Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-21

Senator Angus Cameron, of Wisconsin, An
sUe1ed the Question IN the North american
ReUaeoQ; and Recent Developments IN and
out Of Congress haze certified the Wisdom
and Justice Of his Statements aO7lich haze
elected much Criticism, and no Denial.
Of the valuable contributions to the political
literature OF this country, 1t may be truthfuly said
no article paper, beating upon the past career
present condition, and future prospects of the
Republic, has elected more hearty approval and
remuneration at the hands of the press in the va
rous centers of influence throughout The United
states, Than that which Appeared IN a. recent
number OF the N0rth'Ame1ac011 Iserie2O, from the
pen OF Senator Angus Cameron. Of Wisconsin.
such rabid papers the LOUiSUikEe Courier JOuY-
n0t,. representing the malienity, despotism and
treason of Southern B3ufb0nism. have frequently
and violently aSsal2d both article and author,
without pointing out their inaccuracies or defects.
Several Democratic journals of the more rep
utaDi . and conservative class have frankly ad-
mItted and deplored the correctness and force Of
Senator CamerOn's statements. -
other papers of the "independent class, - SO
| called. like the Springfield (Mass) RepubkicaD,
the Cincinnati Commercial. and the Chicago
| IrSb1ne (Whose dlsOrganiZng guerrillaiSm in pO-
| iltlcal warfare becomes auxiliary to Democratic
| operations, when staunch and trusty Republicans
are Josrled aside to make room for such tickle
| leaders as Charles Francis Adams, Stanley Mat
theWs, and David DaYis), seem disposed to resist
the work of re-uniting and consolidating the Re-
publican forces upon the old basis of patriotism,
humanity and progress.
A few, and only a few of the avowedy Repub-
| l1can newspapers of the country have allowed
| local and personal considerations to suppress
cordial approval Of the Senator's able exposition
| OF political affairs. The New York Times, which
constantly dlsparages western interests and at
tributes nearly all OF our evils to western ignor
ance and raScaity, is unwilling TO believe that
any good thing can come out of Nazareth.
Inc republican press, generally. throughout
the country expressed thankful ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for and unqualified adherence to the sentiments
uttered by Senator Cameron; and acknowledged
| the value of his services.
Criticism implies merit in what is criticised:
and the value of either is measured by its truth
| fitness, fairness and thOroughness Substance
and Solldltyfare demanded; and in the absence.
of any clear denial with refutation of statements,
which by their force, have arrested public atten
ton and commanded marked considerations there
IS good reason to infer that the facts presented in
Senator Cameron's substantial article cannot be
refuted, but must stand as permanent data in the
political annals of the nation.
Since the Senator's article appeared, events
have transpred in and out of Congress, to en-
phasize and enforce his timely admonitions OF
these it is only necessary to designate signi
cant vote, in the closing week Of the recent ses-
sion OF Congress, when SiGty-taUO democratic
representatives from the south had their UOtes
rec0rded against the resolution prepared bv Con-
qressnaGm Williams. Of Wisconsin, and presented
6y C0ngressnadn- Conger Of IHichign1o to preYent
6y c0nSt5tuHonat 0naendnsent, the. payment Of
'.Re6el Var CtainaS." aOhich aU0uid double our
E11dtiOn0t debt md ioden3nity traitors. It3s
The bold advocacy of Jeff Davis, at the reunion
OF armed rebels, in Mississippi City, July 10th,
1873, OF those atrocious doctrines which involved
the nation in civil war, has elected such cordial
approval from the influential press Of the south,
as to leave no doubt Of the purpose Of the demo.
cratic party to revive incorporating hostility
free Institutions under the rallying cry of 'state
rights and home rule" i'll opposition to univer-
sal freedom and national integrity.'
a Gen. Dodge, of Iowa, writes home from Paris
that ''Gen. Grant in a recent interview, was out
spoken in the belief that loyal men must control
our government; and has no faith in the promises
OF unrepentant rebels . -5r.
The startling disclosures, regarding the fraudu-
lent and violent manner in which Indiana was
captured bJ the democrats in 1876, which have
been made at indianapolis, in legal proceedings
recently instituted by Dr. H. Fuller. ex-chair-
man Of the democratic committee Of Marion
county, (of which indianapolis is the county
seaD for the recovery Of money discussed by him
committee, by whom the bills were audited, are
sufficient to warn people that the same wicked
means which have been employed to cisfranchtse
citizens in the south, relied upon by the
democratic leaders to capture republican states
in the north. a--t.H- s-* -.
To obviate the possibility of any misapprehen-
sion, growing out of the misrepresentation or
versions of conflicting journals, regarding the
matters under consideration, let us with these
Significant Indications OF democratic policy, give
heed to the following extracts, from the able eX-
position of our political affairs and national inter
ests, as set forth il recent number Of the North
AMERICAN ReUaer by
Senator Angus Cameron.
During an eclipse, the savage fears that
the sun is dead His experience does
not give him faith in the Immortality Of
light.
History teaches that he who has faith
in his race is always in the right-not
always as to times, but always as to time;
that Intellectual progress is law Of our
nature as infallible in it's operations as
the laws that govern the planets in their
orbits and that the revolutions Of man.
kind, like the revolutions of the earth,
never go backward; that human advance
ment, like the sun, goes on forever,
" without haste, yet without rest
We see to-day an eclipse of faith pOlit-
ical. Wehear old soldiers Of the greatest
political army that the ages have ever
seen speak despondently of the future
Of the Republican party. They talk
Of its career as if its coffin already
stood open at the foot of its galloWs.
Even leaders who see the folly Of surren
der, when, hastily snatching off its ku-
kluX robes it masQuerades under the name
of Cancellation, are heard lamenting on
the house tops that the days of the re-
publican party are numbered "The
hand is the hand Of Esau, but the voice
is the voice Of Jacob" However schol-
arly the words of the lament may be, its
spirit is the spirit Of the savage when
the sun is eclipsed 1t is the utterance
of ignorance, or Of forgetfulness Of the
permanent laws of nature, in the pres
ence of the fleeing phenomena that seem
to contradict them
PERPETUITY OF REUBLICANIsM.
Henry Wilson could see no reason why
the republican party should not endure
thousand years. One Of his old cola
borers has said, in this Repielo, that be
can see no reason for its existence to-day.
I think the vice-president was right. l
believe that the republican party has
greater work before,it than the past ever
called on it to do; that, however it may
have failed in some minor tasks, it has
always been faithful in great things; that
it has always been true to its primitive
principles; that it has always been duti-
full to the nation, and to the seminal ideas
by whose divine energy the child-repub-
lie became giant among the peoples Of
the earth. 1t will endure just as long as
If wOrthi1v rppreSantS the nrinciplo of