Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-26
Has There Been n Rebellion.

We know that there are half million
OF graves IN this country in which sleep
the soldiers OF The Republic who fell in
defense OF the Union. We know that
there is vast public debt, and that gold
rs a circulating medium has disappeared
and become an article of commerce. We
know something has occurred by the
presence Of a class of men in Congress
who for four years called themselves for.
cigners, fought under the Stars and Bars,
an unrccognizcd rag and slaughtered the
husbands and fathers of the myriad wild.
ows and orphans on the pension rolls; and
who, rs Senators or Representatives IN
the Legislature of the United States are
as much out of place and out of accord
with sound, patriotic public sentiment, as
the presence Of Tory in the Continental
Congress. These men in that place, with
the bloody record of the years of war, and
since 1868, while accounting for every
thing, Tor debt, taxation. broken homes,
financial disturbance, all directly tracea-
bic 10 the crime of the rebellion, and
which would not have been had there
been no war, seem utterly unable to az.
count for themselves, and in their effort
Ia Keep Tie lost cause prominent by
their vile political injustice in the South
and 10y habits OF disloyalty in their pres
ent situation, have not only lost the re-.
sIsci OF right thiuking men, but demon
stra,cd their unttness 10 possess power.
The Bourbon Democracy of the South
ami North ale ruilicking IN the political
slough of dcsponJ, and are Juggling ut the
skirts of Time with all their strength
70 pun him back To 1860. beyond
which they appear not 70 have ad.
Vanced, ana they Will not LEI 20 because
the years from 1860 to 1876 are a blank TO
them, and they are determined to keep on
tagging, with their faces turned toward
i,I6, designing 10 refresh their spirits
hugely In every annual resurrection a
they retiugradu 80 The commencement OF
the century For instance, stepping over
all signs Of progress, they viii finger
lovingly in the year OF the Fugitive Slave
bill. and /" gnIut, II they can, the scnti.
ments it aroused Pursuing their back
ward cateer, they viii clothe themselves
anew in the most rcpulsiyc of MIR Ca,-
houn's docuiucs, and carry away with
them such a. nave been exploded Il thou
sand times, or which, il received, viii
foster The seeds OF treason and rebellion
forever. The following sample is en-
chanting. and Was fresh from the pen ut
Mr.. Calhoun on the 25th July, 1891, and
formed pat of his address" published
by Duh Green
The greet AMI ieatiuS principle is, that the
t'rncta NpN tulAci.j chauated nom tbr peoplu
az tbc tcNttsl States, forming distugt puiti, y.
.commhulucs, Aid acting IN their separate ana
sovereign capacity alss not Rom All sac people
Ton ultE one NEEtt gaze political community. thGt
tAc Noneu.LEau at ne United states l. ia tao. &
compact 81 which such States 3, a par, m The
.charHttvT radE UgscrjbCG, Snd th1t iat several
States uT = .I4v- aHNv right to judge ut is il.
trAg Mons, anH 'g tgysSe ct deliberate 'pshit
Sud dangerous exercise ut power not dtic1Aled
thcA have lif r.-a-, go the last rCspri Ca use thy
isuSHagc ct The \l-zlu resolution, "faUtt.ftass
y#' Wft'fte| H#. p5t. SIS ~ tht fri' aea ffy
fTatsf aiEt.G, tl,-htH ttssr ttSgrc'tft ttalS or.
0Et tef.taN, r.4.fs aHt liberties tt4i-laq "a
gAsH
in this Wow The people Of the Nightiesl
Republic on rarih can have no natioualj-
~; aud the deadly nigbtShaGe OF rchcll.
ion become, simply flower of perennial
beauty. sun on tie rcaCtionary adys--ce,
signing iog the return OF tho good old
DAYS, like children crying for the moon
hul without their innocence. they vii
step nom 1881 "a 1850, anu gaze upon tht
revelations of the census for iiSt decades
commenting with 40, aud seventeen
state, with population OF S,9e1, 81, a3
vauct1E % l>1o and twenty. eight State,
with 3 papUtat.rn % ~ 1855, AGA. The in
Cr,gsr unfortunately gave pleasure only
'n one uitCctiulf There was sy.e; IN an