Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-09-09

can never be safely trusted With the
payment OF the protection Of the
: National honor, A party that low
r ed slavery, and desired to perpetu.
$ ate and extend it ever the country,
. cannot be safely trusted with the
protection of human liberty. A
! party that hates the negro race and
believes they have no rights that
, white men are bound to respect,
cannot be safely trusted with the
protection of the rights and privi-
} leges Of the colored people.
| General Rosecrans was placed In
, nomination by the Democratic par
ty as a candidate for Governor up
on their ticket, and against him !
have not one word to say. He sery-
ed the country well during the war,
and although he was unfortunate
and made some mistakes, yet he
never made one which would equal
in magnitude the acceptance of this
Democratic nomination. The men
who placed him in nomination were
not his friends during the war, and
he was not their friend. On the
contrary, he denounced their con
duct and their policy in the bitter
est terms, and his hatred they most
cordially reciprocated returned, and
there is no reason to believe they
like him any better now than they
did then. But they are willing to
lay hold of his skirts and have him
drag them into power if possible,
and next year they will, with equal
avidity, lay hold of the garments Of
the American citizen Of African de-
scent for the same purpose. Be
tween General Rosecrans and the
Democratic party can be no sym
pathy whatever, unless one or the
other has undergone a radical
change, and that the party has not
changed we havS conclusive evi-
dence in their platform and in their
department and expressions
throughout the country.
| But, as was to have been reason
ably expected, General Rosecrans
has been faithful to- the principles
for which he fought during the re-
cent war, and has been unwilling
to stultify himself by accepting a i
nomination at the hands of the
men who werein sympathy with his
armed enemies, and whom he then |
den0uced in all the bitterness Of
his heart. His rejection of the
nomination for Governor is a NOR
tifying rebuke to the scheming pol
iticans who hated the war and who !
hated the men who fought it thro
to 1fnal victory, but were wiling to
make profitable merchandise out OF
the laurels of a successful General
To triumph over the rebellion the |
Republican party had to triumph |
over the Democratic party of the
North and over slavery and it was
q triple triumph. 1t makes the
heart of the true Republican rejoice
when he reflects that there is not
now a slave in all our borders, and
that the foul blot which SO long
disgrated our national escutcheon
has been wiped out forever, and
that this was the work of the Re
publican party, and that now there
is not only no slavery, but there
are equal civil rights for all-equal
protection for all and that soon
there will be universal suffrage and
exual political rights for all, and
that our Republic will then realize
the grand vision of perfection and
greatness which presented itself to
the eyes of our Fathers,
And the work Of the Republican
party is not ended; its mission is
not finished. The work of recon
struction is not completed, and al
though it is progressing well with
every assurance of the most favor
able results, yet it would be absurd j
to turn it over in its unfinished
state into the hands of its enemies,
who would at the last moment if
they had the power to destroy all
that has been done, and throw the
country back inty the bloody cha
os from which it has Just escaped.
There are reforms yet to be accom-
plished, imperfections to be re-
moved, and improvements to be
made in our grand political systemj
it is proper that the Republican
party which has so glorlously be-
gun the work should go on to its
completion. The Republican par
ty has done one thing at time,
and has done it well. 1t has adj
Vahced sCep by step, ana VIII stlll
in the same way. If it
had Undertaken to accomplish ev-
ry thing at once, as was desired by
some, it would, perhaps, have failed
in all, but, like the good mechanic
who gives his undivided labor and
attention to one thing till it is ac-
complished, and when that is done
and well done, takes up another
and so goes on until his whole task I
is finished-sueh is the fashion and s
history of the Republican party
And / here call the attention of all
reformers to the unquestionable t
fact that their best chance for sue
tess is in the bosom of the Repub-
Iican party, which will in due time
take up one reform after another, {
and such as are found to be nece 7sa- {
ry and proper will be pushed for a
ward to final success. The Repnb- G
ican party is emphatically the 4
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