Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-22

most as many opinions as men for q
very long period.
There was, however, one potential
agent which seemed from the first to
comprehend the situation. We now al
lude to the Republican press, which
early sounded the keynote of success
full conflict. The Republic |
an press forced both parties to face the |
financial question. II declared for hon
est money, and for resumption accord |
ing to the terms of the law. 1t depre- |
Gated any weakening, and repudiated |
any step toward compromise. 1t placed |
resumption on the high ground of bus
mess honor and honesty. This was an
appeal that went to the popular heart,
and convinced the popular understand
ing. 1t was the only true position. No
other was tenable, and though tempo
rary defeat might have resulted to this
uncompromising stand, defeat under
such circumstances would have been
less defeat than victory won by Whit
fling and trimming. The result is a
lesson and an exhortation. If nations
desire to live they must deserve to live,
and to deserve to live they must be
honest. If parties desire to live, they,
serve life they must be honest and pos
tive. When a party lives only to sue
ceed it has lived too long. The only
life worth living is life full of activ-
tiles trained against whatever is false
and wrong. The Republican party
was ushered into existence to fulfill
precisely that purpose. Whenever it
has forgotten its duty it has been re-
buked by defeat. And though fidelity
to principle has not given it uninter-
rupted success, no defeat has ever
damped its ardor so long as it fought a
square fight. Philadelphia North Aner-
tCdn.
THE election of Tuesday last is SOL
emn warning to all whom it may con-
Germ that it requires but compara-
lively slight provocation to create a
| Solid North; and the South may take TO
itself the certain assurance that, when
the Republican party of the South is so
far suppressed by the shotgun, the re-
volver, the knife and the torch that no
candidates of that party can be voted
for even in districts where the party is
in the majority, it will require but a
brief notice to array the North, from
Maine to the Ohio River, solidly, deter
minedly, and persistently in defense of
the outraged, maltreated, and disfran-
chised freemen of the South. The
North knows how to deal with its own
betrayers. Massachusetts,, aroused and
indignant at the insult attempted to be
thrust upon her by the Democrats and
their Southern allies, has defeated But
Ter. The people of New York, New
JERSEY, and Connecticut have in tn ell
Indignation deposed Tammany Hall,
have taken from it its powers and its
patronage, have destroyed its organi
zation, and emancipated themselves
from its supremacy. These three States,
alarmed at the alliance between the
Solid South, Butlerism, Communism
Fiatism, Reputation, Tammany Hall
and practical revolution of the Gov
eminent by their votes, placed theil
, condemnation upon such nefariou'
combination. Pennsylvania and Hi
nois, Wisconsin and Michigan, have re
sponded almost unanimously. CannO
the advocates of the Solid South dis
cover in this spontaneous uprising o.
/ the people the almost literal spongins
, out of every trace of utilization with th'
"Solid South" the consequence of at
, tempting to impose upon the honesty
B of the American people, and the conse
quence of venturing to array one section
solidly, and by force, to grasp contro
of the nation?
The "Solid South" has gained con
troll of the two branches of Congress
2 After the 4th of March next there viii
u be forty-two Democrats in the Senate
: and thirty of these will be men repre-
!. senting the Solid South. there will b
Q from 15S to 160 Democrats in tn
= House, of whom two-thirds will be me
g representing the Solid South. Th
: Northern Democratic members will b
as clay in the hands of the Souther
g molders. The caucus will quickly stiff
any independence they may asser
|. But this ascendency in the two brancht
u of Congress, thus exercised by less tha
IT one-third of the people of the country
n will at once arrest the attention of tn
e country When the time comes for
u Presidential election, when the tim
u comes for the complete subjugation {
IL all branches of the Government by tn
3 Solid South, there will be found, in a
: probability, solid North-tirm, in
o movable, determined and aggressiv,
70 With New York, Pennsylvania, Obi
y and Illinois fixed and determined
Is their hostility to every form of dishol
< esty and combination for plunder, IL
n Solid South may call in vain on Indian
IL and Oregon. These will avail it not
. ing. These four great States, backC
le by the whole North (save the two Stat
s. named), will show how pOwerless, no
Is frail, how hopeless must be any appei
~ founded on the ignorance, dishones
" and want of patriotism of the America
d people; and that any combination ha
i, ing for its purpose national repudi
Al ton, the corruption and degradation
, the national money, and the wi
I'll schemes of Communism, must, whC
the people take one day from the
n shops, their fields and their cOuntin
~ rooms to vote, perish in shame and dl
es honor. - Chicago Tribune.
IL 10 is the public Uerdict about frau
ne The ears of the country have be-
IL dinned with that cry long enough; Il
ck chosen President of 40, 900, 900 has be
p insulted at home, and the good mar
ny of the nation has been smirched abro
oo rs ionB as Oho PooPl0 oiO "iii"S OO'.''
90 it. Voters have made up their min
re as to where the " fraud" was in CO
10 nection with the last Presidential el'
ne ton. They have read the secret CO
respondence of Gramercy Park, a
" Yesterdays ballots tell what they thi
of it.
,vs 10 is the public Ueriict on the course
"a Me Democratic party in potosr. I
,ve last session of Congress showed wi
i'm that party meant TO do. 1t was Civ
ed Just about rope enough to hang its'
led and it made the best possible use
var what it had. IncoherRt, irrespOn
ant BILE, ignorant, rapacious, wholly unfit
re. govern, its recklessness has disgust
Re- that sober class of voters who stand
en-. the independent middle line and
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