The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-29
Our Washington Letter.
Special to the REPuDL1oAN.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. %, 10.
We are now waiting confidently for
N. Y, Pa, Mass, Wis, and other
States to confirm the reports of the
earlier State elections in favor of a
solid North to withstand the encroach.
ments of the solid Confederacy. l
never knew tire when so much con-
fdence was felt in anything future as
there is touching the Republican tri-
umph this year, to be followed by
sweeping victory next year, Presiden-
tial and Congressional. Thus conf.
dent the Republicans are harmonious
and earnest, and when they return
here in December the Confederate
Democratic party will find that their
mischievous tricks have excited an
opposition in the North that is not
confined to the Republican party, and
that will forever sweep them from
existence as political power.
The exodus Of coIored people is
going forward vigorously. The young
colored men who went North from
North Carolina to find homes for col
onists, have just returned from Indiana
and are full of hope for their people.
No sooner had they opened their plan
to the people there than they met with
the heartisst welcome, and in a very
few days they found openings for 200
families. In fact, as soon as it became
known that they were the pioneers of
the negro movement, people began to
advertise in the newspapers for negro
help. They say now they can find
homes for all who will CO.. and the
number is limited only by the inability
of many to move. The old rebel mas.
ters, finding their help determined to
go, have combined in refusing to buy
whatever they may have to sell, which
will temporarily render many helpless.
But it is likely that many philanthro.
pists in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, will
furnish the means for the removal of
many. The movement is bound to go
forward, and the result will be ruinous
to the bulldozers, financially and po-
litically. They have taken the alarm,
but it is too late to try to stem the
current which is overwhelming them.
P. M. Gen. Key was in Richmond
when the returns were received inli-
eating a sweeping victory for the Re-
publicans in Ohio. He was in close
intercourse with the business men of
Richmond and vicinity, and he says
that they manifested an apathy in
regard to the event which surprised
him. When they did express opinions,
they seemed generally to think the
result was quite as well as if their
party had won the fight. They were
generally opposed to the Ewing finan.
cial theories, and We're glad to see
them finally exploded. Besides, Judge
Key says, they are tired of the eternal
wrangle over National politics. They
have about concluded that it is time
to become reconciled to the Union and
the Constitution.
The democratic disasters of the year
call to mind the fact that they have
always suffered when they took an
emphatic stand against national
progress or the integrity of the Unian.
Thus in 1864 they resolved that the
war was failure, just on the eve ofits
glorious success, and they were over.
whelmed in the Presidential election
that ensued. In 1872 they resolved
that the whole reconstruction policy
was a failure, and the result was that
! they were swept out of existence in a