Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-26
TIE VOICE or NEGATIVE PROPHET
NOT THE TRUE VOICE TO INSPIRE
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLI-

tissues that are old to the rest of the country
have perennial freshness for them. Planted on
their granite hills and nursing their faith through
their Indictment winters, they feel comparatively
little of the great pusations Of the life OF the ma
tion. While BY the accident Of its early election
that State 10 looked to for the keynote Of the
campaigns Of the year, it is the least fitted OF all
shire election next month will furnish any indica
ton of how things are going."-Bosfon GLOBE
As plainly as the magnetic needle indi-
Gates the Northern and the Southern poles,
the pen Of the writer of the above shows
how little he is acquainted with the posi-
tive and irresistible currents which govern
the moral and political action of the vast
majority Of the people of this country.
Time and experience must lead him to
change entirely his perceptions and views
of things. or he will never much influence
popular opinion. When the Globe writer
enlarges his vision he will find that the
peculiar Boston atmosphere he breathes, is
very unlike that broad, free air which
most New England people breathe. There
is another Boston entirely unlike that
kind of Boston where the Globe edi-
tor is trying to get firm foothold. There
is the Boston of Josiah Quincy, of Charles
Sumner. and of Alexander II. Rice. which
is q fair exponent of what the New Eng
land masses really are. But the Globe is
the representative Of that limited school of
negatives which exerts little real influence
on public affairs. Precisely this class of
persons now represented by the Globe
writer, in 1850 thought the Fugitive Slave
Law profound craftsmanship. in 1856 sup
ported Willard Fillmore. in 1860 Bell and
Everett, the Peace Congress in 1861, the
military campaign of George B. McClel-
Ian in 1862 and 1868.
The Republicans and the Democrats of
New Hampshire fairly represent the two
distinctive schools of moral and political
thought into which the great mass of the
American people are divided, and one or
the other is to control the government and
mould the political events Of the country
in the years Immediately before us. The
sooner the Globe learns that the spineless,
nerveless. school of negatives which it is
trying to push into Importance, will al
ways play very Insignificant part in pub.
lie affairs, the more surely will it enlarge
its mission and stand on firm ground.
Concord, Portsmouth. Nashua, Lebanon,
Exeter. and Lancaster are far better in
dices Of what the country is thinking
about and is feeling in real earnest than
the negative, powerless elements of which
the Globe writer is the organ. Political
issues are much better understood, are
more carefully read and studied. in the
rural towns of New England than in the
large commercial cities, and Of this, every
well informed person is fully aware.
The Republicans of New Hampshire
are thoroughly in earnest because they
clearly understand the facts and the ext
gency as they exist. They are in earnest
because their action is born of their NOR
al convictions and of sound political
philosophy. They know what the pending
national contest really means. They know
that the dominating majority of the Dem
ocratic party yielded only to overpower-
ing military necessity. while the controll-
ing men of that party have not yielded
their cherished purpose to rule the Repub.
lie by simple change of methods. The
New Hampshire Republicans know that
only by keeping the Government under
Republican rule long enough to have the
entire political South educated in sound
political views. can national security and
all legitimate results of the war be per-
mauently maintained. They comprehend
the duties of the hour, and in the vigorous,
determined manner OF their conducting
their campaign. they have the sympathy
of sincere friends of the Nation through.
out the country.
The only Presidential candidate who il
making real Roadway on either side, seems
to be James g. Blaine. He has reasona.
BILE popularity with the people, and he is