Year: 1868

in the country, all of whose principles
and doctrines coincide with his own.
From the nature of the human mind,
such an event would be anomalous and
a miracle. The shades and complex
ions of the mind are infinite, and
although "history repeats ITSELF" it
never truthfully records the story of
two human intellects precisely alike.
Yet many of US denounce the party we
know to be the best and stay away
from the polls, so permitting the party
we most condemn to triumph; because
the party we favor has laid down some
rule or proclaimed some doctrine which
we do not exactly approve. We insist
that the principles and views of the
party shall be precisely those We indi-
maintain, or we will withdraw
our support. We shrink into our little
corner on election day, and weep be-
cause we believe that politically the
Cooley men cease from the face of the
earth. We will take no part in politics
when we do not endorse all on either
side. AS well might man find fault
because no large multitude of his fellow
creatures are possessed Of faces precise
ly like his own. AS well might he say,
you are all different in features from
me, and l will have nothing to do with
your world; and then blow out his
brains. He who thus voluntarily ab-
sents himself from the election, and de-
serts his own favorite party because
the principles and aims of that party
are not in every particular his own,
destroys with his own hand his own
political life. Even the master mind
of the determined John G. Calhoun,
possessing an almost immeasurable
power over the intellects of so many
of his countrymen, was unable to pro-
duce, in long lifetime devoted main
ly to one purpose, a party which
should work out successfully the dog
mas he instilled.


There have always been two power
full contemporaneous parties, and only
two, within the United States since the
government was first established, and
it is fair to presume there will not in
the future be more than two. The
question for every true American to
decide is not, Can l induce the peo-
pie of the United States to act politi-
cally Just as l wishl The important
interrogatory is, Which of the two
great antagonistic parties Of my coun-
try is the best?-which is the nearest
right? When a man has decided
this point, then is it not wisest and
most patriotic to adhere to and sup
port the party he has chosen as the
bestl A man should do all in his
power to lead his party nearer to what
be considers the attainment of perfect
political excellence. But because the
majority of that party are not cast in
the same mental and moral mould as
himself, is no reason that he should
abandon what he knows to be the bet
ter of the two large parties, and so,
pro tanto, expose it to be conquered
by the one he believes TO be the
worse. Such highstrung, autocratic,
self-sufficient practices, SAVIOR more Of
the Napoleonic call or nothing" spirit
than of the republican principles of
America, where the will of the major
ity is the law of the land.


To-day the two great parties in the


field are the Republican party and the
Democratic party. The Republican
party, which has stood by the govern
ment since the beginning of the rebel
war, as Horatius stood by old Rome
when her enemies pressed close to her
gates; the Republican party, which
has been true to the old flag, true to
the principles of an enlightened free
government, of a Christian religion;
the Republican party. which has hurl-
ed slavery ike viper from the cradle
of our young Republic, and warded of
the traitor sword which shareholders
had aimed at the Gordon knot of our
Federal Union; the herald of ali ad-
vanced freedom and justice>and moral
ity on earth since Christ sscended flom
among men. The Democratic party.
Lueifer lend us words to describe it.
The party which attempted to destroy
the government Washington founded;
the modern champions of human slave


ry; the advocates of treason in the
United States; the party which mur-
dered hundreds of thousands of
Americans because they were mar
shalled to maintain the Union Of the
States; the assassins of Abraham Lin
coin; the fawing flatterers and plant
tools of Andrew johnson; the blackest
manifestation of all the retrogade doc
trines of the American stakeholder; the
advanced guard of all that is unjust
and enslaving and reasonable. and
murderous on earth.


These two parties stand before each
American citizen. Aid one of them
directly or indirectly he must. Let
him choose between them, and then
fight earnestly in the ranks of the one
he has chosen.


We have long sneered at Democrats
as slaves to party, because, we say,
they would vote for the Devil if he
were a Democratic candidate. So they


would, and if there is one right princi-
pie left in the rotten platform Of that
mouldering organization, it is the prin-
ciple that a man should through thick
and thin stand by the nominees of the
party he believes to be the best. Let
US not be too naughty to learn a good
lesson even from our enemies.-CkGH,-
Jers6urg (Pa) Repository.


DoN'T RE LoAFER.-YouDg man