Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

CAF tant praise. The Psalmrst of old never offered more acceptable service in the He brew tongue, nor touched sweeter melo- dy from his royal harp than did these Mississippi negroes when they poured forth their joy in such simple lines as-
 ''Oh won't we have happy time.
 Eatin' of the honey, and drinkin' of the wine :"
 Or, again, in soft refrain
 ''Swing low, sweet chariot,
 A-c0ming for to carry me home."
 Mississipt letter to the Cincinnati Commercial.
 The Prospect To-day.
 It is conceded upon all sides that, with the exception of the school question, the better men of both parties are substan- tially agreed. They are in favor of hard money, of honest, economical, and efficient administration, and of strictly constitu- tional policy. The party professions up. on these subjects are virtually the same. Yet the party names and lines are main- tained, and there is no third party. Gov. Allen, of Ohio, and his friends claim to be the genuine Democratic party. Gov. Tilden, of New York, and his friends urge the same claim as strenuously. Yet the two are radically, fatally, irreconcllably, divided. Thelr position as fellow-parti- sans is exquisitely absurd. They are Bianchi and Neri, Guelphs and Guibel. lines, each stoutly asserting that they arc the same party. On the other hand, the Republican lines are as absolutely un. broken, and the same spectacle is presen- ted. The Chicago Tribune and the Inter- Ocean of the same city, for instance, are both Republican journals, but it would not be easy to discover a single point of sympathy or great policy upon which they agree. The Tribune is one of the most able, vigorous, and wellinformed advocates of a sound currency in the country, while the Inter-Ocean holds with General Cary. The Tribune insists that a soldier IS not the best remedy for every breach of the peace in the Southern States, while the Inter-O Ocean thinks it the basest pusillanimity not to order out the army upon the slightest occasion. If the the Tribune be Republican paper. the Inter-Ocean certainly is not, except that both of them are friendly to the Ad- ministration. For the great purposes for which parties exist they are as antagonis- tic as the New York and Ohio Democratic platforms.
 In this situation it is an obvious ques- ton why the old parties do not dissolve. why those who seek an honest financial system and efficient administration and 6 wise Southern policy do not unite and it is supposed and asserted by some obser- yers that suddenly and fortunately this will be the result. The true explanation of the situation seems to be that both the Republicans and Democrats see the im- minent rupture in the Democratic party. and each side holds its position because the Republicans are confident that the event, with their own good conduct, must make them the party of the future, and draw the better Democrats to them, while this last class equally hope to slough of their imitation brethren, and then to absorb the hard-money Republicans. The imme- diate consequences of this situation in the StaBe OI 1SeW TUrk are mOSS fOEEuKHaEe TOT each party is on its good behavior; each Is rivaling the other in declaring sound doctrines and nominating good men. But 1t is apparently the Democratic party which IS to be really rent, not the Repub- lican. Should the Democrats carry Ohio, imitation would inevitably become the National Democratic platform for next year. The hard money Democrats might insist that they were the only legitimate heirs, but they would be compelled ac. quiesce or bolt, and they would instantly become, not a national party, but a body of dissenters, like the Free-sOil Democrats in 1848-honest and patriotic, but not in a position to ''absorb" anybody. Should the Democrats be defeated in Ohio, then, as against Republican hard-money tri- umphs, the Tilden Democracy, clooged with Tammany Hall and the Catholic vote as it's chief support in New York, can hope to draw from the Republicans only by the conviction of Republicans them selves that their own cause has more to hope from the party of Tammany Hall than from their own renewed Vigor and resolute purpose.
 With the sure conflict and the doubtful issue over hard-money in the National Democratic Convention, and the position in which the canvass and victory in Ohio would leave the Republican party as the successful hard-money political Organiza- ton, there could be no good reason that any patriotic Republican who holds that the question of imitation is paramount should leave his party, which had just upon that issue. If, again. the Democrats should carry Ohio upon their imitation platform, and it became clear that the contest upon the subject was as inevitable in the Republican as In the Democratic National Convention. the result would undoubtedly be that if either one of these Conventions should adopt an imitation platform, it's action would be re- pudiated by honest men of both parties while if both Conventions adopted it, the honest men would unite upon third can- didate, who would be some conspicuous citizen not distinguished as partisan :on either side.-HGrper's Weekly.