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SAT FOB TBI BVBN'NQ TKLEOKAPH.
Til Ohio Klectlnn A Reconstruction of
that Republic L'mtty.
from the N. Y. Ilwuhl.
The trials of our late stupendous civil war
have lifted the people of this couutry far
above the politiuiaus. The results of the late
elections, looking simply at the offioes iu
rolved and the individuals chosen to fill them,
amount to little or nothing; hut in a moral
and political view they turn over a new leaf
and open a new chapter in American history.
From Pennsylvania to Indiana, a by a sort of
spontaneous combustion, we see the same
general popular reaction against the excesses
of radical fanaticism; but in the returns from
Ohio, in which last year's Republican ma
jority of forty thousand disappears, we have a
Epkndid dissolving view of Mr. Chase and his
board ol radical engineers and their Presiden
tial programme of universal negro sullrage and
Southern negro supremacy.
This verdict of Ohio, with an emphasis which
cannot be misunderstood, rules Mr. Chase and
his extreme radical negro doctrine and theo
ries out of the Presidential canvas of lbiis.
Forty thousand majority in the hitherto im
pregnable radical State of Ohio forty thou
sand, more or less, against engrat'tiug npou
the State constitutional! amendment establish
ing universal negro sullrage is a Northern pro
test agidnst this thing which demauds nothing
less than a change of front by the masses of
the Republican party, and a change of leaders.
Messrs. Chase, Wade, Stevens, Sumner, Col
fax, Chandler and Company, like the manag
ing Copperheads of the Democratic party,
have been "weighed in the balances and found
wanting." The handwriting is lixed on the
wall against the demoralizing and disorganiz
ing schemes and dogmas of both these factions
Copperheads and radicals rejected, each iu
their turn, by the unfailing judgment of an
intelligent people. The one hundred thousand
inajority in Ohio against VaUandighain, in the
midst of the war, is hardly more emphatia
than forty thousand, or thirty thousand, or
Whatever it may be, lrom the same pHople,
against Mr. Chase and his congeners iu the
midst of peace.
The voice ol Uhio on this direct test ol uni
versal or unqualified sullrage is the voice o
the North, and it is given as a warning to all
concerned in the coming Presidential contest,
What, then, are the sensible, practical nnu
rank and file, of the Republican party called
upon to do ; Iliey are simply called upon to
reorganize and take a new departure, men nud
measures, lor the .residential campaign
Universal negro sullrage, rejected by Ohio in
18G7 by thirty or forty thousanl majority,
must be superseded by the constitutional
amendment, endorsed by Ohio in lsiJU by
forty odd thousand majority. In on
Henry Clay's great compromise measures on the
slavery question, poor Pierce and the Demo
cracy against the conqueror of Mexico as the
Whig candidate, carried the country, North
and South, as by acclamation. But, depart
ing in 1854 from the instructions of the people,
and persisting in this folly, the Democracy,
on the slavery issue, were torn to pieces iu
18o'0 among the clashing elements of their
Charleston Convention. The great body of
the Republican party, in being carried by
their radical leaders to the opposite extreme
of negro worship, are now warned of the same
danger, and in season to avoid a similar dis
aster. Their safety lies in casting out these
impracticable and implacable radical leaders,
in cutting loose from their destructive schemes
and fallacies, and in recoguizuig aud following
the instructions of the people.
The Republican Convention of Maryland, in
nominating General Urant as its Presidential
candidate, points out the way of safety and
Buccess. Oeneral Grant may be prououueed
the embodiment of the genuine Union senti
ment of the country. Above all the disturbing
factions, elements, ami embarrassments of the
hour, like a commanding and well-known
light-house, through the fog, and rain, aud
darkness he looms up in bold and cheering
relief. Resistless in the field, sagacious iu
council, cool and collected in auy emergency,
and practical in everything, he needs no inge
niously constructed platform to rally a great
- national party around him. In the very ra:t,
however, that he is unacceptable to the radical
fanatical school of Chase, Phillips, Sumner,
Stevens and their brotherhood, lies his greatest
Strength. On any other candidate, and with
any o:her platform than that embodied iu the
name and patriotic record of General Grant
the conservatives of the Republican party urn
the hazards of being divided upon two or three
candidates, as were the disjointed Democracy
in 1800, and as were the distracted opposition
elements in li-:0 and in 3b
The conservative Union Republicans and
Democrats of the great Union war party of
1801 will cut loose from Chase aud his b.ink
clique, from visionary Copperheads and radi
calJacobins, and will rally under the banner
of Grant, as the old Democracy rallied uoder
Goneral Jackson, cut Nick: Riddle and his
bank, Calhoun and his uulliliers.aud sent them
all adrift and marched on to victory. This is
the road to the reconstruction of our political
parties, and of the Union, and of our domestio
and foreign policy, under a new dispensation
adapted to the demands of the age aud the
great revolution through which we have
passed and of that into which we are now
passing. This is to be the sequel of these
late elections and of the impressive verdict of
Ohio against universal and immediate negro
sullrage. It all means a new national party in
the name of the Union and General Grant, his
election in a popular whirlwind, aud a settle
ment of all our present difficulties under his
administration.
v '
Donor to Ohio.
From the if. Y. Tribune.
The Republicans of Ohio elected their Gov
ernor in 18G5 by 30,000 majority, and gave
their State ticket last year by the powerful
help of Andrew Johnson aud Mayor Monroe
a round 40,000. The extra 10,000 would pro
bably have slipped away this year; but, with
an, ordinary canvass aud no unusual issue,
they could not have failed to succeed on every
ticket by, at least 20,000 majority. They have
not been cursed with corrupt legislators, a?
their brethren in other great States have been;
they were little distracted by local issues, save
that personal rivalries as to the pending United
States Seuatorship were quite likely to hurl
their Legislative tickets iu several counties
as they did. They had simply to stand still
in order to be fciae of an easy canvass and a
certain triumph.
They cho.-e no' to stand still, but to advance.
They were committed to the principle of niau
hood sullrage by the action of their chosen
representatives at homo aud ia Congress, and
by the loglo of their position. When the Cop
perheads were supporting Vallandigham for
Governor and doing their utmost to break down
the war for the Union, the Republicans called
the blacks to do their best intf ranks of the
nation's defenders, aud the summons wa3
nobly responded do. Denied a voice in direct
ing the Government he fought to uphold, pros.
cribed, deppised, spit upon, the negro took
up lim musket and went to the front, while
Copperheads were lleeingto Canada and skulk
ing in every direction to evade the draft.
Hence, the late Legislature of Ohio, by a party
vote, passed an amendment to the State Con
stitution providing that color should no longer
be a test of political rights that a black, it a
loyal, worthy citizen, should vote, and that a
deserter or draft-sneak should not. That
Amendment was proporly submitted to the
people to be ratified or rejected at the late
election.
Of course, it was understood that we were to
lose by it how much, could only be deter
mined" by the result. Rut the lower half of
the State, and especially the southeastern
counties, were originally and largely settled
from lrgima and Kentucky; and it was noto
rious that many of the Republicans would
resist negro suffrage, while every Democrat
would do his utmost to defeat it. The Repub
licans, therefore, with everything at stake,
including Mr. Wade's seat in the Senate, ac
cepted in fact, challenged an issue which
they might have postponed, and thus trans
formed into a hazard what before was a cer
tainty. They did what wa3 right and just
when they could not fail to lose by it, when
trimming and a low expediency would have
insured them against all danger. They have
faults that might have harmed them, but did
not: they sullered because they nobly darea to
do right a little sooner than all who have
hitherto acted with them were ready to do it.
They have lost their Legislature they came
very near losing their State ticket because
they were in advance of their time.
"What fools !" exclaim the men wise iu
their own generation, who can conceive no
other end of political effort but to secure aud
enjoy power who test all things by their im
mediate practical results "why not, at least,
put off the question of negro suffrage to a
more convenient season ?" as if a party, that
lias a genuine life, were not always sloughing
off dead matter, and educating the masses to
consider justice first, and success afterwards.
What individual ever acted nobly without
daring and suffering Who does not realize
that the best acts ol his life were those most
misconceived, maligned, traduced, howled at ?
If the Ohio Uepubliuans did not realize that
black suffrage would be a heavy load to carry.
they deserve less honor than we freely accord
mem.
13ut they did know it. They deliberately
chose to be right rather than safe. They
chose to fight a doubtful battle for a great aud
good end, rather tiiau accept a cheap aud cer
tain but relatively unimportant success
And, as the universe is not a product o
chance, but under moral government, we feel
assured that events will prove them wise as
well as right. We predict that their present
reverso win prove their permanent advantage
that they will riso from it strengthened and
invigorated, and look back on it as we do on
the liullR un of 1801 aud the McClellau of
1S02. We only ask those who doubt to wait
and see.
The President ami the Cabinet.
From the ir. 1. Thtu s.
Intimations grow more frequent and authori
tative that the President intends to change his
Cabinet. The result of the recent elections is
said to have prompted hiin to this course; and
under the same instigation, if he changes it at
all, he is expected to make it up wholly from
the Democratic party.
We see no very strong political objections
which anybody can have to this, except per
haps the Democrats themselves. The present
members of the Cabinet would probably be
quite willing to quit positions which for a year
past must have beeu anything but agreeable.
The Republican party gains nothing by their
remaining, nor can it lose anything by their
leaving. The Democrats who may succeed
them will come into possession of very little
power, for the Civil Office bill of last session
puts the whole patronage of the country out
of their reach, so long as the Senate is con
trolled by the Republicans. Such a change as
is suggested would render the Democratic
party more directly responsible for the moa
mies of the Administration than it has been
hitherto, and would thus do the couutry a
service. Public affairs are sure to go wrong
when no political party is responsible lo their
management.
There is a preliminary difficulty to be en
countered. Under the Civil Oili e bill already
referred to, members of the Cabinet cannot be
removed at the mere will of the President;
and though they may be suspended from
office upon charges of misconduct, that sus
pension may be terminated by the Senate
when it meets in December. Under ordinary
circumstances, a request from the President
to resign would be promptly acceded to, as it
certainly should be. Rut where great interests
are at stake, and the policy to be inaugurated
by a new Cabinet is so uuwise as that of the
President is held to be, Secretaries may feel
warranted in declining voluntarily to relinquish
their posts. Mr. Stanton did bo, and his ex
ample may be followed by others. In that
case the President seems to be quite powerless
in the premises.
There is oue department of the Government
with which we hope he will not tamper. The
administration of the finances of the country is
at once too important and too delicate a mat
ter to be made the football of contending par
ties; and our finances are just now iu a critical
condition. Mr. McCulloch has administered
the department with steady good judgment
and decided success. His measures have Lhou
prudent and wise, and if they can be steadily
followed out, will give the country as much
relief as can reasonably be expected under the
heavy burdens it is compelled to bear. The
country is satisfied with his ollicial action, and
would look with distrust aud apprehension
upon his displacement. Its credit has beeu
sustained, and that, too, without seriously im
pairing the resources or embarrassing the in
dustry of the nation. To bring in a new man
now, who should reverse the policy he has
pursued, would have a most damaging effect
upon the credit of the Government and the
general welfare of the country.
Iu no other department of the Government
would ' any change be so disastrous.. Mr.
Seward has managed our foreign relations
with so much ability aud success during the
last six years, that his retention would seem to
be a matter of common justice; aud the coun
try would probably be glad to have the few
icmainiug subjects of difference with foreign
powers settled by the same strong and prudent
hand that has steered us through the dangers
and dilliculties of the past. Rut gratitude U
a weakness to which neither great communi
ties nor their rulers are subject; and both are
unite ant to find obligations to any one man,
after a time, exceedingly irksome and aunoy
ing. Mr. Seward would probably retire upou
the first intimation that his plaoe wan wanted;
and the peac of the country would not be
endangered if the powers and duties of hi
place were confided to other hands. lNone ol
the other Cabinet officers would probably In
very seriously missed; and we presume all ol
them would consider a chance of retirement
as a decided relief.
Tlip True Issue In Kuroiie.
'Vom the JY. Y. 7mc.
French intervention alone prevented the
reconstruction of Germany and the perfect
unity of Italy a year ago; French intervention
has been the chief obstacle to the peaceful
achievement of those ends; but French inter
vention, active as it now is, is powerless t
prevent the early attainment of these devoutly
edly to be wished for consummations. "Ita
lian unity" and "German consolidation" are
predetermined facts; they must come through
peaceful political agitation or through much
bloodshed it is lor Louis Napoleon to say
which. The first notes of a great aud bloods-
war iu Europe, or the last cadeuce3 of that
warlike strain heard a year ago, are now being
pounded in Europe. If Napoleon deoi les that
they are the prelude to another war, then, in
all human probability, when the last notes
sliall have been heard, North and South Ger
many, with their forty millions of inhabitants,
and over one million of trained soldiers, will
have become the reconsoliibited German Em
pire; Italy will have grown into a formidable
kingdom, with Rome for its capital; the tem
poral authority of the Pope will have ended;
and the power of France will have been broken
like that ot Austria was a year ago.
Ry the war of 1800 Prussia absorbed North
Germany, and but for trench intervention in
relieving Austria of the care of the Ojiadril
lateral, and thus enabling her to concentrate
her troops to meet the Prussians at Vienna,
she would have absorbed all South Gerniauy.
French intervention thus prevented Prussia
from dictating peace iu the Austrian capital
instead of at Prague. It prevented Italy
lrom occupying Rome and dictating peace
there, instead of accepting the compromising
and dangerous "September Convention" at
Venice, by which to secure the peaceful
evacuation of Rome by the French eoldiers
who garrisoned it, Victor Emanuel bound him-
selt not to torcibly possess himseu ot the city,
not to allow Italian volunteers to take it, and
through which treaty he lias be-n finally com
pelled, in the September of the next year
tollowinc the date ot this innominate com
promise, to arrest Garibaldi and his son, and
stop the invasion of the Papal States by the
Italian volunteers which the sturdy old leader
had organized.
Rut French intervention which thus brought
the wars in Germany and Italy to abrupt con
clusions, was not potent to stop agitation on
the issues which created those wars. Ever
since the peace of Prague Rismark has labored
successfully for German consolidation, aud the
successful issue of that agitation, begun in
war, continued in peace, and threatening to
culminate in a second war, is near at hand
Ever since the "September Convention" was
signed, amid the protests of Garibaldi and his
adherents, the "party ol action" have beeu
endeavoring to aunul it; and at last, abandon
ing peacelul measures, the present complicated
Hiluiuion in Italy lias Iwcii brouglit Rliut.
Ami it is not mien a very cntiipiioatoa iau.ll
tion of affairs, alter all. Garibaldi's organized
invasion is already a failure. Victor Emanuel
has fulfilled his treaty obligations, but the
revolt in iterbo is, initially, a success, and
the two or three battles which have been
fought have been victories over the Papal
lorces. Italy lias refused aid to the Pope
against his revolting subjects. Napoleou at
the outset, in reply to the entreaties of the
Pope for assistance, notified Victor Emanuel
that he must observe the "September Conven
tion" and not occupy Koine. Victor Emanuel,
while yet enforcing these obligations, fore
see ing the occupation of Rome by the insur-
guits, has asked to be released lrom these
treaty obligations; and Prussia, giving us a
glimpse of the terms of the secret treaty which
it has with Italy, has declared the request to
be just, aud intimated an intention to support
Victor Emanuel in his demand. Napoleon
finds that the "September Convention" was
faulty iu not providing for a revolt of the
Pope's subjects; and now he must either see
Rome the capital of reunited Italy or prevent
it by a war with Italy and Germany. The last
news intimates that the Frenchman is wise as
well as wily; and that he has agreed with
Francis Joseph singular alliance of cunning
and imbecility that Victor Emanuel shall
have his Rome, but that the Pope shall direct
its civil administration as heretofore while he
lives, and that his temporal cower shall end
with him. And no doubt, in thus submitting
to an uncontrollable and inexorable necessity,
Napoleon will endeavor to make it appeir that
he dictates to Europe, and that French inter
vention is Btill the terror of that continent.
There will, we think, be no war of any
magnitude; but whether there is or not, that
cause which this country is most interested in
that cause which this country most in
tently watches in Europe will be triumphant.
The liberalism which has reformed England,
united Italy, and reconstructed Germany, aud
has given its old Constitution to Hungary,
will pursue the even but vigorous teuor of its
way until it develops into strong and healthy
and true and powerful republicanism, aud
imperialism will the no less surely and cer
tainly grow weak and die out, uuregretted
and uncared for. It Is already in its dotage,
not merely in Spain and Austria, where its
power has long been crushed, but even iu
France, where it is most vigorous; and the
fall of Pope will virtually mark the death of
imperialism.
The Victorious and Progrcialvt
De-
moeraiy,
FVnm the. .V V TiViW,?
It is a trite saying (we suppose it has stood
wear enough to become trite because it is so
true) that sudden prosperity is a severer trial
to virtue thau adversity. Though spoken of
individuals, it is more true of parties; since
parties, instead of being controlled by such of
their members as possess the greatest steadi
ness and moderation, are often led by the most
eager, impulsive, and active. We rejoice as
much as any Democrats can in the recent
encouraging triumphs; but our joy is deep aud
sober rather than exultant. Wetare not un
mindful of the temptations which beset a party
when giddy elation comes so suddenly atter a
long series of depressing defeats. Ry forecast
and wisdom these great successes will become
the vestibule of a resplendent future for the
Democratio party; but, on the other hand,
passion and mental narrowness may make
ihein the buds pf a premature spring, nipped
by renewed frosts, which blight all hope of
autumnal fruits.
The Democratio party must be wise enough
to recognize the moulding influence of great
events on public opinion, aud the nermauence
of some of their consequences. Even iu the
most tranquil times, society and public
opinion are iu a state of constant aud, iu a new
country like this, of rapid growth. In a period
oi convulsive turimience and upheaving,
opinion advances with an accelerated velocity.
T I . - :n.. v .i - f . . . . - .
iv ia iiui puBBiuie mat tue miguiy struggles of
the last six years should not leave a deen
imprint on succeeding times. The future of
this country is not to depend on the opinions
of men who were over forty when the war
broke out, but on the opinions of those who
were under thirty. '1 hough built after the
same plan, our older men will say, like those
of Israel, that the second temple is not like
t lie nrst. We must, nevertheless, recognize
facts. It is a fact that all the llower of our
young men were engaged in, and educated by,
the war. All the you'hful visror. dariusr. en
terprise, love of adventure, thirst for honor,
piuie ot country, marched with our armies.
in the army they lived a deeper life than falls
to the lot of ordinary slugglish generations.
Their whole manhood was a hundred times
put to the proof; the experience of four years
was more than the common experience of a
life. And it came at an age when the char
acter is yet pliant and yielding; when opi
nions are either not formed, or have not
settled into dogmatic stiffness. The mould
was applied while the clay was yet soft,
and it will continue to bear the im
press. There is an ineffaceable difference
between the generation of men that is going
out and the younger generation that is coming
in; and no party which ignores this dillerence
will be in sufficient sympathy with the rising
future to guide its politics. Our elderly men,
whose habits of thought became fixed before
the war, will be every year deserting, iu olw
dience to a summons they cannot resist. As
between the old epoch and the new, they will
be a constantly dwindling minority; but as
between the living and the dead, they are
"passing over to the majority." Their indu
rated habits of thought will pass with them,
aud the country will be ruled by the genera
tion whose character was shaped in these later
stirring times.
The Democratic party, in its brightest and
palmiest days, was preeminently the party of
progress. In spite of the croaking3 aud fore
bodincs of its opponents, it extended the suf
frage to white citizens till suffrage became
universal; it abolished imprisonment for debt;
removed the property qualification for office;
made the State judiciary elective; brought
new territory into the Union until its origiual
area was quadrupled; made vigorous war
upon the protective system, although many of
its early leaders had supported it; aud uutil
the slavery question became predominant, its
favorite employment was to supply fresh fuel
to the engine rather than to put on the brakes.
In complaisance to its Southern wiug, it made
mistakes on the slavery question, and lost the
advantage of leadership. In its attempts to
prevent opinion advancing too fast, it fell
behind; and there could not be a more fatal
blunder at present than an attempt to carry
the public opinion of the country back to the
point where it stood when, to save the train
from destruction iu moving down a declivity,
the Democratic party went from tho engine to
the brakes.
The tendency of successful parties is to
forget that society never stands still; that
opinion is ever advancing; that the policy of
a past generation can never exactly tally with
the wants of the present. The excesses of the
Roundheads, who beheaded Charles I, planted
the eoctU of the reaction, which restored his
eon. The reHtored (Stuarts, who had not the
wisdom to discern that they were in a new
epoch, reasserted the royal prerogative in as
high a tone as if tho Commonwealth had not
intervened, and thereby lost tho throne for
ever. Modern France teaches the same lesson.
The severity of antecedent oppression caused
the violent excesses of the Revolution, which,
in turn, paved the way for the despotism of
the First Napoleon. The restored Bourbons,
like the restored Stuarts, learned nothing and
forgot nothing, and a new revolution in ltfoO
swept them from the throne.
We admire the old Democratic loaders as
fervently as anybody can whoso admiration is
rational. Rut we trust we do not admire tliein
in the same stupid spirit in which pedauts
and literary nincompoops admire tho ancient
classics. We would not servilely copy their
policy, but rather emulate the spirit, tho
judgment, the attention to' present circum
stances, the recognition of popular good sense,
the adaptation of means to ends, which made
them wise in their generation, as we ought to
be in ours. It is the very essence of Demo
cracy that the people of every generation are
fully competent to manage their own affairs.
Such parts of a former policy as are suited to
present circumstances we hope we shall have
the wisdom to adopt and continue; not, how
ever,, from mere respect to authority, but
because we have a clear perception of their
fitness. Such parts of an old policy as are
not adapted to the new epoch, we trust we
shall have the independence to discard, thus
honoring our predecessors by imitating their
self-reliant example, and by bringing fresh
faculties to bear on actual circumstances. The
emulous artist most truly honored his master
by feeling that he, too, was a painter.
The most illustrious example of far-sighted
sagacity, and wise moderation in victory, to
be found in the history of political parties,
was perhaps furnished by Jefferson, the father
of the Democratio party. His consummate
wisdom in the hour of triumph so strength
ened and consolidated the party, that it re
mained iu power the greater part of the next
sixty years, lie had the reach of thought to
see that a "vibrating ascendancy" would give
no stable character to the policy of the Gov
ernment, and he built for durability. Instead
of attempting to carry the tower to a giddy,
toppling height, he broadened its base and
gave it the solidity of a pyramid. He accepted
some things in the policy of his predecessors
which he aud his followers had opposed at the
time of their adoption; he aimed to allay party
bitterness and to conciliate the Federalists, in
his eloquent inaugural address, containing
the famous exclamation, "We are all Repub
licans, we are all Federalists;" he refused
to adopt a proscriptive course in regard
to offices, causing his partisans to grum
ble, "Our President lacks energy it
would have been different if Burr had beeu
elected." lie thus prevented a reaction,
brought many Federalists into his party, and
insured its ascendancy for a period long
enough to give it a moulding influence on the
institutions of the couutry. General Knox
was the first of the Federal leaders to change
sides, being won over by the admirable temper
of the inaugural. Iu reply to his letter, Jef
ferson wrote: "It is with great satisfaction
that I learn from all quarters that my inaugu
ral address is considered as holding out a
g'ound for conciliation and union. I am the
more pleased with this because the opinion
therein stated as to the real ground of differ
ence among us (to wit: the measures rendered
most expedient by the French euormities) is
that which I have long entertained. I was
always satihfied that the great body of those
called Federalists were real Republicans as
well as Federalists."
The reasons why the Democratio party
should now act iu the same large and catholic
spirit are manifold. Our iustititutiona have
hud such a terrible wrench that they can
nevtr 1 . righted by the merely fitful ascend
ancy of the Dewoi'ratw party. If we exhibit
Old My e WJiislcies.
THE LARGEST AND BEST STOGJK OY
FINE OLD RYE W H I G K I E O
IN THE LAND IS NOW POSSESSED BY
HE NET S. II ANN IS & CO..
Noe. 218 and 220 SOUTH ntOBT STREET,
WHO OFFEll THE SAME TO THE TBADK I J LOTS OUT VERT ADTAH TAUEOUS
TERMS.
Their gtoek of Ilye WhliMi,I BOHD,(oinpil)i kll th UrorlU brt
extant, and rune through tb vtrloui meetbi of lbOS.'OO, and of this year. mv to
littitnt date.
1,11 eral contracts snarl for lota to arrive at Pennsylvania Railroad Uepotl
rricsson Line Ytharf.or at Hooded Warebonses, as parties uiey elect.
a wise moderation and a liberal spirit, we shall
be rapidly recruited. Multitudes of Republi
cans have been former Democrats, and still
agree with ns except iu regard .to some of the
questions which have grown out of the war.
We must make it not difficult, but easy, for
them to return to their former associations.
An original, ingrained Democracy, modified
but not eradicated by the civil convulsions of
the last six years, is probably the type of
politics best adapted to the present condition
of the country. The great want of the couutry
i3 conciliation; and we must set the example
of it. Concord aud fraternal harmony are not
to come from the absolute triumph of auy set
of extreme principles. Let no men of honest
impulses and natural candor, whether they
live in the North or the South, be humiliated
when it is possible to spare them in consist
ency with the general weal. The soldiers who
have fought in the two armies, if they were
left to act alone, would come to a spjntaueous
reconciliation.
They have for each other the mutual respect
in many cases the mutual admiration of
brave men; they have tho honorable sympathy
and the magnanimity of the soldierly char
acter; and the mass of them were too young,
on both sides, to have become bigots to auy
rigid set of political dogmas before their char
acter wa3 subjected to the moulding influence
of the war. ind it must be borne in mind
that the men thus trained comprise the best
abilities, the best blood, the greatest ardor of
enterprise, and the most devoted patriotism
(mistaken though it may have been on the
Southern side) in the country. Ten years
hence, when Thad. Steven3 is dead, and Jeff.
Davis i3 dead, and most of the old stagers
shall have gone to their account, the young
men who served in the two armies will be iu
the full vigor of maturity, and the leading
spirits in our publio councils. Our politics
will then be controlled more by manly good
sense than by traditional ideas, as the men in
power will belong to the new era. If the
Democratic party is wise, it will so order its
action that the inevitable progress of events
and of publio opinion will work for it and with
it, not against it.
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC.
Q L-O T H HOUSE.
JAMES & LEE,
NO. 11 SOUTH M;i ;M MKKET,
SlOSi OP THE UOI.OEN L.AMI1,
CODIPLKTC STOCK OF
llollis, Coatings, ana CasslEiiercs,
FOB IJESTLEJIia-S AND HOYS' WEAR.-
A I.AIU;E AfcKORTJIEXT OF LADIES'
CLOAItlMiS ANI &A4UIM4N, WHOLE
SAIK AMI It IOTA 1 1,. 8 2-Ull
18G7. J? a l l. 187
JUWT RECtlVKD, KEW STYLES
F A ? : C Y C A S S i Ki 11 R E S
AND COATINGS,
In addition to our unusuclly large line of good
adapted to
MES'S ANI SOYS' WEAR.
JiOlil'IS, CLOTIZlElt & LISWIS,
CLOTH JOBBKI.W,
8216m KOtt. 1 AMI 21 N.FOVIITH ST.
Q L O A
KING G.
We cr.I! particular attention to a large assortmen
ol very dcbliablo stylos
1, All UM' CXOAKlKGii,
Just received lrom New ork auction sales, In add
tlou to the S1LVJUI FOX, DIAMOND, itYDi.
PaIIK, and mnuy other leading makes,
JitiKKIS, ClOTliHU: & LEWIS,
CLOTH HOUSE,
8 24 Gin KOK. 19 AMI al M. FOITUTIf NT.
GJliAUD KuW,
E. IVi. NEEDLE? & CO.,
Eleventh aud Cbttnnt Street.
HOUSE-Flir.ftlSMRG DRY GOODS,
Bought at the Recent Dopreused Prices.
H'trtlnK, Pillow, Mxetlng, and Table. Unoui.
Tnble Cloths and Napklus. to mutch.
Wine Chillis, iioylles, Towels and Towelling,
Mhi-hi tiles Uullia and Toilet Covers.
tiluuk-tB,
Honeycomb, Lancaster, Allendale, Jacquard,
and other Spreads.
DOilf sTIO MUSLINS AND 6UEETINQ9,
Ia all qualities aud widths, at the lowest rates.
Arm niivmn
gROWN'S PATENT
t'OMUINKO 'AKI'F.T.TnETTli:B AND
" TAt'K-imiVEH.
With this machine a ludy can alone stretch and
tm k d wu at the same time her curpets as easily as
to sweep them, savin buck -aches, brulsel lingers,
teiuner. time, aud money. It w' stretch all ltlmU ot
carpets without ihe le-t damage, better, quicker,
aud eusler than any other wtretcher made, and drive
irom It to zo-oi, lacks w Hn or without leather heads
Is simple, easily worked, and will last a lifetime.
Auents wanted. Liberal terms given. It Is a nice
machine for ladles to sell. For Machines or Agencies
cull on or adilrehs
WII.I.IAJI F. MTIEIItLK,
NO. 40 H, THIRD btreet,
27ir .Philadelphia.
LOCKING- CLASSES
or TDK
BM IKLNCU PLATE,
In Every Stylo of Frames, J
ON IIAED OR MADE TO ORDER.
NEW AliT GALLERY, .
F. DOLAEMD & CO.,
10 2 IinwfniSp JSo. Gi l VIJCH Ktreet.
WA I CHfcS, JEWELRY, ETC
Q C. KITCHEN,
JEWELER,
S.E. Con cr TEKTH and CnESXUT
UREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES.
BIAHOMlN, WATCHES,
JEWELRY, SILVER-WARE,
BRONZES,
ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES,
WATCHE3 AND JEWKLBY KEffULLY KB
PAIKKD.
Particular attention paid to Manufacturing all artl
olfs In onr line. I821thnnj
F!fJE WATCHES.
We keep always on liuud au assorlmeul ot
LADIES' AND WESTS' "FINE WATCH E'
Of the best American and Foreljin Makers, all war
ranted to give complete sutisluction, aud at,
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
FA RR & BKOTHKU,
Importers of W atches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, eto,
llllfinHliJrp No. 824 CHESNUTHt., below Fourth.
Especial attention glvrn to repairing Watches and
Musical Hoxes by FliST-C'DAl-if workmen.
IjEVVIQ LADOMUS & CO.,
DlftWOr.D DEALERS AND JEWELLERS,
No. SOt CI11CNLTX HXItlClSX,
Would Invito the attention of purchasers to their
Uirge stock of
jiESTK AXI LADIES' WATCHES,
Just received, or the finest European makers.
Independent quarter, fecoud, ana self-winding, In
i,Olll unci ItllVcrCUNtH
Also, AMERICAN WATCHES ot all sizes.
Diamond -ets, 1'ins, Ktuds, Rings, elu.l
Coral, Maliicliiie, Garnet, and Etruscan Hets, la
b'n hi variety. 6 1Hp
rOI.ID 81LVKRWARK of all kinds, Including
large assortment smtiilile lor Itrldal Pre-ents.
WATCHES, JLWLLHY.
W. W. OA8SIDY,
NO. 13 SOUTH SLXOMD STREET,
Oilers au entirely new and most carefully select
uiti ot
AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES,
JEWELRY,
ULVER-WARK, AND FANCY ARTICLES OF
EVERY DESCRIPTION. suitable
KOKllUlilALOU HOLIDAY PHKSBX1H.
An examination will show my stock to be unstu
liasned In. quality and cheapness.
1'art'cular attention paid to repairing:, 18
r niir.cn i , rr s
tio. ii2 IS OliTII Si I Til STREET,
OFFER OlSK OF THE LARGEST STOCKS
or
FINE FRENCH CLOCKS,
IF THEIR OWN IMPORTATION, IN THE
CITY. 6it
gjAlYifcRICAN WATCHES,
J7,The best lu the world, sold at Factory Prices,
C. A. PEQUICNOT.
MANUFACTURERS OF WATCH CABE3,
No. 18 Bouth blXTII Street.
S g tlunumrtnry, A'n. 22. A'. I'Ji'TJf HtreH.
TDKLING SILVERWARE MANUFACTORY
NO. 411 LOCI ST STREET.
GEOUGE H II A.X 1',
Patentee of the Ball aud Cuue patterns, mauulactures
every description of fine bTKRLINU SILVER
WARE, aud oilers for sale, wholesale and retail,
choice assortment of rich aud beautiful goods of new
styles at low prices, 1 9 '26 3m
J. M. SHARP. A. RORERTS.
COAL.
POOrW, WALLS. DECK?, ETO.-AMERI.
J V CAN COMRKTK PAINT POA1 PAN If, Oltlee
fo 6i:t N. ! l hi) htrei t. 'r nreve'iilnif all roots
tiom leukH to keep wH Ireo J; on ilaulpnet,. and
deckn, lai.kH.pmieriis, and Inline of every kind kixut.
and hotioma ol sIiii-h. eic, from worms, ends of pu-,u,
thai Hi. Into l,e un til sninnl. am mau-rluls Keneially
It. I,, c ,, .1l', "i di ' sv. lids Palm stH.ids un
'mailed J or sale In cans or oaHks, ready lor me at
"U"td l el"i'ttl JOSEPH LEEDS.
Bill DDL ETON & CO., DEALERS IN
. 11AR1.J. lull LEU1U11 and KAOLK VKIN
lOAL. Kept dry under cover. Prepared exnrenxly
tor family tine. Yard, No lT't U'AHiHNU TON
Avennw. Oilire. No. hi 4 W A LN UT MifM4-