The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-08
OAKLAND. ND, sArURpAr, SEPTEMBER s. Isz


|erak Key has committed politicl|
harElSaEi, buMf hehas done so he
Heldetpda spot on this round globe
tllAn Which none could be more ap-
pfoptiate for 4 patriot When the
American citizens Of the year 1T grace
l97 assemble on the battlefield Of
Nlingtt6 6fto celebrate the heroic
virtufes Of General Ioha Stark ana
fhe Green Mountain Boys. they viii
~ reineinber that it was there that
z RQstmaster General Of the United,
flstes went so far as to admit that
f|l't south erred in its atte.npt to
ioXetthrow the Union of the fathers
aa&l found upon itssruins ANOTHER
e1|lhlie whose cornArstOne was 10
be iluinali slavery sfz
s What q downfall there. my coun-
5try-men! Key of Tennessee, whose
advent into the liberal cabinet was
hailed with delight from the borders
ofthe Potomac to the Gulf, as an
evidence Of the disposition of the
new administration to deal hand
somely with the South, and in whose
praises every Democratic and Con
servative of the South blew his horn
while the delighted multitudes
clapped their hands for joy--Key, of
Tennessee, has fallen, fallen from
his high estate, and now ranks with
the scalawags and carpet-baggers,
who are beneath the reco5 5nition ola
southern gentleman.
1t is not in the bright lexicon of a
Southern Democrat to admit that
the South "erred', in the war of
secession. He has no regrets even;
and when the Postmaster General
alluded in his brief remarks to "our
erring Southern brethern," he COM
mitted an npard0nable sin. This
has Since been aggravated by the
President introducing him to the
Yankees Of New Hampshire as a man
who was greatly wrong but is now
nearly right, and who is in danger
of becoming quite right if he remains
long among the New Englanders.
eve all do fade as leaf" and the
roses and laurels which We're strewn
in the path of the Postmaster Gen.
eral, as he moved on to Washington
to take charge Of the postal service,
have withered in an hour. He has
gone to meet Longstreet and Mosby
and other Southrons who accepted
The issue of the war and acted as
thought they meant it in good faith.
Alas for Key. lie is no better than
a Yankee.
The water in the Sulphur Springs
OF Virginia is not hotter that the
maledictions now poured on Keys
devoted head. That it should ever
come to pass in the course of human
events that Il born Democrat of Ten
nessee should admit that the South
made serious mistake in attempt-
ing to secede ! And yet it must be
admitted that somebody erred. Was
1t the North in pouring out its my
rlads to preserve the imperilled
Union and maintain the national
integrity? Already we are assured
that the national flag must be dis
carded and new one devised before
the Southern brethern will train
cheerful!y under it. If this is not
done the reconciliation and fraterni-
zation of sections will not be COM
pIete. What other conditions are in
reserve for that part of the people
who fought to maintain the Union
will not probably be known till the
meeting of the next national Demo-
cratic convention.
If that great party is to have the
unanimous and hearty support ofthe
South Tor its candidates, it must
carefully abstain, as it has hitherto
done, from any Implication that the
South erred in precipitatiug civil
war, and iflt be as patriotic as it
ought to be in itsgreat purpose of
consolidating sections and removing
all cause of antagonism, it will
suggest by resolution the property
of ofremodelling the old flag as so not
to give offense to the sensibilities
of the people who remember it as
the flag under which the soldiers of
the public invaded the sacred soil of
the confederacy and dictated peace
at AppOmattOX court house.
Can the great National Democratic
party do less? Let it be warned by
the fate of Postmaster General Key.
There are symptoms of a purpose TO
placate the South with grants of
lands and money and loans of
national credit to develop the great
railway and water course projects
which are dear to ,he hearts of the
southern people. And if this were
done by a liberal administration