The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-09-21

I hepuDllCansi Hau pfeSetNeu tnC
Union is about as impudent piece
of lying assumption as can be found
in the records of political history
The officers and privates of the ma
tional armies belonged toour various
political organizations without dis.
Etinction; and as the Democratic par
ty has for long years been the most
numerous and influential political
body in the United States, it must
readily be conceded, that the soldiers
Of the Republic were. mainly Demo-
cratic, The faatisipli ~
b ti,c geaeials aud suboGlin-
1ats officers; aud il vii DC found.
equally true in regerdto the priyates
who served under them. What then
becomes of the unblushing eflronte-
ry of the Republican leaders who
dare to assume that they and theirs
saved the Unlon2
Reconstruction to-day is a fat oc-
eompli, Notwithstanding the insidi.
Gus opposition Of the party now in
power. "Flaunt aloft the bloody
shirt, keep open the bleeding woundsl
widen the yawning chasm, cmbittcr
public feeling in the South; clog the
wheels of government and justice!
trail the tasces in the dust and let the
cleaning bayonet flash over that
symbol of authority; dothis, aye more;
do anything, so that we may retain
the helm of State, or 'Othello's occu-
patton is gone,'n This has been
the policy of Grants administration
from the inception of his Presi-
Dental career and the same policy
will continue to rule our national af-
fairs ifthe line of succession be trans
mitted from the Jack Shepherd of to-
day to the Jonathan Wild of tomor-
row. 1t is the same old school, and
instilling the same old lesson of d.
ride pro imperare, which met lately at
Cincinnati; but these arch-trickstcrs
are blinded by success, and little
know the firm, set determination of
the sovereign American people.
Reconstruction exists to-day in
spite of them. The various State
Governments are quietly conducting
their local affairs as they 4idttwcuty
years rgo, *heroysr F5deml Saydn-
cts do not ovdra4ye the votcrs; the
representation of that section in.
I Congress is complete, active andloy-
ldt and an absolute fratcrnization of
az our citizens exist, thank God!
I tfAougbout the Union, unless rcnd-
erA impossible by Grant and his
m lmidonsi 1t is therefore clear as
th&sunat noon-day, that the Repub-
lic b. party has no pretext whatever
for Continued existence on account
OF any undecided issues of the war.
Nevertheless it refuses to -dis6and,
although according to the Hon. VIM
IN, Eyarts, "its term of enlistment
has expired, md, with consumate
efrontery, actually seeks permission
from the citizens it has outraged to
retain its hold of the reins ofgoyern.
ment during the next four years
Such terrible cventuality would go
&r towards absolutely destroying the
liberties Of this Union and its re-
putc too with foreign nations; and it
| is time, therefore, that honest Re-
Ipublicans take notice Of the position
to which We are reduced examining
carefully the records of the candi.
dates submitted to them for Office.
Grant, with his cohorts of Bah
cocks, Belknaps, Shepherds, Colfax-
cs, Chambers, Robesons, Ct ii genus
omuc, could never enlist the sympa-
thics of honest patriots at the pres
ent crisis in our national affairs, but
the very same influences which cleo
ted him at the outset, and has kept
| him in power ever since, now asks
the public to support such noncnti-
ties as the Cincinnati nominees
Those nags were all bred in the same
stable, and, though the team may be
changed, the same willy old frauds
handle the reins on the box,
There is but one grand, all.import-
ant issue in the present contest, and
that is, the rc.cstablishment Of All
honest, capable, and patriotic gov
ornmcnt at Washington. Ropubli-
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