Year: 1870

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THE BATTLE FOR THE CON.
4 ST1TUTION.


There can be no mistaking the signs
! OF the times that Radicalisni has pass.
/ ed its point of elimination and is rap.
idly expiring all over the United


States. We predict the October and


November elections in the North will


utter voice more ofninous of its CON.
dempation than those of Kentucky
and North Carolina in the South


What good many timid people in the


South have thought wild and impos.
sible dream, is actually proving near
reality. The people OF the United
States are at last conscious of the tur-


pitude of the Radical party, and mean
to expcl it from the Government and
restore the old constitution. And
here we discover immense importance
of fighting the battle against Radical
ism on the highest constitutional
grounds, 80 that when the victory
shall have been won, the yictors will
not have to pause to inquire "what
principles have been vindica.ed and
established by our triumph" And
there is virtue in a high standard of
party creed, before, as well as after.
the victory. Men will fight better for
true, open. just and noble cause,
than upon time-serving and mere vote
catching platforms. If there ever
was political battle in which vital
principles Of ght and justice were at
stake, it is this one. Let us fight it
up to the mark, and on the broad
ground Of 1.-THE Constitution as it was. !"
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette feels confident that
the next House OF Representatives will
be very differently constituted from
its infamous predecessor, and in that
view it comments upon the result and
makes these timely remarks upon the
importance Of the exalted standard of
principles upon which the Democratic
party of the United States is fighting
the battle:


Now, the Democratic Conservatives
hereabouts, and still further South,
desire to be put on record $50 that it
may hereafter be referred to as docu-
mentary evidence). that this glorious
result, and the brilliant future that
awaits the constitutional party, have
been achieved by persistent opposi-
tion to all and every one of the infer
nal projects, tricks and contrivances of
the Radical faction, beginning at the
beginning and ending at the ending of
its career of twelve dismal years of
triumph. It is to be further noted
and recorded, that our bright pros
pect-certain success, indeed-is the
legitimate fruit of firm determine
ton never to lower the constitutional
standard o single inch and utterly
to repudiate all attempts to ignore or
keep out Of rse,o the principles of the
party. which are the same to-day as
they were in 1860, when the destinies
OF the country passed into the hands
of men who have well>nigh destroyed
its morals, and wholly disrupted its
elements Of prosperity-as we'll as
subjected its people not only to des-
potic rule and private oppression, but
to the undisguised derision of man
kind. With q President taking his
seat on the 4th of March, 1873, back
ed by majority in the popular branch
of Congress (then, beyond doubt), we
can commence the great task of restor-
ing the country to constitutional gov
ernment, to be administered upon the
principles of honesty and real econo-
my. The Senate, as has been long
ago demonstrated, will be powerless
to thwart the will of the people.


Can any man who is trying to hide
away the greatest political crimes of the
Radicals and to drag down our own
standard to q near level with theirs, in
order to make it palatable to thin
skins, sneaks and negroes, read these
manly words without feeling a flush
Of shame on his cheek?