Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-22
THE PARTY or REACTION.


assault upon the integrity and the de-
tense of the Union. All those who hate
education and decry the teacher, who
have become noted for their enmity to
free speech and free press, who have
borrowed their political notions from the
worst forms of European aristocracy, or
their conceptions of political honesty
from papal Rome, have united in dar-
ing effort to grasp the control of the Re-
public. The new party-the party of
reaction-which cheers OH the leaders of |
the Cincinnati gathering, and awaits its
opportunity to drive the Union men from
power, is composed of the same elements
that were crushed by the craftsmanship
of Lincoln and the victories of Grant.
We have from the South general up
rising in favor of the new movement
The rebel press, flushed with unlocked
for hopes, celebrate its patriots of Gin
cinnati. The men who were accustomed
in their youth to harry school masters
and shoot down fugitive slaves, and in
their manhood fought behind the walls
of Vicksburg or in the swamps of Geor-
gia; who, since the war, have found am
pie time to burn school houses in Miss
issippi, and infict horrible fortunes upon
innocent colored men and women in the
Carolinas who have made the South no
safe place for the lovers of freedom and
union, are relied upon as firm friends of
the new party. And we are told that
this is a proof of their late repentance
are asked not only to condone their
crimes, but to intrust their leaders with
the control of the nation.
But still more dangerous to the cause
of progress would be the supremacy of
that uncultivated and impulsive portion
of the community upon which the oppo-
sition party must chiefly rely in the
elections of the North. 1t is we'll known
that the Irish Catholics have been the
most vigorous opponents of the admins
tration. From their press have come
the bitterest denunciations, the coarsest
calumnies, that have been heaped upon
its leaders. To save their own crimi-
nails in New York they have covered
wise and prudent men with a cloud of
defamation. Their hostility to the
school house and the teacher has been
scarcely less injurious to the cause of
!; good morals than that of the Southern
Democracy. Their rule in the city of
, New York has been marked by all the
dishonesty and the gross immortality Of
European capitals. Yet from this class
: have come the warmest congratulation;
: to the leaders of the opposition move
ment The Catholic Telegraph, of Gin
cipnati, the chief organ of that Roman
, Catholic fraction which is most violent
S in its denunciation of the public schools
l is the first to support the nomination
e of the Cincinnati Convention. 9TH
: only wise course open to 1.-THE Dem
}, ocratic party-exclaims MAY 81 thi
: organ of infallibility, ''will be to unit
: under the lead of Greeley in relieving
: the country from the horrors of fou
e years more of misrule under Grant p
e and long list of the Irish Catholic pa
pers might be easily reckoned up whic
d are willing to join with their assault
/ upon the public schools an assault upo
f.; the administration which hope by tn
; overthrow of Grant to be enabled t
; check the advance of education, an
d hold their unhappy people in a willin
IL bondage of ignorance and moral deca.
The party of reaction will not prob;
lie bly, attract many German supporters
r, Touched by the eloquence of Senate
he Schurz, and alarmed by the ideal crime
r which his vigorous fancy attributed
be the national government, the Germa
h, population was at first stirred with u
K. usual emotion, and seemed prepared
IL rush into an extreme of political actio
1g 1t would ally itself with the rebel ia
ton at the South, always its bittere
49, foe and prosecutor it would join t
ne Irish Catholic and Jesuit, the chief e
OF emies of the Fatherland it would a
Ike any party that would infict dishon
on upon the President who had once say
y, the Germans of Missouri and of Tex
ng from the tyranny of the slave-holdt
cl- and who had preserved for the Germ
migrant the American Union. III
unaccountable impulse has, we BELLE
in some measure passed away. [
'n' fierce exultation exhibited by the Jes'
- faction in Germany and France VIII
no they heard that the Germans of Anne
ca were joining with the reactionists
'0A all kinds to shake the foundations
'"' freedom in the New World may W
'0o check the movement. The good sci
0n- of our Teutonic population has sufic
'ne to stop them. They are not inclined
''O enter upon new and dangerous cours
40 And we trust more generous sentim
'n- has aided in winning them back to
W. safer paths; that they have sudde
'ne remembered that when Germany was
uiy sailed in the hot days of 1870 by
'"o chosen troops of France, and the me-