Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
The New Era Begins.
From the New York World.l

EPeace on earth to men of good will' is
the glorious message of this glorious day.
The magnificent victory which we pretig-
ured yesterday, and which we al nbunce to-
day, has been won, indeed, by a great,
united and determined political party, but it
has been won by q party for the salvation of
a people. 1t brings to the defeated the
same blessings which it inSures to the vic
tors. 1t is the triumph OF union over dis
union, OF order and OF the law over the
spirits of disorder and OF anarchy, of states
manshfp and patriotism ever partisan iuso-
lence and sectional hate. There is not an
honest man in the United States, of what
ever creed, Of whatever color. of
whatever political affiliations, who has not
cause this day, whether he knows it or not,
to thank God for the work which was yes
terday done. In all our past history no sub
Inner spectacle has been presented to the
world than this. When the armies OF the
Republic, flushed with victory. melted
quietly back into the great body Of the peo-
pie at the close of the civil war, the politi-
cal philosophers Of all nations stood aston
lshed at the scene. How much grander is
the sight which we witness to-day, of a
gigantic political revolution planned, begun
and carried out without the firing of a shot
in anger, by the simple eXertion of the
popular will working through the legiti-
mate forms and the traditional
spirit of our free institutions! To us, who
have been part and parcel Of the work, to
the active men of both political parties, it
doubtless seems a simple and natural thing
enough. To foreign observers and to those
who come after US, it will assume its true
proportions; and it will stand in history as
the noblest imaginable vindication of the
wisdom and the faith of those great men
who founded our nationality on principles
regarded in their time as wild and Utopian,
and even in our own days dishoGOred but
too often by the distrust and the contempt
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of freedom.
This is not the moment in which to re-
capltulate the dangers and the difficulties
through which this great deliverance has
been sought and won. Enough for this day
that 1t has been secured. Enough for this
day, too, that it has been secured not by
any condescension to the arts and the prac-
tees of the corrupt and self-seeking public
enemies from. whom it has been wrested,
but by a straightforward, loyal and manly
adherence to the means as well as to the
ends of constitutional politics in a free
country. The temper in which the Demo-
cratic party has fought this great fight is
the strongest guarantee it could give
the country of its fitness to be
trusted with the tremendous responsible
ties which it now assumes......As in the
heat OF battle so now in the our Of victory,
the true Democrats of America will show
themselves faithful to the cardinal principle
OF their creed, the equality Of all men before
the law and in the courts of public opinion.
Their advent to power means justice, fair
dealing and an open field to all citizens and
to all doctrines. 1t means the due reward
of his labor to the laborer. and a just return
for his capitalt to the capitalist. 1t means that
in the public councils every section of the
Union shall have its due and proper weight.
1t means sure and speedy death to all forms
of monopoly and Of oppression. 1t means
peace on earth, we repeat, to all men of
good will. To men of evil willard to them
alone-it means that the hour of reckoning
has come, and that the justice of a great
people has found them out at last!