CONGRESSIONAL Executive Committee 1006 F Street, Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Chairman; Hon. A. H. CRAGIN, Hon. JOHN A. LOGAN, Hon. J. R. WEST, Hon S. W. DORSEY, Hon. T. C. PLATT, Hon. JAY A. HUBBELL, Hon. J. M. RUSK, Hon. C. H. SIN NICKSON. Hon. J. M. EDMUNDS, Secretary. Hon. JACOB TOME, Treasurer. The Union Republican Congressional Executive Committee desire to call attention to the following ist of Campaign Documents issued by the Committee, and now on hand. The Committee ask a careful examination of the list, and are prepared to receive and fill orders for such as may be required. LIST OF DOCUMENTS. No. 1. Growth of the Nation Under Republican Rule. 8pp. No. 2. Vaticanism in Germany and in the United States. 8 pp. No. 3. Can the Nation Trust the Democratic Party? 16 pp. No. 4. Record and Platform of the Democratic Party. Speech by Senator Morton at Urbana, Ohio, August 7, 1875. 8 pp. No. 5. 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TERMS: THE REPUBLIC is a magazine of sixty-four pages, published monthly, at $2 a year, or six copies for $10. The postage, in all cases, will be paid by the publishers. A few copies of the back volumes may yet be obtained, either bound or in numbers. Remittances should be made by postal money-order or registered letter. Address, REPUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, Washington, D. C. Ax. W. Thayer, of Trieste heretrix (4.26.1843.) THE REPUBLIC. Devoted to the Dissemination of Political Information. VOL. VII. WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST, 1876. No. 2. THE NEW CONSPIRACY. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE RESTORATION OF THE CONFEDERATE DEMOCRACY TO POWER-THE VITAL ISSUES OF 1876 CONSIDERED. The surrender at Appomattox closed the war and yielded the dominion of the Confederacy to the undisputed authority of the National Government; but in the transfer of the conflict from the field to the forum the nation was confronted with consequences of the struggle as grave and momentous as the war itself. Eleven States were found in social and political chaos and all form of civil government therein destroyed. The highest considerations of statesmanship and sound policy dictated that they should be speedily reconstructed and restored to their constitutional relations in the Union; but how was this to be accomplished? Four millions of emancipated slaves and five millions of disloyal citizens may be said to have comprised the entire population out of which the proposed governments were to be formed. In the nature of things the conduct of the late Confederate in this new and wholly changed relation of citizenship became a subject of anxious inquiry. He had surrendered the sword of rebellion at home and the arts of diplomacy abroad, and sworn to renew his allegiance; but could he be trusted to found free and loyal governments on the basis of a complete and veritable freedom for all, and to aid in securing within those States the results of the nation's victory? FALSE TEACHINGS. Unfortunately there was little in his antecedents to inspire confidence. The education that made secession and rebellion easy had imbued his mind with the most pernicious heresies. The disciple of Calhoun, or the devotee of Davis, Slidell, and Yancey, he was indoctrinated with a measure of political poison which the fire of battle intensified and consecrated rather than destroyed. These teachings constituted his very best conception of the nature of the Government and his rights and duties as a citizen. The impracticability of maintaining them by rebellion was settled, but the deep-seated convictions which prompted that effort remained unchanged. Yet, notwithstanding these embarrassments which attended the experiment of reconstruction and made wise and prudent men falter in the adoption of a policy, the sworn enemy, who had just surrendered his treason with a broken heart and had given no evidence that he could be trusted as a worthy citizen, was promptly restored to all the rights and privileges he had forfeited, and the States he was destined to control were readmitted to the Union with largely increased political power. THE VITAL ISSUE. But there were national considerations quite as vital as those peculiarly local to the South. In 1861 the Representatives in Congress from the slave States numbered 74 against 159 from the States then free, while under the present apportionment they have 106 to 185 from the North. Thus, a solid Southern vote, which the Democracy have |