The Republican journal., 1874-10-29

| the conservatives in Missouri, thinks that
several questions, and says that we shall
probably not hear anything more about the
| third term. Ohio and Indiana have settled
il, and if ii ever was seriously entertained
OF which there We're considerable proofs
| a few weeks agO-those who entertained
| it may as well dismiss it. President Grant
will close his public career with the pres
ent term. and give place to a successor
| But this is not all that the Ohio and In
| diana elections decide; they 90 good
deal further The Republican defeats in
these states are not mere temporary re
verses; their effect on individual Repub-
icans appears to indicate that they have
shocked the party to its foundations
There is no such spirited defiance of the
disaster as Republicans exhibited on pre-
vious similar occasions They accept il
with a suBmiSsiveness in which there is
no sign of a determination to retrieve it,
but which seems rather to admit that the
rule of their party has come to an end,
and some different policy, if not some dit
terent party, must take its place. The
! compact public opinion in the North, en-
which the party has securely reposed for
ten years, has been honey-combed through
and through by such corroding agencies
as the Credit NIobilier, the salary bill, the
Sanborn contracts, the moiety frauds, the
Shepherd business, the Louisiana outrage
and financial Encouragement, until if
seems to lie succumbing at last, and bring
ing the party that rested Oil it to the
ground. The Northern people have borne
long and patiently with Republican blum
ders and crimes they have endured ten
times as much from that party as they
would have tolerated, or ever will tolerate
from the Democracy fact which Demo
Gratis will do well not to forget in their Joy
OF their triumph-but they have reached
a point where they will endure no longer.
As the Republican party would not reform
itself while in power, they have deter
mined to remove it from power and force
it to penance and publication. There isa
majority of the states-19 of the 81
that are mti-Republican this day, and
there are two, if not four others prepar
ed to 60 over to that side at the Novem-
Der election. This is a very significant
iact it is challenge of the administra-
ton in power at Washington and Of the
Republican majority in the present con-
gress, elected two years ago, and a con-
domination OF the policy which this adj
| minstration and this congressional ma
ority are pursuing. 1t proves that the
| country is governed on a basis disapproy-
| ed by the people, and that the people will
| not submit to the inconsistency much
! longer. Nearly all the great cities of the
| Union, Boston. New York, Brooklyn.
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis, have
ceased to be Republican-an unerring
sign Of the drift Of intelligent opinion.
| Congress will meet in six weeks, and it
will be little curious to see whether it
and the president will conform to the new
expression Of the popular will 1t is too
much to expect that the president and
| congress will become Democratic, but it
is not much to demand that they shall be
| less Republican. If the president is wise,
he may do much to give benignity to the
close Of his term He can do justice to
the wronged people OF Louisiana, and
throw on congress the responsibility of
maintaining the Kellogg usurpation; he
can assist the despoiled taxpayers OF
| South Carolina to a just deiverance from
their oppressors; he can arrest A:tyGen.
! Williams partisan and lawless scheme for
| carrying Alabama; he can dismiss the
mischievous office holders in the South
| who have made so much of the trouble in
that region, and fill their places with
reputable men; he can assist the people
OF all the disturbed Southern states to the
same tranquility which he aided to give
| w ihetuodo anu CAAo, IHi llC Cdll, ny
other similar measures, restore the whole
country to that peace which he invoked at
his first inauguration
| The kind of tools that the administrs.-
ton uses is working up the southern out
rage business, for its effect on elections,
may be judged from an incident at the
trial of prisoner at Mobile. lie was ac-
cused of making disturbances in Sumter
Co., the prosecutor being U. S. detec-
tive named Hester This Hester was in
stantly recognized, by Capt Semmes who
was present at the trial. as one of the
crew of the steamer Sumter Hester
came forward and at once confirmed the
Captains recognition by offering his hand
Hester was appointed masters mate by
the Captain at Gibraltar While a mid
shipman he was temp orarily in charge of
the steamer. Capt. Semmes states that
Hester shot and killed mess-mate who
was lying in his bunk, it was supposed
asleep, and subsequently escaped.
The English have at last caught Nina
Sahib. He will be remembered as the
leader in the Sepoy rebellion in India in
1871 fawning, treacherous wretch who
while protesting the utmost friendship for
the English, was plotting the massacre of
| men, women and children bV the thou
sand, with outrages that are nameless in
their horrible atrocity. He has since been
skulking and hiding, but now is in fair
way to get his just deserts.