Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-24

liberately betrayed his country should
be intrusted with its government. To
forgive rebels is one thing, to put
them in power is another thing. To
place this Government in the hands
of men who sought its destruction by
armed rebellion would be insanity.
These men accept the government
only as a military necessity. They do
no love it, are not proud of it, care
nothing about its credit, and its very
existance is a rebuke to them. But
this does not diminish their desire to
get control of the Government, to re-
cuperate their shattered fortunes. The
condition of the Democracy of the
North Is somewhat different though
scarcely better. Sympathizing fully
with the South, and entirely subserv-
lent, it asks nothing but office, and
leaves measures and policies 10 the
South. Upon economic questions that
pertain alike to all parts of the coun-
try, while opposing whatever is and
all that has been done it has not even
a suggestion to make, and is utterly
bankrupt in ideas. With the individ
ual members of talent and intelligence,
as an organization it has confusion
of ideas and the feeblcness of grasp
which belongs to the sensibility of age
that has outlived everything but its
passions and the memory of evil
deeds. 1t cannot point to one of its
leading measures i'll thirty years that
has not been condemned by the voice
of mankind. The other day in the
Senate | asked the question, What
good thing the Democratic party had
done, or proposed to do in the last
twenty years and said / would
yield the floor to any Democratic
Senator who would answer. The Sen.
ator from Delaware, Mr.. Salisbury,
accepted the challango, and named
the appointment of investigating COM
mittees by the present Democratic
House of Representatives. The an
swer was an awful confession, which
was painfully felt by every Democrat
present.
The Republican party has chosen
as standard bearers Messrs. Hayes
and Wheeler. They are able and
pure men, and have always been on
the right side of the great question of
the day. They have been true to their
country, 20 liberty, and to humanity,
and their lives have been illustrated
by distinguished services in the field,
in the government of States, and in
the councils of the nation.
Gov. Hayes was brave soldier
who commanded with distinction and
fell upon the field severely wounded.
His name has long been inscribed
upon that roll of heroes who offered
their lives that their country might
live. AS q pledge that his admini6>
tration will be pure end benefcent,
without blot or blunder and as q
proof of his capacity, shows that he
has judged wisely on every occasion
in field and in politics; and ho stands
in marked contrast to his compoti-
tor, who has been conspicuousiy
wrong upon every great question
which has agitated the country for a
quarter of century. If we are to
judge of the comparative merits and
fitness of these two men for the office
of President, by their past lives,
there no is room left fer doubt. The
one always right, the other always
wrong. One trained in correct prin-
ciples that he is not required TO UNI
learn. The other coming from a vo-
cation and from life long associations
that should excite the distrust and
repugnance of the country.