The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-27
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY RUN
MING "EMPTENS."

There was time when the republi-
can party was young, enthusiastic. hon
est and virtuous; filed with divine
passion to lit up and benefit mankind
There was Il time when it rallied around
the knees of that grand historical char
acter. Abraham Lincoln, while he
preached the gospel of charity tor all
and malice toward none"
peal is to passion and b;gotry- The
Iowa Gazette says:
Two or three weeks ago, the Rev. John P.
Newman, the Pastor of the Metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal Church, in Washington,
preached sermon on the lnquisitiOn, Gran
mer, Queen Mary, and kindred topics This
sermon, with the late message OF the President
has been printed in pamphlet form by the
Republican Congressional Campaign Commit
tee, and five hundred thousand copies Of it
will be distributed all oyer the Union
Now what in the name of all that is
good and gracious has this age to do
with the ''Inquisition, Cranmer, and
Queen Mary?7 Why rake up the ashes
Ola remote and cruel past for embers
with which to inflame the passions of
fellow citizens and fellow christians?
What would he thought of the
man who would make the sufferinos
OF Christ on the cross a text wherewith
to rouse the populace to rage and fury
against the Jews, in the hope thereby OF
making few votes for his party? He
would he esteemed as little better than
Thomassen. the dynamite fiend, who
tried to blow up.a ship load of human
beings, for the purpose of making a few
paltry dollars. 1t is horrible. What
must Abraham Lincoln think as he looks
down from the skies, to see the party he
once led, distributing hundreds OF thous-
ands Of copies of Observation-Disclosures lit
erature about the Inquisition?
Let the dead past bury its dead. TWAS
\ cruel. bloody and merciless past. It's
ways were not our ways. nor its
thoughts our thoughts. Let US thank
God that We live in this great. broad,
generous. tolerant age; and let us trown
down all attempts to revive the evil pas
sions and hatreds of the past.
And now Morton and Blaine, each
with his eye on the White House, are
striving to outdo each other in the noble
work of tearing open the bloody but
halt-healed wounds Of the civil war; /;
and they have so far succeeded that the
people OF the two sections of our COM
mon country are now contemplating
each other across Mason and Dix. MS
line with mutual dis;rust and hatred.
And all this in the first monthef the GEN.
tennial year. The year that was to have
been consecrated TO peace and good will
and reconciliation.
At the close of the civil war two
courses were logical Y open to the ma
ton: First. to hold that the people who
fought to destroy the natioN could not
be trusted to govern it, and to refuse fbe
right Of suffrage to all those who had
participated in the rebellion. Or. Sec
ondly. to forgive them their sins: to
trust them again with the right of suf-
suffrage, and to hope that they would
gradually come to love the nation and
vote and fight for its welfare and great
ness.
The people unanimously resolved to
adopt the latter course. All the vas,
multitudes who had fought under Lee
and johnson and Beauregard were
reinvested with the ballot. 1t was
believed that fair treatment would be-
get friendship. and that generosity would
arouse patriotism. This has been the
policy adopted by the Republican party
itself;-that party has trusted theslife Of
the nation in the hands Of the very men
who fought against it; and having done
so Blaine and Morton now propose 10
Keep those same men enemies: to insnlt
their feelings and trample on their pref
udices- And tor whais To gain a f.x
oe2garly votes by re-creatin4 the pas-
sions of tenyears ago.
lhls IS not craftsmanship. It Is the
degraded trick Of desperate men. Cr,nt
opened MS presidential career with =
grand maxim. Let ns have peace;;1