The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-12

stantially in their present form.
Prohibition has indeed long been the
popular sentiment 10 the State. But, al
though it has found expression in law, it
has not been uniformly enforced for want
Of the necessary system to ensure its
enforcement.
Afier the : ruggie.
Generosity to fallen enemy is always
becoming to a conqueror. The United
States government won more glory in its
after treatment of the rebels in the late
war, than all the great victories 10 battle
could confer. The late fierce political
struggle is over we have won glorious
victory. The dust aud heat Of the tur-
moil have cleared away, and in the calm
that succeeds tilt is becoming in US to be
fair, candid and generous to the beaten
worse than beaten-utterly and forever
routed foe. While we cannot too strong.
ly condemn the corrupt and pernicious
principles of large portion of the party
which was shattered last Tuesday, never
to be reunited, it is useless to continue
the bitter personalities that have distin-
guished the campaign. The leaders of
the liberal movement are politically dead.
Let them rest in peace. We can add
nothing TO our wonderful victory and
their crushing defeat by following them
up with personal abuse. 1t is the rough
and the bully who strikes a manIwhen he
is down. The leaders Of the liberal party
are things of the past, for the time being
at least The ideas they endeavored to
propagate, the principles they represent
ed, have been condemned and rejected by
popular majority, almost unprecedent-
ed. 1t is glorious moment for the
friends Of the union the believers in the
future Of the Great Republic; an in
spring event to the friends of humanity
all over the world. 1t is no time to re-
vive the petty enmities engendercd dur
ing prolonged and heated presidential
crmraigu. We can well afford to rise
above them. We commend the utterance
of the PhiladelphiA Press, an administra-
ton paper, when it says:
Tho candor with which the great majority of the
Liberal Democratic papers admit their defeat is
crcditabe. Their charges of improper influence,
of fraud and bribery, are merely incidental, and
their statement of the real causes broad and gen
eral. The Tribune, adopting the homely and ex-
pressve phrase ofthe West, ascrbes it to the largo
number of Democrats who refused to "cat crow"
l. O., cooperate with the Liberals while the World
ascribes it to the appropriateness of Mr. Greeley
as a candidate Of the Democratic party, and to
the corruption with which that organization is
tainted in the localities where it is strongest Both
of these journals, viewing the ruins of their hopes
from different standpoints, and with perhaps diff
fcrent emotions, are right in their conclusions.
One of the maxims of the past used to be that
magnanimity should be exhibited in the hour of
victory, and when We add to this the other maxim
Of submission in the hour of defeat we cannot av-
old the expression of our pleasure at the reports
that Gen. Grant exhibited no eXultation over his
unexampled triumph and also upon the fact that
Mr. Greeley's Tribune of Wednesday displayed the
spirit of true philosophy under the calamity which
has fallen upon him.
The present is safe; the future of the
Republic shines with promise more glo.
rious than ever before. Another four
years of prosperity, peace and progress,
is assured US. But better than all this,
above and beyond every temporary in
centiye to exultation, is the confidence
which the nation must feel in itself after
its sublime action the confidence which
the people must feel in themselves, their
judgment and convictions, after their tire.
mendous reDuke to the professional poll.
ticians, and the abiding lesson which that
rebuke has taught the demagogucs and
selfish schemers. 1t is bright day for
the nation. Let US rejoice, wildly and
enthusiastically if we will and let us
be generous to those of the opposition who
may have labored from Conscientious mo.
tives or personal preferences in the cause
which has been SO signally overthrow.
w. Now ,haC political matters have
subsidized. it will be well for us to look to
matters which concern our own interests.
BY this, we do not mean to intimate that
there is no Importance attached to politi.
cal discussions, and political action b ut
there are other home matters which con-
Germs us far more. 1t is sometimes asked
why some villages are kept back, and do
not increase and grow like others. Aside
from the natural advantages which gives
some localities the preference, for the
transaction of business, the matter rests
merely with capitalists, and property
owners.
If for instance, a locality is favorable
for manufacturing enterprises and me.
chanical business, and such enterprises
languish, it may be set down as certain
that the people are boarding up their
money, and putting it into bonds. If a
young man or set Of men Of limited
means, desire to start a manufacturing
business, which would bring customers
into town, and dispense large amount
of money in wages, they not unfrequent.
ly find it impossible to get site for a
water-power or land on which to build at
any price. Or, if they need money they
find it hard work to find capitalists to
furnish it. even upon good security and
after begging away awhile they finally
leave for more liberal location. In this
way,places with good natural advantages
and plenty Of capital frequently decay
while others with no better facilities, and
without capital, thrive and prosper. Now
we know some towns in Vermont, that
have pursued the above policy. They have
sent money enough to the West, or in,
vested it in stocks and bonds, to have
built manufacturing interest, that would
have more THAI doubled their population
in ten years,an increased their value il
importance and value of real estate, more
than from gold.
SCHUYLER CoLFAX NOT CANDIDATE
FOR OFFIcE.-Cincinnati, Nor. IA
special to The Chronicle, dated Indian.
apolis, Ind, contains the following caro-
addressed to The indianapolis Journal
SoUrH BEND, Ind, Nov. 6.-Th,
Chicago Tribune of to-day again say.
that it appears that Mr.. Colfax is, after
all, candidate for the Senatorship o.