The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-03
cIxNT,S STRENGTH AND HOW
1T SHOULD BE USED.

qfs1 from Min W utL1 tlSSiSS NIOlG
in his Conclusions, 1.-The Republicans
have won perilous triumph 1t is a
perIlous thing and one which demands
the exercise of the higher qualities of
sef-denia1, self-inspection and probity
for any party to be so wholly and indis-
putably the master of the political situa-
ton of the..scountry as the Republican
party now is. 1t has oyerTiddea ali pos
sibIe opposition and placed its works and
Its purposes high above danger and out
of reach of effective criticism. :. Coer-
cion'' was not more fully vindieated at
Appomattox than Reconstruction was en-
grated upon our national system by the
final rout and surrender of the 9Th of No
vember. We have the power to do as we
viii; and the doings Of wisdom or the
mistakes of folly are TO prove our fitness
OF unftness to WELD so tremendous
power. If, as we hope and trust, Repub-
sican principles, embracing the strongly
asserted idea of Nationality and the
equally emphatic doctrine of universal
Civil Rights have been firmly and unal-
terably engrafted upon the American
system of government, then, indeed, is
the distinctive mission of Republicanism
fulfilled: and there is left the vast laby-
r;nth of problems in political economy
within which are SO many divergent
paths as that no party may seek to
penetrate there with hope of maintaining
its organization and its forces intact.
What and where is the rock upon which
this party Will split? viii it go to pieces
in q vain and sordid squabble for the
spoils of Office? Or, cementing itself to-
ccther with SO thinIy diluted a senti-
.nent as that which underlies the present
scheme of Civil Service Reform. will it
inaugurate the millenial era of politics,
when the Democratic Lion shall eat
straw like the OK and the Republican
Lamb shall confdingiy and with sweet
and touching affection and esteem lie
down and MUNICH its innocent cud be-
side the subdued and reconstructed King
of the Forest, and take unto itself Per-
fiction and Immortality? The men OF
Congress may, by pulling against Grant
and assaulting the intrenchments Of Of
flee tentlrei behind which he sits and
strokes the back of 90 Reform make so
wide a breach and so deep gulf-they
on one side and Grant on the other-as
that there may be no filling it up: no
compromises planted along its edges;
nothing but an irrepressihle conflict hot
grown withinit and ever emanatiDg there
from until the next National election
shall give it arbitfament and temporary
conclusion. The going of Cameron and
Hartranft and Others, lately, to urge
upon Grant, in the name Of Pennsylvania
politics (and an unprecedented avalanche |
OF I30, 0C0 majority to back it up) the |
appointment of an influential and wor- |
thy Republican to the Philadelphia Post
office, and Grants square and infe4ible |
standing by the letter and spirit of the
Clerk Coddling Law, looks something |
like the cloud. now 10 bigger than a
mans hand, which will blew up great
tempest, one of these coming days, which
tempest will cause that doom crack, the |
which we have described as bottomless
gulf with edges scared and Gshen and |
barren OF compromises
By all means let al laws, while they |
remain on the books, unrepealed, be ad-
ministered unevasively aud il the spnit
OF their conception ami enactment The
Republican party would cut q sorry figure
sitting peeyish and sullen over the work
incs of one of its laws-let it he never SO
wishy washy, mandy PANTY, Dundreary-
ish and emasculating. Destroy it from
tho face OF statute books and out of sight |
and sound of politics, By sharp and de-
cisive Congressional repeating; but don't
lets whine OYER it and quarrel with
Grant because he faithfully exeeu .es the
vapid, Miss Nancyish and over-nice
spirit OF it. When our party, represent
ed n Congress, does away with this sex
denying law, and Grant vetoes the re-
pealing Act, then and not till then is
there cdsus beli within our lines. Let
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