The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-04
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In . paragraph foa The washinetoa CArusi.
L, hat Ne hs5s given elsewhers,it i rid that
eniensy tovards The psoscnipsiys rsbsls Of
he South is1ynas7 70 Ms5lovalias. This
suggests hs.Aidssgnss between the xspubli- !
can party anaths Bsmocfacy with references
10 shepolicy y beF1tsuel tswardsila Soath.
The Republican passy policy which il
based upon facts - thines = thsg are ID
The South. The Drmucraey has po,iev based
upon theory anarsi.h NO Referees to sxs
listing facts. Tho dsnocr6e5 NY, bssiasnsn-
imous 70 defeated people, especially when
tha. people are part IT your ows.fellow>
citizens. The Republican party srs perfectly
agreed to that, and tkeir policy has bssn mag,
unanimous, The denscracy ny tina. it il the
experience and vsrdict Of. history, that
leniency to defte4ed rebellious people, is
the wise and safe policy for Government.
The Republican party doesn't conFovert that
view at all; md ishas NOT passed. oss meas
ure adecting the South, that has bean dicta-
ted by revenge or hostility. But the Repub-
lican party does not close its eyes to the
situation in the South, as do the democracy.
The Republican party in desisng with recon
struction, found that while tia rebels may
have been very veil disposed towards the
Governia E6f inAy lists1y following The down
fallof the Csafsd4Atyi that - Gen. Grant
testified before the Reconstruction Commit
tee, great change has come over them.
Still the democracy insist upou their theory;
tbs Republican party regardsthe existing facts.
The democracy, in sympathy With the rebels.
urge leniehcy TO them, even tho that lenien
cy result in the most intolerabls proscrip-
ton, oppression, and injustice to loyal men
By thersbela. The Republican party, while
il wanasts bes and purposes TO be. lenient
towards de men lately in rebellion, desires
to be just to ell; to the loyal - we'll as to the
disloyal. 1t does not believe that it 10 OPP
precision, Or IN injustice TO the rebel, to pre-
vent that rebel from numbering Union man.
The South h full of men who we're rebels,
who fought against the Government stabbor..
ly for years. The Republican party forgivea
that; it does not propose any punishment Of
these men. IL proposes that they shAll
have fhe sams rights and ia Same protection
Is other citizens. But there are further facts.
These are, that great many of these rebels,
are not satis6ed with this; they insist that while
they have rights and protection, the Union
men of the South, white and black, shall nc,
have equal rights and protection. And %
many of the rebels thought this, nd.think
this, that when Andrew johnson got his
policy to working, they got control of the
South; and the courts aud trials By jury, and
civil governments they instituted, we're
made merely instruments for carrying GU,
this rebel purpose; they afforded the Union
man no protection or security at all. Righ,
here then, is found the radical difference be.
TWEEN the Republican party and the democrs,
cy. The former asserts that that is no ration.
81 or just leniency which denies protection
aud civil rights to loyal men, while giving
them to disloyal men. The Republican party,
no more than the democracy, proposes to BE-
harsh with q defeated people. It's measure,
are not dictated by q proscriptive spirit to
ward the rebel 1t does not propose to pun
ish the rebel for rebellion; bu, it does PRO
pose that the rebels shall not punish the
Union man for his loyalty. Ii is this las
right that the democracy claim for their rebe
brethren.