The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-05-02
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long article on the absurdity Of estabA
fishing strict party lines in the Terri
tories" II refers to the early organic.
alton of parties in Montana ard declares
"the course pursued by the people OF
Montana was uncalled for, unwarranted
and injudicious." Further on IL declares
cit is not our purpose to recriminate, or
Disseminate, 70 judge or reject-or even
to accept any particular vantage
ground" and declares that policy should
govern us as well as principle, and it is
nc sacrifice of principle to temporize."
1t declares that the partisan action OF
Congress is because we are represented
by James NJ Cavanaugh, and few hot
heads in Congress do the work" This
from n paper that has been more ex-
treme within year than any other in
Montana an advocate of the annulment
Of the laws of the extension of negro
suffrage TO the Territories; of the recon
struction acts of Congress; of strin-
gent registration law in Montana, sounds
strangely enough, If it did not explain
that policy should govern us as well as
principle" Less than year age, James
l.. Fisk, its present editor, declared over
his own signature, mo compromises, no
concessions or conservativeness," and
was going to have several banners hung
out to the breezes, on the one OF which
was to be inscribed, 1--WE glory in the
integrity of Congress, no Copperhead
Delegates wanted therein" Now, the
few " hot head partisans there thwart
his earnest efforts" and come in for
msledictions when they were to have
glory" A few months since it declar-
ed "Cavanaugh kne,o he could be of no
service to Montana" that ''he would 60
mp to the keeper of the national Treasury
and say. you are a rascal and usurper,
and murderer, hate you, and SO does
poor old Virginia. and so does all my
friends, and we demand as rightful re-
presentatives of the lost cause that you
give us money" Nowhe is having Mt
heart the best interests of the Terri
tory" and the Herald deems it its duty
to rebuke those malignant partisan
spirits who have opposed his efforts
solely on difference of opinion regard
ing the proper status of the African in
this country" 1t says, let no party
zealot at this raise the cry of "a sacrifice
of principle" No. 1t would be useless.
That which one has not, he is not likely
to sacrifice, Less than a year ago it de-
manded that lin this Territory our
party should do all in its power to aid
in bringing into the field as voters the
large colored population of the South )"
less than six months ago it enunciated,
there can be no half way ground; this
cry of conservatism is a swindle; there
are but two parties; both are radical
one is radically secesh and the other is
radically Union" Now it goes back on
the African. Six months ago Cavanaugh
had ca notorious, disgraceful, breech-
c.out election fraud record; political
mountebank, seeking the votes of party
hostile to all the interest of our govern
ment." Now he is the darling pet of
the paper he christened the smut ma
chine" Six months ago the Demo-
cratic tickethere was denominated "the
Missouri Rebel County Ticket; )" now,
although "true to the old fag," it is
mot its purpose to Judge or reject.
We need not ask for consistency; we do
not now raise issue with your declara~
tions. Simply tell us, Messrs. gentle
men of the Herald, which of these ex-
pressions you were honest in-or wheth-
er in any, or whether indeed you can
bef Tell us, also, if you please, if the
prospectus of the Herald for 1868, circu-
lated freely through the Democratic
camps os Montana for some time, con-
tanning the following, and is what you
viii stand by:
Politically, the Herald stands inhexi-
bly, by the old flag of the Union, bun
combe1 but is entirely independent of all
fanaticisms, ultra cliques, and political
parties in the Territory"
We want to know what kind Of sand
you are made of, or whether you have
any sand, before we work you up. The
Democrats may want to know il, and
the Republicans; and you viii see if ito
temporize is not to sacrifice principle" ,"
and vantage ground"
THE London correspondent Of the New
York Nescs says the Abyssinnia expe-
dition was costing England So. 10000
per annum, for freight alone, and the
liberated prisoners have cost Great
Britain s14.5O0.OO0 each. English tax
payers do not like the figures, but the
dishonor of the nation is not threatened
by repudiation. We Americans have
n debit of S71 ON everv head: England