Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — THE TEMPORARY TRIUMPH OF EMPIRE. [ARTICLE]

THE TEMPORARY TRIUMPH OF EMPIRE.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] It appears that Grant, Conkling, Cameron, Logan hava been elected Presi-

dent. It appears as we write Chat the effect of the October election was too potent to be overcome. This October effect has never failed to make itself felt in our Presidential election. While Pennsylvania was an October the other States followed Pennsylvania like sheep jumping down a precipice. Tho methods by which Ohio and Indiana M ere carried in October are Juiown to the country. It was these methods, therefore, that won the election yesterday, fbr we assume that it is lost to the Democracy. What has triumphed? SeetippnJjsm has triumphed; Chinese cheap labor has triumphed; the ceei;cioH of the white workingman has triumphed ; fjdpehood in newspapers and on the stump has triumphed ; eentraiijKation*has triumphed; the empire it victory of the strong man his "fescue in Ohio and Indiana before the 12th of October, and in whose hands he is. We cheerfully announce to the people of the United States, or the large portion of them who will read this issue of our journal, that we can endure these victories if they can endure them. Wo are certainly in as good a position to suffer them as the laboring men of the United States. We shall continue business at the old stand, notwithstanding the transient triumph of a cause which ought not to be the victor. Who and what have been beaten ? A brave Union soldier, heroic in battle. A noble and splendid lover of civil liberty in peace has been defeated. The beautiful sentiment of reunion, the harmonious impulses that should fill the hearts of the people of one country have been for the moment crushed. 11 is disclosed by the methods we have indicated that Union is not wanted. It is announced that the great rivers that flow like arteries through this continent to the gulf, bearing upon their bosoms the rich argosies of an industrious people, begin in one country and end in another. That was the commanding argument of the canvass, and that is the interpretation to be placed upon the verdict. This, therefore, is not the triumph in which the patriotic American finds cause for exultation. There is in victory no flavor of fraternity, no gentle belief that this country is to be one in the affections of the future, as it is one in history, in interest, in geography, in beauty. The Republican party in conducting this campaign and this election have done all that they could do to destroy this sentiment of Union. ***** But the triumph of yesterday is not permanent. The Democratic principle, the idea which .underlies our system of government, is as lasting as thecontinent on which that Government dwells. The Democratic party, old as the country, can survive the defeats of a quarter of the century. It has “ Sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat”— while the republic lives it will live. If the country seems now at the feet of aspirit of centralization, of centralized power that does not differ from the empire, it. is in spite of Democratic protest; and the Democratic party, notwithstanding this temporary reverse, will falter not from its lofty spirit; will fail not in its final purpose ; will continue its splendid march in the cause of the people against power in the cause of Democracy. There is a story of a people who were forty years in the wilderness. They were engaged in no better cause that that of Democracy on earth. Tho Democratic party is one of invincible hope ; and it has belief in the doctrine : Bight fotever on the pcafl'old. Wrong forever on the throne, But that scaffold awaye the future, And behind the dint unknown Standeth God within the ehadow, Keeping watch above Hie own. And the Democratic party is forever opposed to the throne.