Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-30
Political Common Sense.


ton we may look for political party
without faults. The best organization
ever devised by man has had its weak
points. Even the church, an organi-
zation where purity and excellence
should be found, if anywhere on earth,
has its shadows which at times dark
en- the light of its holy teachings
Yet no one abandons the church be-
cause a few of it's followers prove un-
worthy of its name and become stumb- |
ling blocks in the path of religious
truth; few fall but many press on
holding aloOf the standard of truth
The ignorant and vicious may sneer at
the church because its robes cover at
times a hypoerit and rascal, but the IN
telligent and virtuous look, not to tne |
one who disgraces himself by falling |
short of his profession, but to tue |
ninety and nine who add to lts glOIy
by living upright and Christian llVes,
What we are apt to call the faults OF
church are simply shortcomings OF a
few of its members. The church is
no more responsible for them than the
snn is responsible for the clouds that
occasionally darken the earth. Its
teachings tend to elevate, purify, and
if practiced by all would transform a
world of wickedness into a garden of
perfect love, peace, and benevolence.
But in the face of human depravity we
must accept things as we find them.
We must bear with the faults of our
neighbors, remembering our own
We must do the best we can. Perfec
ton is beyond orr reach-improve-
ment within it. To so live that by
our example we shall do good, elevate
mankind, make the earth better for
Our, having lived and acted, is the sum
and substance of mans duty to him
self, bis country, and his God.
Asitis with the echurch and all NOR
al Organizations SO it is with political
parties. We must Judge them, in the
aggregate, by the results they produce
on the community, State, and nation.
It is possible for bad men to creep in
to power in good party, and equally
possible for good men to be found
within the compass of a bad party
There is no rule known by which the
one can be kept out or the other pre-
vented from staying in. A thief may
break inte a sanctuary and despoil its
alter; a saint may labor in prison in
hopes Of converting its inmates. We
may punish the one when caught, and
urge the other to extend his labors of
love, but the facts remain the same,
and can not well be changed. To
Judge the Republican party by the
character of a few rascals that have
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would be as Just and sensible as to sit
In Judgment over the Creator because
few of his children have gone astray.
Never since the birth of the nation
has a party been as quick and willing
50 Investigate whatever had the ap-
pearance of wrong, and to punish
with even handed justice the wrong
doer, as the Republican party. It has
carried this spirit of justice far be-
yond the demands of political neces-
sity, and has been censured by its own
friends for prosecuting its investiga-
tions beyond the requirements of its
inveterate enemies. But it stands jus
tilted before all men for the purity oil
it's intentions. It came into power to
watch over and preserve the Govern
ment, and it has never lost sight OF
its original mission. We challenge
the political history of the world for 6
party of equal merit; for a party thai
has done so much to elevate mankind
and secure personal liberty for par
ty that has left so broad an impress
for justice and humanity on the civili
zation of the age in which it had ex
istence. To permit ambitions politi
clans, soured statemen, or the opel
and avowed enemies of the Republi
TO break up this grand organization
would be to welcome calamity who's
approach would be ruin, whose pres
ence would be death to our peace ant
prosperity, whose end no man is wis
enough to forecast. 1t matters littl
whether it falls before the sword O
Democracy or goes down by tn
treacherous blows of those it though
its friends; its fall will be the same
the breaking down of the only loys
barrier that guards the liberties of th
people from the encroachment of this
despotic power that once held in tn
chains of slavery four milliOE huma
beings.
we would sound the alarm through
out the length and breadth of th
land. We would summon every Re-
publican and every true friend of lii
erty to their post of duty. Our ent
mics are active, unscrupulous, detel
mined by threats or promises to brea
up the party that saved the nation an
that now defends its honor and it's il
tegrity. Every shade of oppositio o
is being united; little faults are bein
distorted into glariDg wrongs; the p
culatiOns Of a single official are bein
held up as the rule of conduct on I'll
part of all and if our friends are nc
earnest and watchful the noblest part
Of modern times will be overwhelme
by this foul tide of misrepresentation
and falsehood. AS we Judge the tire
by its fruits, so we Judge the party b
the fruits which it has borne, and
still bearing, for advancing civifizt
ton. Do we seek reform, it has, IL
power to bring it about. Do we see
continued development OF nation
wealth, its past career is the best q
surance that we shall have it. Do v
desire peace, freedona, and,all the bles
ings conferred by government,
is the only party that can besto
them and protect us in their enio
ment-EWashington City Republic.
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-~''Gimme three cents worth
gingerpop and q nickel's worth
gingerbread" exclaimed a rural vi.
COR from Lost Creek, yesterday.
"Dad died last week, and since Z,
come into my fortune I'm kind
reckless. ~ ETerre Haute Express.
- So many people are out of er
pIoyment just now that there is ever
where great rush for situations.
Twelve poor devils have already 81
nifed their willingness to becor