The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-10-05

Maenanimity, generosity, and forgiveness.
unparalleled in human annals. have been the
policy Of the Nation toward those who
test1c. Christian; but It may be carried too
far. It II not Wise for the North. nor for the
South ITSELF to hand the Government over
against IL. and who I'm many instances now
hold seats in Congress gained by stihing cleo.
lions, by terrorism and bloodshed. 1t Is not
Is not safe for the habitations of the North or
When pestilence smites Southern homes,
money me- s and syPRpaihy. never holding back
farthfng because it is Southern, not Northern,
woe. This is right But, when taking po-
ourselves, but to those, whether black or
white, to whose protection we are bound by
ties which would not be forgotten by an Al
gerine pirate or 2 Barbary corsair.
States. Look at counties in which Republi-
cans, black and white, are In great MAORI
ties, and in which voting places have been re-
are sometimes Is miles apart, making it i'm
possible for the poor to reach the ballot-box.
Look at Democratic counties, where the vot-
ing places have been increased to 80, with an
area not greater than Republican counties in
which. by the same act OF legislation, the
polling places have been reduced to 8. In
the county in which Charleston, S. c., is,
there is q Republican majority of 8, zoo, yet, at
an election not long ago for members of the
Legislature, no Republican votes were cast !!
The fact tells its own story. Look
confessed Republican majority, ruled
by Democrats, the Republican organi-
cations compelled to disband, and the last
Republican newspaper given up. Assassina-
ton strikes down blameless men and helpless
women-families perish by violence; no one
is punished, and the officials who connive at
murder are reelected and rewarded for be-
ing accomplices in shedding innocent blood.
The tragic death of one maiden reused pagan
Rome to vengeance, but Americans are very
patient when the blood of the Chisholms and
Others sickens humanity. and justice
lays no hand on such frightful butch
cry. The officials Of the United States n .
their duty, and the whole power of the Ma
tion is openly defied. In the Gulf States ma
jorities are powerless and PROSTATE, their
tie, and they
As in slave.days, the cOlOred people are
counted to swellthe number of Southern rep.
resentatives in Congress, but for any other
purpose they hardly appear now IN the polit
Turn from this picture to the three free
amendments of the Constitution. There they
stand, and they declare that such wrongs
shall never be. Yet this is the great repub-
lie. The men thus degraded and despOiled
are its citizens; they stood by it. and fought
for it. and are prosecuted for its sake. And
this is the last quarter of the nineteenth cen
fury!
The mission of the Republican party is not
c0OeO. IL mas UO0o mucn. 1t mas put down
a vast rebellion, freed COX, 900 slaves, made a
free Constitution, united the fragments of a
shattered empire managed war and finances
to the amazenent of mankind; it has carried
railways over deserts and mountains to the
Pacific sea; it has made harbors, built break
waters and light houses, and established
life saving stations Ga perilous coasts; it has
stretched out network of signal-service to
give warning of storms on land and on sea !;
it has cheapened foreign and domestic post
age, founded postal money order system,
put post offices on wheels and doubled the
cheapness and swiftness of transmitting in
telligence; it has secured to every man who
will have it Il homestead of 16O acres of fertile
land; it has stood for free speech, free labor
and free men always; it has upheld the pub
lie credit; and its aims have been thoso of
humanity and right. Like every human
agency, It has, no doubt, sometimes fallen
iatO error. but its record Is filled with great
and useful achievement.
Not only do urgent works and duties re
main for the future, but work and duty which
summon us all to concord, harmony and
earnestness. Putting away side issues and
all chickering's and strife, the plain duty of
every sincere Republican is to stand for the
Republic. There are matters about which
Republicans differ-differ widely and
earnestly. These differences do not concern
the issues which deserve attention now. 1t
is not the right of any man or any group of
men to divert the Republicans of New York
from the questions which urge themselves
upon us. Let all men, of whatever party, see
the dangers around them. Let our motto be:
" In essentials. unity; in non essentials, lib
erty; in all things, charity"