The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-14

TUESDAY MoENlNt, >tNfNbfh II
Designs OF IN Repn biiean..
II l. ouF purpo-e % treat political parties fair
", and tc examine their c<eeds and aims with /
eansior; and q. the Republican party : new IN |
power. Il becomes NJ o. ascertain and pas /
judgment upon the purposes which II secks % |
accomplish By the exercise o. u povers II /
Possesses.
II cannot b disguised that one n its leading
pnFpszes h TO amslgamate the white, black
red nd yellow races q people-indeed, the
Peoples q all the nations Of the earth into one
associated mass o. equals, u partners IN the
Government Of the United State-. AMI Of the
several States Of this Union. This i 70 b.
done, or attempted, IN the name Of philanthro-
py and Justice and Il deemed practicable upon
the theory Of the susceptibility q all hnnanity
20 progress. with railroad velocity. Onward and
upward 20 the perfection q the gods. In the
hopeful enthusiasm Of youth we were wont
70 look forward In the expectation Of wit
nexing In our day. under the joint humanizing
influences Of the B0n-eombatant ministers Of
the meek and lowiy JEsUs and the moral phil
osophers. followers Of the divine PLATO, CIC-
KRo. and others, 70 the ushering in Of that day
when wars shall be no more. when crime
should disappear before universal virtue, and
the lion and the lamb, JEFF. DAVIS and JOHS-
sor, should lie down together, amid the gen
lie and divine glorics Of the millennium. But,
now, whcn beginning 30 descend the slope that
reaches to the Dark Valley, we cast our eye
ovtr the moral and religious prospect we must
leave behind, we are filed with sadness, al
most 70 despair, A. we still behold new bayo-
nets cleaning far and wide, new gallows ris-
Tag. and new prisons--are stunned by the thun-
der Of unnumbered cannon, and appalled, by
the vision Of countless dead upon thousand
fields Of carnage. The notes Of the triumph
ant Glory Hsllalujah, John BROWNS soul Is
Marching ETC.. that fall on our car, do not
dispel the gloom
Eut are we right as TO the fact that the Re
publicans design 70 make this Government
partnership Of whites, negroes Chinese.etcf Let
us see. Before they got into power their leading
purpose, rs expressed, was 10 abolish negro
slaye.y. When they got into power, the dis
regard Of the Constitution and good faith To-
ward the South they had practiced, having pro-
voked war, they withdrew a part Of their
coiors, and went into the war simply 10 put
down the rebellion and save the Union, abol-
ishing slavery being repudiated as purpose.
We refer the reader 20 the resolutions Of their
conventions Of those days, by which, through
fraud, they drew the Democracy 10 war al
lance with them. But, after they had got this
rlliance into working orde. and the country
into that condition that the alliance could not
be broken without being followed by disso-
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the Democracy would not consent, they again
brought out and regretted the ,empora-
rily withdrawn abolition colOrs, having con-
eladsd TO unite the two purposes Of putting
down the rebellion and abolishing slavery.
The two purposes have been ac-
complishod by the united efforts Of
the Republicans and the Democrats, under
the Circumstances stated.
And do the republicans now rest satisfied;
The democracy accept the result Of the war.
They would, at All times, have rejoiced in The
abolition Of slavery, but their policy was that
IL should be done by those who had a consti-
tutional right to do il, in the proper mode;
their respect for constitutional faith forbade
/, that, in violation Of our written compact Of
union with the Southern States. it should be
aroUrffshrd W sectional war. But DO the
-Republieans rest satisfieds Not at all. They
have now raised another set Of coors, on which
l. inscribed negro suffrage in the United states
eve have no objections to it i'm Africa and
propose 10 use the power they possess 10 force
IL upon, TO this, independent. unwilling peo-
pie, and will probably, before many years, in
volvc the nation in another civil war to accom-
.plish this result And what will be the next
STEP! Social equality, indiscriminate inter
marriage, general confusion Of races. In
deed. equal suffrage, partnership, necessar-
ly involves all this. And the question
il, ought this 10 be dones l. humanity equal
70 II! We believe il ought not TO be. We be-
licye 10 viii lead TO those riots at the polls, at
every election; TO that mingling Of officers
hostile 10 each other, 10 that constantly in
flaming Of race antipathies, that will bring on
constantly recurring civil wars, As in the ma
lions south Of Us, till, al length, some Max
fmilian will have 10 be placed over all. with an
army at his command sufficient TO keep peace
between the races, and order AZ elections. if
elections shall be permitted.
We have got to take man as be is, not as we
could wish him to be; not as speculative phi
losophcrs tell he will be; and we may rest
assured that we cannot make him what we
may desire by constitutions and laws. He
should possess the best possible opportunities
Cor improving himself. elevating himself by
moral, religious, and, If we may call it, sec
ular cultivation: but governments should be
dapted TO peoples as they are, or they will
have little stability; aud when we can be
pointed TO greater intellects than were posses
Scd by SOCRATES PLATO ARISTOTLE ALEX
AMBER, CESAR, DEMosTHESEs, CICERO, etc,
We will admit that men are now born bigger
and better than they used 10 be.