The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-17
The Call for the Republican convention.

me CaiI Tor the Republican Convention.
The chairman of the Republican National
Committee, e. d. Morgan, has issued the
call for the Republican convention, the
text of which has already been published in
the Sentinel. 1t will be seen that the time
fixed is the fourteenth of June, next, and the
place Cincinnati. There Is nothing re-
marksble in this, though we deem the time
favorable to the Democracy, and the place
chosen will not add any strength to the Re-
publican cause. But the document itself is
remarkable as a call for National Conven-
ton, coming from the Republican
National Committee. They seem to be
inviting the Democratic party to
attend rather than their own party. 1t is
a piece of sublime impudence. What right
have the Republican National Committee to
invite to this convention those who are OPP
posed to reviviug sectional issues and desire
to promote friendly and permanent harmony
throughout the country? What sort of a
pledge can they give 10 The American voter
that they purpose or desire to cultivate any
such feeling. The record of the past gives a
positive and direct CONSTRUCTION 10 such a
promise. The Republican party is party
of strife. 1t has never sought peace or pur-
sued it. 1t has been a sectional party. l.
hates the Southern states. It hates the
Southern people. 1t hates Northern Demo-
Gratis who desire to see frsternal feelings re-
stored. The late proceeding in congress
gives an example of how they seek peace
The leaders of the Republican party lose no
opportunity of depressing and humilisting
the South. They have passed infamous
reconstruction measures. They have
sent their dishonest men to rule over
them. By intimidation and election
frauds they have set up govern
ments, and sustained them by the
bayonets of the government against the will
of the people. They have prorogued legis-
lature. They have caught by the throat the
people while their miserable minions have
ravished their treasures, and heaped up
public debts mountain high. They have
thrust out of congress the duly elected
members from Southern states, aud sd-
mitted others whose only claim TO the po-
sition consisted in their success in stirring
up strife and bad blood in the South. They
have continued TO indulge in bitter tsunts
and sneers whenever opportunity offered,
hoping by provoking words to give them
further excuse to yet more bitterly Cypress
the down trodden people. But they have
not rested here. They have con-
timed to stir up the war feeling in
the breasts of Northern soldiers,
revive the bitter feelings that would
long since have died but for the dastsrdly
malignaDcy of such men as Morton and
Blaine, Garfield and Logan. Here, In our
own city, the chief party organ of the state
has teemed with the scorn and filth OF
partisan hate. They circulate broadcast
over the land that thirty thousand
murders have been committed in
the South during the past few years,
without telling the people that three
fourths of all the murders there committed
have resulted from the continued oppres-
sion and provoking misrule OF the Republi-
can party that has continued to urge on
partisan strife and political bitterness. 1t
comes in bad grace from a party stained
with such record to ask peace-loving pee
pie to meet with them in convention. It is
the height of impudence for such
party 10 Idlh VI culOICiuR
constitutional rights, who have tram
pied upon the sovereign rights
of the states; who have ignored the rights OF
individuals. 1t is wretched hypocrisy for
such party to talk of election frauds.
Again, with the whole country standing
aghast at the alarming evidences of corrup-
ton in every department, with the civil
mt
greedy avarice of the periurer and defraudel
of the government, with officers in high
station indicted for criminal offense, with
prisoners all over the land yielding UP
their government commissions to dor
the robes of felons, pets anC
tavorites of the party, it comes
in very bad grace, we say, for such {
party, now standing on trial before TIT
country, to ask men to meet with them and
resolve in favor of promoting honesty anC
Furnishing criminals. And it is IL
Just as bad taste to ask peopl,
in favor of an economical government
10 associate with them to give a new lease
| to their party. When have they given any
pledge of economy? Was it in passing sub
sidy bills? Was 1t in creating high salaries
Is it in the thousands of millions of dollar
that they have collected and expended, ant
in initiating financial ruin? No. The.
ought to invite the reckless, the extrava
CANT, those who believe the revenues OF tn
government are legitimate prey, spoils o
party that all their officials may grab a
with impunity.
What does this party that seeks a continu
stion of power know about the principles o
seventy-six? When have they mani
tested a loYe for the constitution
This whole document is the yer.
height of impertinence. 1t is gross il
suit to the intelligence of the people. The.
had a right to call the party together. The.
had right to come together and approAe tn
administration of Grant, to reaffirm tn