Year: 1867




advantage. Nothing is waited for now
| but restOratlOn,-a return of the States
once III rebellion to their places and duty
| IN the Union. Why do we not have it -
Is it because of the continued rebellious-
ness of those with whom we contended for
four years, to compel them to obey the
same supreme law which we profess to obey
ourselves There is notoriously no resis-
tance from that quarter. Are the people
OF the North unwilling that the authority
| of the Constitution should be restored
where for four years it was suspended p
On the contrary they are patiently waiting
for that very thing to be brought about,
since they consider it the chief and legiti-
mate fruit OF the war. Then what is the
trouble with public affairs Why cannot
we have peace and good feeling once more?
What stands in the way of order and obe-
| dlence? Who hinders reunion and q re-
turn to prosperity e? There is but one an
swer. 1t is the politicians in Congress-
They have the conceit to think they are the
country. But for them alone. the country
would be peaceful and advancing.


The body Of the people are i'll no sense
| politicians. They want only good and
stable government. AS for their being in
terested in the ascendancy of any particu-
lar party, it is an arrant pretence They
sustain one party or another, just as they
find it performs their service It is no.
thing to them who are in particular offices
and who are not who are thought by a
party clique ''houorable " men, and re-
nowned men, and who are not; all they
look for is equal laws, as little government
as is consistent with public security, the
largest freedom for themselves in all direc-
tions Of industry, and q common respect
for public authority. 1t is not the people
who keep alive this state Of excitemeut.-
| They do not feed the fever which is con-
suming the country's veins. The country
has been in great peril; they rose to rescue
| it, and supposed their work was done. But
after all their efforts and sacrifices, the DO
| liticians tell them they are mistaken; it has
got to be all done over again, this time at
the hands OF the politicians themselves
The assumption IS preposterous. 1t may
be a little time before the people fairly
comprehend the purposes Of the men who
thus deceive them, but the discovery of
their deluslon is sure to come at last.


Ii the men who control Congress had the
least foresight, they would not require to
be told of this fact They plot and scheme
for themselves, when the country cries out
IN It's agony for relief-and rest from its
prolonged suherings. This is not time
to pursue party advantage. No man now
ought to think for moment of what is to
be gained on one side or another but only
of what may be done for the country. We
were ourselves lady to sink all considera-
tions Of party when the storm burst on us
in 1861, and resolved to pay no regard to
its calls until we were certain again that we
had country in which contending parties
were possible. And as we felt at the break
ing out of the cOuntry'S troubles, so do we
feel now. This is the time to test ones
patriotism, not to strengthen feeling of
partisanship. It is not who is the Demo
crat, and who the Republican but who is
ready to make q sincere and earnest effort
to save his country and it's institutions
By some we have ourselves been thought
too Democratic; by others, not Democratic
enough. Some style US an advocate of the
President ; others q defender of some one
else.


The plain truth of it is, we are in this
crisis, as we were in the crisis of 81, nei-
ther Democratic nor Republican-neither
Johnson nor .i-Johnson. Whatever the
strength and depth of our convictions
on principles of administration, we do not
deem this the time to obtrude them when
the country is slowly dying of sheer aban-
donment. We are Democratic now as we al
ways have been, and expect to be Demo-
cratic to the end of our days, because we
hold the Democratic theory of the charac-
ter and functions of our Government the
wholly sound one, and are thoroughly con-
vinced that an administrative policy based
on that theory is the best in all respects
for the common interest of the people,
But we do not think it necessary to insist
that others shall see as We see before we can
work together for the salvation of the
Union. We are ready to join hands with
any and all persons, of whatever creed OF
party, so they but bear the name of Amer
lean citizens, to save this country from an
archy on the one hand and despotism on the
other. 1t is 4 crisis and we hold that all
patriots should rise above party ways of
thinking to the elevated plane Of patriotic
thought and action. This is our sole creed
in these times. Who is there that cannot
subscribe to it, unless bound hand and foot
in partisan tolls.


Here is the business of the country that
stands waiting and suffering. There are
great practical questions to be answered,
and the answer involves all things else
The material Interests of the nation cry out
for relief. Nothing can prosper while
public confidence is undermined by the I'M
certain and revolutionary course of selfish
and narrow politicians Business of all
kinds will refuse to revive, SO long as people



ton. Trade will remain stagnant; facto
ries will grow silent ship-yards will be de-
serted commerce will take to foreign flags,
and slip out of our hands altogether and
evidences of material decay and death will
continue to multiply. Until party leaders
leave the country alone, and abandon the
notion that it cannot live without their
pretentious quackery, we cannot have either
peace or prosperity. There is nothing left
the people now but to take matters out OF
their control as soon as possible. The
people showed themselves competent to
save the country once, and it is no less
certain that they are equal to the task
again, if they take it fairly into their
hands.


As elections will soon be held in Penn
sylvania and Ohio, the following table will
be useful for reference, as we'll as interest
ing from the reflections it is calculated to
call forth


How A RADICAL CONGRESS IS COMPOSED.
The following was the vote iu round num-
bers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky,
at tho elections in these States:


Democratic. Republican.
PENNSYLVANIA. 900, ,00G .305, COG