Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-04-26
Tho Extinction Of the Republican
Party at the South.
To the Editor of the HERALD;

To the Editor of the HERALD:
Tie era Of reconciliation, of good
feeling between the North and South
has come. Every boty expected
trade, commerce and Manufacture
would start into life as by magic
50 Bob IngcFsoii grated, and So w.
81 arts tells us that tie business
Glasses all over the country with the
faith of the modern Adventist, are
in m0mentary expectation Of BUSH
nees millennium. But still that long
l0oked-for period delay3 It's coming.
As we view it, recent o7enis have
done more to undermine and destroy
confidence 10 public and private vir-
tue and honesty than anything that
has occurred in our history for the
last twenty years. Men arc amazed
at tho ease and facility with which a
great party or a great part ct such a
party, can desert its professions and
its principles and its ideas !; princi-
pies that gave it all it's strength,
fame and longevity; resolutions and
platforms OH which IL carried the last
Presidential election so fer SIS it has
been or was carried. all these have
been abandoned and a course pur
sued by our President and cabinet
such az Beu Hill or Wade Hampton
would have dictated, and that Mr.
rilden, had be been inaGgurated,
could not have pursued without ar
raging he entire Republican party
aud its leaders in and out Of Congress
again8t him. And the sham less
mods by which many Republican
papers defend this surrender brings
our disgrace into view with annoy.
ing dlstinctnesa. The Chicago
Tribune tells us that Chamberain
ard Packard re and were utterly
unable 30 punish the w bite Leagnera,
Ku Klux and Shot Gun Democrats.
But does ths Chicsgo Tribune eur-
pose that Wade Hampton IL going
to punish and hang the Hamburg
murderers? The leader OF these
assas-ins is one Batler, who has been
nominated and elected United States
Senator by the Wade Hampton leg
islature Who does Wade Hampton
intend to punish? Mr. Chsm berlan
rays az least hundred Republicans
lost their lives in their effort To car
RI South Carolina for Mr. Hayes last
fall. Now if Gov. Chamberlain tell
the truth, VIII Wade Hampton cali
one of these murderers to suffer for
their b'oody devotion to Home
Rule?" No, ne-just because the
Republican party will not resist be-
cause that party prefers the inter
vention of the national arm to the
horrors of civil war, they have been
handed over en- mdSSe to the swag-
gerlng military dictator whose beck
can marshal, in twenty-four hours
ten or fifteen thousand armed rebels
ready to do his bidding. whatever
that nav be- 70 the party whose
hands are still bloody with Repuhl
can gore. to that party the Republi-
cans in the North, come Of them at
least, are ready, anxious to surrender
their brethren in South Carolina be-
cause the Ku Klux have more skill
and practice In shooting and murder
ing and browsing than tho field
hands" of the Republican ranks.
And this has been done to dispIace
military rule by the United States
for military rule by the Ku KluS
and the aristocraey behind them.
Aud Packard has very little power
in Louisiana to be sure. But is it
that Governor Nichols will punish
the Coushatta murderers, or the
asssssins one Of the hundreds of Re,
publicans who suffered death for
opinions sake last Summer that the
Republican leaders are in haste TO
surrender thsir brethren into the
hands of msn who have vowed the
extinction CT the Repu btioan party
and 'iereign rule" in the South--no
matter how maoh blood il will cost.
| We do not doubt ble that Wade
1 Ii 4mpton will introduce rsacs into
s2rh Carolina and Nichols will on
force i. IN louisiana. The President
/ b ,s taken he prooAu;ion TO gst wiii-
. ZEN pledges 10 that ef ct BAT. he
ssme glass Of men produce psaoe In
the s .uth before the war, by hang,
/ ing or driving out the Union msu