The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-02-04
Blaine, the Resurrectionist.
From the New York sun. ]

thing Infamous IN itself, and the record
OF il will stand as the browning shame
Of the party which brought il on. IL
was its last and fullest confession Of
criminal failure, in the use of the larg-
est measure of power ever given 10 a
political party in this country. After
more than ten years Of absolute sway,
in a time of profound peace, this party
selects its most conspicuous member in
Congress TO tell us i'm his most dramatic
style, that tho bloody chasm still yawns
AT our feet, not only unbridged but I'M
bridgeable.
Partly because of this very failure,
the people voted that party down in
1874; the present House was chosen
with view To something better, and
Mr.. Speaker Blaine was required to de-
scend from the chair TO a place in the
ranks OF a small minority. But they are
Bourbons all. They knew nothing and
they learn nothing. In triumph and
disaster, in power and out, they are the
same. We have heard much about
dead issues but these issues which Mr..
Blaine has disinterred, are not only
dead, but utterly and horribly offensive.
OF the shock and disgust which their
reproduction above ground at this time
of day will certainly produce, the resur-
rectionist himself must take the respon-
sibility. No doubt he thinks he has
use for them. He intends to bind to
them the carcass of the Republican
party, as to a body of death, so that,
when the people again determine 10
bury dead issues, they will find il neces-
sary to bury the Republican party also,
if they desire TO keep the issues down.
This may not be precisely what Mr..
Blaine expects, but it is precisely what
he will accomplish; and if he had en-
ployed all the remarkable talents he is
supposed to possess in devising meth
cd Of running the Republican party, he
could not have more perfectly adapted
the means to the end.
But it should be remembered that in
precipitating this needless and acri-
monious debate, Mr.. Blaine was not
serving the Republican party He
was merely serving Blaine. lie was
seeking nomination, not looking to
the success of party. lie thought il
was time for him TO out-Morton
Morton and out-Grant Grant. They
had made much of imaginary Ku-Klux
and White Leaguers, and "A host OF
phantoms, which it suited their con-
venience to conjure up before elections.
There was absolutely nothing left for
poor Mr.. Blaine to operate upon but
| Andersonville and although the keep
ers and the prisoners and the Witnesses,
and indeed the entire issue, are dead
and gone, he laid hold of ii with the in
finite zeal of a struggling candidate,
who is determined to do a large bust
ness on a small capital. Accordingly,
so far as lies in the power of Blaine,
the Republican party is marshalled. lit
orally speaking, behind the skeletons Of
the dead past, as if To 90 into the Presi-
dental canvass on the deadest Of all
dead issues That such procession as
this tends naturally TO the sepulcher,
| there is no manner of doubt; and we
entertain a lively faith that the disgust
ed people Of the United States will this
year provide a grave large and deep
enough to contain the whole Of them
| together.
Mr.. Blaine's device is not of the kind
/ TO win. 1t is shallow, mean and base
and in comparison with it, the bloody
shirt, the outrage mill, and Poker Jack 5
scalawag and carpet-bag convention.
rise into responsibility. The people
will have none of it, They propose to
90 about the business of the day-to re-
store order and peace in the country, TO
revive their commerce and industries,
To reform their currency, and wrest
their Government from the hands of the
unworthy and the corrupt. They only
laughed at Poker Jack. They refused
to howl with Morton; they declined TO
curse with Williams; and they will not
burrow with Blaine. If his recent po-
litical crime-and the opening Of that
terrible and bloody book is nothing less
than crime-shall have any effect be-
You'd damaging Blaine, it will be to
bring the canvass Of 1876 back to the
issues of lS1i-to the radical measures
of reconstruction, 10 Grants corrupt
dealings with the South, TO carpet-bag-
gerry bayonet elections, lawless seizures
of States-issues upon which the popu-
lar Judgment was clearly pronounced
when Democratic House was chosen
to supersede Mr. Blaine's late majority.
But Mr.. Blaine, being fairly in the
bone business, was not content with the
ghastly spoils of the Andersonville
ditches. 1t will be observed that every
one Of the "historic cruelties' cited by
him were crueltes inflicted by Roman
Catholics. He eagerly explored the
vaults of the Inquisition, fondly traced
the ravages of Alva, and hung gloating-
ly over the massacre of st. Bartholo-
NEW. That must have been moment
of supreme triumph TO the learned poll
tician. He had not only placed his
skeleton far in advance of Mr.. Morton S
bloody start, but he was just then about
two lengths ahead of Grant in his Anti
Catholic development. These chronicles
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