The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-27

to me in this life-when i, Republican.
should stand before you, Republicans, and
above all, Massachusetts Republicans, and
have To speak TO Won of what Sena tor Sumner
has said in infinite sorrow. But I do not
forget, nothing can blot from my mind the
great past of your great Senator. l do re-
member his illustrious services. i remember
how for twenty years. during the very tempest
OF our politics culminatlAg In civil war, in
deadly peril Of his life he stood erect, spotless
in character, answering IN his principles.
remember how like the granite clif Charles
Sumner opposed himself to the oceans OF hate.
TO the oceans Of Islander, 10 the oceans of ridi-
cule that came rolling IN upon him and were
swept by him into the impotent froth and
foam. l remember those great seryices-lnd
no departure Of nis from what seems TO me
the true faith makes me forget it-yet when
Charles Sumner says L am against the policy
Of the Republican party, remember II any
man has shaped the policy OF the hepublican
party il il Senator Sumner. III that policy be
as he implies in those words, the policy of
hate, he denounces his Own work. He con-
dennis himself He 1t was down to the last
days Of Congress who urged the passage OF the
Civil Rights bill. He il was who In the most
convincing and elaborate speech OF the ses-
sion asserted how much remained TO be done.
lie il Ia, who in his letter TO the colored men
declares that the peace of the colorsd man Is
stlll III great QdDScT, anu hc IL 10 thHt aiSS
that he will now trust oil the great purposes
and objects of his life in the hands OF his most
implacable enemies.
Fellow-citizens, never was great victor in
great war marching in robes
so ABSOLUTELY sPoTLEse
Of injustice AZ the robes OF the American
people, organized into the Republican party
When the war ended the state of things at the
South was very sad. Greeley has described
the Southern modification and rage. L
thought he used strong language, but we
know from what our feelings would have been
If we had been conquered. l believe that
pacificetion by the Republican party would
have proceeded quietly, and would have
effected its end but for one fact and that fact
is the Democratic party. resisted every
measure of reconstruction, and called them
unconstitutional But just as fast as anything
was done the Democratic party declared II
ought to be undone. What would we have
done if we had been in their position at the
South, had we discovered our old political
allies still working with Us? The people Of
the South cannot bear to give up. They be-
lieve their old political friends will unite IN
their ehalf, and oil that Will have TO be done
is TO carry their own States.
They support Horace Greeley to-day because
they think he will bring a Democratic restora-
ton. So long as this feeling exists, so long L
believe reconciliation impossible. In word,
/ believe no reconciliation, that is 10 say, no
perfect oblteration of all the wounds and sor-
rows of the war, is possible until the Demo-
cratic party finally disband. That is the source
of all our woe, as it has been hitherto 1t is
an old Christian tradition that, when Christ
was born, a voice is said TO have run along tho
shores of the Mediterranean sea: The great
Pan il dead" So on next November, when we
hear, as surely as we shall hear, that the
Democratic party of this country, which was
the power of slavery. which was the power of
rebellion that has perplexed reconstruction,
that that party is not only defeated, but dis
organized, disbanded and dissolving, then the
glad heart Of America will thank God that at
asst, at last, perfect reconciliation has become
possible, because the new Union born Of the
war is unchangeaby established. [Great APP
plause and three cheers for the speaker.l