The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-28
FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE
COUNTRY.

Here and there Democrats and Re
trifugal forces operating uponold party
men. 1t is of no use, and all such
demonstrations are but a waste o.
mental and physical strength. This
is a liberal age and thoughts are free,
1t is an age, too. for the present and
the future, rather than the past. We
should no more quarrel with a new
association in politics than with a new
discovery in art or science. Living
issues are vital, and dead issues with
out interest, except for the moralist
and the historian. What was the best
thing in lS6l-62 may not be the best
thing in 1871 y; and hence, all this
overhauling of records must go for
nothing, except as they may stamp the
character of the man at the time and
under the circumstances of his utter
ance. When Mr.. Buchanan, at the
close of his administration, failed to
look the rebellion full in the face. and
failed to act, because he could not
exactly see where he had expressed
power to prevent the certain rebellion,
even 10 the extent of the executive
power. we could not but regret his
apathy and S~tolidness; and when Mr..
Greeley, in his zeal, cried out, son to
Richmond" when it was ever more
safe for the Confederates t o cry out
son to Washington" or when, as in
up one of the three suggestions OF
General Winfield Scott, and for letting
the South go, if the people of the South
desired to go. it vas simply a big mis-
take. The one was zeal without
knowledge, and the other a consent to
break up the Union, which, both as a
precedent and an act was not to be
tolerated. But there is no purpose of
disunion now, no institution of slavery
to fight down now, no high strung no
tons that a State can secede at pleasure.
All these things are settled for the
What is left are great questions indeed
--asthe people against one ma power;
decentralization against Capitalization;
amnesty against persecution and pro
scription: the rights of the States to be
free from the presence of the army in
time of peace; the right of civil law
and authority over the suspension o.
the habeas corpus; reforms in legisla-
ton, in revenue, in taxes, in the quail
i%fcations of men in office; against die
tation from superiors in office, for
mere party ends and purposes. II
men of ability, like Mr.. Voorhees,,
steer off from all this, it is to be re-
GREETED, but canno be helped, because
it is their perfect right to prefer Grant
10 Greeley and to re elect Grant if
they can. So it is equally the right OF
other Democrats to prefer Greeley to
Grant, wheneverthe direct or probable
i1ouO 10 AK t"o DCiilO-
Gratis who part company should part
in peace, whether now or in July, al
way remembering that there is a
crisis i'll public affairs when men see
differently, and act from different mo
tives and for different ends. Those
who now pitch into Greeley SO freely,
may, by and by, have to support him,
or choose between him and Grant. If
this is wise, then, as it seems to US, it
is a much mistaken wisdom, and those
who have been calling Grant all sorts
of names, and believed what they said.
will find themselves in quite as awk-
ward a position as the supporters of
Grant. Whenever it is impossible to
do better, do just what the Democrats
of the Connecticut Senate and House
of Representatives did recently, choose
what is best in the interest of the
country as we'll as of the party to
which we belong.
Mrs abby SAGE Richardson was