The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-11-27
For the Fremont Journal.
OCCASIONALS.
APOLOGETICAL,


Ward Beecher's four dollar night
lecture on "Manhood and Money"
That reverend is still before the pub
lie, but not as a lecturer, nor yet as
a preacher Of the Gospel. At that
time, weird suspicious grimly ira
versed the air concerning the ugly
matter now in the Courts. How it
has dragged ''its slow, serpentine
length along" The great American
divine is again courting; but alas!
the wooing is not that of his young
er days. 1t is not Loves sweet
dream, bat the bitter reality of law.
It's not a pleasant, friendly contest
between school-bOy rivals; but the
terrible onset Of giants, in which one
side must be pushed to the wall.
Which will it be? On the outcome
hangs the very life Of infinite conse-
quences. After all, then, I am not
far wrong in calling my disconnect-
ed contributions "Occasionals."
THAT 'fTIDAL WAVE"
Sometimes unlocked for answers
come to our prayers. They are
scarcely less stunning than unfore-
seen calamities. Iwould not be un-
derstood as intimating that the
Democrats have been guilty ofpray-
ing-at least not the sort that is so
spelled-but the recent political re-
action astounds them as much as it
does the Republicans. Indeed, their
victory is an elephant for which
they have no adequate quarters; and.
he is wandering about aimlesly,
with no resting place. This sur
prise is creditable to them, as it
shows that in their great wickedness
and demerit they were not so brazen
as really to expect success, though
they brazenly predicted it. Every
body is cropping for the cause of this
political Bulls Run. Very likely
there is no one exclusive cause; but
the reverse proceeded from many
grounds. There has been a deep,
silent, increasing, restless dissatis-
faction among the masses, CORE
spending with the steadily enlsrg-
ing corruption among their party
leaders. The industrial classes,
loyal to the core, let the Southern
menaces have their full, proper eff
feet upon them, and so long as they
could help or hope to purify politics
and their party, they solidly voted
for those who were true to the Stars
and Stripes during the late war; but
when they could see no prospect of
cleasing the Augean stables ofpub-
lie corruption without the defeat Of
their party, they hesitated not to
support third parties or even to vote
with those who had raised parricidal
hands against the Union. But it
should be. borne in mind that they
have not become DemOcrats-Re
pubIicanism is as strong and pro
nOunced as ever; and if its mission
is not accomplished, it will reas-
sumo it's wonted ascendency. 1t is
sanguinely asserted by many that its
object is achieved and that it should
now give place to some party advo-
eating. living principles. They af-
firm that its legitimate object, after
the Emancipation Proclamation was
issued and confirmed by the people,
was to confer upon the manumitted
slaves the elective franchise to pro-
tect them, and q wise school system
to perfect them, in the enjoyment of
their newly acquired freedom. This,
they say, has been done, and moth
ing farther remains. True, the
Louisiana convulsion seems to gain
say the assertion; but they claim that
to be a natural and almost proper re-
bellion of the people "to tle manor
born," against usurping carpet-bag-
gers. On the other hand, they argue
the speedy settlement Of even that
difficulty by the negroes themselves
they are acting with, not against,
their former masters. To speak
more plainly, it is charged that the
whole Southern upturning-thesper-
secutions and murders-just before
the election, was the result of fore
ing the people to submit to the rule
of hated Republicans. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY declared that the ready sur
render to United States authority
and the recent political overthrow
proves this. There is a difference
between compelling State to have
republican form of government,
and imposing upon its citizens,
against their declared preference,
the government of Republicans. Be
that as 1t may, this political reaction
is fraught with two-fold lesson, to
the Republicans, that official corrup-
ton will correct itself, if need be, by
the overthrow Of the party permit
ting it; and to the exultant Demo
Gratis, that this victory, which will
prove to be barren of general advan-
tage to them, does not necessarily
their triumph in the
next Presidential campaign. The
recent sudden change was probably
not the advance movement Of great
tidal wave," but the terrific light
hing consuming the impurities of
,he political atmosphere.
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