Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-06-08
Gripping the Government.

Gripping the Government.
II il now we'll nndorstood that tho
Democratic leaders in Congress are
under the supreme control of the
Southern Democracy and for that
reason the Forty fourth Congress is
called the ex Confederate Congress.
True TO their instincts of dislpyalty
this Confederate Congress is deter
mined TO cripple the public service.
None know better than men Mr.. S.
$. Cox and MIR. Sam Randall that the
government cannot be carried on if
the sweeping reductions made from
the estimates and in the departments
should become law. The public bust
ness of the country does not decrease,
but increase. The Republic of to-
day, as the creation of Republican
Craftsmanship, is like new nation
compared with what it was before
the war. The Democracy were re
sponsible for the rebellion and for
the enormous debt contracted in put
ting it down. Southern rebels had
been assured by the Democratic lead
ers Of the free states that lheNorth
would not fight, that the old slave
states had only TO show that they
were in earnest, and they might Sc,
ceie, in which, indeed, every B1ur-
bon Democrat would render help.
Affairs did not turn out exactly as
the South expected, nor did tho Dem
ocrats find it so easy to fulfil their
promise. On the Republican party
fell the duty of raising and coupling
the armies and navy which put down
the rebellion, aud saved the Union.
When the southern armies laid down
their arms no southern man who had
Tough: to destroy the Union expected
to come to Washington to represent
the cause which had been lost in the
field, on the floor of the House of
representatives And yet by the
grace of the Republican party,
southern man may now be as disloy-
al as he pleases in the Capitol, over
the dome of which floats the flag Of
American freedom.
The soldiers of the Republic who
battled with treason and disarmed it
are profoundly moved at the condi-
ton of The House of Representatives.
When they left their homes to put
down rebellion they meant it, and
more especially as half million of
their comrades fell with their faces
to the foe They wore. willing TO con-
slider the war az over when they saw
men fleeing from the expected conse.
quences of their crime, and others
awaiting their doom with great anx
iety. This had much to do with the
proffer of amnesty, which was so
swiftly accepted: Bit when the
southern states were received into
the Union with constitutions in ac-
cord with the pledges given, and in
accord with the amendments to the
Constitution of the Republic, they
thought that surely the differences of
the past were swept away, and that
the new class of citizens which those
amendments called into existence
would grow up side by side with the
frogiven white rebel whose citizen
ship dated subsequently,. 1t was
never imagined that the men con-
cerned in the rebellion would pros
long the cause Of the rebellion after
the war ceased. No one dreamed
that the cause would practically pro
long the war, and that in the year
1876 it should be represented on the
floor of the House by a dsloyal eie-
meat which dominates the Demo
cratic leaders there. The sympathy
of the Bourbon Democracy is, how
ever, only bearing fruit now. They
did not have the courage to avow
themselves what they were until the
ampestied ex>Confederates entered
the House, and became as the south
ern oak around which such morning
glories as Mr.. Cox, Mr.. Randall and
Holster Clymer might gracefully en-
Irvine. Before this gentle trio trailod
around the neck of Mr.. b. FL. Hill
and his colleagues, they had cast their
arms over the neck of the Republican
party and borrowed what political
responsibility they had from that
party's tolerance. Had they and
their friends not been dscretely 81
lent on what they have lately boast
ed, and thus como out in their true
colors, their constituents would have
known them better, and allowed them
to waste their sweetness on the des
ert air of home. At all events these
men and tho Confederate element 10
the House combine to support each
other; and although the ex-Confeder-
ates owe everything to tho clemency
of the Republicans, their base ingrat-
itude is being shown to the country.
The leaders of the Bourbon Democ-
racy and the Southern Democrats
from the rebel armies have combined
to cripple the public service, not in
the interests of economy, but because
they temporarily have the power TO
defy the Republican majority in the
Nation Republic Magazine.
BELKNAP and his wife are gro wing
rl5 and gray t0oathar