The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-11
If Must be Met.

Ii Must be Met
We said. wears ago. that If ever the Democrat
ia marty came into power again, they would de-
s.rov al the resnlts of the Union triumph IN the
80 ar -.,,aII;on-such as re-establishing Sla-
vsrv ,.y;ng IN. rebel war debt, paying the reb-
Al. a. Ic..es of slaves and other property during
the war, would punish Union omeers ana men
for acts duriug the war, and take away the PEN
sons of Union soldiers and turn crippled soldiers
ont of the National Soldiers' Homes, or grant
peusious to rebel soldiers and place them in the
Homes on the same footing as Union soldiers.
We we're met with the reply that it was crazy
nonsense, and that we were conjuring mp bug
gaboo that would never appear.
Well, the Democracy have got control OF jest
one branch of Congress, with the Executive and
the Senate against them, and are but fairly en-
tered upon the first session-and even with this
slim footing, they have gone far toward accom-
plshing all of the foregoing measures. They
have scarcely done an act that was not direct
ed to the object of overturning results Of the
war, and Furnishing men who were prominent in
putting down the rebellion.
To all intents and purposes, the Southern ne
groes had better be in slavery than in their pres
ent condition. One of the Southern leaders
(Hil) declared that the Republican party were
the rebels and that the Southern rebels preserv-
the Constitution. Another, (Tucker,) has declar-
ed that State Rights are supreme, and that
Southern Justice of the Peace has the right to
search and rob the United States mails. South
ern member offered bill repeating the provision
of the pension law which prohibits persons who
fought against the Government from receiving
pensions. Claims for rebel losses have already
begun to pour in. A committee, composed al
most wholly of rebel officers and their sympathiz-
ers, have been investigating the conduct of
Union officers during the war, to convict them
of violations of the law while fighting to put
down the treason of the investigators.
But the latest and most Infamous proceeding
has been the attack of the investigating cemmt-
tee upon Senator Morton, of Indiana, and their
charge or insinuation that he did not correctly
account for all of the $3.50 900 which the Govern
ment loaned him to carry on the war. Indiana
was always foremost in filing regiments and
sending them to the field. Gov. Morton's agents
were always on the ground, looking to the well
fare of Indiana troops; and the roar of a battle
had scarcely begun, before Morton's surgeons
and hospital forces were on the field, attending
SO many loyal men to the war, that the Demo-
Gratis carried the State in 1862 The Legislature
refused to appropriate dollar either to carry on
the war or the State Government, and even
commenced proceedings to harass and annoy
Morton for acts already done to carry the
war. In this emergency, bound and crippled
by the Legislature, he obtained money from the
banks upon his own personal responsibility, and
r w
which enabled him to go ahead the same as be-
fore, until the Republicans carried the State at
the next election. 1t is this $3.50, 900 that the
Democrats are now investigating, and on which
question he sent them bowling TO their holes,
the other day.
This is the work the Democratic Congress is
engaged in, on the pretence of investigating the
unlawful and corrupt acts of the Republican par
ty. To resist this rebel bushwhacking the bur
den has fallen upon Blaine in the House, and
Morton in the Senate. In fact, Blaine was the
first man who had the back bone 10 stand mp be-
fore the rebel horde, bid them defiance and put
the whole pack to rout. He it was who aroused
the country, and set the patriotic fires ablaze
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
Morton has majority to back him in the Senate,
but Blaine had to confront an overwhelming ma
jOrity against him, and right gallantly he did it.
If the Democratic party, with an accidental
majority in one branch of Congress, has the au-
dscity to throw off all disguise, and appear in its
real character, what will be the result if they
succeed, as they hope to, in electing their Pres-
dent, and in securing q majority in the Senate,
within the next two yearsi 1t is time, not only
for all soldiers who fought for the Union, but all
who sympathiEed with it, to rally once more in a
common cause, and prevent the calamity that
threatens the country. Questions of finance and
tariff can be considered at leisure; but the all,
important object is the election of Republican
President-one who has been tried, and whose
loyalty to Republican principles is above suspi-
cion and doubt, with Republican Congress to
back him. The future welfare of the country
depends as much upon this ISSUE in 1876, as it
did upon the Continental Congress of 1776, a GEN.
tury ago.