The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-09-09
LET US HAVE PEAoEp

ness interest; from every mart Of com
merce, from every channel of industry,
from every home Of plenty and from every
centre cf want. 1t pervades the prayer
ofevery sincere devotion, breathes its gospe
in every faithful teaching, and has its altar
wherever religion has restingplace. 1t i
the demand of every mained and Scared
warrior who loves the country for which he
offered his life, and the brave men Of the
blue and the gray who made our battle.
fields immortal by the heroism of the
American people, would efface forever the
arrangements Of war, and welcome peace
and brotherhood as the crowning victory
of the noblest government of the earth
There must be peace for the sake of peace
The prostrated business Of lie country
must hare peace f! The railing of the
demagogue will fall like tunelcss songs
upon the wide spread distress and bank
ruptcy and want which prevail throughout
every productive industry and every chan,
mel of trade. Hate will revive no thrift
inhamed resentments will not break tho
silence Of the mills the bitter memories
of war will not bring comfort to breadless
homes the recital of the madness of the
treason of generation now half perished
from amongst US, will call no idle sinew:
to requitted labor; the horrors Of Ander-
sonville and Of Libby, 50 fearfully avenged
in the foodtide of the passions of war, will
whisper no words of hope to trembling
credit, and the rc-echoes of the violence
Of subjugated insurgents, uttered in the
keen anguish Of despair, will not for a
moment stay the destruction that is sweep
ing over the paralized energies of tie
people. A convulsive campaign of studied
appeals to sectional hate, cruelty mocks
every suffering business man and every
idle laborer in the land. It is the foe Of
capital and of industry. 1t consigns hall
the continent to misrule, robbery and
dcsolation. 1t impoverishes the South,
where there should be prosperity and gen,
erous tribute to our debt and expenditures
and throws the whole burden of the gov.
ernmcnt upon the North, now struggling
almost hopeessly against universal pros.
tration and embarrassment. 1t is wal
without a single manly attribute of war
1t is wanton war against the earnest
efforts Of two mighty sections for peace,
1t is crime against free government a
death-blow to every effort for restored
prosperity, aud if it shall triumph, the
North and the South, once enemies, but now
reunited by indissoluble ties, viii be doom.
ed to common misfortune. There will be
pitilcss poverty in all that gaddcns and
ennobles people and terrible plenty Of
all that divides and degrades them. There
must be peace as the harbinger of prosper.
ity.
There must be peace for reform! Cor.
ruption holds high carnival in the foun.
tains Of power, national, State and muni-
cipal. 1t has permested everywhere
Like the unseen miasma that inseusibly
saps the life of its victims, it has coursed
its way into every temple of authority;
into our social system; into our business
channels, and even the altar is almost daily
taught its pollution. 1t stains the Grant
administration from the highest to the
'o"e'' " ,'S uepouu'u'S' anu i's onioi 'ci'
fering people would demand for them.
We have reached the deep descent of what
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ness 70 law w anu successful resistance 70
Jus'tce' we see great communicates III
'ne o1u'n gwen up as .ne prey OF .hieyes me-
auu 'iusen'uleis' 'heir eiccIlons PgrVcr.eu
py rlo'ous hiocneries OF .he wiii OF the
peoPie, ahu ,hc rres'ueh., 'hc SENATE anu
1ne army eAnaus'ihe ',iei, powers 70 give
victory 70 uSurpers ana Plunderers. we
sec troops os.en'a.iously thrown upon
Peaceao,e communities on 'ne tnreshoid
Oh nasioaal election, 70 invite tne cum
ming OF tno iawiess 70 provoke uisordef
that the innocent may DC disiranchised
ana punishea' we see carpet.paggcls'
VINO would not DC trusted within sight OF a
village TN. monuments OF nation $ shame
IN the onited states senate, ana crawling
into Guoernatoriai chairs IN defiance OF
popular defeats, ana guarded by every de-
partment OF the government as it they
were the jewels OF freedom. we see cor
ruption surging unchallenged about the
very throne itself; the strong arm OF power
reached out to stay the ayenging blow OF
justice, and the few faithful public ser
wants who labored to assert the majesty OF
the law, striped for their devotion, de-
famed for their integrity and dismantled
Of their authority. We see great States
IN the North grinding in the prison. houses
OF corrupt leaders, who have usurped the
party machinery and made themselves
masters Of the people. The honors OF the
State have been bartered to the most ac-
complished in political infamy, and the
substance OF the taxpayers has been per-
verted to peculation and debauchery. And
we see great cities as great sores on the
body polite -polluting the ballot, degrad-
ing official trust, and giving consuming
waste and debt and taxation as the logi-