St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-07-14
Dyd Issues LlHd Near.

the war really settled, and an impaticnc,
to be dealing with fresh questions. Anc
there are prophets who constantly an
nounce the new interests to which they
assert the public mind ought to he direct
ed, and who are very impatient of fight
ing old battles and thrice ziayin@ tho
slain. Bat lie, says the provcrb, has
rs many lives is cat. II, when the
truth is asserted, it were generally ac-
knowlcdgcd, or when Il cansc is plainly
lost it would only disappear and not
struggle longer, the progress OF clvlllza
ton would he mach faster than it Is.
lut it is a Ion" time after Luther nails
his challenge upon the church door be
fore the scope OF his action is perceived
III human society; and although W hen
Burgoync'S expedition failed, the colo
mics were nearly lost Ia Great Britain,
and after Gettysburg the rebellion was
doomed, it was many long month to
the surrender of Yorktown, and to the
scene unlcr the AppomattoX "pplr-trcc.
80 it i, said, and truly, that the war dis
posed of slavery and all that belongs 10 it,
and of the old theory OF State sovereign
~ and all that springs from it; and no
intelligent man wishes or means Ia cling
to issues which are really settled. But
the Revolutionary army did not di'btnd
after Saratu%a, nor the Union army
whcu Lee rctrcatcd across the Potomac
nor need the political army Of liberty
and the Union think that they can safe
| ly DISREGARD the Issues of the last ten
years.
We observe that allusiOn- t" the qucs-
tons which interested the country dur
ing and since the war are called in some
Quarters the jargnn oil 4 dead rebellion. y"
| The phrase indicates an Impotence more
natural than wise. For what is the real
question in the election Of 1872 1t j.
whether the party that tried to destroy
tho government in 1852 hall now con-
troi it. 1t i, idle 20 say that it i not
the same party: that it can not hope 10
do 1t that those who raise the old par
~ erie, are fools that the past Is ahan-
dunci. 1t Is idle to $ay - because the
party i the same party. 1t is Tie or
gani%aiI"n winch includes every open
and secret @memy ot the Union every
man who SAY, with Alexander ii. Ste
phrns, that the amendments are not val
i'll, and ali who Sly, with Mr. Leslie, OF
kentucky, that the courts must decide
thair validity. Here l. Vital question
arising directly from the war, unavuida-
hlr 10y every man who would con-ilrr
public iltllls mt, lllgcnIly--a question
really settled, indeed, but only upon con-
ditlon that the people "t the mi"d
states insist that II shall be- -cttlrd 10y
dciratln" the party whose Southern lead
err ralsc the question. The question
must he debated. | lie issue l., there
fore, not dead AMI yet lis discussion
l. caIicI the ',Iargon OF Il dead Rebellion.
Would It he WISE Tor the country to
assume that every question "t tn" wal l.
settled, and 10 contest the election "l
~, Tor instance, upon the Issue "i pro
t'ri'"n ami Tree trade hat l. Il i'"hI
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