National Republican., 1876-10-14
The BEGINNING OF THE END.


and understood to be contemplated as indi-
cations of the future. Colorado, Indiana
and Ohio have spoken in terms so emphatic
and so full of encouragement that the great
Republican army is assured of victory in
November, if it fights bravely to the end of
the contest. But the end is not yet. This
is but the beginning of the end. The Re
publican cause now sends forth the war
cry-"Opce more unto the breach, dear
friends; once more''-and then the nation
will be saved and equal rights will be
vouchsafed to all. Indiana has done nobly.
She has secured Republican Legislature,
and redeemed some four or five Con
gressional districts from the Confederate
Democracy. She has elected a Democratic
Governor by small majority, and she is
welcome to all the honor or satisfaction
that follows such an achievement with
such q man. The work, however, is not
to stop here. The State must and will be
carried in November for Hayes and
Wheeler by at least 10, 900 majority.
The noble old Buckeye State has COW
cred herself with glory in this struggle.
She has corrected the mistake she made
two years ago in allowing Democrats 10
be elected to Congress from districts of
acknowledged Republican supremacy
when their true political sentiment is
asserted at the ballot box. In this she has
vindicated her political integrity, as she
has in the election Of Republican State
ticket. In this contest Ohio has covered
herself with untarnished honor. In that
State the November election is substan-
TALLY over, except the shouting. The
Republican forces will not relax an effort
or neglect an important point of labor,
however, for the few weeks that intervene
between this skirmish and the Presidential
battle, which will be crowned by ma
jority alike decisive and overwhelming
to the Greenbackers and gray-backs in
that State.
Three weeks of active political service is
before us, and not one hour of that precious
time should be allowed to run to waste
through inaction or Indifference on the part
of the Republican forces. Every man must
be awake and alive to duty every lauda-
BILE instrumentality must be called into ac-
ton every Republican vote in every State
IN the Union must be brought to the ballot
box, and then the Republic will have
new lease of life, peace and prosperity.
The fall of Richmond and the surrender at
Appomattox were no more important to the
perpetuity of the Union than the crushing
out of the Democratic party, with its Con-
federate allies and disunion tendencies, in
the pending contest. National honor,
credit and unity all hang upon the success
of the Republican party in this crisis. To
surrender these is to abandon all that was
achieved through the patriotism and bravery
of the Union army during the dark and
bloody years of a Democratic rebellion.
The Democracy will now transfer the
great battlefield of the campaign to the
State of New York, where the rebel yell
will resound from the lakes to the sea.
Our information from that great State is
most cheering. The Republican army is
under a high state of organization, and
every Republican voter seems to be in
spired by lively sense of the dangers to
the nation that are to be averted by Re-
publican victory. The foe will be ag-
gressive, vigilant and unscrupulous in the
use of appliances, and the battle field must
be contested by the Republicans with the
same spirit and the same men that won
battles for the Union cause when they met
Democrats with arms in their hands, seek
ing to break the Union and subvert the
government under the flag of rebellion.
The "bloody shirt" is the creation of the
Democracy, and it should be flaunted in
their faces during this contest, as the le-
climate offspring of their own perfidy and
the badge of their own political faith and
honor. The Republicans of New York
and Pennsylvania will now marshal their
forces, enter the field, and contest the
strength inch by inch until vic
tory is achieved, and "the bloody
shirt is returned to the Democracy
once more as their own child, to be
buried by their own hands and at their own
expense. They promised to accept the
terms of reconstruction, and return to the
paths OF peace and fidelity, to the funda-
mental principles of the Federal Govern
ment under the terms of the Constitution,
when the war Of rebellion closed, but they
have violated their faith. The four mil
lions of people from whose limbs the
shackles of slavery were struck by the
events of the war are again reduced to
condition of slavery more abject than at
tended their former estate, for it is the
slavery Of fear and intimidation that is
fastened upon them IS citizens, through the
murderous rifle, revolver and bowie-knife.
This is the present estate of the cololed
man in at least ten of the States which
ostensibly surrendered to the Union army
and promised full acceptance of peace
based upon the principles of equal rights
to all men without respect to birth, color
or political opinion. 1t is this condition OF
things in the late rebellious States that has
brought 'Ihe bloody shirt to light in the
present struggle, and it is by this sign that
the Republican party now proposes to con-
quer. We accept the issue as presented by
the enemy now, as We did in 1861, and
propose to meet it with the same patriotic
firmness of purpose that characterized ths
Union army in that fearful and bloody
struggle.
PLANO AWARDS.
In 10 department of the Exhibition has
there been greater competition than among