Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-05-31

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Stanley Matthews in the Senate and
the next Governor of Ohio will be Re-
publicans. s1a ci. ais
Senator Morton on the Presi-
Z i i en- ident's Policy. So
The Political Situation as Seen
from the Standpoint Of a Thor
oughbred Republican. afs Cd
/ do not believe that President Hayes
intends to destory the Republican par
ty and attempt the erection of a new
one upon Its ruins. Isbelieye in his pa
triotism and high integrity i'm his un-
divided purpose to make the admins
tration benificeuee to the country.
The language of his inaugural was
strong and beautiful, and the declara-
ton of his devotion to the great doc
trines of human rights which consti-
tute the foundation of the Republican
party left nothing to be added or desi-
red. He began the conduct of national
affairs under circumstances of extraOr-
dinary diff1culty; the minds of men
were greatly divided as 10 what should
be done, while all were agreed that
something should he done, that things
would not longer 60 on as they were.
He marked out his course and address
ed himself toit with undaunted cour-
age. Mr.. Hayes was elected as q Re-
publican, and believe he will be a
Republican President, not in Iaere
partisan way, batin the sense of devo-
ton to Republican principles and
maintenance of Republican organiza-
ton, by placing the political power In
the hands of worthy and qualified Re-
publicans. Political principles do not
execute themselves. They require a
party to do that. aOrgaaization in pol
itics Is as necessary as in war. Great
numbers of the same way of thinking,
but acting without concert, are as help
less as an unorganizsd multitude in the
presence of disciplined army. ~
present the Republican party as g
grand and indispensable instrumental
| ity for carrying into operation the true
principles of government and human
rights. We hear it is said that the
Republican system of reconstruction il
failure. The only sense in which IL
has failed is that ii has been resisted
by armed and murderous congratulations
by terrorism and prescriptions the
most wicked and cruel Of the age-and
If the Democratic assurances to Presi.
dent Hayes, in Louisiana and else.
where, of protection and equal rights
lare executed in good faith, the system
wv Ill not be failure, but grand sue
cess extorted from its enemies. Tht
Of -frt, ~ i'm ~
the fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
Iments TO the Constitution, establishing
the equal rand political rights OF al
men and the statutes enacted fo
their enforcement. So far as thOSt
have failed reconstruction is failure
so far as they succeed reconstruction il
asuccess. Let IL be understood tina
1 the great purpose now of the Southern
4 people ia to recover from the losses in
! tiicted by the Rebellion. They do no
now think vi leaving the Union. The.
are not now preparing schemes for fu
iture secession, but are with intens'
Iearrestness revolving plans for reeove
Try from their great losses. For thi
purpose they1Xill support the Demo
csstic party North as long as it is sub
Iservient to their policy notwithstand
\ ing their ill repressed resentment for il
influence in getting them into a rebel
lion aud its sneaking and cowardl.
lcourse while il lasted. 4sGs HasIora-
We are told that they are quiet, il
those Sta ties where Democratic rule
esta blishedg Very likely; when the.
have gained the com; ;.lete power an,
the Republican party has ceased t
struggle, there will be no inducemen
to shoot men because of their politics
liect submission. Let lfltf alt j. tn9
THE RECENT MASSACRE IN MISSISSIPPI
which. has made the Modoc compars
tively respectable, answer. Peac
which is obiained by stamping poll
lical party out OF existence is not tn
harbinger. Of prosperity and happiness
The large body OF the white peopl
who engaged in the rebellion are fro
iy united in favor OF several things, AN
they will stand by the party that fl
Il vors them and oppose to the bitter en-
the party that opposes them. Anon
I these is the payment for rebel pTopert
/. taken or destroyed by our armie,
When Mr.. Tildeh wrote his letter jus
be lost his hold on the South, and We
made 10 feel it in the late struggle i
D Congress. No Democratic candidat
[ will repeat his blunder. Althoug
Southern Democrats voted for him q
: ter he wrote the letter, 1t froze th
: current Of their sympathies, and ha
, more to do in restraining them from Fl
tibusteriDgto prevent the countingof tn
> vote than any other cause. Il grea
: lily reconciled them to the loss of Tilder
: In the late House the dividing line b,
e tween rebel and loyal claims was ignt
: red, and in single Democratic Az
> tministration would be obiitered. Whe
: this comes to pass about claims the di
tinction in rebeIa and Union debt will b
J. obliterated and lost. Slaves will |
| treated as other property sacrificed b
D our Government. 1t will not all /
done or ,avowed at once, but step b
I step already more rapid until the pul
1 lie mind has become demoralized. TIL
!, rebellion has ceased to be crime
J scarcely a mistake. The conaplete re
steration of fraternity will demand al
: Olition of all distinction in law betwee
a loyalty and treason. The Republica
party was never more necessary to tn
nation than it is to-day. All talk abol
laying down the Republican organic
: tion to take up new one with ne
Q little, into which old Confederates ma
tenter without wounding their suscept
!. utilities, would be criminal, if il wei
e mot supremely absurd. The propos
tion that the party which saved th
nation ana which embOdies in its cree
the principles on which it must live,
live it does, and which has a recer
the most glorious in the annals of hi
man organizations, shall As aoiiise.s