-as
Mr.. Greeley felictously expresses it,
bridging the bloody chasm which has sc
long divided them, and restoring to q
common brotherhood and peaceful rela
tons, the men who fought for, and those
who fought against the Union.
With such peculiarities, it is no wonder
the movement is sweeping like an ava.
lanche over the country, carrying Joy and
the hope of deliverance to the million
hearts of -trodden freemen, as il
bears with it into the ranks of the corrupt
rulers and the myrmidoms of power, con-
sternaton and dismay.
1t is true, the Democracy, by accepting
the Cincinnati ticket, have incurred a
great forfeiture-and that is the favor oil
the administration party. 1t is well known
to every reader how sincerely the Radi-
Gals were attached to the Democrats how
greatly they admired them, and what a
high estimate they placed upon theil