Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-02-12
THE:yTRUE POLICY.

Any party can expect success only as its
policy concurs with the design of the gov
ernment. The history of the preceding
great parties which have contended for and
held possession of the Nations teat since
the government was founded, without full
rehearsal, is familiar enough to all to ena-
BILE any to understand what is now needed
to be said pertinently OF the true policy of the
party in power.
The Wing party failed, because its poll
cy did not have in view or fully concur
with the intent OF the government nor had
such mon as JOHN QUINCY ADAMS been
able, with all their intelligence and states
mlnship in the effort of all their honest en-
er6y and exertion, to school il up to the
spirit and re al meaning of our Constitution
aud those salutary elements wherein is con-
taine1 far more than simply to get and
keep party in power.
Tne Dam pcratic party, whose principal
object, at least in its latter years, seems TO
have been to get and retain, Mt all hazard =,
an at whatsoever expense, the power foi
the sake of it and its emoluments, more than
the good of the country and the rights and
happiness OF the whole people, was miStak-
emily and greatly at fault, and wide apart
from the design of the government and the
true policy to be pursued. Accordingly it
beams torn asunder by supposed opposite
Interests, North and South; and so imbit-
tarad ,vos tho Soufbarp ,,ort Of - n. 1of,at
anl loss Of power with its emoluments,o on the
election OF our first Republican President
it rushsd into treason and inauguratc1 the
civil war, most deplorable upon the coun-
try at large, and not less 80 to the South .
and 50 virtually it went out of existence
though the Opposition strive to cover
themselves under the sacred name. 1t was
not because these parties were wholly com
posed OF the worse class or bad men, but
because they were lead by those who, how
ever much they had at heart their country's
good and the rights, happiness and peace
ful pursuits Of the whole people, lost sight
OF the real object of the government, and
mistakenly pursued policy which met
with-such results in fact, no true policy at
all. * .
Northern ultraism, in degree, impru-
'1en:ly perhaps, exasperated Southern ex-
trenists to-such blindness and folly and
eircumstances over which they had no con-
troll. carried good union men and patriots
in m9asurs, not to say greatly out of
place
Under such state of affairs the Republi-
can,party came in power, ana with the de-
sign Of the government in full view deter
mined to carry out that design, and success
fully suppressed the rebellion and preserv-
ed the Union of the States, in accordance
with the intent of our Fathers who "foru-
ed ito establish justice, insure domestic tran
quaay, provid: for the common defence, promote
Ge general ,ceyare, and secure he blessings Of
liberty 10 hem,slrss--to their prosterity" us,
to the whole people Of the United States Of
America.
In this policy the party had a right to
expect suecess-has been suceessful-has
good unction to be successful in such aim
in ever promoting tho design OF the trainers
of the government. Notwithstanding Il e
Opposition, and the sooner the Opposition
realize this fact the better it will be for all.