Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-10-19

Tgr .SERTICES or REPUBLICANISN
The New York Herald, commenting on
the result in Ohio, freely admits that the
republicans have saved the country from
the greatest PERI that has threatened 1t
since the war In other words, many Of
the most candid aud thoughtful democrats
pnoues,ionably recognize the fact that the
republican triumph over the democracy OF
Ohio. has prevented that party as whole
from rushing into the imitation heresy' anu
has saved the country From Il misfortune
which would have worked intioite mischief
to every business interest.
The admission of the Herald suggests
MANY other occasions when the triumph of
the republican party over the democracy,
had done the country even greater service.
At the very inception of the republican
party. twenty years since, its triumph in
the Congressional elections prevented the
extension of slavery into Kansas and Neb-
raska. Had the democracy then triumphed
Kansas and Nebraska would have been
given up to slavery.
Again the victory OF the republican party
in the presidential election of 1860, cstab-
lished the grard principle that slavery
was sectional and freedom national; and
proclaimed the doctrine that no State had
the right, or could be permitted to seeede
from the Union Had the democracy tri-
umphed in 1860, slavery would have sue
cessfully claimed the right to 60 into free
territory, and the doctriae of the right Of
secession would have established.
Again the continued republican triumphs
in 1862 and 1868, secured the proclama-
ton of emancipation and the adoption of
the constitutional amendment abolishing
slavery against the almost united resis-
lance of the democracy Of the nation.
Once more in 1864, the triumph OF the
republican party decided the victory OF
the Union arms, and settled the overthrow
of the rebellion. Had the democratic
party triumphed. on the platform which
declared the war failure. the Union cause
would have been abandoned, the Union
would have been sundered, and the Con-
fedracy become fixed fact. The repub-
licah victory in the autumn of 1864. was
worth more to the Union cause than a re-
enforcement of half million men,
Again in 1866, when johnson attempted
to surrender the fruits of the war and re-
store the spirit of rebellion to the suprem.
acy, 1t was the victory of the republican
party and the defeat of the democratic,
that saved the nation and the great prinei
plies established by the war. And once
again in 1868, it was the republican tri-
uph over the democrats that placed in the
fundamental law OF the nation the great
doctrine,of equal rights secured these prin-
ciples as the basis of reconstruction. and
erected barrier against reputation.
Still further, the republican triumph in
1872, prevented the practical overthrow
OF all.tbat had been secured in the recon-
s,ruction of the Sonth. And now come
the republican victories OF 1875, to save
the country for the present from the perils
of imitation. And in all human probabil-
ity, another republican victory in 1876
will be needed to finally settle the curren-
cy issue on sound basis and fully estab-
lish reconstruction on basis OF equal
rights.
II viii thus be seen that repeatedly from
1854 TO 1875, the country has been saved
from imminent perils by republican tri-
ulnphs over the democracy. Surely such
facts ought to inspire every citizen with
the strongest confidence in the republican
party, and the fullest distrust In the dem
ocratic organization. -Lewiston Journal
10Th.