The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-26

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feer, however, must have been q dar-
lngzand heroic one, and borne eplen-
did It unreeognized fruit .Itis but
another illustration of the thought OF
the poet in apestrophizing the un-
known great, and to which / allude in
the first part of this sketch: a sd
Their nameiess deaths are not Fate's scorn-
full noeks ID ss{t ~ ~se.4s-F
At human fame; her dubious forecast al
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That through the realms of time and space
Titantic loom.
Appleton's Journal.
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The Republican EA1xs en- the Car-
reney ana Other Qaesfions.
The action of Congress at its ses.
sioneof 1874 cannot be consi1aned-
ae o if7al refusal by the 6apullican.
party to increase the curre6cY. If is
true shat there were developed by the
discussion of the currency question
wide differences of opinion among in
dividual Republican Congressman.
But it should not be forgotten that
the most pronounced Republicans in
Congress were the most pronounced
advocates of an increase Of the cur
rency. 1t should not be forgotten
that Senators Logan and Ferry and
Morton fought with desperate energy
and with commanding ability for
measure increasing the currency, and
it should not be forgotten tha: the
Republican party in Congress carried
through measure providing for an
increase Of the currency. We regard
ed it as misfortune to the Repub:i-
can party and to the country that the
President thought it his duty to veto
the measure. But we did not ques
tion his party fealty on that account,
for we were mindful that the question
was sprung upon the. country by an
emergency occurring subsequently to
the latest declaration of principles by
the Republican party, namely: that
OF the National Convention IF 1872.
The panic of 1873 shook the country
from center to circumference. Be-
cause no existing party was, at the
moment, equal to the emergency, it
does not follow that the Republican
party will remain unequal and indis-
posed to the task of restoring the
finances of the country to healthy
condition. It will be time enough to
condemn the Republican party when
it shall have, through tho authority
of its quadrennial national conven-
ton, deliberately taken the wrong
course.
AS matter of fact, the Republican
party has abandoned no principle
contended for in the platform of the
greenback party, and it is for the Re-
publican masses to see that its plat
form of 1876 shall provide for step
in advance on the subject of finance
and the currency.
There are, however, other questions
than those of finance to- 0be-considered
in the government of the country. It
is only fifteen years since the question
was raised, Are We q nation? 2" 1t
did not take long to answer in the
affirmative, but it required four years
to enforce the answer. The people
were ready to sacriice every dollar of
the capital of the country to maintain
their views. The war demonstrated
that there is something of more inn
portance to the American mind than
dollars and cents. The war is over,
but the principle Tor which it was
prosecuted on the Union side is very
far from being conceded by the ex-
rebels and the Democratic party. The
dogma of State rights is again assert
ed by the prominent spokesmen of
the Democratic party; the ex-rebels
do not concede the justice of the doc
trine of equal rights as applicable to
live millions of negroes, and the
question must continue to overtop all
others until it is settled in the interest
of national unity and absolute indi-
vidual civil and political equality. A
prominent Southern Republican
writes to Washington as follows:
The purposes of the Democratic
party South are not understood at the
North. The old secession leaders
control the party They infuse into
the young men their spirit of hostility
to the North, and to the Federal
Government, by appeals to their
Southern sentiments, and by glorifi..
cation OF the lost cause.
The object of the leaders is, and
they work for it with jesuitical fidel-
ity, to render the Southern mind
chronically hostile to the government.
To this they bend all else, and skill
fully use the numerous appliances. of
which our. disturbed condition is so
fruitful, to attain this end. That end,
it seems to me, is Southern Confed-
eracy. Their plan of accomplishing
this is. first to secure Democratic
control of all the Southern State gov
ernments. When they have once
done this, it is done for all time. The
negro will then be heard of no more
as an element of political power. The
white men who have taken decided
and prominent position in favor of
the government will be forced to leave
the South, and we shall then have
| nearly 1000, 600 square miles of con-
| tiguous territory with hostile popu-
lation, growing in hate as it increases
in strength, waiting and watching for
| favorable opportunity to throw off
what they regard as the yoke OF OPP
preston.
Notwithstanding the existence of a
| vast array of facts and circumstances
con6rmatory Of the justice Of these
| views of citizen of the South, the
North appears to be blind to the dan
ger which menaces the peace of the
country.
The financial situation is serious
enough, but it is only speck of cloud
on the horizon as compared with the
danger to be apprekended from Demo
cratic national ascendancy The
Democratic party is the real enemy of
peace and good government, because
it holds in its bosom the old rebel
element of the South, which only
awaits its advent to power to renew
its contest against equal rights and
the unity Of the government. The
party which takes NO account of this,
the great question Of the time, will