Year: 1876

the preservation Of Republican ascendency il


the Government fer the sake Of the country
They are, therefore, free to select that maj
whose nomination will give the country th
best assurance thatif elected the civil service
will DO thoroughly reformed and regenerated
The Republican party, to secure success
must deserve it. The reverses Of the las
few years have been wholesome warnings
and these warnings have received additional
significance from the exposure of the whole
sale and widespread corruption which ha!
prevailed in Congress, in Cabinet Offices, anc
in all the minor branches of the service, in
cluding the whole Revenue Department..


BENJAMIN a. Bn1srow is, Of all those yet
named prominently for the nomination, the
ablest, best, and, under all the circumstances
the most available candidate. He comes
from family whose anti-slavery principles
date back several generations. He comes
from family that dared to be Abolitonists
and Emancipationists in Kentucky when
Slavery was dictator in American politics.
He was Union man before and Union
soldier during the War; he was al Emnnci-
pationist in the Legislature when he almost
stood alone. He is man of thorough educa-
ton, and of rare intellectual ability. He is
in the prime Of life, a practical business man,
an able lawyer, and IN honest man. He
had tho courage and the old-fashioned
honesty, when he discovered fraud and cor:
ruption in the Custom-H Houses, to lay the
heavy hand of the law upon the criminals, to
break up smuggling, and to punish the
guilty. In like manner, with no prompting
save that Of duty, he unearthed the great
revenue frauds which have added largely to
the inmates Of the public prisons and plant
ed colony OF American ofice-holders in
Canada


There is nothing in common between Mr..
Bn1srow and the old Rebel sentiment at the
South; but his personal integrity and his
high courage commend him as strongly in
that section as in any other, and he is the
only man who can he nominated around
whom in the late slave-holding States there
will rally Republican organization embrac-
ing considerable portion Of the white ma
tive population who are now forced into an
intimate alliance with tho Democratic party.
His nomination is the only one which holds
out the least promise Of strong, vigor-
GUS, and healthy white Republican party in
the Southern States, which, when once Or
ganized, will become the protector and the
intelligent guide of the negro population,
nov hope1essly adrift.


= There is not a Republican Stats in which
Mr. BR1srow will not be stronger than either
MORTON or CoNKLNa. In the States Of
Ohio and Indiana he will be irresistible.
while in New Jersey and Connecticut,
and in New Nork, the whole mass who are so
clamorous for Governmental service reform
will 60 swell his vote that he can defeat any
opponent who may be nominated If the
Of Illinois want man who can
certainly be elected, because he fills the
measure OF popular demand, our advice is
that now, that h1r. BLAINE has seemingly
dropped out, they unite upon BR1srow. All
the exigencies Of the times indicate that his
nomination will be equivalent to success,
and TINT his rejection By the Convention on
the ground that he is reformer will be &C.
cepted as an invitation to defcat the machine
man who may be selected: by the Convention