Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-13
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The resolution of Senator McCreery, of
Kentucky, was properly characterized by
Senator Sumner as an illustration of what
may be expected If the Democratic party
should return to power. The resolution
proposed substantially that the remains of
seventeen thousand Union soldiers should
be removed from the Arlington estate, in
order that the widow of Robert +. Lee
should live there. Such proposition was
the grossest insult to the patriotism and
good sense of the country, and therefore to
the Senate, their representative, and the
Senate almost unanimously resolved that IL
should not be received. The Democratic
Senators were greatly confused by the mo
ton of Mr.. McCreery. As partisans they
saw its effect. II was an unnecessary rev.
elation of the real spirit of the party, and
the party leaders know that the country is
at least loyal, and that they can hope to
succeed only by persuading the people that
the party has renounced its sympathy with
the spirit and the principles which pro-
duced the rebellion. Some of his Demo-
cratic friends, therefore, rebuked Mr..
McCreery, who assumed all the response
bility of the resolution, and tried to with
draw it. But Senator Edmunds held him
fast to the rules, and by vote of fifty-nine
to four the Senate refused to receive the
resolution.
The Democratic press does not openly
defend the resolution But the manner in
which 1t alludes to 1t shows how gladly 1t
would defend it if it dared. The death of
General Lee gave that press an opportunity
to show the tendency of its sympathy,
which is zealously improved. The extrav-
agant eulogies which were heaped by the
Democratic papers upon man whose only
claim to the notice of history is that he
! tried to destroy the Government of the
! United States in order to establish a slave
empireupon its,ruins, were very suggestive.
And Che fact, which is constantly refreshed
in the public mind by such incidents, that
the d mocratic party is the next friend
and rlourner of the lost cause, should im'
| press upon the country the great and con
| trolling truth of the political situation.
| That truth is that the nation has entered n
new epoch, with new principles and new
| policy that the principles are those of the
| Republican party; while the Democratic
/ party is the representative of the era and
the principles which have passed away,
There is no evidence of any disposition
upon the part of the Democratic party to
accept the new situation, or acquiesce In
what has been accomplished. Its last ma
tional declaration was that the new order
was unconstitutional and void, and its con
duct, wherever it has the ascendency,
shows an undiminished sympathy with a
spirit which the country abhors.
And even were this not so-even had
the same policy which led the Delaware
! Democratic Senators to censurc Senator
McCreery's resolution persuaded the party
to profess sympathy with the regenerated
Union-it would still be impossible to say
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such history, should be intrusted with
the administration of policy which it had
always opposed, and which is founded
upon political principles which it has al
ways derided. After the Revolution the
government of the new Union was contid-
ed to the friends of the principles upon
which it was establshed-the men whose
convictions and ability had opened the
new era to the country. After the war OF
1912, the government was controlled foI
many year by the party which had made
the war; and which was in full harmony
with its spirit. And now, the country
having entered upon new era more glor
ious than any in its history, and under the
auspices of the Republican party, thai
party is the one which will deal with al
questions in the spirit of the new time
and with the sympathy of profound con
viction.
A party whose newspapers hate to speak
with decency of Abraham Lincoln, bu
which quiver with adulation of Robert E
Lee, and from one of whose Senators pro
ceeds the astounding proposition that thu
bones of Union soldiers shall be removed
almost from under the shadow of the Cap
itol, that the widow of Lee may not b,
offended-a party which still believes thI
war to have been an outrage upon tn
, South" and which would undo all of it
sgreat work that it can-is party whicl
does not comprehend the new America
which is not inspired by its faith, an,
whose restoration to power would be tn
sorest of national alamities.-HaTper'
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