The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1872-02-14
REUNION AND REFORM.

The Louisville Courier Journal Of
the 7th inst, in an article headed
Moving" wherein it announces the
accession to the liberal republican stan.
dard Of Governor Cox, Judge Stanley
Matthews, Judge Stallo and George
Hoadly, Of Ohio, tells some wholesome
truths which we wish might be read ard
pondered by every man in the country,
especially the radical republicans Of the
north. Here is an extract:
"There is no trouble about reunion
and reform in the South. Its for the
North to set its house in order. There
the trouble actually lies.
The sense of defeat, If it be not
carried to the point of humiliation, is,
after its fashion, a teacher of reforms.
The rank and file of the old Confederate
line the brave and faithful soldiers
who followed the fortunes Of the "bonnv
blue flag" and fought and footed it
from Bull Run to Vicksburg, from
Shiloh to Appomattox the unconsci,
Gus statesmen who took in centuries of
political economy through the crevices
of ragged gray jackets and the chiuks
Of patched and worn-out shoes, as they
worked their way through the great
heart.expanding and mind-enlarging
university of war-in a word, the cti,
zen soldiery of the South are not the
elements of discord which stand across
the pathway ola liberal and enlightened
policy of reconciliation, nor the stumb,
ling blocks that crowd the avenues of
governmental reform. We must look
elsewhere if we expect 10 find the real
marplots 1t is the sense of victory
and power, developed into the spirit ct
conquest, which has appeared in tho
radical organization, producing plenti-
ful crop of corruptionists, who never
smelt any powder except in the quarter
masters department and never carried
the flag except to disgrace it. These
agents of the su1jugating, money
grabbing and ofiice-gobbling theory Of
"fill your pockets, fellows, and keep up
a lively rattle about disloyalty' are the
exact counterparts Of the chicken
stealing ku.klux of the South, who is
vagrant and an outlaw, and, it ever
Confederate soldier at all, deserter.
Unhappily Gen. Grant has fallen into
the hands of the northern kuklux, and,
though he had won a thousand more
battles than his partisans claim him to
have won, he should be put out Of the
way of the mischief to which his situa,
ton, perhaps more than his peculiar
ambition, exposes him, If there is to
be genuine reunion and reform, it must
be based on the full realization Of these
general facts, which any man who in
vestigates them impartlally may estab>
lish for himself and for all who trust
his representations.
Carl Schurz has shown TO more adj
vantage, in nothing, brilliant as he is
whichever way we observe him, than
in his comprehension of the desires and
motives of the Confederate element.
In his Nashville speech he interpreted
that element accurately and happily,
and in all his utterances he has shown
himself statesman who gets his ideas
from the best historic teaching and an
orator who takes his impulses from the
purest and truest traits of our common
human nature Graft Brown is like
wise a man made by nature, and dis
c;plined by his anteccdenis for bold and
radical reforms. Eminently a leader,
conscientious and courageous, he pos-
sesses within himself abundance of that
Americanism which we do not look for
in his comrade; and these, backed by
few such men as Stanley Matthews
and Judge Cox, may be able before the
advent of May to put a wholly new
phase on the liberal republican move,
ment.
Assuredly we wish them all possible
success.
John Tyler make, a few remarks to
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