Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-30
Party Division not Result Of the
War.

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The benevolent farmer of Chappa.
qua insists that "the north and south
should now forget the past and shake
hands across the gulf made by the
war" Let us examine this gulf a
little and sec who are separated by
il. The war never aienated the
Democratic party north from its
southern allies, In 1864 at Chicago
the Northern Democracy pronounce
Cd tho war failure, and proposed an
immediate cessation Of hostilities,
aud convention of the states to
treat with the rebels. This conven-
ton also accused the Federal govern
ment Of forcibly interfering in the
elections in Missouri and Kentucky
and declared chat repetition OF
such acts would be held revolutiOna-
ry and resisted with all the means
under their control" This resolu-
ton was said to have been intro
duced into the convention by the
Hon. Geo. b. Smith of Madison, now
distinguished "Liberal," and it was
defiant threat of open war against
"I4incolE's hirelings."
1t ia very plain that there was in
gulf" as Mr.. Greeley terms it, be
tween the Northern and Southern
ends Of the Democratic party in 1864
the latter was fighting the govern.
ment in tho front, and the former, in
the rear.
Nor has there been since or during
tho war the least alienation of feel
ing between the northern and south
ern sections Of the Democratic party
We well remember that in 1868, both
ends and the middle Of the party
met in convention in New York
city, and nominated Horatio Sey
mour for President and Frank z
Blair for Vice President, and unani
mously resolved that the Constitu
tional amendments securing univer
sal suffrage, guaranteeing the wa
debt and pensions, prohibiting com
pensation for emancipated slaves
and the discharge of obligations in
curred in support of the rebellion
were revolutionary, fraudulent an,
void, and not bin ding on the pcopl
Of the United States. And this reso
ldtion introduced by Wade IIamp
ton OF South Carolina was received
with such shout, that Union sol
dlcrs hearing it with one voice ex,
claimed, there's the rebel yell"
OF course the Democratic part,
north never knew anything Of MI
Greeley's gulf, separating then
from their allies in the south. Their
never was any gulf either, between
Republicans in the north and thei
allies in the south caused by the war
Then will Mr.. Greeley tell us wher,
tho guilt is, and who are separated
by II? IL is clear TO US that the rea
gulf exists between the party tina
put down the rebellion and the party
that sustained it. We speak not O
individual Democrats like Grant an,
Stanton and Sherman. We speak @
the party pledged before the worl
to carry into effect the treason ex
pressed in the platforms of 1864 an
1865. Though many Democrats il
the north in spite OF their part,
fought for the Union, yet no Repub
lican, not one, enlisted in the armie
of jeff Davis. History is ready wit
10000 proofs to demonstrate tina
the Democratic party plunged tn
nation into war, and caused the los
of half a million of lives, for the sol
purpose of perpetratiDg human bon,
age, and to the very last that part
has opposed the amendments to th
constitution that mark the socil
and political renovation of the nS
ION wrought out by that public an
individual tribulation and angus
which teach the necessity of mercy
ofjustice, of righteousness, as cor
dition of general security and peac,
Just in proportion, as Mr.. Creole
has from tine to time, been incline
to Democratic views, he mas foua
ths gulf between himself and th
Democratic party, both north an
south, to grow less and less. In fac
he dlseloses considerable "gulf' be-
tween himself and his former asso
ciates. "Liberal" as he is. he doe
not admit in his letter of Aoceptanc