The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-17

| StIellS III III IHlIduelpnn was 1rlGtefeu
away. There was no campaign or
ganization in any part of the State !;
no money was expended, no speeches
were made, and no effort made to get
voters to the polls. That the usual
"off-year" vote should have been
polled under such circumstances as
these is simply marvellous. The
Democrats show great wisdom in re-
framing from setting up a shout of
eXultation.-B0H. 14mericuR.
Politics, like poverty, forces peo.
pie into strange company. Isn't it
funny to have the old, conservative
and eminently respectable Evenin0
Post discovering the virtues of John
Morrisey and eXulting over him as
the representative ofthe richest ward
and the most "solid" men in the city
Of New York?
Is character really of no avail. or
rather detriment in a Republic ?
and is it, indeed, true that money OBJ
tanned in any way, by fair means or
foul, is the one prerequisite to polit-
ical preterment.
| have no doubt that Mr.. Morrisey
has grown conservative with age and
wealth. Men always do. But it
does not alter the fact that his riches
were ground out of the souls and bod
les of his fellows, and that he still
stands as the great proprietor of such
institutions as when they are small
enough are put down by the strong
arm of the law. Being woman, it
seems queer to me for such men as
William Cullen Bryant to assist in
turning into law-maker man who
has been a law breaker all his life.
L am glad that l am not man and a
sP6nsluan@y I'll o'ne case.
Were l a young man with political
ambition, it seems to ME should be
very much puzzled what direction to
take in order to achieve my object.
The surest way of course, at least in
New York city, would be to establish
rum shop and have gambling sa-
loon in the rear, on sufficiently
large scale to make it respected by
the police. But supposing young
fellow to be troubled with a cons
science, and taste, and education, and
refiTed instincts, what can be done
then? Politics certainly would af-
ford him no chance at all.-JENNIE
JUNE IN BdltO. american.
The past four years have been
years of bitter experience in the de-
preston of business and the enforced
economy it has brought in nearly
every household. But the latter
is not an unmixed evil. 1t has
taught us, in the language of Emer-
son, 1.-The borrower runs in his own
| debt" and Ben Franklin's hOmely
adage, ga penny saved is penny
earned.' During the past four years
men have learned economy because
they have studied its practical prin-
ciples. 1t is true they have been inn
PEELED to this by a dire necessity in
the majority of cases, but where it
has implanted better and truer ideas
| how to live the lesson is blessing.
1t has taught us that the luXuries
and eXcesses of society are not pro-
motive Of real happiness. John Adj
ans wrote prophetically: but let
us take warning and give it to our
children. Whenever vanity and
gaiety, love of pomp and dress,
furniture, ETC., get the better of the
prir ciples and judgements of men
and women, there is no knowing
where they will stop, nor into what
evils, natural, moral or political, they
will lead u.s."
General Grant among his English
speeches made one praising reserve
forces. He declared that the success
of his scheme for the Vicksburg cam
paign was due to the volunteers who,
without special military training,
knew how to build q bridge 1000
feet long, and did it, 1--WE don't find
that intelligence in The rank and file
of the regulars" said the G neral.
"They can do manual labor, but
among the volunteers you find that
you have mechanics and men of ev-
cry profession and capacity, so that
with them l built 1900 feet of bridge
where there was great depth of water
and great swiftness Of stream, and
that, too, with very little delay
That is where the volunteers come
in and play the Host active part and