Year: 1876

paramount necessity of the hour Is to
prevent Democratic restoration to
power, and remarks that such an
event would be a national calamity
and a national peril, &c. We accept
the proposition, so far as the Republi-
can party is concerned, but this idea
does not apply to the nation. The de-
velopments of the past year have dem
onstrated that under Democratic rule
disclosures might ensue that would
be far from agreeable to the party that
has ruled the country since the inaug-
uration of Abraham Lincoln. There
are but few, if any, even among the
most ardent Democrats who will not
concede the fact that in the incipiency
of the Republican movement the pro-
jenitors of that organization were as
sincere as any body of intelligent men
could be, although bigoted and wrong.
The objects of their efforts were ac-
complished and the reins of power
fell into their hands; and to accept
the Republican idea, for the sake of
argument, the country was saved;
but how? and what are the results of
the extraordinary powers, privileges,
and opportunities that have by such a
success fallen into their possession ?
The Union is restored, and neminally,
harmony prevails; but as an ass umed
harmonious Tnion stand before the
world very much like one who walks
about the earth with mask upo his
face, and hidden shame or grief
within. Every body feels it, from the
highest TO the lowest. The opportun-
tiles that have been given by the re-
suit of toward circumsta nces to the
Republican party, have not been i'm
proved in patriotic spirit; but from
recent investig ations it has been
shown that by it the nation has been
famed to sleep and vampyre-like it
has endeavored under a guise of as
sumed virtue and patriotic purity to
exhaust the very essence of our
national being. Why does the
Republican party dislike Democratic
success, except that because 1T does
not wish to see the door opened that
will expose the skeleton in its own
household? These remarks are not
made in an unkind or uncharitable
spirit, but it must be apparent to all
who run and read that there is some-
thing amiss in the present regime.
An innocent man fears no lnvestiga-
tion, and the same remark applies to
administrations as does to individu-
ais; and why this wincing and whin-
ing? We ask what can be worse ca
lamity than that we are now bearing?
The record of corruption from a close
proximity to the White House down
to the tide-waiter has been so ex-
posed, until the very name of Ameri-
can politics has become nauseating in





honest citizens of our own country as
we'll as foreign nations. The cause of
this great anxiety is that if the De-
mocracy is successful, the investigat-
ing probe may be thrust too far for the
reputation of the Republican party in
to the mass of error and malfeasance
on its part. Our Republican contem-
poraries may rest assured that their
wailings will amount to naught.
They may seek to be let alone, bnt
they will not rest in their coveted
peace till justice is done to the people.
The Democracy will elect honest men
to office, and our sympathy lies with
those who have the labor of unearth-
ing all of the doing of the radicals for
the last dozen years, as we think they
will have their hands full.