The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-03-01
The Pending Fight.

According to all appearances the political COM
paign next summer will not differ in its promnen I
features from those which have preceded it during
the last eight or ten years. The Democratic State
Convention. which met in indianapolis on the sth
uit., adopted no new measures in its platform OF
principles-advanced no new ideas, but, with pig
gish Obstinacy peculiar to the wrong but hate to
admit it, re-adopted the old resolves OF opposition
to the for the Union and resistance the
measures of reconstruction which have for years,
year after year, brought only ignominious defeat.
Learning nothing from the past-shuttng their eyes
to the light of experience, listening only the
malignant impulses which caused them to rejoice
when the Gag of their country went down beneat til
the blows ofdomestc traitors, drenched in the heart
blood Of the flower of the loyal people of the coun-
try, they have entered the lists with the
banner of disunion and destruction full high adj
vanced, and dare the friends of the country and of
free Government to encou inter- at the bal
lot box. The verdict CT the Cart dge box was over
whelmingly against them, and they now take an APP
peal to the ballot-box, the great palladium of all
free people.
We could have wished that this might have been
otherwise; that they would recognize the 6naty of
the stern logic of the past eight years. present
cd some new points of diherence-some new que g.
tons for public discus sions that the entire mass
Vi Tue peOple ml2ut nave tuEueu tueE etteutlOu W
to the reforming of existing abuses, the developing
OF our material resources, and the building up Of
the prosperity of all parts OF country. In such
contest, no matter which party came out victorious,
the prosperity of the county and the stability of the
government would have been preserved, and the ma
ton could have moved on unemba rrassed in the
reer of prosperity which lies before it.
The best me: in tn at party urged it to enter upon
such q contest, but their counsels were UNDECIDED.
With nfatuation that is leading the party to de-
struction, the old leaders and hacks persist in
thrustng their obnoxious principles into the faces
Of patriotic people, and alternative is left but to
meet them their chosen ground and
demonstrate to them again that the people of lnd-
ana-the people who achieved for the H. osier State
such . glorious measure of renown in the war for
the suppression of the rebellion; who carried the
flag of the nation from Cardinals sandy seacoast
islets to the Rio Grande; and who gave, without
stint. their blood, bone, muscle and treasure to
make that contest success, that that people will
tread no backward steps in this warfare, but stand
to their guns till the work is done, and the last foe
is forever driven from the field. And such will be
the result. 1t may be dreary work to discuss and
re-discuss the old, old questions and issues, but
the disagreeable task will be accomplished, and the
fall of 1870 will witness another triumph of patr
otism and correct principles over the men and
measures that would inaugurate q reign of anarchy
and destruction all over our fair land.-Muncie
Times.