The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-22
For the EAGLE.
a Few Reflections upon Present Political
Tenderness.


DELANo, November 10, 1877.
MR.. EDITOR We are assured that
revolutions never go backward. Up
ward and onward to higher and no.
bier civilization than any which pre-
coded it, seemed to be the course pur-
sued by the rulers of this redeemed
and regenerated Republic. For years
have fondly hoped that the age of
cbivalry with it's knights and ladies of
high degree. who claimed 10 be the
sole possessors of noble blood, were
reckoned among the things Of the dead
past. believed that this was emphat-
ically the age of the common people,
when the rights of man, without dis
tinctiOn of race or creed, were not on
ly respected but guaranteed by amend
ments TO the constitution and enforced
by appropriate legislation. Is it not
time that the friends of humanity and
universal liberty should awake from
the pleasing dreams in which they in
dulged, believing that the political
millennium had at last arrived upon
earth, when the lion and the lamb
should lie down together? Let us
awake to the stern realities which con-
front us. In large portion of these
United States large proportion of
the people are hostile TO the principles
on which alone a Republic worthy the
name can he founded. Equal and ex
act Justice before the law TO all men is
the chief corner stone on which is
built the greatest Republic the world
ever saw. Remove the cornerstone
and the whole structure totters and
tails When we consider that all the
sagacity of the leaders of the socalled
Democratic party has been diverted
towards annuling, by State laws, the
reconstruction measures of Congress
| which arose above class distinctions,
recognizing at last the brotherhood of
man; when the expression of the re-
hottest degree of reverence for the
starry flag, which is the recognized
emblem of Justice TO all the oppressed
races of esrth is Synonymous with So
cial and political ortracism; in short
there is no protection in large por-
ton of these United States for any
man who loves liberty and rises supe-
rior to class distinctions.
The Republican party to-day is with
out President and tie President is |
without a party, since that fatal hour
when he determined to pursue poll
cy which puts premium on treason,
and consigns to state of semi-vassal-
age the men who were true when the |
country needed their services. Can
the people Of these United States, par
ticularly those who reside in liberty
loving Kansas, afford to repudiate the
glorious past, with all its heroic sacri-
fees? In the Greek mythology mex
orable fate was above all the gods OF
Olympus. So in our Republican form
of government, the people are above
the policy of a President whose inau-
guration was seemingly brought about
by bargain witch Southern Repre-
sentatives. We who have given to |
the cause of liberty our youth and
prime, whose voices have been raised |
against every form of injustice in the
past, cannot be expected in manhood's |
waning years, when we have grown |
grey in the service of liberty, to repu-
diate the past and become false to the
principles of justice which we imbibed |
with our mothers milk. Who, but a |
weakened Republican would ap-
prove of a policy which refuses to a
majority of negroes in Louisiana the |
same rights which are willingly con-
ceded to majority of whites in Kan
sas.
| believe it is one of the many du-
ties of the President to see that Re-
publican form Of government exists
in all the States. do not here use the
term Republican in its party sense.
How has he performed this duty so
plainly insiste on in the constitution
which he has sworn to obey? Why by |
consenting to and tacitly approving of
the Inauguration of State Governors
who represent the views and preju-
dices of an active and belligerent mi
nority. And this is the policy we are
called upon to approve! "Oh! con-
sistency, thou art jewel" When an
armed minority in any State is per-
mitted to overthrow the legally elect
ed officers of State government
when the massacre of white and black
Republicans is applauded and the act
ors therein elevated to places of trust
and profit; when the executive officer
of the general government cannot, or
rather will not, punish such infrac-
lions of law, then the time has arrived
for all good men to arise in their
strength and sweep into that sulphur
Gus region made immortal by Dante,
that hydra-hcaded monster called State
rights, which is the prolific mother of
all our trouble. Your respectfully,
One OF THE MACS.