The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20

was raised, until that effort at reform
and reconciliation was bounded to its
death, and an overwhelming majority
of Bourbons of the most virulent type
returned to the Legislature.
No representative of the industrial
classes was on their state ticket, and
the idea that working man could fill
an important state Office was derided by
the strikers of the party. Thus ended
that campaign as every important cleo
ton had since these bush whackers first
cyawled out of the brush to insult those
by whose grace and favor they had
been again permitted to return to the
ballot box.
Not satisfied with thus stamping out
all suggestions, or efforts at progress,
the first important act of their season
last winter vas to follow up the policy
of insult aud revenge, by choosing as
successor to the able aud intellectual
Schurz in the United States Senate, an
ex.Confederate Brigadier General, that
being his sole qualification or claim for
the place for ability he has none but of
the most ordinaey character 1t was
in vain that the Claims of his chief
competitor Hon. john s. Phelps, who
had served his state aud country as
Representative in Congress faithfully
and ably through nine successive terms
were urged as superior to those of Cock
erell, who had never held IA civil office :;
the tact that the former would have
been acceptable to the Union element of
the state ami had been faithful to his
country aud his government during II
long aud honorable public career, weigh.
ed nothing in the scale against the lat
ter who hat sought to destroy his coun
and had been false to the highest obi.
cations of the citizen This ex. Briga.
der Senator signalised his acceptance
of the high position in speech of full
some eulogy of his ex.Confederate
friends, and full of bitter denunciation of
national measures that had been largely
instrumental in over-throwing his pet
Confederacy, demanding among other
things that the National Banks must
be wiped out and even boasted of his
own efforts to overthrow the Union, all
of which was Justify cheered by his re
conciled(O electors. The most signal
opportunity to insult the friends of the
Union since reenfranchised, had arrived,
and they improved it to the letter with
undisgused satisfaction and with most
malignant qualification.
Still later, when in January last dele.
gates were about to be chosen to the
constitutional Convention, nearly every
Liberal aud Republican paper in the
state suggested that as body intend
ing to frame an organic law for the peo-
pie should be non.partisam, q represen-
tative Of each party should be selected
IL the respective senatorial districts, as
delegates to the Convention. This IA.
tional and honorable proposal was like
wise treated with utter contempt, both
as proposal Of common sense or as a
measure of reconciliation, and an almost
unbroken delegation of virulent parts.
ans were selected to frame what should
be non partisan organic law. No clearer
evidence of the spirit animating them
could have been afforded than their
choice for President of the body. Wal.
do 2. Johnson who was expelled as a
traitor from the United States Senate
in 1862 aud who throughout has been
an undisguised enemy of the Union and
of reconciliation, having steadily refused
to ask or TO accept the conditions of
pardon as prescribed in the legislation
Of Congress, and remains to-day virtually
au outlaw, and at the head of the
Democratic party Of the state And
the official state Organ of the party
declares that it makes no difference what
the presiding officer OF the Convention
was and that it Is no body's business
whether he is voter, or citizen of the
United States or not. As in the case of
Cockerell for Senator, Johnson's com.
petitor for the position of President of
the Convention, Col. Switzler, although
a sound Democrat, otherwise, Gf there
be such a thing as soundness inside of
the parity had been Union man, to
which he had added the additional crime
of having signed the Ordinance abolish.
ing slavery in the state, and on account
of these sins he stood as much chance
of recognition in body controlled by
Bourbons as clean shirt would in the /
presence of Henry Clay Dean.
A still more recent manifestation of
the desire of Missouri Democracy for
reconciliation is found in the clamor of
a number of their newspapers, to have
jeff Davis appointed President of the /
State University, where at the expense
of the public, he might have ample op.
portunity of instiling into the minds of
youth, those salutary(?) State Rights
doctrines Of which he is so distinguished
an apostle.
POWER NOT RECONCILIATION
is the actual, objective point of the
squirming and rockies faction called
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