The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| ASHINGTON, ID. u, June ~, 1870
Both the Senate and the House on Satur-
day were occupied in the discussion of
a joint resolution proposed in mes
sage from the President of the United
| approach of new fiscal year and reminding
| them that no provision had as yet been made
| for the expenses of the government and ask
ing speedy action in that behalf The Re
publigans having been disappointed in their
anticipated ratification demonstration
on Saturday evening, will hold the
same this evening A large number
of prominent gentlemen have been
engaged for the occasion anda grand
display of patriotism and fireworks is ex-
pectcd. Nomination and ratification are
very pretty words but election is non.sequi-
ter. The RAIDS may nominate and ratiiy to
the end of the chapter but unless that innate
sense of honesty which has ever pervaded
the masses ot our people has lost its influ-
cnce they must fail in the election. The
past eight years of radical misrule has so
CALLED the neck of the patient public that
forbcarance has ceased to be virtue, and
a thorough change has become necessity
paralysed merchants, crippled manuiactnr-
ers and injured agriculturalists having long
seen the cause of their misfortune, and will
hardly permit the opportunity row offered
to remove such cause escap them.
So little is known of the Cincinnati
nominees that personally, perhaps,
little can be said about them, though
it does seem surprising that, doing as they
have in such an eventlul period of our
country's history, they, until now, have
hardly been heard ofbeyond the limit Oftheir
respective States. Men who possessed the
distinguished traits of head and hearts,
fitting them for the high positions to which
they aspire, would have doubtless, long ere
this, have embraced the manifold opportuni-
ties afforded them to display them. Have
either of the Cincinnati nominees ever done
so? Who, beyond the limits of Ohio, has
ever before heard of Hayes and as for
Wheeler, when his nomination was an
nounced, the first question asked was, what
State is he from? Then, what necessarily
must be the result of snch an election that
places at the head of n nation like this Il
man so wanting in force of character as to
be unnoted and unnamed, while questions
Of the most vital import are daily agitating
the country The deduction is conclusive
Like the ttuiary dignitea of the chess
board he is but an instrument in the hands
Of his Soloptal for tba fnnilit,,
with which he may be handled Coming
into power by the will of his party he must
be but the active agent in carrying out its
will, surrounded and controlled as he GER
tainy will be by its worst elements, whose
chief aim for the past eight years seems to
have been the perpetuation of its rule and
the personal aggrandizement of its members
oblivious of the slightest dictates of the COM
monest honesty, and ignoring the existence
of the slightest tinge of patriotism. But, the
people have had enough of this, and in
November next their voice will be heard
proclaming in language not to be misunder-
stood that they neither can nor will submit
longer to this merciless system of
nal administration. An actual an
alysis of the present political situ-
alton has satisfied 81 writer in the St. Louis
Republican that the Democracy have the de-
cided advantage. They are already in pos
session of States enough to elect the mex
President, and therefore do not need to gain
States merely to hold their own. The
recent elections in Connecticut and Oregon
have demonstrated that the northern Demo-
Gratis, so far from being damaged, that they
are confronting the enemy every where at
the north with confidence born of Just
cause, and their upright intentions But
vigilance is the price Of liberty, and while
feeling assured of what others may do let us
not be found wanting when our own work is
called for. Let every man determine that
when the Democratic shout of victory is
heard in November that he has earned a
right to add his voice to the general accla-
nation From the present moment till the
last vote is polled in November let every man
be found at the post of duty.
RENO,