The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-09-04

ically debatable. Is AN invasion of those
laws OF God and nature which override
the logic OF men. We would leave the
negro where he Is. We would try and ed
ucate him into higher usefulness. We
would avoid an impending war of races
by moderation, by the dissemination of
reciprocal interests and kindly feelings. by
the all-healing effects OF time, by mutual
concessions and compromises. Thus for
all the concessions and compromises have
been wrung from the whites. There is a
limit TO the spirit which has gone so far ;
and we would pause and rest on the con-
fines of that hitherto broad and tllable
domain. The Civil-rights bill Is revolu-
ton; IL Is the proclamation of a gradual
war of races, or else an equally destructive
covert war of suppression ruinous 10 the
blacks. We seek, for the good Of both
races. to avoid it, Resisting the idea of a
third term as we should resist the bare
faced proposal Of coup d'etat and an EN-
peror, we should prefer il. and all that il
implies and portends, TO any further pro-
gress on the line marked out by the Re
publican managers.
The Republican says that " il is not i'm
probable that the Couyzer-Jougnai speaks
by inspiration" 1t refers complacently
to our " lively sallies." IL speaks of us
as skirmisher for the Liberal Repub-
licans and advanced Democrats" and
adds:
Within the last month or six weeks some OF the
leading politicians who opposed Gen. Grant in
The last Presidential campaign have. II We may
believe themselves, undergone a marked change
OF opinion so far a. he IS concerned, and on GER
tain contingencies would not be at all averse TO
supporting him. Only week or ten days ago,
for instance, Senator Fenton. who managed MIR.
Greeley fD RON
ever dissension existed in the Republican party
than nearly all the other Republicans combined,
declared that II the election OF 1915 were 10
this year, the triumph of Gen. Grant would be
Inevitable Others OF lesser note have made SIM
liar declarations and II is not little significant
that the organs OF these gentlemen have mod
Grated the violent and abusive tote in which they
have been accustomed for some years TO speak
OF his administration. Has the courier-JoIrnai
been selected 10 lead the movement. 10 make the
overtures of peace and reconciliation upon the
basis OF renomin alton, and ascertain the man
ner of their receptions
How like an " organ" paid retainer
professional trencherman. all this
sounds, Who is Senator Fenton?
Where is he from? Is Jones, or Smith,
or Brown to be counted among the
''Others of less note?" We speak by
Inspiration" certainly: but it is the in
sp'ration of the popular thought, of the
time. We owe allegiance TO no organi-
cation. We are the vidette of no clique.
But we know our people well: and,
knowing them because a part of them,
whenever we speak out of the fullness of
our own mind and heart. we speak for
them. They have no particular love for
General Grant. They love their country
and its free institutions, and its freer pre-
cedents which they have striven to MAIN
tain and preserve. They have seen these
sapped and blighted one after another,
until, on the edge of the precipice to
which the Radical leaders are hurrying
us, they would simply make terms of self
preservation with the one man who has
the power. and who seems to have the
will, TO save us. That is all. We in the
South are being driven to that point
where the preference for a third term Is
simple choice between despotism and an
archy.
These things should be understood ut
the North. 1t should be understood that
We are using the language of deliberation,
that we are giving the situation a most
passionless review, and that, controlled by
the most worldly-mnded and business
like motives, we are representing the ag-
gregate intelligence and experience of the
South. We mean every word that we
say, knowing very well that free govern
ment i'm this country cannot last for one
section and be blightcd for the other.
The Radicalism which looks to blast us
will be, in the end. hoist by its own pc
tard. Very like that petard will not be
Grant belize ii will be. Time alone can
show; but. in the meanwhile. the organs,
Democratic and Radical. may amuse them
selves with the particular sort of fiddle
PADDLE which fills the soul of the Washing
ton Republican.