White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-19
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS:
Thursday, /: 3: October 10, 1865.
Temporixlng.


One Of the admitted errors of the
framers of the Constitution. and of the
members of the earlier Congresses, and
ON down to within twenty years. was
temporiziug with slavery-permitting it
to exist. and granting it certain rights
and protection, in the hope that in . few
years II would cease to exist, or would
be crowded into so small IN extent of
Territory that it would amount to moth.
ing. The mistake was discovered too
late, and dear has been the cost OF reme-
dying. The verdict Of Rspublicsns, since
the rebellion, has been, no more tempo
rizing with slavery. 1t is good rule to
be observed with regard to evil Of any
kind. Fight il from the outset, and you
can crush it; yield to it. or daily with it.
and it will get the better Of you. If it is
resolved not to temporize with slavery.
wherein is it esfer to temporize with
those who rebelled on account Of slavery!
The Republican party is temporizipg
now, and is in imminent danger of being
thereby demorslized and disorganized.
Perhaps three-fourths of the Republican
party proper are opposed to President
Johnson's Reconstruction experiment. :"
and anticipate great evils from it. Yet
they appsar to be actually afraid to say
so. In their public resolutions. they ex-
press themselves in favor of bis policy,
when at heart they are disgustsd withit.
He has the power and the patronage in
bis hands; and they seem to think that il
they dissent from bis policy. be win be-
tray toe party that placed him in power.
snd throw all the Offices into the hands Of
the Copperhead.. It is downright in
suit to the integrity of the President. By
their course. they sre not only utterly de-
molizing the party. bat they are deceiv-
ing the President. BY pretending. through
q species of cowsrdice, to heartily ap-
prove of his experiment. and thus en-
couraging him TO persevere in it. The
business will have to encounter q crisis
sometime; and why is it not better to
take q true stand at the beginning ?
Visiting. temporizing. only deepens the
difficulty, ~ gsE
In the meantime. the Copperhead De-
mocracy see the weak point, and are TAX
ing advantage of it. In their resolutions,
they also heartily approve Of the Presi.
dents policy-and they can do go with
more consistency that the Republicans,
for rebels are the ones benefited BY the
policy. When the collision comes, and
the Republicans are compelled to back
down from what they have been pretend.
ing to approve. they will leave the Presi.
dent and his policy in the hands of the
Democracy. He will find himself de.
ceived BY his own party; and if the Cop
perheads do not make the most of their
advantage, it will not be for want of try.
ing. This is the game they are working
at, and we notice that many Republican
papers are apparently uuconsciously help
ing them along. A Pennsylvsnis Re-
publican paper raises some objection to
the Presidents policy; whereupon the
Carlisle Volunteer, in an article headed
"If You Dare" taunts the Republican
press generally, and dsres them to dissen.
from the policy of the President. This
article is copied extensively into Rspub-
lican papers, as good thing. Perhaps
they are not aware that the Carlisle Vol.
unteer is one of the most poison rebel
sheets in the land. and that they are thus
assisting the Copperhesds in their scheme
to get up q breach between the President
end the Union party. ssT'