Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-03
THE BROKEN PROMISE.
A Powerful Arraignment of the
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Radical Party. Sc, ..
Grants Professions, and How They
Have Been Kept.
The Gospel of Eternal Hate and Perpetual
Punishment-Are the Hatreds and
ADimosities Ensendered by the
Rebellion Never to Ceases
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
Where is the millennium which we
were promised by the apocalyptic writ
ers of the Republican party, when, with
the Union saved, peace restored, slavery
abolished, the people pacifed, the States
reconstructed, the Government reiuve-
mated, the Constitution completed, lib
erty enlarged and harmony established,
the golden age was to come in and all
be peace, prosperity and happiness !?
Why is it, now that war is over, the
people returned to their allegiance, the
personal en1nities which conflict gene
rates passing away, industry renewed,
and the .jurisdictionof the Government
confirmed, the gospel of hate is still
preached, and by the same parties by
whom the jubilee was proclaimed Why
is it that the most persistent efforts are
made to revive the old animos1ties 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, friendshi ps, and alli-
ances 1850 f% .a-.1
Is this war to 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 :perpetually Furnishing
the South for it's disloyalty and is every
conjunction between the Northern and
Southern men for a 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 party in the State will set up it
claims to power upon the ground that,
for the sake of the Union, more impedi-
ments, inequalities, and disqualif-
cations must be imposed upon the
Southern people, -orzthat existing i'm
pedi1nents, inequalities, and disqualif-
cations must be continued lis this the
political =e1ftertainment to which the
people of the United States are invited;
to travel, with mill horse monotony, in
the same circle, repeating the same
itany of malevolence, and treasuring,
with the obstinacy of superannuation,
the same recollections
If there was anything in the Repub-
icar platform of 1868 which was espe-
cially agreeable to the people OF the
United States es-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
OtateS WOulO US one III Interest anu III
sentiment. Probably n pthing in the
life of Mr.. Greeley has silently won SO
much upon the people as the fact that
he has been the answering adherent
to the wise and humane policy of con-
ciliation to which that platform, com:
mitted the Republican party. 1t is not
the combatants of the war--it is not that
mass of the people from whom those
combatants 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 ofswhich they in
cline to be enlisted and marched to the
polls, as they were enlisted and marched
to the battle-felds. The aspiring heroes
of this supplemental war, this supere
rogatory salvation of the Union, this &c
post facto preservation of our liberties,
are the non-combatants; men who
stayed safely at home while the armies
were in the field who slept comfortably
in their beds while battles we're raging;
who demonstrated their patriotism by
elaborate rhetoric and bitter denuncia-
tions of traitors and copperheads, and
vigorously manifested their devotion to
| the sacred cause of their country by
their zeal to secure fat contracts and
lucrative offices to themselves. How
much of the hatred and spirit of re-
venge with which they are so sedulous
to inspire the people they feel, and how
| Iauch they simulate, it is not necessary
to inquire. Probably they are as deeply
in earnest now as they were during the
war and the depth of that earnest tness
| may be safely calculated upon the basis
of what they hoped to realize upon it as
| capital. .-s-i .-.s..-. r.a. ...
Aside from the general charge of pro-
fusion, corruption, misgovernment, and
maladministration against the President
and his party, there is this special charge
of fraud deliberately perpetrated upon
the people, in the Justification of the
pledges made in the platform, and after
ward by the President. The party en-
joyed all the advantage ofits professions
| in the election-and the leaders at that
time felt that those advantages were not,
by any means, unnecessary-and the
people had right to expect that prom
ises so distinctly made would be scrupu-
lously fulfilled. Have they been full
filed No sooner had Congress reas-
sembled after the election than the
leaders of the Republican party in that
body reapplied themselves to the work
of infaming the minds of the people
of the North against those of the South,
and of convincing the former that the
latter could not be safely trusted with
theic political liberties insisting that,
in the place of more freedom, there
must be more restraint, and instead of
amnesty and friendship, humiliation
and punishment. 1t is only necessary to
allude to the loathsome mass of ISLANDERS
and exaggerations piled up by Congress
Committees, drawn from. the vilest
sources and by the most culpable
means, and published to the world as
history eliminating in statutes of the
most oppressive and unequal character
and provisions intended to place the
entire election machinery of the South
] in the hands of the President. This il