Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-14

General after general, once the idol OF
the army and nation, failed or was de-
posed; but the irrepressible conflict still
went on as if they had never lived.
The war-President was slain. There
was ripple, and no more. He who
had been looked on as the great civil
leader, was found to have been a trust
ed friend in council, and nothing
greater; no more necessary to the success
Of the nation than the humblest soldier
in her ranks. Men die, or fall out of
line, or desert to the enemy; Lincoln,
or Sumner, or Johnson-excepting as
to the verdict rendered on their career
it is all one with the people: the un-
dying, self-disciplined, self-govefned,
and ever-faithful army, still marches
on. No ambition sways them, no re-
verses discourages them, no lowering
clouds dismay them They have no
old harps that they must keep in tune,
with the songs of to-day. The only
consistency they respect is the record
of persistent growth. 1t is these traits
that cause some politicians to miscon-
strue their purpose. 1t is personal
cgotism that causes other politicians
to follow the will-'o-the-wisp of an am
bition to frule" the people, or to i'm
press on them the brand Of their in
dividual beliefs. The only man fit to
be the ruler of republic, the only
man who can ever succeed as Presid-
ent is he who has no policy of his own
to enforce against the will of the peo-
ple-he who has'no policy at all, ex-
cepting faithfully to execute the laws
of the PEOPLE.
THE PARTY OF PROGRESS, HUMANITY
| AND PATRIOTISM.
No one can doubt that the Repub.
lican party has been the party of pro-
gress. 1t began its life by driving back
the destroying angel of slavery from
the Territories AS soon as it came Of
age it grappled with the demon OF
treason, and slew him who sought the
young nations life. Beneath it,
divine displeasure, human slavery dis
appeared from our land forever. OF
four millions of bondmen it made freed
men. OF four millions of freedmen il
made citizens. Divine in it's compass
sion as in its anger, no soldier of slavery
was punished for his unmanly crime
He was treated as an erring child
Treason was not made odious by any
= 5ional decree. One by one, platoon
by platoon, State by State, the dastard
who fought fiercely in order that they
might safely cnslave a weaker race
that they might rob the blacks of tn
fruits Of their toll, and sell the fruit
oftheir love, without rebuke or retri
bution-were rapidly restored to thei
civil and political rights. The prodi
gal sons were welcomed home. They
were trusted. History has no simila
story Of magnanimity- to tell. No or
!. ganization of men, whether religious
or political, has more lustrous recort
than the Republican party. Othe
, parties have blessed their friends; thi
party alone showered benefactions
on it's foes. For once only on thi
planet the loftiest teaching of Christi
tianity was practised by politica
organization.
ENEMIES TO GOOD GOVERNMENT
i AGAIN UNITED.
With what result? There is a sole
South. That solid South has allied it
political fortunes with the Democratic
party They are as Eng and Chang
one and indlvisible. Without tn,
solid South the Democratic party woult
be feeble faction-a moral night
scavenger's cart, laden with the offscour
ings of Tipperary civilization, insteat
of a war-chariot armed with isciplinet
and exultant soldiers, confident of al
early victory over their benefactors
| No man denies or can deny that tn,
the South will rule the Republic if thu
Democratic party succeeds at the next
presidential election. By South
mean the old rulers of the Southern
Conference.-The Bourbon Democracy
NOT the people of the Southern
States, but the present controllers o.
their political organizations. For, the
ex-Confederate politicians and the
Democratic leaders of the South are
the same men, inspired by the same
spirit, teaching the same ideas,
cursed in soul by the same pre-
JUDGES of race and of creed, which
caused the old South to linge.' so far
behind the North in the march OF
civilization, and flung her at last into
the arms of a civil war.
Are these men fit to govern the ma
ton? l answer, No. Is this, then, a
time to despair of the Republican
party? answer, No.
do not say that the South should
not rule the republic solely or chiefly
because its leaders were traitors to the
republic. That, surely, is a sufficient
reason. A protest against the rule Of
the runners is the dictate of prudence,
not the utterances of hate. We did not
let the South go; we cannonaded it
back into the Union; we compelled it
to lay down its arms. We did not
dream of Cancellation until resistance
ceased. And now, | hold, the cure for
all the evils We endure-all of them
spawned by rebellion-is not to be
found in conciliating the men who owe
their lives and estates to our compass
sion, and repay the debt by undying
hatred and ceaseless obloquy, but in
maintaining the ideas and by sustain