The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-08-22
Mawworfa.

OF all the Democratic cant in IL is
campaign the most contemplate Is tire
assertion that the Republicans seek to
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should long since have been stilled.
IL this to continue forever? asks
Mawworm. Because we have had a
terrible civil war are we never to for.
get 1t, but to go on from year to year
fighting its battles over? Are we
never to fraternize and be reconciled !?
Is morbid sectional hostility to be the
basis Of our politics Oh no. Far
from 1t. But this strain is not new
Mawworm asked this same question
four years ago. He said that the set
Elements Of the war, by which alone
fraternity can be secured, were revo-
lnt!on:ry and void; aud wanted to
know If we thought that we could
scourge people into loving us. The
war is over, we were told J; the last gun
was fired long ago. The foe does not
contest the field. Why fight in the
air ? Why strike at shadows?
The beginnings OF reconstruction
were saluted with the same cry. Not
to leave the late rebels to enact black
codes, and to wreak their will upon
the freedmen, was to tear open the
wounds Of the war and fight old bat
ties. To declare equal civil rights was
vindictive, and cowardly abuse Of
power 1t was trampling upon heroic
but unfortunate foe, and making heart
bnrnipgs immortal. The admission Of
all citizens to equal suffrage was
greeted by Mawworm as mad and
wanton blow at an honorable and van
pushed body Of our fellow country
men. And when Mr.. Wade Hamp-
ton and his late companions in arms
came to Tammany Hall In 1868 and
dictated the Democratic platform and
nominated Frank Blair upon his
Brodhead letter, and going home at
tempted the terrorization OF the loyal
vote in the Southern States, Nav
worm did his little best to help him,
asking whether Cancellation did not
become great nation, and whether
We could ever make out of the CHASTITY
shadow of the war. IL we persisted in
tearing open it, wounds.
He Is now solemnly saying the same
thing. What he means il that the
party which opposed the war should
be allowed to control the government.
This 10 what he has always meant.
What he understands by healing the
wounds Of the war is Democratic su-
premacy. II those who made the
war could control the government Of
their own States and Of the Union,
Mawworm thinks that the wounds Of
the war would be healed.
Now there IL one salve for those
aud one only. 1t is the con-
tinuous control OF the government by
those who believe sincerely In the
good policy Of equality and justice,
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and traditions and tendencies are such
that the country believes in that be.
lief. 10 the Democratic party, with
the Liberal Republican accessions,
made up Of such persons Is the
Democratic party with Mr.. Greeley at
It's head composed Of such? Is the
Democratic party In .oning the Cincin-
natl platform such party? II not,
the wounds Of the war will, according
10 Mawworm, continue to be torn
open. That IL to say, the American
people, remembering the war, will
lake care that there government Is ad-
by those who will sincerely
respect the fundamental changes
which II wrought.-Hurper's Weekly.
Grinnell having given 1t ~ his
deliberate opinion that God never
made but one Horace Greeley" the
Chicago Post responds: 1T probably
,annot be disputed. The mercy OF
God h great. He knows the country |
pould mot stand another"