The National tribune., 1880-12-01
The Presidential Election of 1880 and its
Results

AS our readers know The NATIONAL tribune 4
is not and is not intended to be, political paper
We do not choose to give any partisan coorlng 10
our editorials We know that the soldiers, VINO are
our constituents have friends and true ones, IN both
political parties Yet it seems proper and naturai
enough to record the result of the great contlct {
through which the country has passed, and to give
our best guesses as to the future.
The Republican party in the late contest appealed
chiefly to the sentiment of NATIONALITY; seNIf
ment which was intensified and made general, oy
the purposes aims conflicts and results OF the late
civil war 1t is beyond all doubt that never IN all
the history of our country was this feeling OF one
ness-thissense of nationaty-so strong among the
masses of the American people. The narrow hnes
of counties cities and States were, and are, over
passed by the strong affection and fervent faith Tor
the flag and the country.
Most men realize that the power which has the
lawful right to take them from their homes to fight
its battles is and must be the supreme power OF the
land And when in addition to the power when
can command these great sacrifices there is hearty
readiness on the part of the citizens to fuihl sucn
commands, when lawful authority is supplemented
by loving obedience, then the National 1eennS is
fully displayed Such was the case in the war OF
the Rebellion, such is the state of feeling now.
Every sacrifice made every duty performed, every
life given was the seal and the assurance OF Ma
tional supremacy and National perpetuity.
The Republicans relied upon this sentiment, and
since the close of the war all their presidential can
didates have been men who did their share in the
field.
o Grant, HAYES Garfield, all their spurs and
the insignia of their rank in the active service OF
the United States on the field of battle
James A. Garfield, of Ohio, the next President OF
the United States, is growth of strictly American
. SOIL product which no other country can bring
forth There is scarcely any grade of honest life
so low that he has not touched it and been OF 1t
There is scarcely any depth of honest Woodworking
poverty that he has not personally and thorough,
known There is scarcely any effort to raise meI
from this condition that he has not tried and en-
dured.
His native qualifications, physical and mental
:. have been hardened, toughened and strengthened
by early grapples with the rudest destiny, an
= strength for future advance was only assured b
conquest of present obstacles The value otthing
was taught him by what it cost to gain them Th
, beggarly rudments of education offered to the poe
mans child forty years ago. were seized and mad
d. the all-powerful keys to an unlimited advance
"a Sobriety, rigid economy, and hard work broke u
an the rigid environments of poverty-and steadie
he the course of his young ambition Orphan, but fl
his admirable mother; poor, except in will courag
and intelect hard working as child, as boy,
Young man, as full-grown, he always gave himse
Dr. fully to the one thing he had to do
o. Day laborer farmland, teamster, student teache
in professor lawyer volunteer soldier colonel genera
for Representative in Congress for sixteen years, Sc
MT ator, and President elect in each and every
these stages along the glorious line of his life marc
the same qualities, the same characteristics a
plainly displayed.
T. In this varied and hard-working life he has be
- part of all the varied life of this country
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to Inc circles oi 'he eauoa'e0 niinu =. 'nts GUM