Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-08-27
what Is the Opposition

There are some who profess TO believe
that the result of last fall's elections indi.
Gated Republican defeats and Democratic
triumphs Il were idle to deny that they
resulted disastrously 10 the Republican
party hut II would be fully a. ridiculous
10 attribute the defeat 10 the Democratic
party That efiete organization could not
have effected the overthrow Of the Repub.
lican party, and did not effect IT, There
were several causes which produced dis
sension in the Republican camp, and
while some, aye, many, Joinedth the Opposi
tion TO rebuke their own party, they did
not consider their action as total and final
desertion, nor as attaching themselves to
the Democratic party There were other
Republicans who, like Fitz John Porter
at the battle of Gainwille, tamely looked
on at the contending forces, declining 10
render aid, which would have routed the
Opposition, Though innocent of designed
treason TO party, such as acted In either
manner spoken of-activc or passive-the
result gave them TO understand that they
had given aid and comfort 20 the
enemy" and they will not repeat the ex-
pertinent
The causes which produced dissension
withinthe Republican ranks have been re-
moved. One cause was hostility TO certain
representative Republicans whose persons
do not now repose in official chairs. An
other reason was the hard times then pre-
vailing, which produced discomfort and
indifference. Times arc improving, the
outlook is encouraging and the breaking
away Of the forbidding gclouds has revealed
the disassociation of the Republican party
with the dispensations of Providence and
the periodical cloggingOf business wheels.
Still another cause was opposition to Pres
ident Grant, some Of his opponents being
actuated by honest impulses and many
from unworthy and wholly selfish pur-
poses The President is in the habit of
listening to all who approach him, and
then following the dictates of his own
Judgment without apology or explanation
TO those who urge different action,
thus offending the sensitive, exact
ing and conventional. Then, too, he
has had occasion TO use his prun-
ing g-knife pretty freely, and the wound
ed have generally taken their ill-smelling
sores to the Opposition for healing plas.
tors. But President Grants letter has
taken tho last prop. Of the enemies of the
Republican party from under them and
they are now destitute of cohesion, and, like
man so drunk as 20 Involuntary mis-
take the law of gravity while lying prone
upon his back, it can do nothing but
howl and make q noise, and that 1t is
doing
Last fall the contest was between the Re
publican party and the Opposition. This
year and next it will be between the Re
publican and Democratic parties, and there
can be little well-grounded doubt as to the
result. The Republican party is being re-
organized, and all that is essential to secure
its success is the polling of its full vote
Numerically it is far stronger than the
Democratic party, and the indications of a
revival of the old-tim enthusiasm among
Republicans are auspicious. The politi-
cal heavens are Frightening and are
spanned by the bow Of promise Republic
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