Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-12-22
For the Kennebec Journal.
Let us Have Peace.

A correspoI dent in late number of the Jour.
nal makes some suggestions relative to the politi-
cal situation of the country, that should claim
the attention of all republicans. A battle has been
lost, be says. How or by whom lost, 1t is now
perhaps too late TO inquire. How to win another
Is the question of to-day. What steps must be
taken, wha, measures adopted to insure victory in
the future, is the question to be met and answered
now. union OF all who claim to be republicans
upon the principles on which the party was found
ed is the one need of the hour. But how ia such Q
union to be consummatedi Your correspondent
says, IN substance, that the masses OF the great
parry, never were more united and determined
than to-day. This l believe, ani further that
they bad no share in losing the battle. Some
! other body or bodes hauled down the flag Who
| it was. let those answer to whom these masses
gave most generous support and confidence. and
from whom they expected confidence in return and
acts and deeds like those Of the noble and lament
ed Lincoln, who confded in the party and coun-
selled with the men that elected him. Has this
expectation been realizedi Let acts and deeds
answer. To say nothing of the case of Packard
who every republican is compelled to believe
and does believe, was the legal and Constitutional
government of Louisans. or confess that Presi-
dent Hayes is a usurper and holds his great place
by frsud-we come 10 the appointment of the reb.
ell Fzsimmons instead of Huff, another demo-
crat, the latter being rejected because he was q
friend to the freedmen and just to the republicans
Of Georgia; the leadership of the rebel Senator
Gordon to defeat republicans Of honor and integ
,tty ha nd tbo 1ica
party are acts such as have filed the hearts of
the republican masses with dstrust. Lincoln
mt for the leading men of his own party, the men
who eleced him. aud with them took counsel.
and thus won the hearts of the people. There is
feeling among the whole party, that Gordon has
more inhdenc at the White House than Edmunds,
Hamburg Butler than Garfield, Lamar who says
THAT he has no interest 10 the credit and honor OF
this g1vernnent' than had the lamented Morton
This feeling is possessed BY all republicans. They
express it with regret, because its tendency is to
ALLEVIATE those whom the interest of party and the
country demands should be friends But it may
be asked, if such is the feeling existing between
the masses of the party snd those to whom it has
entrusted leadership, how /. it possible, and in
what manner can unity of action and purpose be
brought aboutf We answer, IN view of the
admitted fact that the generosity of the Presiden
above bnted at is everywhere met on the part o
those to whom il is extended with insolence ant
persecution Of republicans, in the phrase of YOU
correspondent, let the President cease to reconuoi
ter fur ther in this direction put himself in harmon,
with the men who saved the country, gave hin
such generous support and confidence, trust it
leaders as did Lincoln, and have no doubt tha
Senators and people will be more than ready W i
hasten to meet him, to give him their confidence
and support as cheerfully as they did to Lincoln
and that " lth such union, the past forgotten,
victory may be won that will be a harbinger @
sure protection to the oppressed and save tn
country from that disinte grafton which belev
awaits it If the late Southern conspirators wit
their allies North get control absolute of the gov
einment Now let the press cease its seeming el
I forts to ALLEVIATE those whom the good of tn
} country and the republican party demand shoul
be friends, labor TO unite them, and the way ou, G
; our seeming difficulties will be clear. There wa
time IN the reign OF Queen Elizabeth, when a
alienation fiom her people seemed most threaten
ing, but her good sense and judgment dictated I
her the way out. She gracefully retraced he
steps, FASTENED to put herself in harmony with he
people, who as gfacefslly hastened to meet be-
gave to her their confidence, and her name stand
in history as the good Queen. Let US learn vii
dom from the past and be alike wise. S.R.