Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-14
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THERE has been moro idiotic ex-
pcctoration of speech about ssconcilia-
ton" than any other topic Of modern
times. Suppose the democrats had
won in the late presidential campaign
do you imagine that Samuel Jones
Tilden would have been appointing
such men as John A. Logan in his
Cabinet, and republican officers here
and there all over the country, to con-
ciliate the defeated republican party ?
No, sir, the men composing the re-
publican party believe its principles
right, and they are in favor Of max
ing square stand up fight for them,
and when they are beaten at the polls
they quietly submit They are more
over in favor of the party which tri-
umphs at the ballot box, having all
the honors, emoluments and respons-
Utilities of governing the country, for
which that party should be held to
the strictest responsibility. Had Til
den been counted in, it wouldn't have
been necessary to negotiate in advance
with the leaders of the republican
party to permit his Inauguration,
without bloodshed, and we don't be-
lievc that you could have found in
the north a prominent republican
who would have been blubbering
around the White House asking to
be conciliated with an office which Of
right by the verdict of the people, be-
longed, '.properly,'to a democrat.
The south went to war on its own
motion, and got licked, and from
that day to this, the north has done
but little else than pass bills of par
don, restoration and forgiveness, un-
til it has legislated out of Congress
the menswho fought and voted under
Lincoln and Grant and has filled their
places with the soldiers and politi-
clans who held power in Richmond
and in the front, from 1861 to 1865 un-
der Davis and Lee. If they have
had hell in the south since then, it is
because they have waged an inces-
SAINT warfare upon the blacks and the
men from the north, who settled
among them under the fanciful delu-
sion that the Constitution of the Unit
ed States had power to protect one of
its citizens, there as well as elsewhere.
| Your constant concessions, and
trucking Cancellation, to the south,
which has its origin in New York and
other commercial centres, where they
have truck as well as principles to
sell, is regarded by the south, and
quite justly too, as an apology for the
existence and acts of the republican
party; something like tho tribute
| which vice is supposed to pay to vir.
!. tue.
II And where are the results of this
namby-pamby policy?
. Hasn't the President been denounc
ed as fraud and usurper by every
democratic State Convention since
!, the policy was iuaugurated?
: Has any man been found in either
House Of Congress, to say one gooi
: word of Cancellation for the republi
! can President and the republican par
", in return for the oceans of gusl
and swash which we have deluget
q them with?
Is there anywhere any evidence o
the disintegration of the democrati
) party, (which we were told woult
follow the sprinkling of little sal
upon it's tail?
The truth is the democratic part,
, has been laundering away to acquir,
by policy what it lost by the bay
. onet, the objective point being now
as it was under Lee, the possession o.
the Capitol, and they do not allow
anything to derange their alignment
or divert their attention from that OBJ
ject And with this unity of pur-
ipose. smarting under the sting,
of defeat, and for the loss of theil
property, and having many old
scores to settle when they once re,
into power, they are likely to gel
: there, and to get there to stay, unless
the people get their eyes open and
, that speedily.