Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-05

he stood upon the dividing isthmus u
between two Occans-upon the one I
hand the blue Atlantic, with its rip
Ming waves and islands of tropical a
beauty, and upon the other the dark {
heaviuv Pacific rolling away into the {
clouds of immensity, and where the
dreams of the ancicutS had located j
the islands of the blessed, and think ,
ing there were no more worloe 10
conquer:
.S, pent up Utica contracts our powers.
The whole uubosnded continent is ours
The republican party at the close
of the war had the same absolute su-
preulacy. They had the army, the
navy, the supreme court both
branches of congress and the chlel
executive, and the successful general,
whose career equals in fable that OF
Aladdin and his wonderful lamp III
the Arabian nights; the man VINO
sprang from peuury in this city unit!
to-day he claims as a matter OF right,
what Washington never dared 10
ask, what Jefferson never thought OF,
what Madison, Monroe never dream
ed about, q third term as president
of the United States. This man
sprang from the presidential chair
with such popular acclaim as never
even attended the father OF his coun-
try, when he walked upon the bank
of roses across the Jerseys to the
presidential chair. Popular opinion,
greater than the supreme court,great-
er than the army or navy, the treas
urer, the chief executive, stood ike
the car of Juggernaut. behind the
republican party.
What has this party done with all
these resources and all this power
this party OF progress, reform, chris
tianity and civilization Mr.. D.
Milton Turner, when had the honor
for the only time in my life of hear
ing him ut the city of Boonville, was
applauded by his white republican
friends to the echo, when he said that
the republican party was
THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE HEAD
LIGHT.
of christianity, reform and progress;
and said the democratic party Is the
talloW candle down OH the caooose
at the end of the train. CGreat laugh
teri | suggested then, l beheVe IL
!, was to my friend Pat Dyer,that while
, the locomotive headlight was by all
! odds the most snowy and garish part
Of the institution known to railroad
= men, that in my experience IN travel
ing upon railroads l have found tina,
i, the safest place WAS generally Ill tht
caboose. TLaughter. But this great
!, party of progress, OF CHRISTIANITY, "
civilization, Of reform-thls party
c that Is blazing the way of clvlllza
o ton down through the centuries
WHAT WAS ITS DUTY
O at the close o: that terrible war
II Revenge is tie meanest, the mos
l. senseless, the most cewardly OF al
> the passions that atilict the human
Il heart. a man who lndulges i'll IT /
v fool, statesman is criminal,
Il party that gives itself up to revcng
A. aud ignores the calls OF civilization
: and humanity is unworthy to be ell
- trusted with the ucs.Imcs OF a couil
,e try, much less great nation llk
+ ourselves. The republican party u
N the close of the war, with this nbsc
50 lutte party power, what did they do
,e What was the duty of humanity
o. What was the duty of fchrisiianits-t
- saw nothing about eXpcdieucy-Wh ha
- WAS =, "'"tv nf this party with III
ry vast power entrusted 10 th"ii hahu
Of and ,hi, absolute supremacy over q
nd des,inieS OF the people? Was 1t III
in to have put every portion or IN
tie country TO its largest producing c
10 pacity2 Was it not to have bou'
m. up the bleeding wounds of that te
riblo war? Was it not to have lgnor'
everything except the duty OF ma
he ing every portion OF the people
nd the United States assist i'll paying t
~, ,, N, Z nt IA a
IDS great dept Whlth repleHc"'e' '.e :
al. penses of that unfortunate strlf
es- Was it not the duty of this gre
~. party, the headlight of civlllZatlt
Is christianity and reform, the locou
hat tive in front of the great train
ell clvilization-was tnot their duty
not have
the ASSISTED THE DEBTOR CLASS
i'm of the country? The rich can ts
ldi- care of themselves, but the p'
is needed the psternal and fostering
OPP fluence of the dominant party
9TH of the government. New Engls
p to had come out of the war richer
,rth reason of 1t. She had fed, cloth
l'ry and armed million aud half
its fighting men. Her manufactoI
too had been at their largest prodnc
,un- power. Greenbacks by the mil
hen had been poured into her Golfers,
cess under the legislation of the repu
rop- can party she had, with true AL
Dove thrift and Yankee ingenuity.
the every dollar into uon-taxable Tn
end States bonds. ILaughter.l The '
was no richer by the war; the sc
ting was utterly impoverished, utt
voice ravished and utterly ruined;
some when the republican statesmen i
'glu- ed abroad at the condition OF
ncial country after the smoke had Gle
lencc away from the battle fields of
c the country, what did they do!
any made.
hc THE RICH RICHER AND THE
nc" POORER.
1 the 49,, ,,oor
sands ihey turneu io'se upo. ."o o,,a pIni y, !,
laska thc sou'h-' ioss ,.e, 49, -
,r;da people, who, whatever else ma
mines said about them, illustrated
,r;tt honesty with the best blood that
,sa "'t t'f flowed in mortal veins [appla
fr,m who, whether right or wrong, ft
=, thn like brave men, long and well
~ t.;nS the federal soldier who to-day "
snv- depreciatct the gailantry of the sou
:, With ipeople depreciates and decrit
y ,,if" yal!antry of himself aud the
nn.ns raties that fought with hlm.
,.xon republican party. with TINS p
whose knowing that this people
ct and staggering aud reeling with tn
in tho blood ebbing out of their VEN
,'foid stead of saying to them i'll sp'
, ,bnir magnanmitv and generosity al
,ro aud manity: Come back INTO the
al NV of nations and states-the I
"a ~. government extends to you its
,r',,, Of nal and fostering and kindly
l. .ua il turned loose upon them 81
- more terrible than that which
~ makes the fevcr-strlckcn people
;, south hold up their bleeding
iui vi for the christian charity OF the
h'eVes' lied world. They turned loos
them.
''hited A sCoURGE MORE TERRIB
4 other
i, CON than God ever inflicted upC
am chosen peop'e i'll the olden TIM"
o is re- emptied the penitentiaries II,
things. i,ils of the north, and they sen
l,y par carpet-baggers worse than the
DIV. ants that DR.. Livingstone de'
l allude III Africa, that eat ever!
event crosses their path, and for Il
,pomat. years carpet-baggcrism was tn
Il have iuapt party in this country. &
| | see der federal bayonets was alio
,o mon rnyaUe and plunder from II