Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-10
OUR NEW

ry day be more and more satisfied
that revolutions such as are contem-
plated by the Democracy can be con-
summated without detrlment to our
commercial and industrial interests.
When has debate been more free,
more able, more temperate or more
conclusive than since the present
Congress assembled. When has
there ever before been manifested
q more irresistible determination to
restrain action to the purposes for
which the national legislature was
convened. If the majority shall con-
tinue this exemplary conservatism
until the army is placed in its proper
position, until impartial juries are
empaneled in Federal Courts and
until State elections can be honestly
conducted by State officials, there
can be no doubt about the popular
verdict, no matter what an acciden-
tai executive may attempt. There
will then be a government that can
be implicitly trusted. There will be
cheerful acquiescense, not in the re-
suit Of force, but in the decision Of a
free bxilot.
The late speeches and votes Of the
Nationals are of vast significance.
As compared with those of the Re-
publicans every candid lover of his
country must award them the mead
OF higher merit. The words and acts
Of such men az Frye, Conger and
Garfield fall far short of those of De
La Matyr and his associates, and if
the constituents Of the Nationals in
Congress, rs there is every reason to
believe from the result Of recent cleo.
tons, are of the same way of think.
ing with them and will hereafter sus-
tain at the polls the positions taken
by them, the days and the evils Of
sectionalism are passed. Concert of
action between the Nationals and
Democrats will speedily restore con-
s~titutional liberty in every portion of
this fair and broad land,
There a be no question but that
the Democrats and Nationals CON-
bined can control the Northern states
in the next elections. In that Of
1876 Mr.. Hayes received In them only
250, 499 votes more than Mr.. Tilden.
Nothing, therefore, can prevent the
whole authority of government pass
ing into the hands Of the opposition
represented by the majority vote cast
on Saturday in the House, if the ele.
ments which composed 1t remain
united. Several Western States are
yielding their destinies into the hands
Of those that have recently o%verthrown
Radicalism in Chicago and Detroit.
ALI that is needed to assure this, 10
that these elements so happily brought
together shall remain in that coudi-
ton.
Everybody should now labor for
such results. These are days when
the interests of the nation demand
conciliatory action. Let dead issues
be abandoned. Let all who think
; alike as to individual liberty, a re
formed condition of taxation. limita-
ton of usurped powers and fuller and
more profitable commercial inter-
course among the States that COM
pose our Union and with foreig n
countries combine in order to sec re
them. These are no times to dog :
matise and differ. Constitutional
progress and commercial and indus.
trial success have been attain
ed anywhere by perpetuating the dis
union Of those that desired them.
They can be reached only through
free conference and cheerful combi'
nations among those that are deter.
mined to have them.