National Republican., 1878-11-13
followed by the fall OF Democrat until
they tire of their own policy.
THE WEST Am TuE scUTu,

There Is u West which Is bound to tho South
by ties of interest. In this West the States
Of Ohio and Indiana are found Both Of them
and Illinois, perhaps, will vote for Demo-
cratic President In 1880. II Is time for tho
States wost Of the Alleghanics TO form coal.
ition with the South and control the country
which they feed.-Baitiaors Gdrette
There are times in tbelhistories of nations
when political considerations are borne
above the plane Of sordid ayaricc, and when
the ties Of trade and commerce become as
ropes Of sand, possessing neither the power
OF adhesion nor that Of utility. That time
is when the principles Of government are
subverted and the rights of the citizen are
outraged by organized forces which have no
respect. for the laws Of government nor for
the rights Of the people. That time has ar
rived in the history Of this country, rs ap-
pears BY the solid arraying Of one section
against the Government under agencies that
are at war with all tho principles Of right
In free government, where the people rule,
and whore they should be permitted to rule
under . free exercise Of every right
that 10 guaranteed by tie organic
law Of the land. Where these are every
where observed aud no war Is made upon
the rights Of party or class, and the laws
arc not trnmpled upon 10 secure triumph to
their purposes, then the ties OF interest that
exist through the links of trade and COM
mercs may serve to bring remote sections
under mutuality Of feeling and action.
Then the South and West might become
| friends in trade nnd commerce. But the States
OF Indiana, Ohio and Illinois can never be
linked to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkan-
sas, or to any other PARTON Of the South in
political brotherhood, so long as that sec
ton sets the laws ut defiance, disreyards
the fundamental principles Of n Republican
form Of government, and resorts to the
most pcifdious crimes TO accomplish its
nefarious ends As well might you mix
people Of Ohio consort with those OF the
South in harmonious party relation, with
its present bloody and demoniac record con-
fronting them. II is barely possible that
Indiana might be led into such ap alliance
but we doubt II, for there is a controlling
| SenSt OIL tlkut anu un uCtiNe pTlnClpie Ol
patriotism with the people of that State, out
side the Bourbons who sympathized with
the rebellion, which will lead them away
from political relations in which they woult
share the odium that rests upon the South
at the present moment, and which cannot
be atoned for and wiped out in hal
a century. Indiana has not, per
haps, been as stnlwart defender Of the righ
at all times as Ohio, but it bore conspicu
ous part in crushing the rebellion, and tba
spirit still lives to abhor any invasion o
the rights of tho Government or of citizen
ship that may occur now or hereafter
Neither the Establishments OF trade nor III,
promptings Of avarice will lead either tn,
States of Ohio, Indiana or Illinois to form !
, party alliance where wrong ovcrrides right
. where1 murder is the penalty of politica
} opinion, and where the rights Of citizenship
E are overcome by fraud, violeHce, and outrage
The Gazette must select some other Wester
I States with which to fortify its case.