Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1876 — POLITICAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL ITEMS.

I3T Until every question prising put of the rebellion relatinfg to the integrity of the Nation and to human rights has been settled, and settled rightly, no map Aught 'to be trusted witli power in this country liberty. —Rutherford B. Hayes, in a speech |3f“lt is a significant fact that in every Northern State that has held elections this fall the Republicans have gained largely over Ihe.last prtiedldg vole. 'Thus*; . . . Sep. maj. , Jlep. •vv*V,M \v.v >ww§y, V u <»- Maine, Republican majority in tofo 3,pe 14,000 U.tse Vermont, Republican ma- , ■' ' i A* •\ ,* Jorltv In lb? 4 SO.SM 28,b27 3,308 Color do. Democratic maJerl jr in 1>74 . 2,ies 2,000 4,1«3 "fMS&SSWi ten \ms Inal na, Democratic maTot il Republican gain in fire'Stajes... .$,778 TbiA is' vefy healthy and ehCUtiraglog.' The same ratio of gain in New York and New Jersey will give liayes those States by rousing majorities ana deal the final blow to Slippery Sammy.— lnter-Ocean. ■ffisSTThe, Albany Journal gives this view;'”Fa£en ‘6n tne Vspot,”6f the Aoldie*’ demnnstratiqn that didn't opme off: “ Herd, oti the Very day df 'the proposed assemblage, it is announced that the call is revoked, and the gathering will not be held! Everything had been tried to make it a success. The arrangements had been prosecuted till foe last ipomentr. None of tlte Tilden' mrfndgers had thought of " discovering objections. But at the last hour, after they found it was going to be a fiz zle, after they had found they couldn’t rake together any considerable number of soldiew «thfe supported .the moo that declared everjr Union soldier a trfesfutßfcdr, after they found they couldn’t get together any respectable body of men that would ap pear in the character of soldiers, they suddenly discover that it isn’t proper for soldier to hold a political meeting!” tST’ Now we grant very freely that Mr. Tilden ia awery.suitable' candidate for the Democratic party, especially for the ‘‘solid South.” The party and the candidate e%cb othey., Let Democrats support him, if they 1 chodse, as most of them .probably will; but we exhort Republicans, Indeed all the people who believe that the rebellion was wrong and that the Government was right ip putting it Hod*v to work wlfounsleepSng vigilance to defeat the mi n who was false to his country when rebels were seeking its life. That man should never sit in the Presidential chair. There are many other weighty objections ip objection, if all the others were removed, is fatal. It is but eleven years since the war, was .closed, and we think it rather too doon M pat the Government into the hands of those who, either sought its,de, stfuction of wore' ih Sympathy With the effort. We cannot think that the American people will perpetrate upon themseWek‘sucfVKdMtrods stephlity. Samrfel £ TilderC is not aid Udlticrtpfd 8.. Hayes' is the man whom they should, and, as we believe, tofU, .elegl far fheir ne*t Presi-dent.-jf