Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-08-29
THE SPIRIT OF THE CAMPAIGN.
RsroseIIIatlon snd the Policy Of the Republican
paFty


10y George William CuhIss
one word further. We are told that this Ia "a
campaign of reconciliation, that we want peace
and therefore we want "A change In party. "Lot
as clasp hands over the hlnuly chasin, says
Mr.. Greeley. Very we'll. answer we. who In
this country has refused to clasp hands Ia II
those men In the southern states who oppose
the new order VI things Is II thoso ia tho
Northern states who morally supported them,
or those men who have sail equality for all shall
be maintained at all hHGirusf List us clasp
bandsY Yes, Mr.. Greeley, wo have suuEht 10
clasp hands from the moment Oi Lees surreu.
der. am against the policy Of hate" says
Senator sumner. FelloW.citl1ens tue maine VI
your great Senator, the name Of Charles SUN.
ner, shalt never 10 mentioned by me except
with affection, gratitude and fespecL | do M
lorEet-though Tor the hfst time have come to
to me In this liie-wn0n ], Republican, should
stand before you, Republican, and, above all,
Massachusetts Republicans, and have 70 SPEAK
to you OF what senator Sumner has said, In In
mite sorrow. But do not forget, nothing can
blot from my mind the great past OF your great
senator. remember his illustTlyus services. l
remember how tor twenty years, during the very
tempest Of our politics culIuinaIng 10 civil war,
In deadly peril Of his ito he stood erect, spOtlcss
In character, unsweryiug Ia his principles. |
remember how, IKE the granite Gun, charles
TO the oceans Of SANDER to the oceans Ut Tidi.
cule that came rolling In upon him, and were
swept back by him into the lmpotent roth aud
foam. remember thUse great services-lud no
departure OF his from what seems TO me the true
faith, makOs me forget it-yst when Charles
sumner says l am against the policy Of the Re
publican party, | remember II any mnu has
shaped the policy or the Republican party II Is
senator sumner. II that policy no as ho M.
plies In those worlls the policy NJ hate, he dc.
nOuncos his own work. He condemns himself.
He It was down to the last days OF Congress who
urged and urged and urged the passage Of tue
civil rights bill He II was WIN, 10 tho most
convincing and elaborate speech VI the session,
asserted how much remained to be done. lie II
Is who, In his letter ~ the oOured men, declares
that the peace Of the colOrcd man isstiI Ia great
| danger, and no II Is who declares that he viii
now trust all the great purposes and objects Oi
his life In the hands oil his most implacAble
enemies.
Fellow. citizens, never was q great victor In a
| great war marching In robes So absolutely spot
less OF injustice as the robes OF the American
people, organized into the Republican party.
| When the war ended, the state OF thugs At tue
| South was very sad Greeley has described the
| Southern modification and rage. thought he
used strCnE language, but we know from what
our feelings would have been II We had boen
conquered. | believe that pacihcnti n by tho re
publican party would have proceeded quietly,
and would have effected Its end but iur one tact,
and that iactis the Democratic party. II resisted
| every measure Of reconstruction and called them
uncOnstitutlOn. But Just as last as anything
was done the Democratic party declared II
| ought TO be undUne. what would we have done
| II We had been In their position at the south had
we discovered our own political allies stu work.
| Ing with us3 The people Of the south cannot
| bear To give up. They believe their old pollti.
| cal friends will unite In their behalf, and all
that will have to DO done Is to carry their own
| states. They support Horace Greeley today,
because they think he will bring a Dcmucraiic
restoration. So long as this feeling exists, 81
long believe reconciliation IL impnsshlc. In a
word, believe no reconciliation, that Is " say,
| no perfect oblltorallOn VI oil the wounds aud
s0rrOWs OF the war Is possible until tho Dom
| ocratlc party finally dIsDand. That Is the
source Of all our woe, ~ II has been hitherto. II
| Is an old Christian tradition that when Christ
was born, a voice IL said to have rung along tue
| shores Of the Mediterranean sea, The great
| Pan is dead" So on next November, wien We
hear, as surely we shall hear, that the DumO
| cratic party OF this country, which was the
power Of slavery, which was the puwer Of ro'
belllOn, that has peTpleXsd TecnnstTuciiOn-
that that party ls not only defeated, but dIs0r,
1 Ranig0d, disbAnled and dlssOlviHg. Then the
glad heart OF America Will thank q al that AT
| last, at last, perfect reconciliation has become
| possible because the new UniOn hnrn Oi the
| war Is unohangeably established. iRrrlt nlr
| plauso and three cheers for the speaker.