The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-10-11
A Powerful Arrangement Of the
Radical Party.
GRANTS Professions, and How They
Have Been Kept.
III. Gospel Of Eternal Iiate and Perpetual
Pu ushncss-Aro she Hssreds and
A.imosisies Ensendered by the
RebeIIIea Never 70 Ceases


,ysre promised by the apocalyptic writ.
srs of the Republican party, when, with
the Union saved, peace restored, slavery
abolished, the people pacifed, the States
constructed, the Government rejuve.
mated. the Constitution completed, lib.
sr,v enlarged and harmony established,
the golden age was to come in and all
he peace, prosperity and happiness ?
WHY is it, now that war is over, the
neople returned to their allegiance, the
personal enmities which conflict gene
rates passing away, industry renewed,
and the jurisdiction of the Government
confirmed, the gospel OF hate is still
preached, and by the same parties by
whom the jubilee was proclaimed Why
i il that the most persistent efforts are
made to revive the old animosities and
TO extend them to all who, under the
new conditions, are willing to forget the
past and TO begin the new era with new
feelings, hopes, friendships, and ALI.
ances?
Il this war ito be eternal Are We
destined at each returning Presidential
election to fight over again the conflict
which closed nearly eight years ago? Is
the North to be perpstually Furnishing
the South for its disloyalty and is every
conjunction between the Northern and
Southern men for political purpose to
be branded as reasonable on the part
of the former for all time to come? Is
the period never to approach an end
when a party in the State will set up 1T,
claims to power upon the ground that,
for the sake Of the Union, more impedi.
ments, inequalities, and disqualifi-
cations must be imposed upon the
Southern people, or that existing i'm.
pediments, inequalities, and .disqualif.
cations must be continued Is this the
political entertainment 70 which the
people OF the United States are invited;
to travel. with milLho monotony, in
the same circle, repeating the same
litany of malevolence, and treasuring
with the obstinacy Of approximation,
the same recollections?
If there was anything in the Repub-
licar platform of 1868 which was espe-
cially agreeable to the people OF the
United States-the loyal people-it was
the promise held out in that instrument
Of day when the effects of the past
conflict would be practically obliterated;
when the whole people Of the United
States would be one in interest and in
sentiment. Probably nothing in the
life of Mr.. Greeley has silently won so
much ueon the people as the fact that
he has been the answering adherent
to the wise and humane policy of con.
Citation to which that platform com.
mitted the Republican party. 1t il not
the contestants Of the war-it is not that
mass of the people from whom those
combstants were taken-who labor to
make the fact of the conflict the oc-
casion of eternal enmity. They have
no treasured resentments to enforce at
the ballot box; no feelings OF revenge
under the influence OF which they in.
cline to be enlisted and marched to the
polls, as they were enlisted and marched
to the battie-fields. The aspiring heroes
of this supplemental war, this supere-
rogatory salvation Of the Union, this ca
post faeso preservation of our liberties,
are the non-combatants; men who
STAYED safely. at home while the armies
were in the fAld, who slept comfortably
in their beds while battles were raging
who demonstrated their patriotism b,
elaborate rhetoric and bitter denuncia
tions of traitors and copperheads, anc
vigorously manifested their devotion Il
the sacred cause Of their country b!
their zeal to secure fat contracts ant
lucrative Offices TO themselves. Hov
much ~ the chstred and spirit OF re
venge With which they are 80 sedulou
to inspire the people they feel. and hov
Iauch they simulate, it is not necessar!
to inquire. Probably they ARE as deepl
in earnest now as they we're during tn
war; and the depth Of that earnestnes
may be safely calculated upon the basi
of what they hoped ID realize Upon 1t
capital.
Aside from the general charge OF pre-
fusion, corruption, misgovernment, an
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. against the Presldep
and Ms party, there is this special charg
of fraud deliberately perpetrated upo
the people, in the Justification Of III
pledges made in the platforms, and aftel
ward by the President. The party Ell
joyeda all the advantage ofits profession
in the election--and the leaders at tbs
timefelt that those advantages were no
by any means, unnecessary-and til
people had a right to expect that prom
ises so distinctly made would be scrup'
lousy fulfilled. Have they been Il,
filed? No sooner had Congress rea
sembled after the election than ii
leaders of the Republican party in til;
body reapplied themselves to the wor
OF inflaming the minds of the Peep
of the North against those of the Sout
and of convincing the former that Il
latter could not be safely trusted vii
their political liberties insisting tha
IN the place Of more freedom, the
must be more restraint, and instead
amnesty and friendship, humiliatit
and purishment. II is only necessary