The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-26
The Light of Other Days.


The Light of Other Days.
! here is expressed by the radical press
oi the country great deal OF apprehen
sion in regard to the future of the nited
States, now that the Democratic party has
become so largely in the ascendant All
sorts Of premonitions of disaster are in
dulged in. and p}lantoms OF all kinds are
made TO dance in their various shapes be-
fore the public eve. The currency i, to be
deraneed. 10y s,luahbIes between expansion
and hard money The public credit is 10
be shaken hy the spectre OF reputation
till foreign bondholders send back their
securities by ship loads Manufacturing
is to be depressed, until panic and disaster
sweep the land And so on, a, long as
invention ami crednlity can act upon each
4 other
1t is easily to lie seen whence all these
portentS of evil arise 1t has been hard
work for the recent administrations to
keep the ship off the breakers. and the
escapes from wreck have been narrow and
/ numerous. But these arose from the false
principles, which We're applied to the ad-
miniStration of public affairs. With the
recollection Of abundant mistakes and
prolific bunders fresh in their own minds
no wonder the radicals raise cries OF alarm
50 long in advance
But the fact is that the true principles of
the government are simple. harmonious
and easily applied, like the grand laws of
nature They We're long ago studied ont
and promulgated by leading Democrats.
They are ready made to our hands, like a
grand specific for all disorders Of the body
/ polite Thomas Jefferson, in his first in
augural message. built the Democratic
platform, applicable TO All times and cir
cumStanceS And thus he declared it.
Equal and exact justice to all men of what
! ever state or persuasion. religious political
peace, commerce. and honest friendship W 18th all
/ nationS-entangling alliances with none the
| support of the state Governments in all their
4 rights. As the most competent administration
| for our domestic concerns. and the Surest bull
Wark> against anti-Iepublican tendencies: the
/ preservation OF the General Government in lis
| whole constitutional Nigor As the sheet anchor
ofour peace at home and safety abroad a Jealous
care OF the rights OF election by the people Il
mud and safe corrective Of abuses which are
lorpud oil 10y the sword of revolution when
| pedctable remedies are unproVlded: absolute
! acquie>eenee in the decisions of the majority
the Vital principle of Republics, from which
there is no appeal but to force. the Vital prnci-
ple> and immediate parent OF dies pOtiSm: a we'll
ttlS 30 ed mlltIl-Or best reliance and
for the first moments of war. till regulars re-
| lleNe them: the supremacy Of the civil over the
| military authority; economy in the public en-
penSc. that labor may be lightly burlened an
| honest payment Of our debts and sacred preser-
| walton of the public faith encouragement of
| agriculture and commerce as its handmade; the
diffusion of information, and the arraignment
! OF all abuses at the bar of public reason; free
dom OF religions: freedom OF the person under
the protection OF habea> corpus, and trials by
i luries lmrartialy selected
These declarations are the sheet-anchor
OF the Democratic faith. And who wants
better2 Their observance kept this coun-
| try prosperous beyond all precedent for
more than sixty years; their violation has
brought misfortune and misery Upon the
accession of the Democracy to power IN
| the natiOn-an event that is now assured
| these truthful, healthful and life-oivino
ideas will be again applied in the admin
iStratlon of the government Public con-
| tidence will be restored; new industries
will be developed; crippled ones will re-
vive and under the coming calm aad bene-
llccnt sway Of the true friends Of the coun-
try, all enterprises, by land and sea, will
renew their old time prosperity. That's
what Democracy means to do-and what
| it will do
They have found Charley Ross again
this time in Quebec
| The Bangor Commercial has u new
local editor. who is making things very
lively.
A steam tag blew up last weel, Just as
She was entering Hell Gate. She sunk,
| but all hands kept right along.
the water question still agitates Ban
| gor-that of rum having been settled some
time ago.
| --GaToters are again a. work in Boston.
The President oft the Fanenil Hall Bank was
| choked and robbed near the DWELL depot
on Saturday night
--Eethel, back OF Portland, is greatly
exercised about the disappearance of q
wool-buyer, who owes about SAC, 900 But
then he is a deacon in ore oftheir churches,
and of course will come back.
The Bangor Wing reproaches us with
not having read the denial of Stanton's
suicide, which it copied from the New
York Evening Post The fact is, that af-
ter pernsiug its articles on the Hamlin con-
troversy, we felt too much exhausted to
| proceed further There is limit to hui
man endurance. But if the Wing will
furnish proof that Ben Butler lied when
he declared on the floor of Congress that
Mrs. Surratt was murdered we will publish
that and it's good deal more important
than the method of Stanton's death
| A mackerel case has Just been decid-
ed at Portland, which is of interest to all
who deal in the striped back fish. James
Frye, Of Camden, deputy fish inspector,
put his official brand on fifty barrels of
mackerel, rating them as No. l. Thomas
Woodward bought them as such, and
found that he had bad bargain on his
hands, as they did not come up to the
standard. So he sued the inspector gen
eral, for the act of his deputy, and recov-
ers $50. The law provides that No. l
mackerel shall be of the best quality and
at least thirteen inches in length from the
extremity of the head to the fork of the
tail.