Political Clippings

- If proteotion is a good principio tor the country it ought to be a good principio for the State. It ought to be a good thing forRhode Island aml Massachusetts, for example, which produce similar linos of manufao.tured goods, to be protected against each other, and for both to ba protected against the cotton milis which are rapidly springiug up in Georgia. But whoever would aay that States with similar industries ought to adopt State laws for Helf-protection would be hooted down as u monomaniac ; and, in reality, no one ever thinks of such inter-state competition as injurious either to iStute or nation. 80 well recognized is the beneficeneo of this inter-state trade and the advantage of irou exuhange of the most vuried prodnctions of the country that the fathers of the Republic protected it jealously by vesting in Congress, aud in Congress alone, the power of regulating it. Yet, say the protectionists, this same great principie, if rxpanded 80 as to apply to foreigu intercourse, is to bo resisted desperately as a fatal ovil. A littlo benefit is good, but a great benefit of the sanie kind is bad. We caunot see the mouutain, forsooth, but we can see distinotly the molehill at its base. - -?T. Y. Ereninj Post. - Packard was United States Marshal during the most disgraceful period of the carpet-bag regime, and was the person who obtained the celebrated " midnight order" from the disroputable Judge Dnrell, and under it organized the Legislatura with the aid of United Stuti;s troops. In fact, there was no trick or rascality of that period in which he had not a hand. Hi& career, then ought, in tact, to have disqualified hin for any otber office, but it bas been feit that somothing must be done for him, as well as the other Southern politicians whom the President's " policy " ha ruined. In Europe he will be spared the paiu which Mr. Willium E. Chandlcr described as so hard for a " thoughtful man," of looking for outrages and hearing of none. - a. Y. Natioit. - Then and now : Then, McLin made Hayes President. Then, the President made McLin Chief Justice of New Mexico. Now, McLin Bwears that the electoral vote ot' Florida which made Hayes President was a iraud, and that it belonged to Tilden. Now, the President's friends donounce McLin aa n knare and liar. Then, McLin was thought honest enough to negotiato with Noyee, Hayes' confidential friond. Now, it is said he is base enough to soll his soul by peijury. This is the picture painted over the entrance to the White House. How carne it there r1 Some say Tilden's hand did it. Most people will look aliunde. - Boston Pont. - It is far to early too perceive the issues on which the contest of 1880 will be made, but it is not too early to nee that Grant will not be ono of them. Nothing could give biin a chance except a strong uonviction that be, aud but he alone, could " rescue the country " from gome terrible fate with which the success of his opponent threatened it. And no such conviction oan be suceessfully cultivated, Stark madnesa even on the part of tho Demócrata could not persuade the country :hat Ulysses S. (Jrant was the only man among some forty-one millions of peojlo who could save it. The Republicana will uot elect anybody president in 1880 on the platform of indorsing the national administratiou from 1869 to 1877 - least of all the man most responsible for its blunders. - Sringfeld licniblicnn. - The eleotoral conspiracy did not pro duce a war becauso it failed toreach far enough intothedomain of practical concern. It abrogated no iiglit and coufiscated no estáte. It was a gigantic wrong, ut a wrong which luit hope and ohance of reniedy to the party wrouged, and lence, for the sake of free government and peace, the quarrel was adjourned, o bo resumod at the proper time. The iiue will come in 1880, and, wbeu it omes, all other isaues will sink into inignifioance beneath a revived sonso of outrage in the minds and hearts of a inajority of the American people ; a flie which smoulders, but is not subdued, and which, even now, flashes up from iinii to time in titful, illuininating purts of popular indignation. - Lonitille C'ourier-Journal. - The work of mvostigatiou must go n. Till tbe inquiry is completad and 11 the facts obtained, the reinedy for he wrong cannot be specified, But to [eoy tbat there is a remedy is to assort bat our institutiong are rooted in roteuueu. - Utica Obtercer. Mr. himno bas iiow ttraddled , (l) The HÜver quoation ; (2) the Halifaxaward qucHtion ; (3) the timber stealiug question ; (4) the tariff qucstion ; (ö) the bankrupt repeal question ; (0) the Pacific Ralroad quostion. Thero are evfiral questious yet to hoar froin, and we feel authorized tosay that. Mr. Blaine will straddio them severally aa they approaoli hini. Hu ín now engaged in meeting " questions " in tbi mannei ; and unies ome mishap befalla hira, he will olear the cnlim finid of nconomus and politics bet'ore harvest. ThiH oonduot is Bupposed to bo prudent and statnsmanlike in a Presideutial canciidate. We feel, howevor, that it is not juut to the honorable State of Maine, whioh is eutitlnd to have two thinking and voting inombon of the United States Senate.- Clivago Tribune. - Grant poisoned the fountftin of justice hy paokiug t.ho Suprema Court of the United States to secure the success of the legal tonder job. Hayes poisons the very source ot' the nation's political liberty through a fraud which prostitutes th Conatitution for the purpose of dofoating the will of tlin jipople. - .V. Y. 8uñ. - It is the grand pnrpose of inrlation -the liinitlesï íhsiih ot irredeeuiable mouey to furnish iiioney to those who have uoue uow, and are unable or miwillingtoget it. Practically, thurofore, iuflatiou is comniunism. It Í9 a taxatiou ot thono who have for those who have not. And not alone of the wealthy, or, as thoy are soinetiuien called.the bloated bundholders. A tax ot that character falls upou all who have anythiug to tax, upon tlu: industrious mechanic with bis little home as woll as upon the capitalist. It is worth the while therefore, of those who have anything, to consiiler wnll beforo committing thotnselvefi to tho inrlittion doctrine.- Vret Press. - It is now reported that Ben Butler proposes to uiakn thiugs lively in MasBaohusettn during the uoming political :atnpaign by untiiring the tinld as a candidato for frovernor on thu dreenback aud Labor ticket, aiul Uaving bis Congressional district to tender meroie of souiobody elso. if tho report is well founded, tbu canvass in the Hay State will be the most interosting one known for years. - Xeir Hampëhiré ['rcn. - Both political partios, if they have any hope of the imtiiitenaucu of a republicau form of government, have onij' ons oonrse et' action open to them ; thy munt luet't tho Coiumunists at the outset and niske '" cmsessions in their Iiintfortns or their speiohes. If they do thoy simply turn tbe grindstone to whot tho kuift) Iliat will be put at their owu l'hHmlrliihiii Ifdrth Ainerkun. - Mr. Tilden was not willing to secure the Ksecutive oftSoo ut the price of civil strifeaud popular coiuiuotion. We may pass by the attempt belittle the courage of tho inun who broko the Tweed and canal rings. Tho Htory tha he was intiuiidated by Grant is noithe trne nor wel! invnnted. It is simpl' ridioulous.-