Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-08-22

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ont Of Congress hare certified the Wisdom
and Justice Of has Statements ultich hare
elected mach Criticism, and no Denial
OF the valuable contributions to the political
literature Of this country may be truthfully said
no article or paper, bearing upon the past career,
present condition, and future prospects OF the
Republic, has elected more hearty approval and
denunciation at the hands of the press in the va
rious 5centers of influence throughout the United
States, than that which appeared in recent
number of the North ABlerlcG1l ReCieJC, from the
pen of Senator Angus Cameron. of Wisconsin.
such rabid papers as the Louisville COuFieT.JOu.-
nat. representing the malignity, despotism and
treason of Southern B0urbCQism, have frequently
and violently. assailed both article and author,
without pointing ont their inaccuracies or defects.
Several Democratic journals of the more rep
utable and conservative class have frankly ad-
mitted and deplOTed the correctness and force of
Senator Cameron statements.
DINER papers Of the independent Glass; so
called like the Springfield (Mass) Republican,
the Cincinnati Commercial. and the Chicago
Ifib1fqe (WhOse dIsorganiZIng guerrillaism in pO-
lltical warfare becomes auxiliary TO Democratic
operations, when Stauneh and trusty Republicans
are JOStled aside TO make room for such tickle
leaders as Charles Francis Adams, Stanley Mat
theWs and David DaYisl, 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 few of the avowedly Repub-
llcau 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 Tascality. is unwilling TO believe that
any good thing can come out of Nazareth
The 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
tulness, fairness and thOrouGhness. Subst lance
and solidity are demanded and in the absence
Of any clear denial with refutaton of statements
which. by their force, have arrested public aten-
ton and commanded marked consideration, there
good reason to infer that the facts presented in
Senator CamerOns substantial article cannot be
refuted, but must stand as permanent dGta in the
political annals OF the nation
Since the Senator's article appeared, events
have TRANSFERRED, in and out of Congress, to en-
pbasize and enforce his timely admonitions. OF
these 1t is only necessary to designate one Sgnf-
cant vote, in the closing week Of the recent SEES
sion Of Congress, when Sicfy-tlUO democratic
representatives. from the south had their C0te8
Tee0fded against the TesOtutiOH prepared bY Con
gresham Williams, Of Wisconsin, and presented
M Congressman COager, Of Michigan, TO preUent
IA co4stitWi01dt dn!eadment, tie payment Of
'.R66et var CtGiU5S,' 2Chich lCOuId dOu6ie oar
iatfOHdt dC5t and iadGnlHify traitors.
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,
rs to leave no doubt of the purpose Of the demo-
cratic party TO revive incorporating hostility to
Tree institutions, under the railying cry Of state
rights and home rule" i'll opposition TO =" uniyer
sal freedom and national integrity
Gen. Dodge, of Iowa, writes home from Paris
that Gen. Grant, in a recent interview, was out
spoken III the belief that loyal men must control
our government; and has no faith in the promises
Of unrepentant rebels
The startling disclosures regarding the fraudu-
lent and violent manner in which Indiana was
captured by the democrats in 1876, which have
nt flIYlCrS
recently instituted by DR.. l. III. Fuller, eX-Chair-
man of the democratic committee of Marion
county, (of which Indianapolis is the county
seat) for the recovery Of money dsbursed by him
IN accordance with the plan of the executive
committee, by whom the bills were audited are
sufficient to warn people that the same wicked
means which have been employed to disfranchise
CltlZens IN the south, are relied upon by the
democratic leaders to capture republican states
in the north.
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 10 the following extracts, from the able eX-
position of our political affairs and national inter-
csts as set forth in Il recent number of the Worth
american ReE2eJC 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 u law Of our
nature rs infallible in its 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
mcnt like the sun, goes on forever,
without haste, yet without rest"
We see today an eclipse of faith pOlit-
zeal. 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
cnce of the fleeing phenomena that seem
to contradict them
PERPETUTTY OF REUBIICANISM.
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 Rer5ew, that he
can see no reason for its existence to-day.
| think the vice-president was right. /
believe that the republican party has a
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
1t has always been true to its primitive
principles; that it has always been duti-
tul to the nation, and to the seminal ideas
hy.Whose divine energy the child-repub-
llc became giant among the peoples of
the earth 1t will endure Just as long as
1t Worthily represents the principle of
Progress, or, to use the newer phrase, of
Evolution, perennial and elemental
power of human nature; Just as long as
ii isconfronted by an organization hostile
To every phase of human development,
whether in the individual or the state or
the nation.
The war demonstrated the truth that
here the people rule-that heroes and
leaders are no longer necessary to them
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-presiGent was slain. There was rip
pie, and no more. He who had been look
ed ut as the great civil leader, was found
10 have been trusted friend in council,
and nothing greater; no more necessary
to the success of the nation than the
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