Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11
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the Democratic party until Vallan-
digham announced the New Depar-
ture - indeed until the Baltimore
Convention Of T2-was identical
with that in the present, put forth
by the DenaOcrat; but since it has
made pretensions of being converted
to Republican faith, some people
have thought that il had in reality
abandoned its old theories. Not 50,
however. When you examine the
reconciliation talk Of Democratic pa
pers-those which follow the illogical
sequence" of things to the extent Of
putting it in words as does the DEM
ocr0t-you find that they are still
held. Those Of the ADLER sort say
that those things are all settled /; and
then they iescant in beautiful prose
upon the moral grandeur ofreconcili-
alton. The fact is however, that the
difference between the two classes
Of papers is only the one of skill in
the endeavor to secure the one re-
suit What result? q solid South
This is what the Democratic party
has been trying to effect ever since
the close Of the war. Until - it
sought to make the South solid By
being the determined enemy of Re
publican efforts to make secure that
which was right; since that period,
admitting that those efforts were
well grounded, legally, it has denied
that the facts exist in sdch shape as
to warrant any National supervision
Of Southern affairs. That Demo-
cratic paper is little behind in the
practice Of cunning which in the
present mixes the modes, getting in
more of the first than the last.
Whilst reconciliation from a Dem
ocratic standpoint is in reality de-
signed to bring about a cessation Of
cndeavor on the part Of the National
Government to make actual the
priced fruits of victory to the end
last mentioned, it cannot be over
looked that to those who do not dis
tinSulsh between partizaus and pa
triots, much talk of it will convey the
convictions that the Republican par
ty in its dealings with the South has
practiced brutal and oppressive
policy. Has it History-sober and
unbiased-is that to which we appeal
in orderto prove that the Republican
party began its great work of rehab-
ting the south in spirit Of forgiv-
ness, the like Of which the world had /
never before witnessed Not once
had the grass grown green upon the !
graves Of our soldier dead. nor had /
the sound Of weeping ceased to be
heard in hundred thousand North
ern houses, when it virtually pro-
posed to our former erring Southern |
brethren who had worn the gray to
forget the animositiss of an embit- I
tered past in the joyful contempla-
ton Of a banoLicelt future" This |
was the spirit ia which it began its
work; aud it is the same which it
has evermaDi!eAed toward the South. /
This feeling was reciprocated in /
that section bg the passage of the .
infamous "h!aG, laws" and the for
nation Of IN KIux KIan orsaniza-
tions, and by tie whole Democratic
parity in declaring the "recoGstruc- .
toa acts" revolutionary ana void, .
hy cLdearori.ig to defeat each .
constitutional amendment in turn,
and ultimately by declaring, after
they had become Fundamental law,
that they We're no part OF the Ma
,iona GoyerumPut!
'Hhn hypothesis upon which the