The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-27

INSCRIPTIONS Democrats to win the
coming elections as they did in Missis-
sippi. A congressional committee on
both parties have agreed that in Mis-
slssippi the white and colored Repub-
licans were terrified, and dare not
vote, and that, if they had been pro-
tected, the State would have gone
largely Republican.
Besides, there are many prominent
Democrats who admit the necessity of
such an order, and are pleased that it
has been issued. 1t would seem, in
view of all the facts attending South
ern elections since the war, that the
Democracy generally ought to admit
the practicability and justice of it.
Republican Outlook.
Edward Mcpherson, late clerk of the
House, and one of the best informed
men in the country, has expressed
himself as follows to 4 New York Tri-
bune reporter:
My judgment is that the elections in
Vermont and Maine will 50 fix the drift
OF public sentiment that we shall car
ry both Ohio and Indiana in October.
In that event the election of Governor
Hayes would be certain. In looking at
the probable result, I do not examine
the details of neighborhood politics,
but measure the general influences 3D.
Grating on the public mind. Many
things combine to make me look upon
republican victory as practically as
sured already. The chief indication is
the apprehension created throughout
all the loyal states by the evident pur-
pose of the Democrats to make the
Southern States unit in the canvass.
The people of the North are disposed
to be liberal toward the leaders of
opinion in the South, and to welcome
them back to a participation in the
government, but they have no idea of
yielding the government entirely up
to their control. A united South in
league with a strong party in the North
is menace to the perpetuity Of the
great results of the war, and the men
who were on the side of the Union in
that struggle look upon the spectacle
with alarm, and distrust the patriotism
of the party that has created such
phenomenon in politics. There are
many indications of what the fruits of
a Democratic victory would be that
are we'll calculated to excite such dis
quoting feelings. The legislative pro-
positions made in Congress last winter
by the Southern members were all in
one direction-that of fastening upon
the treasury the payment of enormous
claims for losses, or pretended losses,
suffered during the rebellion. The ag-
gregate amount of these claims is i'm
mense, and yet it is but trifle to the
great volume that would pour in if the
Democrats once get complete control.
These demands are only sort Of adj
vance guard of the coming army, and
they have been rushed in to get on the
files ahead of the press that is to fol-
low Tilden's election. 1t was great
misfortune to the Democrats that they
got possession of the house. They
were obliged to show their hands, and
could no longer stand by and assail the
acts of the majority. The Presidency
seemed ready to drop into their grasp
until they unmasked themselves last
session, and showed their real charac-
ter and purposes.
Few Facts.
From Harper's Weekly.
The attitude and conduct of every
public man of this generation, when
the existence of the government and
human liberty itself were in peril, can
not be an obsolete question. There
are, indeed, present issues which are
commanding and pressing but they
can be dealt with more wisely and fifty
by honest and experienced men, who
were instinctively true and loyal to
the country and it's cause throughout
the war. 1t is not necessary that a
'sreformer'' of to-day should have been
a 'sCopperhead'' of yesterday, while
the Copperhead would desire nothing
more earnestly than that political and
patriotic memories should not extend
further than two or three years. The
war, indeed, is happily over, despite
such constant and skillful hostility as
that of Mr.. Tilden, but there are ques-
lions which the war has left that can
not be treated safely and wisely by /
party and politicians who neither ap-
proved the war nor sympathized with
reconstruction. A Democratic restora-
ton, with candidate who was not
even ''war Democrat would be a
reaction which, as it is not necessary
to any reform or measure of progress.
we believe patriotic country Will
think long before it DEGREES.
l, for one, am not willing to transfer
the great power Of the government
from the hands which have held and
it to the hands still reeking
with the blood of its brave defenders.
do not stand here to defend
everything that the Rep1bli-
can party has done; but when the
Democratic party is held up as the