The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-02

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party, has time and again declared that
we should put the past behind us -
that we should meet the living issues of
the day; that the memories Of the civil
war should be blotted out. and peace and
fraternaI feeling should be restored. But
now, IN the hour Of its expected triumph
upon PHfctJ D2m0,rGtjc principles. it re-
yves the lsSGes Of the war, and sneers nj
Its former friends, without whose aid it
would Yet be groan!ng under the provis-
lonS OF the registration law, for no other
conceivable reason than that they we're
Union men. Vixen before. in any political
contest since the war, has it been urged
as an objection against a candidate. Re
publican or Democrat, that he was 4
Unlen man, or thai he was a soldier in
the Federal army? And yet, these cx-
pre- :siOns Of the leading organs Of the
party in TIE State, deliberate. persistent
and ott-rereated, mean this and nothing
more. They were not used against Mr..
Henderson, the Republican candidate in
the last canvass, and Yet he was a general
Of"home guards The fact afforded 10
reason why Democrats SHOULD not sup
port Graft Brown, and Yet he was colonel
Of Il OF the first regiments Of '.home
guards raised in the State during the
war. The e~fir0ntery Of traducinc home
guards would then have been too shame
less, and besides, the Democratic party in
Missouri WAS then too weak to indulge in
such 4 luxury. They could not afford it.
But now that it has grown strong in its
" estimation, it woald revive the pure
Democracy for which Gen. Cockrel
fought foSr years. and put none but
true Democrats on duty. In the Ian
@uage Of The Central Committee. lit
advances the pemOcratic standard.
placing around it Democrats only
1t may be true that the political party
in power at the close of the war has used
its power harshly, has violated the Con-
~Stitution and outraged the rights OF the
Southern people, and tor these acts it
should be held accountable. 1t may be
true that the result of the war has been
mlsruie, corruption and tyranny. and
from the very constitution of human ma
ture ii could scarcely have been ether
wise. and those Union men who have
acted with me have not ceased to de
nOunce the oppression and TO stand bv
its victims: but the war being the cause
Of all this calamity, VI can never forget
who brought it on, Who fired the first
gun, who committed the fist breach Of
the national peace, and resisted with
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