Year: 1867

If q President had been chosen in the
Autumn of 1862 he would have been a champion
of National restoration by means of giving the
whole country up to the revolted Shareholders
and bidding them work their will with it; If
one had been chosen in the August of 1854, he
would have been pledged to peace on any
terms with the Confederate rebels. Had the
builders of the Chicago Platform Of that year
briefly resolved that they wanted Union and
Peace, and did MT care what became OF the
Nigger-nay, had they known enough to say
nothing at all-Gen. Mcclellan could have
barely been beaten, even with the dead-wcight
of Pendleton hung to his skirts. That Plat
form cost him more votes in this State than
composed Lncoln'5 majority: we presume it
was the same in Connecticut, and elsewhere
We consider that Lincoln's election was Sc
cured by Shermaus capture Of Atlanta and
Sheridan's victories in the Valley of Virginia;
but McClellan's overwhelming discontinue was
engineered by Vallandigham & Co. at Chicago.


The Republicans owe their victories of 1866
primarily to Mayor Monroe and his subordl-
nate Thugs in New-Oreans but Andrew
Johnson & Co. greatly intensified them by
their harangues while "swinging round the
"circle" somewhat later Eliminate those two
elements from the canvass, aud we could not
have called out the full vote that gave us
Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and New-lork.
There may have been no more Republicans in
either State after than before those perform
ances but a good many more of them
found their way to the polls than would have
done but for Mcssrs. Monroe and Johnson.


The Republican party need not depend for
its victories on the persistent misbchayior Of
its enemies. 1t is strong enough to rule by its
own merits, independently Of their follies and
crimes But to this end, it must 1. Complete
promptly the Reconstruction of the Southern
States on a basis of blended justice and mag
nanimity; 2. Systematically educate and en-
tighten the People The necessity and urgency





the broad and safe basis Of Universal Amnesty
with Impartial Suffrage is now so clear that
we will not dwell upon it. Events are more
cogent than arguments. We will speak to-day
only to the second point.


If there were neither a newspaper nor a
common school in the country, tie Democratic
party would be far stronger than it is Neither
elementary instruction nor knowledge Of tran
spring events is needed to teach the essential
articles of the Democratic creed: Glove rum
"and hate niggers." The less one learns and
knows, the more certain lie is to "votc the
"reglar ticket from A to lizard"


But Rcpublcanism rests on radically differ
ent basis, and is sustained by wholly diverse
considerations. 1t lives by Intelligence it dies
in the murky sitting atmosphere Of Ignorance.
Canvass almost any township in the land, and
distinguish those who take from those who fail
to take a newspaper and you will find that
two-thirds Of those who take vote Repub-
lican, while three -fourths of those who read
nothing but chance paper picked up for a
few moments in a bar-rOom vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, and will not be persuaded to
touch any other


If every man in the country could read and
did habitually read two good journals, one of
each party we should have no more doubt of
electing a Republican President next year
than of the rising of the sun. But every
voter who does not read is peril and the
multiplicity of such voters subjects the results
of our elections too much to the control of
accident. Fortune will not always favor us as
she did in 1864 and 1866. We can be sure OF
victories only by deserving them. And the
duty now imperatiycly pressing upon us is to
take care that epery uOtcr UChO can read, and
,CW read it, or ,VhO has some one IN his family
,ohO can and wiH read it TO him, is Seasondbly
supplied tOih a good Republican journal for the
whOte gear 1868.


/ We arc not going TO succeed 50 easily as