National Republican., 1876-10-02

they firmly, as well as unhesitatingly,
differed with all who failed to see that the
paramount interest of the country was
really in the more perfect subjugation of
the spirit thai, while it hsld slavery sacred,
utterly abhorred the Union.
If the Republican candidate for the
Presidency has not yet discovered that he
was mistaken in the particular in question,
he will certainly arrive at that conclusion
ere he takes possession of the Presidency.
He is no lucky mediocrity; he is a thinker
worthy of the name, and, above all, he is
q patriot of the first order. He is certain
to perceive, if he has not perceived already,
that the matter of paramount interest is,
and for some time must continue to be, the
perfect political subjugation of'the agitators,
who were lately either rebels or demi-
rebels, and who now rule the Democratic
party. We believe he has already ascer
taiped this truth, so vitality of interest to
every American. He writes, he speaks no
word to discountenRnce the agitation so
earnestly and, we submit, so necessarily
carried on by the leading speakers now
addressing Republican mass meetings, and
we trust he has discovered that that agita-
ton is as wise as patriotic.
But, however this may be, the agitstion
we esteem so necessary and so wholesome
must so on, and on, and on, until the soul
of the rebellion shall have been buried with
lis body. No respect for any man can be
allowed 10 stay that agitation. Reason as
we may, whether at the North or at the
South, our hearts assure US that the great
question of the day is whether the reduc
ton of rebellion shall be more complete,
and the enf1anchisement of the millions we
so recently permitted to be held in bondage
shall become more than a cruel mockery.
Il the Herald's portraiture of Hayes is so
destitute of likeness, 1t has made, now and
then, some pretty fair attempistowar por-
trayiDg the peculiarities of Tilden. Not
long ago it had rather elaborate editorial
especially devoted to the object of distln-
gushing those very peculiarities. This
editorial points to the Democratic candidate
as political tinker and trickster, inces-
sanity active in the endeavor to manufac
ture public opinion in his own favor. 1t
describes TIlden as a man of highly cult
waited selfishness. But it expresses the
opinion that we ought to be grateful to this
arch contriyer and achiever of small tricks
in politics for letting Us behold his machine
in full operation. Here, perhaps, the
Herald is quite right; but, evidently, Til
den did not mean to let the country see 80
clearly what very small operations, and
what very means ones, most distinguish
his machine aforesaid. To compare a
tinker and trlckster such as this with
such a man as the serene, the simple, the
high hearted and not less high-minded
Hayes, is to compare the basely littleto the
nobly great; and so the Herald, after all,
appears to feel, in spite of its base effort to
belittle the candidate of the Republican
party. For the article that so pretentiously
and pompously overrules Nordhof, thus
concludes:
sour dissent from the psnegyrists of Mr..
HAYES must not be understood as an indorse-
ment of Mr.. Tilden. If an admirer of the
Democratic candidate should send US eulogy
which we consented to publish It would be
accompanied with an equally free expression
of our estimate of his character. We are un-
able to see that the nomination of a man for
the Presidency, adds one cubit to his stature
or entities him to higher estimate than he
enjoyed before.
'.Pigmies, though perched Alps, are pigmies
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.''