Year: 1868

WHOLESOME SUGGEsTIofs.-We extract the fol-
lowing from an editorial article in the Sacra-
mento Union of February 2sth, in the hope that
ell Union men viii read and profit BY it:


"In the election for which we are now pre-
pairing it is our most earnest desire to see per-
feet union of the Union party of this State. To
effect this, and to make sure Of drawing out our
full strength in November, there must be a sys-
tenn adopted for thorough organization in every
county. The Club plan has been proved with
good results, and ought to be again adopted.
On the Grand Army of the Republic we can
probably rely for a very general support should
the Union nominee be Grant or any other emin-
ent loyal soldier as against Pendletop, johnson,
or any leading Democratic civilian. But this
organization takes in only the military strength
of the party, which in this State can hardly
number more than 5000 or 10, 900 votes, if SO
many. Outside of this we have still voting
force of so, 900 to be attended to and held to-
gether so that they may be counted on at the
election. The patronage and organization of
Grant Clubs in every election district of the
State is the surest means Of achieving this OBJ
jeet.


"On this Presidential election the future des-
tiny of the republic is staked. If the Union
party will but organize and hold together, work
ing Sarmoniously, the measures which have
been taken by Congress to reconstruct the South
will not be impeded or obstructed for the next
four years, and those States will bring into the
national politics as great an acquisition to Re-
publican power as could be desired. The four
millions of slaves set free by the war will be
guaranteed their liberty for ever, the national
debt will be honestly paid, taxes will soon be
reduced, and Government expenditures cut down
to the lowest possible figure. We shall always
have loyal and most reliable national element
in that section of the country where hitherto
treason and disunion Matched all the infamous
plans of disintegration and revolution. On the
other hand, if we permit the Democracy to de-
feat us and elect johnson or Pendleton, or any
other of its heroes, adeu to every blessed hope
of future peace, harmony and national prosper
ity These men have learned nothing by the
war, nor abated jot of the principles on which
they combated the Union and aided the rebel.
lion. They hate every man who struck blow
for his country, and only await fair chance to
back up that hatred with substantial punishment
The fellow who addressed q Democratic Club in
one of the wards of Philadelphia the night after
the news went out that johnson had foored
Stanton and spit in the face of the Senate, say
ing that in short time every lamp-post would
be decorated with rope and dead Republican,
only uttered the wish of his party. They would
undermine both Houses with nitro glycerne and
blow the Republican Congress into the clouds, if
they were not afraid of hurting their own parti-
crat as President means the return of the rebels
10 power, the abolishment of the Freedmen s
Bureau, the return of the slaves to slavery
through oppressive laws Of apprenticeship for
minors and of vagrancy for the aged"