The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-07
st. FR\NSNlE, LOUISIANA FRIDAY NlE 1 WI
Victories tof Cincinnati.

II Victories Tor Cincinnati.
It is barely four weeks since th,
Cincinnati Convention met. Tha
) Convention nominated a ticket which
) bids fair to sweep the country il
, November, and administer the Gov
ernment for the next four years.
But whatever may lie the fate Of the
} ticket, the triuthph OF THE Conven
ton has already begun. See tht
: growing roll of it's victories
l. Till the Cincinnati Conven.
ton met, no entreaties could Induce
the Administration majority in Con
gress to think Of any measure oi
Amnesty and Reconciliation for the
South: But already startled by the
strength Cincinnati develops; Con
gress has hastened to accord in a
fortnight what for seven years it has
persistently, detiantly, most need
lessly and wickedly denied. At last
we have Amnesty-nUt generously
complete, but imlneasurably better
than none.
2. Till the Cincinnati Convention
met; it was generally understood
that the President meant to have the
advantage, in his canvass for re-elec-
ton; Of the legal power to suspend
the habeas corpus; and muster the
ba5onets to his support. Even af-
ter Cincinnati, the Senate (now, by
reason Of its Pomeroys and Cald-
wells and Conklihgs, the real lower
House,) persisted in renewing the
ku-klux bill for his benefit bnt
the House has clearly shown its will
ingness to take another step in that
direction. Cincinnati has prevented
Presidential elections undet martial
lax ISM'Yila,tles {R ill., hands of a. Presidential
3. Till Cincinnati, Gen. Schurz
was u German renegade and mer-
cenary, who ought to have his leg
tied to q chair. Now the Admins
tration organs think him an accom-
plished aud conscientious statesman.
Till Cincinnati, the bailipg of Jeffer-
son Davis after he had been for two
years refused the right of the COM
monest felon, that to % trial, was a
monstrous crime. Now the Renom-
ination State Convention hastens to
select one of the bondsnen as a
delegate at large to Philadelphia
Till Cincinnati, thp political, support
of men who had once been Rebels,
was held a sure sign of inf;,my.--=-
Now we see men like Mosby well
coined to the White House. And
so, till Cincinnati, Democrats were
still hesitating as to whether they
should not fight over the old hope=
less fight for issues that ceased to
be vital Or possible after Appomat-
tox: Now we have them, as at Ro-
chester, manfully planting themselves
on the highest and firmest Republi-
can ground as in Connecticut,
uniting with Liberal Republicans in
the most practical, common-sense
fashion; to get; not the man Of their
choice, but only man who had re-
sisted some of the Administration
measures which Liberal Republicans
and Democrats alike disapproved.-
Administration temper, Democratic
principles and policy,-all are alike
improved by Cincinnati.
IF tiow the Administration could
only be made to see that the main
business of Oustomhouse officers Is
not to pull. wires for Presidential
denomination, and that d Civil Ser
vice Reform should show a little per.
formance along with the swelling
promise! But let us at least give
thanks to Cincinnati for what it has
already brought us.-N Y. 1'tbttne:
The reconstruction laws contend
the Liberal Republicans shall not be
used to fill the States with United
States soldiers and marshals to over
awe the civil authority and carry To-
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