Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-09-21
American Women and.the Republican
t-. 81 - PARTY,
Br NARY cLEnnER ANEs.

|
sion of the weak, its pillars OF power based on
human bondage, its cruel caste, its lust for
tpower at any cost, It's inglorious death, its
shameful resurreetioD Study The past of the
Republican pariy--the party true to every
right and every possibility of human nature.
Take fist It's dead-your dead and mine !; the
thousands slain to maintain the government
which Democrats sought to destroy. The
Union secured by their blood the enfranchise.
ment Of FIVE millions of slaves the proclama-
ton which declared them free; he Ku Klux
law which secured life and Rberty TO the
humblest citizen of the South; the vast rcduc.
lion of the national debt the reform in civil
service; the yearly reduction of the income
tax; peace, security, prosperity-thcse make
part Of the work done and being done by
the party Of emancipation freedom and jus
lice. Are YOU willing to say that its mission
is accomplished, oT rRot It's trru place in the
government of the United States can be filled
by another-that The party of inhumanity, in
justice and wrongH
You hear much about the corruption Of the
civil service. The enemies 0f Pres,frn, Grant
accu,e him Of insincerity In protesting to wish
us Lcl HFt say tlut HUfu wv tnut mas
been attempted the women OF the United
States owe To President Grant their profound
gratitude for the reform which he has accom-.
pished in their behalf in the departments of
Washington. and fOr the position to which he
has promoted them in the civil service. Gen
cral Grant Is not talking or writing man,
II is n matter Of minor Importance what
General Grants personal opinion may be OF
wOman's voting, while he has proved thruugh
bis entire administration, By his acts. that
even in their present imperfec1y educated
state lie believes them fit 10 hold positions of
public responsibility and trust Tie has made
women pnstmistresscs in almost every State of
the Union, and his appointment of Miss Van
Lew as postmistrcss of Richmond Virginia
was nm act practically worth more to their
Advancement than thousand fnc-spun ora
tions on tie rights Of women. Miss Van Lew.
a native Of Virginia. suffered everything but
death for her loyalty TO the Union during the
war in the capital of Virginia yet through it
aIl she gave her money and almost her life 10
suffering soldiers. Her horse was their hes
pital, and she their loving and faithful nurse.
The war wns over, she Impoverished in for
tune and hr'yken in health, the brave soldier
remembered the brave woman. Tie asked Tt
ms personal favor that the Senate would con
firm his nomination Of Miss Van Lew MS post
mistress Of Rtchmnmd "Hc gave It 10 me
himself" said Miss Van Lew. with fears in
her voice. "As hr placed Il in my hand he
said, 'Madnm, wish YOU could know the
pleasure 7 feel In giving you this curnris-
| eli nfin 10 IL
course. there are many men who want it.
many who have tried 10 get IT, Every little
while cry is made about n woman holding
so important a trust. Nevertheless Miss Van
Lew is still postmisircss of Richmond
II Is false. the assertion of tile sclEcaTIed
Liberals" Tint the civil service is in morn
demomlizcd state than ever hefnrc. Each
ycnr nj President Grants administration has
seen decrease Of fIfs ~ccrruption" His en-
tire opinion. and all his personal influence,
have been used against it, Women, now can
didates for appointments tr fhe civil service,
must pass the same examination and the same
test. md receive their appointments on pre-
eiseTy the same bnsis. as mon And. though
no competitive examination cnn be always a
final and infnIlihTc test of intellectual fitness,
II at least lifts the appointment of every wO.
man to The governmental service utterly above
the low plane Of sex or favoriiism To that of
an honorable worker, who. having passed the
same examination and perf0ming cqnn labor.
is entitled In every respect to receive equal
pay.
have no purpose to decry personally one
Presidential candidate or to nplif the other
Both men possess virtues which honor and
faults for which am sorry. The moral con.
fiict of the present car'paign is not between
man and man. II Is not the man whom we
choose II Is the ideas and facts which he rep
r's,'n's II is not Grant against Greeley. II
is Republican against The Demncratic party
II is truth against faisehood; upright govern
men, against fraud and sham.
The men who arc now Az b,tSy spanning
with flowcry phrns's the "bloody chasm"which
war made who nro so enger 10 stretch fratern-
al hands across to the other sile--thcy are the
men who, through the long night Of civil war,
while their brethren marched and tonight and
fell and did. stniJT At home, safc and pampered,
and vented their patriotism in odcs and essays,
resonant with guns which their writers never
heard. Do you wonder lint the long agony of
war Ii now to them distant dream? Wo,
man, whose son, whose husband, whose father
fell in that holocaust or humn freedom, is It
but dream TO youf These are the men who
cry Reconciliation" They say that now
the word for the hour IA Reconciliation"
Reconciliation with what' With the spirit
that, gcneniiou after generation, perpeuated
Itself by the barbarisms Of human sIavery and
the usurpation Of political power at any cost
Did not these cnuse our WARP To extiuguish
these were not our dead safus Shall we give
1t up now-the principle established by such
treasure OF human life-to the very men who
betrayed IL and did all they could to destroy III
You are told that they have all changed. these
leaders that they clamor for Greeley becaus
they accept the situation, Never believe H.
They cry for him because they do not accept
IL; brcause they find In him their last chance
to seize once more ,bc prizes and the power
Of the Government.
Is II the new South, the South regenerated
In blood and scars that is now for Horace
GreeleyH No, tits the old SouIh. II is the
South which to-day, in secret clans, declares
- a = A..