The Lincoln County herald., 1873-01-08
The 4. 4 stuatorship.

honor ought not to be conferred on
Southern man, and says:
i "Those Union Democrats, who laboret
for general enfrane ehisenent, deserve TO
the present at least, the brightes
crowos"
Ifit is 10 order, will the Herald inform
Us when, according to it's opinion, will b
the time for honoring somebody els'
beside Union Democrats Have moi
they enjoyed uninterrupted "houors" fol
twelve years-all during the war and
ever since3 Have not the "rebels
shown but little disposition to dispute
their right to such hooors? While com
posing the largest and frequently the
best class Of our people have they not
quietly submitted to their oppre'sors and
even aided in lifting these Union Dem
ucrats' to office, who helped to rivet
their chains? Is this ever to be thus
Is it still "disloyal" to advocate rebels
for office? Have the war democrats q
perpetual lease on democratic emolu.
meDts? Is it not about time that this
prescription Of every man who happened
not to sympa,hise with the northern side
Of the question during the war was
stopped? II we are going to shake
hands across the chasm let US do so and
cease this everlasting hue and cry about
the indi.creetness of proposing man for
flee simply because during the war he
espoused the side of the question which
contended for the principles of the dem
ocra,ic party ?-Columbis Herald.
In the frst place our contemporary
mlsrepresents us BY saying that we
think the honor ought no, to be con
ferred on q Southern man" What we
did say was: I'VE can but believe it
bad policy to urge the claims of TOO many
ex- confederatcs, and i. is with degree
Of modification that we behold the greed
and rush for Office among our lately en-.
frauchised brethren, believing that others
against uhom such prejudice does not
er,st at Washington and in the North
could accomplish more good 1or the state
in tie national assembly. As to the
time for honorins somebody else beside
Unlon Democrats We will mention that
our present state assembly is composed
to some extent of men who espoused the
cause of the South, and are to day hon
ored that their constituents have done
well n elccting such men but that the
time should ever come when man nall
be honored simply and solely because he
was a confederate soldier, or because he
was union democrat, let the good sense
Of our people forbid.
Our contemporary speaks as one who
regards union democrats in the light Of
oppressors Of the lately disfranchised, as
men who helped to rivet their chains"
That won't do. For serving their country
according to their honest convictions,
though dramatically opposed to the po
siton occupied by US, we must extend to
them their need but that they had any
thing to do with the offensive measures
born Of the prejudices growing out of the
war, their actions emphatically deny.
Many Of them, men of prominence, ability
and courage, took bold aud decided
stand against the proscriptive laws ol
Radicalsm, and labored for the enfran
chisement Of both the confederate sol
dier and his sympathizsr; aud it canuo,
be said that selfish motives p-omted them
in their actions. If official favor had
been their object, few Of them at leas,
could have demanded any Office within
the gift Of the Radicals of this state, by
espousing the cause Of their party.
They not only ignored this temptation
however, which is weighty one among
the average politician, but bravsd the
popular feeling Of the whole North
Men must have principle as we'll a.
courage to stimulate them to such al
undertaking; and it is such men a. thes,
upon whose brows We would at the pres
ent place the brightest crowns. AM
why them more than those oppresse,
ones, with whom we are numbered, an,
who conteuded for the same thing2 Fo
tile reason that the latter were NOR
directly prompted by selfinterest i
struggling for that which they had bee
deprived of and desired to again possess
the other, possessing il, we're laborlng I
bestO~ 1t upon the oppressed. But. say
one, if they did this for the sake Of prin
clple, they only did their duty. Granted
but men deserve credit for doing the
r duty, for no man, however noblo b
impulses and his actions, ever does NOR
I Nor can we believe that these me
"have enjoyed uninterrupted honor
for twelve years-all during the war on
ever since" the question of our coptem