Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-08-22

| the GTeclCy organs On the Naturalization
and the Republican party Is Ia charge, with.
out the slightest regard 10 truth or fairness,
that Gen. Grant aud those who support him
want to perpetuatU the late struggle with all
Its strife and bitterness aud luminosity. bay
after day we arc told that they represent the
policy Of hate that they will have no peace
with the South; that the old wounds Of the
war are to bc kept bleeding forever; that tn G
South is 10 be crushed aud tranplCd under
, foot and u bloody Chasm maintained between
/ the two sections. Me-. sumner takes up the
Islander and writes column after column upon
II, and CndcavOrs To give u keynote 10 the
campaign, Reconciliation" All the Demo-
cratic orators, big aud little, scream Recon
cilallOn!" All the Democratic organs re-.
| echo II from one end Of the land IN the Ut her.
They arc all In favor Of bridging the
bloody chasm which exists only in their lib
| eTal imagluauOns, aud the way they propose
to do II is by burying IN 1t the great COM
mandcr and the gallant armies that saved the
Union and the Constitution. We do not be-
lleye the American people who were true TO
the republic during the war, who gave all
that they had to give. who pCrilud life aud
limb that the nation might he saved, arc ready
to bridge the chasm IN that way.
The idea that the Republican party Is OPP
posed to reconciliation Is all nonsense, and
has not shadow Of fact to support It, The
record OF Gen. Grant shows that no one In
the country has done more toward rrconcilia-
ton than he. The record OF the Republican
abnkVa that II lua afRusItI,r Ia L.
years TO effect the very result with which ii Is
charged with now seeking to hinder aud post
ponc. The record of the sO-callod rufOrmers
shows that they, and they alone, have done
more to Obstruct II than all other agencies
and causes combined. The first step toward
reconciliation was taken by Gen. Grant, when
he told Gen. Lees soldiers To take their horses
home with them and work their farms, and
obey the laws. At that very moment some
Of tho men who are talking about rccOucllia-
ton were contemplating the conGscaiion of
Southern PropcrtY-of dividing up the South
crn plantations among the late slaves. Trum-
bulls bills from the Judiciary Committee
were harsh and oppressive, and showed none
of the mercy and gcntlcncss that Is now How
us "a oANaA AHNAAsN shANNAl9 AlbtA MS kNuNlhub
breast. FarnswOrth waa the very lucarna-
ton Of bitterness and of hate; Sumner was
screaming for vengeance; Banks was the ad-
YOeatu Of tho most extreme measures, aud
schurz, US u correspondent an editor and u
lecturer, was contributing what he could
toward sweeping tho South with Graft
Browns bosom OF destruction.
NNI,,,, H,p Tr,rt MA. III
dent his inaugural message, while urging the
passage Of the fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution, held out at the same time the
olive branch Of peace and OF reconciliation.
Later In his Administration, when he put
Mr.. Akerman in his Cabinet, and appointed
Gen. LOngstreCt to Ru important position, the
Liberal leaders of to-day Mr.. Sumner, Mr..
Schurz and Mr.. Trumbull, were the first to
complain that he was giving rebels positions
of honor and of trust. Then, there was no
talk of bridging the bloody chasm; they were
all in favor OF keeping II open, because 1t
their Interests and suited their pur-
poses TO do 50. Until Mr.. Alderman left the
Cabinet his presence there was constant
eyesOrC 10 the Massachusetts senator. Ii
II We mistake not Of public complaint. Only
six months ago the Southern men who had
taken part 10 tue war, rcpcntaut az unrcpcnt-
ant, were " be forever excluded from office.
Now, whether uley have accepted the sltua-
ton OTuOL tJOmuCh haste cannot DO made to
restore them 10 the positions which they for
teltcd by their treason. Their restoration Il,
in fact tho main tgguR nT An Ion
far rs the Liberals are concerned.
Where Is the evidence that the Republican
party desires to trample upon the South
Has not every State been restored to her for
mer relations with the Union? Is not every
State fully represented in Congress, an equal
sharor wish every Northern state In all the
blessingSand advantages Of the Unloul Does
not the same law that is alleged to bear 50
heavily ON Louisiana and Florida operate
with equal effect In Illinois and Ohio? In
what respect does Virginia dlnUr from Penn
sylyanla2 South Carolina, we arc told has
boon robbed by ring Of Republican politi-
clans, and tho Federal law protects them.
Was not Now York robbed 10 an equal extent
by a ring Of Democratic polltcansP Wasn't
II NnN NNhtlul law ludl llIOltElcu llCln Inc
hand OF the General Government has, We arc
told, fallen heavily on North Carolina. The
answer 10 that Is To be- found In tho Rupubli
eau majority which she has Just rolled up for
q Republican governor. We have not the
space to pursue this subject further, bat a
candid consideration of the Republican policy
toward the South since the war closed cannot
fall to convince any man open to conviction
that there Is no foundation in fact for the
charge that the Republican party Is need
lcssly keeping alive the dIssonsions Of the
late struggle or that II desires anything ex-
ccpt tho fullest aud tho most perfect rcstora-
ton Of the Union ON the basis Of justice aud
loyalty.