Year: 1876

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.


On Wednesday next the Republicans
Of the uation will assemble at Cincinnati,
for the purpose Of nominating candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
of the United States. With the near ap-
proach of the time for the selection of
standard bearers, the eyes of the nation
turn with hope to the meeting of the
representative Republicans, knowing we'll
that upon their judicious action hinges
the prosperity and welfpro Of the Repub-
lIc for the next four years. For we
ara not disposed to under-r rate the strength
Of our enemies, nor to conceal the fact
that injudicious and unpopular nomi-
nees may imperi the certainty Of Re-
publican triumph. The Democratic par
ty has gained fearfuly in strength in
many States, while in others, what is
lacking in numerical force will be made
even by inaugurating reign Of terror
and mob violence through which it may
succeed. 1t is then TO those States in
which law and order reign supreme,
where men are governed by motives
which seek only the highest good of the
nation that the champion of Repubi-
can principles must look to secure
continuation Of Republican triumphs.


With candidates above rcproach this
will be very easy task. The people
have not forgotten that but for the Re
publican party, sustained as it was by
the loyal sentiment of the people, our ma
tionality would have been sundcred, our
capital on territory claimed by hostile
power, and our country bounded on one
side, not, as now, by the blue waters of
the gulf of Mexico, but by the domain
Of republic of Shareholders. Nor have
they forgotten that !hose against whom
the country had to contend in the hour
Of its trial, looked to the Democratic par
ty, wherever it existed, for aid and COM
fort. That whenever in the political
changes which followed state of peace
the people seemed willing to overlook
the past Of Democracy, that party sought
sedulously TO bring the remembrance of
patriotic service to disgrace, and to
clothe with the mantle of political power
those who had been most prominent in
support of the rebellion. That when
the people, in rebuke of the corruption
incident to a long lease of power permit
ted a Democratic triumph, the halls Of
Congress were at once filed with gang
OF gueiillas, whose sole claim to public
recognition lay in the fact that they have
held position in the military or civil
service of the Confederscy. And al
Though the American nation has shown n
leniency toward the conquered never be-
fore exhibited by government triumph
ant over rebellion, and to-day desires
nothing so much as pence and good will
between all its component sections, it
cannot afford to set aside its tried and
true friends to place Its old time enemies
at the head of affairs.


The Republicans of the nation are
largely in the majority, and judcious
nomination at Cincinnati will Demon
strate the truth of this assertion. The
people know the Democracy are not to be
trusted, but they demand that those who
are put forward for their support shall be
men in whom they can place entire con-
fdence. And such, we believe will be
the spirit which will govern the delibera-
tions Of the Convention on Wednesday.


We cannot hope to give the result Of
the Convention's S action ir our next pa
per, but intelligence may be received by
the stage of Friday. The Convention is
made up of the best material ever called
together for purely political purpose
From such a body of representative men,
acting with a full knowledge OF what will
be expected Of them, we may look for
nominations which will command the
confidence of the people, and declara-
tion of principles in which local interest
and sectional prejudice viii held subord-
mate to the general & ood. The Repub-
lican party is eminently a national one,
and its adherents, from Maine to Califor-
mia recognize, that in the strength of the
Federal Union lies the best security for
the liberties of the States.


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