The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-08-01

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No thought of recreancy or infidili-
tered my mind: ASH cannot control
it's councils / shall submit to them.
hoping that time may show its ways
to be the wiser and more beneficial 10
the country than l predicted.
He who cannot have his own way
in this world, is not. 9therefores in my
opinion, justified in doing nothing
lie can, without Inconsistency, con-
cede that others may be more enlight-
ened than himself on the points at
issne, and give their plans q fair trial.
SURVEY OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL.
FIELD-THE DECLINE OF THE REPUB-
LFCANs PARITY sIii .stiB4 aGiH1c
Is the condition of the Republican
organization so natural and healthy
that il can afford to fsHeer at the sup
posed sickness and death of its pow
erftill nefghbor? Atthe close of the
war it succeeded to illimifables power
and possessions. lis means by which
TO sednce the venaI, overawe the tinlid,
and coerce all others into its support
were absolutely boundless in eleven
States, and nearly so every where else.
If this powerful party had been pure
and unselfish in its devotion to the
welfare Of the country, if it had been
managed with an eye single toRthe
prosperity of the Iaboring people; ii
it had fostered the Industrial classes
instead of the monopolies : if it had
conciliated the conquered instead oi
bruising them every day affesha with
additional stripes ;pif it had sought to
invigorate and enrich an impoveiish-
ed section of the greatest natural
wealth instead of scourging it into
still more horrible barrenAess and
misery if it had lived on love and
patriotism, instead of hate and greed,
it would have had before it longer
lease Of power at the hands ofsthe
American people than was ever grant
ed to a political party in the history
of The world. tfst.i T93ta IlaG ias
THE EFFECT OF MIsRULE IN THE SOUTH.
III There is another branch, however,
of the domestic policy of the present
administration. which has. perhaps
more strongly induced the present
political moVementagainsti it than any
other, for it comprises within itself the
wrongs and Villainies of all others
The condition of the South has at last
aroused universal attention and almost
universal indignation. That unhappy
section is at last recognized as a por-
,tion of our common country, and as
such is entitled to an, equality before
the law with all other sections. Gen
eral Grant was elected to the Presi-
,dency exclaiming s.".Let us have peace y
but the cry has been cheat and a de-
lusion. There has been no peace for
the helpless people of the, South
They have longed for il, and prayed
for it but it has not come. A worse
form of war than marching columns
has preyed upon them. 1t has been a
warfof robbers, spies, and jailors. /
say, without fear of. intelligent contra
dicaion, that, in all that goes. to des-
troy the prosperity of the country, and
crush the welfare of its people, the
administration of public affairs in the
South has heeazt he worst, the most
truly internal, ever known IN the his
tory of a civilized people. It is a, sub
'iect on which I have bestowed an
earnest attention, and with which /
have made myself, familiar. During
the last session of Congress I demon-
strated from official proofs thas q sysf
tenn of plumber, had been pursued
under the eprotection and approval of
the present administration, by which
the entire eleven reconstructed States
of the South have been imp povefished.
and majority of them made bank
rupt. have, therefore listened with
perfect patience to the voice of the
South in this crisis, knowing, as Edo,
her extreme and immediate necessities
Her urgent. appeal for the nomination
of Mr.. Greeley has been regarded by
her friends in, the North almost as the
last. despairing cry of a brave and no.
Bile people, reduced to a hopeless ex-
tremity, -beholding, as they think, one
more chance to sare,. themselves from
a ruin infinitely worse than death. |
feryently pray God that their. hopes
may be realized, and many a Northern
man win suspend his differences with
Mr. Greeley on account of the South
who would not do SO on his own. -
They believe the election of Mr..
Greeley viii afford them. relief, and in
that belief they demanded his nomi-
nation. ,,fs.ss fl.f.;. -.
e If our governmen is to be restored
to its natural proportions and strength
our, States must be free in one section
as in the others. We must have no
lines where freedom is halted by the
bayonet on American soil, and when
all treated alike by the government,
they will all bear it the same. allegi-
ance, whatever may have been. the
bloody struggles of the past; When
this kind of union of. hearts in sup
port of the government shall take
place, having, for its basis the princi-
Piles of justice, liberty and equality,
then will this nation rise like strong
man after sleep, and go forth to new
glories, renewing the purity of its
youth in connection with the gigantic
proportions of its age n'''F
THE SALE OF ARMS TO THE FRENCH.
But there was one more step possi-
BILE to be taken by this administration
to complete its scandalous career in
connection with foreign affairs, and il
took that step when it permitted Its
office-holders to engage in the sale Of
vast quantities of arms and ammuni-
tion to be used in slaughtering the
people of Germany, then engaged in
a war forced on them by the ambition
of Louis Napoleon. The spirit ol
SpeCuldtlOI dutl lHOHeg -SClduS was 81
active in the official circles of the gov-
ernment that it broke out ina traffic
of death-death, to a friendly people,
whose kindreds of honest and bard
working people are in every county
in the United States. This sinister
and revolving fact does not rest upon
Democratic testimony, but upon that
of the oldest and ablest Republicans
There was no denial of, it, aud when
the German, who yet acknowledged
his allegiance and military duty to his
fatherland, hurried back from, this
country to join the ranks of his coun'
trymen at home, as many did, perhaps
he crossed the ocean in vessel ladeT
with the weapons of his own destruc'
ton, furnished by the official authors
ty of the American Government an6
doubtless there are now German sol
diers sleeping In their graves, sen
there by American, bullets,if fired by
American guns, furnished to the ar
mics of the French Emperor by th,
administration of Ulysses s. Grant
1t cannot be otherwise when we re
| feet that enough ware sent 10 pullil