Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1871 — A New Democratic Candidate for the Presidency. [ARTICLE]

A New Democratic Candidate for the Presidency.

A rcoent issue of the New York Sun contains an ably written- Article in which it recommends that ll;o Democratic party nominate Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, for the Presidential campaign of 2. Among the reasons given why should be done are: 1. Mr. Stunner is a maivof strictest integrity. During the »hole twenty years he has been in the Senate he has not been stained Ly a single job, 2. He is an advocate of, and illustrates, the purest principles of

Democracy. 3. Because they need accessions from the Republican ranks to elect tiutir ticket anti Mr. Surr.iur would bring with him the best element in tho Republican party —men of thought, conscientious men, who' vote and act from convictions of duty. 4. Hits nomination hrd election would do more to heal, tin wounds, remaining from the civil war than could possibly bu done by any other means. 5. There would bo need of no further legislation against Ku-klux outrages, lor such outrages would cease of themselves. C. The old fraternal sentiments would again apriug up between tho North and South, and harmony would succeed discord, throughout! the different sections of the country.

On the other hand, to meet objections that might bo urged by narrow minded thinkers, the Sun says there no g. ?at difference between the Democracy and Mr. Sumner: It is true that Mr. Sumner differed with them on the slavery question and tho issues arising out of the civil war, but these differences no longer exist.— Tho questions th*m**lveu have passed into history and are settled. And really in all these questions even, when superficial surroundings are removed and we arrive at tho underlying principles, he has always proved his devotion to the rights of man as enunciated in that immortal instrument the Declaration of Independence, which al! know is the offspring of that great statesman and Democratic apostle, Thomas Jefferson.

A dispatch to ths Chicago Republican make* a great ado about the gathering of a fewsorenosej who recently met in solemn conclave at Cincinnati last Saturday. They organised themselves Into a “new party/’ abased President Grant, and nominated General Cox for Presidential candidate in 1872. Col. Stanley Matthews made a little speech in which he asserted that the Republican party, sj a political organization, had seen ita best days, and could no longer control the country. In our humble opinion, a third party woald be of very little benefit to tbe country. Two political organizations are enough for practical operations. The Republican and Democratic parties of tho present day include, and are the exponents, ot all the important questions cf state. Let them truly put forward their views in their platforms, and nominate honest, capable candidates, and then public affairs will always be administered in accordance with the wishes of the people as expressed by the majority. Third parties are frequently a source of embarassment, and seldom accomplish auy great good. They are more often the receptacles and mediums of corruption, than the agents of reform.— They retard progress more than they correct abuse.

And now* comes that cosmopoliI tan luminary, tho New York Sun, with il,o startling disclosure that the late “nephew of his uncle” and “eldest son of the Church,” yclept Napoleon 111, is not now, and never has been, a Bonaparte at all. But that he is only the random son of a Dutch sea cook named Verhueb It is this low origin that makes him so unpopular among the thoroughbred rulers of Europe and their ad mirers in America. > ' , We have before us a copy of the and Union , a Democratic paper published at Portsmouth, N. IL, that was issifed since the late elections transpired. It is filled with startling head lines and the inevitable crowing cock. They are happy! They rejoice ! They feel exceeding glad! Nothing has satisfied them so well or made them feel so good since the Federal defeat at thj first battle of Bull Run.

The pdbple of I’uiis are suffering the horrors of civil war. No sooner had the German troops withdrawn, than they began to quarrel among themselves and now riot, violence and bloodshed fills its street*. The ineurrcctionifts nve so strong that the Provisions! Government of Prsnc? has been compelled to re move to Versailles, to which place the Ministers of Foreign nstions have gone. Our Minister, Mr. WaAbnrne, i* one of the number who left with tlce Thiers Government. It is reported that young Rioeotti Garibaldi is one of the leaders iu the insurrectionary movement. Generals hecompte, Thomas, Alfred Chaney and Vinoy have been shot by the new government. AH busmens is suspended and people are constantly h aving the city to had-protection for their families and property. Some of the Parisian papers advise that the city bo declared n “free nutonomived republican city.” The Saturday Evening Post has a comic cartoon representing a solemn looking individual in tho act of privately canvassing the woman's rights question. His soliloquy runs thus: “lilpoaiu’ now they did vote an' wer* ’looted to office; an' s'posiu’ Sus'n B. Anthony was ’letted President; an’ ■’posin’ Mrs. Johnson should die, and Andy should marry Sus’p; * then wouldn’t Andy bo in tho Whit© House No sir-®e, ycr don't ketch a votin’ fur witnmin suffrige while Andy lives.”

We have heretofore neglected to notice that our friend, Jacob Keizer, a former re.-ddent of this place has recently started a now paper at Onarga, Illinois, called the Onarga Courier. It is an tight column sheet, well made up and appears to havv A good local patronage. We. wish Kciscr abundant success, for ho is worthy, and Providence could not do better than to smile on him in his new enterprise.