The Morning herald., 1876-01-17
THE CENTENNIAL APPROPRIA'
TION.

be reached to-day, but it is nevertheless the
one which Congress had expected to debate
this important bill upon. Therecognition Of
the Centennial by Congress is an event in
our National history that We look forward
to with some degree Of interest, for upon
it must hinge the success ofthe exposition
itself. With the last majority in the
House it was matter Of minor import
ance. The Pacific Mail Subsidy had .
greater interest with the gentlemen
who held the majority ,and the golden har'
vest ,eaped to those who invested il
Credit Mobilier stock, was too fresh ii
their minds, to admit of investment Of in
terest in anything that would not brint
capital to their own pockets.
This year it comes before Congress
with the appeal upon its very face 10 ac
on it at once, or it will be too late to a =
compli h any &c cd.
II is the disposition of the minority in
the House to state that the Southern men :
bers will oppose it because the Amnest.
,ill was defeated. This is not revenge
peculiar to Southern people, nor to n pal'
| ty that is born of the metal that col,stl-
lutes Democracy. 1t is native to party
that is far different in its tactics 0
War; from a people that live fur
ther North than we do, ant
rom party that has stopped much love-
than even this to accomplish it's purposes
The Democratic party may give its oppo.
,ents to understand that sin this werl
here are blows to take as well as blows t.
give" and resort to strategy, but they vii
never act the living lie by crying 70
,eace, and then tearing down the crown.
ng point of the monument to our unity
hought and harmony Of souls-Th'
Centennial.
There is too m lch of National patriot
sm in the Democratic party to warran,
he slightest asticipation of resort to sncl
low trick in political strategy, and upon
Southern representatives it isan asper
on that has no reason of truth, ,andis b,se'
ntirely upon Republican misrepresenta.
ion. 1t was with the majority Of the
republican party in the House
nat the Centennial appropria-
ION was never recognized "a virtual
Omission that they did not endorse, n
natter what its purposes were, such ar
vent in our National history Th'
resent majority then is the one to tax
lis commendable measure from beneat
re feet of those who have connived IA
Ill manner of fraud, and give that recoe
tiou to it which as contribution Of tn,
country to its own great achievements j
Justly deserves.
When these things are known where art
se to expect the defeat to come
rom. Certainly not from those who
ave just attained the majority. No
rom those who have buried the past an
ought reconciliation in the ry heart o
heNorthern country. Not with those VIII
have come with the olive branch and have
brown the last shovelsf dirt upon the grav
that it was hoped had shut out the insight.
" corpse Of dissention and sectional strii'
rom sight forever. 1t is not with these tha
we are to look Ior such unpatriotie acts Of
revenge. Itisnot with these that the impious
thought Of fealty to. party and the aveng-
ing of personal grievances over disappoint.
ments overrides duty as American citizens.
prostitutes patriotism, and makes the man
the most abject slaves Of his party.
The finger of truth points in another d.
rection. 1t is to those who have .corped
this same matter, who had not sufficient,
patriotism to make it a law, and with whom
it almost depended at that time to say
whether we should have a Centennial exhi-
bition or not. Can it be the torturings of
self afflicted conscience? 1t was they
who placsdthe lie upon the mean.
ing of the Centennial BY
dragging again before the country, the
bleachsd bones Of the Contsderacy, who re-
opened the grave of the past and showed
the unsightly corpse to the ghoules Of that
party, who with Morton as the caterer,
feast upon sach unnatural sights.
These are the people who have 80 sud
denly taken an interest in The Centennia' ;
first, after discountenancing it, and then
after throwing the cloak cffalsehood over it
by the recent actions of Mr.. Blaine and
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