The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-02-11
Injustice to the South.

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arguments, was run on the basis OF sec
tionalism, and the dividing line of thu
war of the rebellion. 1t was a success K
the republican party, but it did incalcula
bic harm to the country, by repelling the
feeling of nationality and brotherhood
which had begun to assert itself, and tc
heal the wounds of the late conflict Liz
is an enemy to any country who labors t.
stir up the slumbering strifes of its PEG
pie and to tan the dying embers of war.
And yet, if we can judge by the tone
of the administration papers. these are t(
be the battle cries with which they intent
to fight the Presidential contest OF 1876
II southern representative rcpels asper
sion upon his section, OF grows warm II
defending the integrity OF his constituents
as northern man may do unquestioneC
the act is straightway denounced as al
outcropping of the old spirit of slavery
the threatening of a new rebellion against
the government of the Union.
The appearance in the House of Repre-
sentatives and Senate at Washington Of
men who were confederates in the war,
and who, casting aside alike military trap
pings and hostility to the Union, cannot
be cited as evidence of a growing dis
loyalty. On the other hand it is the most
cheering sign of the times to the patriot.
These are not the men who assisted in
fomentng dscord and war. aiding the
purposes of the radicals of the north. The
southern fre-ea is no more. The race
has died out,-not in battle, but by re-
tircment and lapse Of time. The men who
broke up the Charleston convention in
1860 are not the men who are coming to
seats in our national councils. These are
the business and professional men whose
valor and sense of obligation to their sec
ton carried them into the army-compan-
ions, it may be, of that Gen. longstreet
who has become so distinguished as a re-
publican leader and official in the south
They fought valiantly and as long as they
could, They were conquered. AckLowl-
edging their mistake, and renewing their
allegiance to the constitution, they pro
pose to stand by the country against all
enemies.
There is no utterance of these men that
need excite the slightest alarm, The
young member from kentucky may have
been a trihe hasty and inconsiderate on
the floor of the House last week; but it
must be borne in mind that he repealed an
insult upon his people, coming from the
cess pool of Ben. Buffers dirty magma
ton, and on such an occasion much is to
be pardoned But consider the remarks
OF such men as Gordon of Georgia, With
ers and Kemper of Virginia, Ransom OF
North Carolina. Take the newly elected
who acquired his title in the Confederate
service, and what well-wisher to the coun-
try desires better expression of devotion
than he records? We quote from a recent
speech
| When the roar of the last hostile gun died
away, with more than the iIeroism of the Ro-
man CurtiuS we filled that chaSm with all our
| hopes for the establishment of a separate ma
| tiOnality, and bowed in recognition OF our allie
| glance to the federal Union and our love to our
| common country. We besprinkled it with tears,
and Immediately there sprang up, as if by the
| hand Of magic, beautiful and perennial flowers
of the richest and sweetest fragrance, which
| ,itaIl nya nd unI nIS GOOD
| will northward and southwark and eastward
| and westward, and we planted ourselves in the
midst, with the olive branch of peace extended
| to those who had differed with us during the
| war, and we proclaimed peace, friendship and
love, and that voice has reverberated through
ont the length and breadth Of our entire land.
And we occupy that position to-day.
1t would be most i'll advised policy, the
worst OF injustice both to them and the
country, which would repel the public ser
vices of such men as these. After war
Of four long years to reduce these people
to submission, are we to deny the fact when
they do submit? If the late war was not
to obtain this very result, in heavens name
what was it for?
If the radicals have no better stock in
trade for the contest of 1876, they had bet
ter not 90 into it, The elections of 1874
shew the temper of the people, And the
party which seeks to recover its vanishing
power by such expedients, will be ground
to powder, as it will deserve to be-
Another inventor has died poor. Mr.
Langlon, the inventor of the Florence
sewing machine, and several instruments
and machines OF great value He died il
Florida, of consumption, on Tuesday. lie
received a very small sum of money fol
his sewing machine invention, but LIVED
in Florence, Mass, beneath the shadow
Of immense factories, which were turning
out two thousand machines per month
and among men who grew rich on tn
cunning of his brain. He followed tn
rule. The rich inventor is the exception
Gen. Samuel f. Hersey, member G
Congress from the Fifth District, died il
Bangor on Wednesday evening, after
: long and painful illness. He was gen
tleman of large wealth. great bushes
capacity and enterprise. III health ha
kept him from any participation in tn
business of Congress for more than yea
i. I I r Al.