The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-05-31

to support him in such course. We have had
so much talk about Cancellation and fraternity
that many well-meaning people in the North
had come to believe that all that was necessary
to secure tranquility and equal rights in the
South was to withdraw the army, the Republi-
cans to abandon the struggle, and commit the
government to the white Democracy of those
States. The professed yearnings for peace and
fraternity of the very men who planned the
maSSacres In Louisiana, Mississippi, and South
Carolina have been received with gush in
tensely nauseating to people who understood
the facts. The painful truth is that political muir
ders in the South have ceased to be shocking,
and are readily justified by energetic talk about
carpet-baggers, scalawags, and Radical thieves.
Not a man has been punished for the butcheries
Mechanics Institute, Clinton, Vicksburg, or
any other of the hundred slaughters of Republic
cans that might be named. / do not beleN e
that President Hayes intends to desert or de-
stroy the Republican party and attempt the
erection of new one upon its ruins. believe
in his patriotism and high integrity, and in his
benefcence to his country. The language OF
his inaugural was strong and beautiful, and the
declaration of his devotion to the great doc
trines of human rights, which constitute the
foundation of the Republican party, left moth
ing to be added or desired. He began the con-
duct of national affairs under circumstances
of extraordinary ditfculty-when the minds OF
men were greatly divided as to what should be
done-while all were agreed that something
should be done, and that things could not hong
go on as they were. He marked out his course
dhu uuuiOsoSu htuloCh 10 ~ WIN
courage.
Mr. Hayes was elected as a Republican, and
believe will be Republican President, not in q
mere partisan way. but in the sense of devotion
to Republican principles and the maintenance
of the Republican organization by placing po-
litical power in the hands of worthy and quail
fed Republicans. Political principles do not
execute themselves; they require party to dc
that. Organization in politics Is as necessary az
IL Is in 9UGr. Great numbers of the same way OF
thinking, but acting without concert, are al
hnlnlnSg M tho nj niyad paIllfifnIa I'm
presence of disciplined army. i present the
Republican party as a grand and indispensable
fundamentally for carry ing into operation tho
true principles of government and human
rights. 1t was the Republican organization
consolidated and disciplined with great labor
that carried the country through the war pre-
served the Union, abolished slavery, placed the
amendments in the constitution, and that now
stands the guardian of the nations liberty anG
honor. We hear 1t said that the Republican
system of reconstruction is afailure. The sys
ten is the true one. and the principles upor
which it is based just and immutable, and the
only sense in which 1t has failed is that it ha:
been resisted by armed and murderous organ
izations, by terrorism and prescriptions the
most wicked and cruel of the age.
AND IF THE DEMOCRATIC ASSURANCES
to President Hayes in louisiana and elsewhere
of protection and equal rights are executed ir
good faith the system will not be a failure, but
q grand success extorted from its enemies. Tht
great featureslof reconstruction are inithe Four.
teenth and Fifteenth amendments to the const
tuition, establishing the equal civil and politica
rights of all men, and the statutes enacted fol
their enforcement. So far as these have FAILED
reconStructionis failure; SO far as they sue
coed reconstruction is a success.
Let it be understood that the great purpose
now of the Southern people is to recover from
the losses inflicted by the rebellion. They DC
not now think of leaving the Union. They arc
not now preparing schemes for future seces-
sion, but they are, with intense earnestness, re-
volying plans for recovering from their great
losses. For this purpose they will support tho
Democratic party of the North as long as 1t IL
subseryient to their policy, Notwithstanding
their Unsurpassed eminent for its influence
in getting them into the rebellion and its sneak.
ing and cowardly course while it lasted. We
are told there will be quiet in those States wheI
Democratic rule is established. Very likely
When they have gained complete power anC
there will be no inducement to shoot men be-
cause of their politics. There will be peace
when there is abject submission.
LET THE RECENT MASSACRE IN MISSISSIPPI
WHICH HAS MADE THE MODOC COMPARE
lively RESPE6TABLE, ANSWER.
The peace which is obtained by stamping
binger of prosperity or happiness. The hope
entertained by some of dividing the Democratic
party IN the South by surrendering the Republic
only way to divide the Southern Democracy is
to advocate their measures which pass und q
that name. The large body of white people
who engaged i'm the rebellion are firmly united
in favor of several things. and they will stand
by the party that faVors them, and oppose to
the bitter end the party that opposes them
among these is Ey or r0T e9S PrGPedr
wrote his lette~, Just before the election,
against these claims, he lost his hold upon the
south, and was made TO feel 1t IN the late strug,
repeat his blunder. Although Southern Demo
Gratis voted for him after he wrote the letter, il
froze the current of their sympathies and, had
more to do in restraining them from fllbuster-
ing to prevent the counting of the vote than
any other cause. 1t greatly reconciled them to
the loss of Tilden. In the late House the divid-
ing line between rebel and loyal claims was ig-
nored, and, with single Democratic adminis-
tration, would be obliterated. When this comes
to pass about claims, the distinction in the law
and the Union debt will be obliterated, and the
lost slaves will be treated as other property sac
riticed by our government. twill not all be done
G Se pae @n
has become demoraliZed, the rebellion has
ceased to be q crime-scarcely a mistake-and
the complete restoration of fraternity will de-
mand the abolition of all the distinctions in the
law between loyalty and treason. The Repub-
lican party was never more necessary to the
Nation than it is to-day. All talk about laying
down the Republican organization to take up a
new one, witha new title, into which the old
Confederates may enter without wounding
their susceptibilities. would be criminal if ii
were not supremacy silly. The proposition that
the party which saved the nation, and which
embodies in its creed the immortal principles
upon which it must live, If live it does, and
mails of human organizations, shall commit sui
eide as an act of Cancellation to the hate enemies
of the republic siences comment by Its audac-
ity. We are but realizing what has been visibly
coming for several years. From 1868 it has
been apparent that the Republican party of the
South would be overthrown by force, If it could
not be done otherwise. The opening scenes OF
carnage in that year, in which more than 2, 00(
Republicans were killed and wounded in Louis
lana alone, were but the prelude to the cam
paign of violence which eliminated in the
bloody field of last year. The destruction OF
the Republican party would make the Demo
try its odious policy and principles. The mer
who directed the bloody crusades in the Seutl
for thu last ten years, that have now eliminated
in final victory in South Carolina and Louisiana
are still living and have lost none of their power
The men who, within seven years, have WELD
ed the Democratic party in solid column, North
and South, against the Fifteenth amendment
are still i'm the ascendant. Is any man weak
enough to believe that they, or a majority OF
them, have been soundly converted and are
honest advocates of the equal rights of men2 Ii
Democracy have not changed in regard to the
civil and polIticalrights of the negro, and that
if Tilden had been elected President within his
term of years the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments would have been substantially
overthrow i'm most of the Southern States =
This would have been accomplished by meth
DDS recently illustrated in Mississippi and Other
States, and is altogether possible to that exquisite
political genius which can extract DsmocrtiC
majority of sixty thousand from a Republican
majority Of thirty. -- 1871. r.'
NO ONE. PRAYs FOR CANCELLATION AND FRA
-.-gl TERNITY 80. 3