Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-04
A Sign of the Times-An old Hunker
Sees Jehovah in the Storm-He asks to
be let into the Ark-Democracy.

He said the Jews will abandon their
ways just before the final call for the
dead to arise and be judged, and so
forth. The following note from an
old democratic friend is fair par
aJlel to the conversion of the Jews,
and 1t certainly carries a meaning
equally auspicious of the near APP
proach of some mighty political
revolution:
Mr.. COVER Please send me the
Herald. Ten years ago | stopt your
paper because you were too strong
for the "nigger, and could nj stand
the negro equality doctrines of the
abolitionists. But the war came on
and settled these issues in your favor.
President Johnson tried to reverse
the DEGREES of that settlement but
failed and solemnly believe that.
were Gen. Grant to cast his almost
irresistible influence against what il
termed NEGRO equality" or the school
and ballot for the negroes, he would
fail as sigually as did Johnson. God
truly is on the side of Africa, and is
more potent than Fifteenth Amend
ments. | am unwilling to longer
fight DEGREES which seem to issue from
Jehovah's throne And l am even
consoled with my own reluctant
acquiescence, because my intelligence
echoes this response: Democracy
III its purity is triumphant in neGro
equality" Human equality before
the laws, free ballot and free com,
petition in the wide field of labor are
positive democratic principles-how-
ever widely the old democratic party
may have departed from them. And
as events have turned the democratic
party will be forced to return to its
old platform of Justice between man
and man" as the great foundation
rock of constitutional government.
And had the party returned to their
old rock of safety and made Chase
their standard bearer instead of
Seymour, the government would this
day bein ADLER and better hands than
it is. I'll. W. II.
REMARKS The writer above has
been abroad upon the democratic
storm troubled ocean for some years,
but has found his compass at last
so he thinks, and is sailing for home.
He has our sympathices in his idea
Of forming two negro equality parties
instead one, and we shall insist upon
it that he 60 and preach the like to
the disciples of jeff Davis. But
there's no use in bandying words up>
on the past differences and future
realities. All agree that the negro
is to be full fledged man, and that
is enough.
Many pleasant hour have we
passed in the company of r., who
appeared TO always aim at being
right yet never had the bravery to
break away from his party. But
there is hope now. He sees Provi-
dence on the other side and be ventil-
lates the discovery that there's no
use fighting the Almighty. And
here we also agree.
Perhaps we differ as to the possi-
bility Of SO reforming the democratic
party as to make it stand alone again
upon the old platform of '.justice be-
tween man and man." The like of
any man or party being reformed af,
ter committing objectionable sins is
not recorded in any history; OPP
preston is the sin objectionable of
nations There is no atoning for it.
Pagan Rome never survived her op,
pressions. The martyrdom of the
Gracahii champions of liberty dated
the downfall Of Rome. Babylon fill
ed her measure of oppression and
fell. Grecian and Persian tyranny
put period to those proud mon-
arches. The oppressors of Israel
need only to be alluded to for flnish-
ing the illustration. But In America
the Almighty seems to have compro-
missed with our people by STIMULATING
about as follows: Africa shall be
free TO rise above her southern op-
prcsso1s, and above the northern
Copperhead democracy, the old
doughfaces shall become extinct and
their children be set back and made
to re>ascend the ladder. Southern
society shall sink so deep in vice and
infamy as TO pass below the point of
attraction Of gravitation and es-
pecially the s1uthern churches cannot
be saved short, of several Chrsts and
resurrections Terrible are the PEN
aIties Almighty God inflicts for the
crime of expressing the defenssess
poor Crushing humiliation beneath
the mountains is nothing to it
As to political parties there re-
mains now scarcely a vestige, the
very organic forms being atomized
and scattered. Our elections in Grant
County show even this. The repub-
lican party, child of the old wing
and democratic proslavery parties,
is unable to survive it's ancestors
Having finished its work early in
life and pledged almost every man in
the country to abide by its laws it
departs never more to be seen except
through the lights of its glorious
history.
Every plank in the republican
platform is an iron law that neither
the atorms of war nor the rusts of
ages can destroy. Child of Immor-
tality, but for thee chains and dun
geons would this day be forging and
building for every laborisg man -
God sent US great war to remove
these chains and dungeons. Very
good-welcome war before chains,
and eternal annihilatien before soul
prisons If this be democracy
such democracy as Jefferson fought
the people, and such as Jackson
maintained, then are we too q demo-
Graf, broad track democrat.
@-Capt. Frances w. Goddard, late
of the First Rhode Island Regiment.
seems to be q gentleman of great
plainness and directness of utterancc.
Senator Sprarue. in one of his recent