The Tipton advertiser., 1876-10-26
rmE CRlsls OF '4s.

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the subjec< at all viii admit that the
impending election + very imPor-
tant one, butat the same time Pese
hape all do moi fully realize lie real
importance
!, When the country rang with the
grest political contest Of lsss, which
| resulted in the election Of grand old
| Abraham Lincoln, his supporters were
earnest and enthusiastic because the
party i'm power had trampled upon all
honor, broken its most solemn pledges
and 20 demeaned itself that they right
ly deemed free soil, free speech and al
most all the rights Of free men 20 say
nothing Of bondmsnl were AZ stake
But even then they did not more than
half realize the yastne>- Of the crisis
which was ., hand, - subsequent
events showed
30, four years later, when samuel
]. Tilden went 10 Chicago as the rep
re-entstiye Of the great State Of New
York and ~olemnly resolved that the
war was failure and that the country
ought 70 have peace 81 any price
even to tlasf of diSmemb~rment and
ae~truetion-the actual issues Of the
political campaign were 10 les mo-
nenfous than the decision Of the ques-
ton a 10 whether, after the exE~ndi-
tars Of rsyers o. blood and millions Of
trsasure, the people were ready 10 Sc
eegx the pernieiols doctrine Of Tiiden
and his Democratic coafrer-, and let
the proud fabric Of the fathers fall into
dissolution and anarchy.
We know that Democrats object TO
such "Reminiscences. urging tha- the
pas- ! pass and sho1li Be left 70 bury
is cwn dad But - Al eminent
American said few days sgo, ve
have yei 70 learn that there i states
HAnship IN forgesf1iness- The people
in l>ei answered the question then be-
fore them with most unmistakable
No. II i true that the solid South, :"
although no les solid then than now,
Ea- not precisely in position 20 make
It's influence felt 81 the ballot box
Had il t~@Sa 20. the result Of that elee-
ticn would have been quite IS much
in 5ouhs = i the vote Of next Noyen-
Ter. For in this centennial year-only
one decade later-we find the same
grezt parties facing each other in the
political arena engaged in struggle
for supremacy Absolutely all in the
North who then elcgyei the wheels
Of progress are now a. then ar
rayei under the Democratic hammers !:
while behind them, in such strength
- 10 thoroughly control them, a- they
always have done, are the solid phal-
anxes which during the other contest
were using bullets instead Of ballots
and who are now as then animated BY
sectional animo-ity and the pernicious
principles Of Calhoun, JEFF Davis, Sam
TTlien, ~ al
This, then, Is the crisis Of 20. Andas
we look it in the face, we see that,
with the Solid South assured BY the
shot-guns Of law-breaking Demo
crats a. odds in the race, it never can
! be won by them unless men in the
North who supported loyalty and
union in 80 and 81 shall change side-
now. II i useless TO declaim about
new issues" There are new issue
-as for instance, the important finan-
cial question, on which the straddling
position Of the Democratic party i a
| disgrace to them. But the fact /. that
the new issues, let them be what they
may, are completely over.hadowed by
the question a. to whether loyalty or
treason. the sayiors or the would-be-
destroyers ofthis country. shall rule it.
| This being the case, We fail 10 COM
prehend how intelligent men who
conscientiously sustained the L Union
| during the war can now vote To place
| it, deetinies in the hands Of Tilden
I and Hendricks and the lnur,lerously
Solid South" Should a terrible
mutiny occur on ship board, and the
officers and loyal part of the crew sue
ceed in overcoming the Williams and
should bring them 10 port in irons,
who would expect to see the mutt
neers and their friends sent out on the
next voyage in full charge Of the ves.
/ sci?