Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-22
A RESTORED UNION, OR A DISTRACT
ED COUNTRY. WHICH?

Register.
The Register clips the first extract
from an editorial in last weeks Intel
ligencer, thereby separating it from
it's context, and then goes on to prove
it illogical. That is an easy going
way of maintaining a position. Is it
illogical to say tina the federal adj
ministration was to blame for the
su fferings of its prisoners in confed-
crate hands, when it was offered
every facility for removing them to
places of comfort and safety, and re-
fused to do so? 1t was first offered q
fair, even exchange, this was reject
ed ; it was then offered its sick and
wounded men without any equiva-
lent, and for months no notice was
taken of this proposition, aud it was
during these months that the prison.
ers suffered the most. We do not
care to go over this argument, as it is
fully covered in Mr.. Hills speech on
the first page of this paper. The
Register says we are ga swift wit
ness" it will always find US so when
our friends II unjustly accus-
ed ana we KNOW it. We do not
see exactly what the old coun-
ty court has got to do with Blaine's
assault upon Mr.. Davis. as certainly
the partial statement of our position
on that question cannot be sny ex-
cuse for an argument against u po-
sitlon on another based on a discon-
nected extract from all editorial. We
have nc desire either to open up old
sores of the war, nor old sores in COLI
nection with the robbery of Lafay-
cite county. But if the Register de-
mands tn 1t it shall be done, we are
entirely at is service. Onething that
we will premise before the argument
begins is, that the Register was al
ways on the side Of the plunderers,
and that the Intelligencer came into
existence for the purpose of exposing
aud banishing them from place, and
continued its warfare until they we're
driven out, and we will make it
good. We have looked in vain
through the columns of that paper
for any centennial items. This, at least,
was in good taste. A great many
people in this country have been
looking forward to a fraternsl re-
uuion between the north and south on
the one hundredth birth day of our
independence, but whilst these words
of hatred and SANDER are i'll the air
there is no room for gentler feelings.
We hope, however, that this little
breeze, stirred up by "his majesty
from Maine," will quiet down and
tizzle out like his school and church
dodge. We are satisfied that the peo-
pie of the north have had quite
enough of the bloody shirt business,
and that it will no longer blind their
eyes to questions of the future. AS
we have said elsewhere, we hope to
see every pestilent agitator of the
bitter questions of the war swept off
the political arena, and as we know
that democrats will do all in their
power to avert bitter replies, even
when goadcd by cutting words, SO
we expect that the people of the
north will frown down all attempts
to revive dead issues. Since the de-
bate OIL the amnesty bill, Mr.. Blaine
came very near being nominated
for president by the republican asso-
of Pennsylvania, but he
missed it, and so he will continue to
miss it. The thinking men of the
north will look over the heads of the
ravening politicians who claim that
the radical party has been one of for
bearance, progress and patriotism,
and will see for their f~orbearance a
south, loaded down with
debt and oppression, only made pos
sible by the proscriptive measures of
this party for progress they will see
the erection of a gigantic imposition
i'll the national banks, all i'll favor Of
the rich capitalists of the east and
against the producing classes ; they
will see great steamship companies fat
upon subsidies which come out
of the peoples pockets ; they will see
extravaganza and corruption in high
places they will see Al immense mo-
nopoly in the Union Pacific Railroad,
which was born in a credit mobilier
infamy, and which threatens, unless
throttied, to become more pow
erful than the government; they will
see rings swindling the government
of its revenues, aud thereby adding
to the burdens of taxaiiOn which the
people must bear ; they will see GUS
tom houses without revenue. main-
tanned to afford s%imecures to pete of
the administration they will see all
army of panoplied and extravagant
officers to a squad of soldiers ; they
will see swindles i'll the navy depart
ment aud rottenEess everywhere. In
the light of all these things. for patri-
otisln they will read pay-triotism aud
plumber, and they will have no more
of it. The Blaines and their feeble
imitators, who recount the massacre
of Fort Pillow to crowds Of gaping
negroes, will be put to Que side as SO
much rubbish, and the men who
point to honorable and patriotic
measures for the future will be the
leaders of the day. We append
some other views than our own
to support this opinion. The Chicago
Times, in alluding to Mr.. Blaine's
question: what honor can be high
err than full panoplied citizenship q!
the United States? 2" remarks that
"Mr. Blaine has pretty clearly indi-
Gated his OWL opinion on that point
by spending his whole life in the
pursuit of what he must consider
higher honors, else he would not
pursue them. Aud, in the hope of
securing what he unquestionably re-
CARDS as the supreme height of earth
ly honor, he has been, for the past
week, doing some OF the dirtiest and
most Internally malignant work ever