Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-09-22

fautcdilsm. 4 OeileVed, too, lnal II
Irish element, whichis "the old guard
Of that party, would insists upon Il,
course as the best means of exhibit
lug TO the world an example Of uni
versal liberty, and equal rights befor
the law, which might shine across Tia
ocean to illumine the darkness 0
down trodden ireland. Up to thi
time, though | was wholly separate
from the democratic party, had 40
called myself republican. Indeed
while we were all exhorting demo
Gratis TO support the Government
without regard to party ties. it woule
not have been in exceeding goot
taste to have announced myself AZ /
republican. There was great fore
III counseling the people to throw OF
all party ties and be neither demo
Gratis nor republicans, but patriots
until the war should end. Their,
was great force in an appeal to dem.
ocrats to desert their party and act
independently in the support of the
Government until peace should re-
vive again the necessity for parties
this exhortation | employed al
through the war and | do not think
it would have been strengthened, MOI
its benefcent effects increased, if
had accompanied it with the an :
nounced that had left the democrat
ic party and joined the republican
party.
waited long "for the consolation
of Israel" but it came not; and af-
ter the Chicago Times made its earn
est appeal TO the party to plant it.
self upon the time honored principles
it had protested to adopt negro sutf.
rage, and by putting itself once more
inssympathy with true democracy, TO
retrieve the blunders Of the past
and after the party had not only re-
jected but spurned this wise counsel,
and even the Times under the lash OF
Brick Pomeroy had shrunk back
from its suggestions of truth and
wisdom, and returned to its "walloW-
logs, it became perfectly evident, as
had long before concluded, that the
democratic party of Jefferson and
Madison had ceased to exist, was
dead, buried beneath the rubbish Of
the past and henccforth theirs wa-
to be no opportunity for supporting
the great principles | had at heart,
except in the republican party.
The nomination which | declined
to be a candidate for was conferred
upon my distinguished friend Gener-
al Habert Il. Paine, and | took the
stump for him and did everything in
my power to ensure his election
Indeed, | have cordially supported
every measure and every candidate
of the republican party, state and IA
tional, since 1861. And it man il
to be classed in politics by what be
does, not by what he calls himself, il
the servant who said he would not
go but went, is to be approved rather
| than tho one who said he would 60
but went not, then | might reasona-
ly claim to have been a republican
since 1861 in everything except the
name. And if calling oneself repub
lican is conclusive of the fact, then
Mr.. Doolittle is the best republican il
the State to day indeed he says be is
the only one, the party having left
him standing alone upoh It's platform
The issues which will divide the
country for the next twenty fvt
years have resulted from the war
and the position of both parties it
now firmly and finally taken. Those
who supported the war will support
the measures the war rendered nee
essary, and these measures will b(
opposed by those who opposed tht
war SO that, however you may re-
greet it, | have no doubt | shall b'
compelled by sense of duty TO re
main in the Republican party 10 th'
end of my life. lfyou were to reaC
out of the party all who were demo
Gratis before the war you would eX
clude Grant, Stanton, Holt, Sickles
Logan, and many others, whom j
seems desirable to retain. TIL
republican party, by banishing
from it's ranks all who have eve
been democrats, would be SO far re
duced in numbers as to secure entir'
harmony in it's nominations Of can.
didatcs who would never be elected
1t the republican party is TO succeed
now and hereafter against the vile
of it's opponents, it needs all it
strength and wisdom would seen
to dictate good degree of CHART,
and liberation of past difference
upon forgotten issues. Indeed th
man who has passed through tni
war without any change Of opinion
or sentiment in regard TO the details
Of governmental policy, must eitbe
have been gifted with prophetic pow
er to see the end from tho beginning
or he must have been an impenetra
BILE Ounce upon whom passing events
study and reflection, make no i'm
preston.
MATT. III. CARPENTER
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