Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-11-01
n@Rfore the next issue of this De

Before the next issue of this pa
per the Presidential election will be
over, the result known and the desti-
ny of this nation settled, for veal or
for woe, for the next four years, and
perhaps forever. Two parties only are
in the field with their candidates and
platforms soliciting the sufrages of the
people, and challenging their criticism.
The lines are distinctly drawn, and the
principles of the two parties are as
clearly defined and so entirely antago-
nistic that no one can misunderstood
them. We have, on the one side, the
Conservatives, with Greeley and Brown
as their candidates-with cancellation
engraven on their banner. On the
other side, we have the Radicals, with
Grant and Wilson as their leaders, and
reveaage as their watchword. On the
one side we have the Cincinnati plat
form, breathing words of ''peace on
earth and good will to men, demand
ing ''the absolute removal of all disa-
bilities imposed on account of the re-
bellion," and the noble letter of Horace
Greeley, appealing to the people, North
and South, ''to clasp hands across the
bloody chasm, which has too long di-
vided them, and to forget that they
have been enemies, in the joyful con-
seriousness that they are and must re-
main brethren" On the other side,
we have the Philadelphia platform,
composed of glittering generalities and
studied evasions of every vital question
now at issue before the country, follow
ed by the letter of Gen. Grant, in which
he accepts the denomination as en-
dorsement of the course of his admin
istration, and promises, if elected, to
continue in the same paths. WehaVe
on the one side the Cincinnati platform,
proclaiming in thunder tones the doc
-trine of States rights, local self-gov-
ernment-without Federal interference
the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority, and the freedom of
the humblest citizen in the land, under
the protection of the writ of ho6eas
corpus. On the other hand we have,
In the history of the Radical party and
their candidate, daily evidences of
their determination to override States
rights, to abrogate local self-govern-
ment, to subordinate the civil to the
military authority, and we see this par
ty, with mental subserviency, empow-
ering the President, on his mere whim
and caprice, to suspend the writ of
ha6eas corpus; and, to-day, our fellow
citizens, at the heels of Prgtorian
guards, are carried away from. their
homes, their wives and children to dis
tant prisons, there to languish and die.
We have in the Cincinnati platform the
assertion of the great Democratic prin-
ciple that cit is the best government
which governs least" Whilst on the
other side we have the daily and hour
~ assertion that strong centralized
power is needed for the government of
this Republican country. The whole
J; tenor and drift of Radical legislation
for the last four years tends inevitably
tic. this result. Wehavein the Cincin-
nati- platform demand for Q speedy
returnto specie payments. J. Whilst the
Radical politicians and finaaciers bold
lysproclaim that 90. national debt is a
national blessing. And,as practi-
cal illustration of this Radical theory,
we have gold at a-premium Of Is to Is