Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-22
The Democratic Waterloo.

Having met with their Quatre Bras in
Maine the alleged powers of Republi-
canism have given the Democracy its
Waterloo in Indiana and Ohio, and the
sun of Democracy is set, let us hope
forever. Mr.. Garfield will be the next
President of the United States unless 4
miracle is wrought in favor of the
Democratic party, and the Democratic
party has not recently been cultivating
the alliance of the power by which
miracles are wrought. The defeat of
Hancock and of the Solid South, is q
foreordained conclusion, and the cleo
tions in November will register the
edict which was issued when the people
of the two test States announced their
adherence to the Republican cause.
We can measure the value of such a
victory only by estimating the difficult
ties in the way. Our party has now
been in power for twenty years, and
during twenty years of rule the strong
est party ever organized by free coun-
try could not but weaken itself. All
the errors, all the mistakes, all the ex-
cesses and shortcomings are registered
against it, and summed up as liability
that must finally be met, while the pub
lie services rendered from time to time
pass from memory with the occasion
that they served. The Republican
party has not been free from the fail
ings and weaknesses of humanity. 1t
has had its sins and it's blunders, its
dissensions and its difficulties, until
finally it seemed as if the crisis had
come in its fortunes. All the friends
of the Republic and its enemies stood
on the alert to listen for the news of
tuesdays election. The answer which
has come to their eXpectant ears is not
a mere party triumph nor a temporary
victory. 1t is declaration that the
great heart of the Nation is always
sound, and that the patriotism of free
men may always be trusted to guard
the freedom we enjoy. Our people
have spoken again as they have spoken
before. To say that the hour of danger
is merely the presage of safety, and
that when the weak and the timid are
helpless, in doubt, and in fear, there
are plenty of brave men and true men
to come forward, stout hearts, strong
hands, clear heads, whose energy,
whose answering support of good
cause may be relied on to conquer fears
and Danish faults, and bring the good
cause in winner, triumphant over
every obstacle. Never was there a
fairer issue made than that which came
to the test on Tuesday in our two CEN
tral States. The question was plainly
put whether the government of this
country should, for the next four years,
be intrusted to the keeping of those
who once tried to ruin it, or to those
who saved it, and the whole Nation rose
/ to answer. While the Solid South, alien,
sullen, uupatriotic, un-American, stood
aloof in the fancied security of its solidi-
/ ty, the whole country made the causes
in Indiana and Ohio its own. The East
! and the West stood on the one side and
the other, like Aaron and Hur, holding
/ the hands of Moses until the fight was
won. Money should not be wanting il
/ it was needed, and the Golfers of Wall
street and the savings of New England
and Pennsylvania came to swell the
campaign funds. Speakers should not
be wanting, and every Republican who
had anything TO say came forward TO
say it. We have not a word of
coincidence for the fallen foe. They
| fought against the life of the Ma.
tion, and, baffied in that, they fought
against its honor and its credit. They
have arrayed themselves in opposition
TO the prosperity of the country, to the
patriotism of the people. They have
made themselves the outcasts of free
dom, the pariahs of politics. 1t is toe
late for them to repent and be forgiven,
for they have lost that sense of virtue
which is the essential of repentance. Il
we could give them u word of advice
it would be to disappear, to disorgan
ize, TO depart. The earth is tired o
them; heaven has no place for them
They have but one destination, anc
they themselves have pronounced th'
doom which bids them go there. st
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