National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-25

though We may be mistaken, that President
HAYES will veto each of the three nppro-
priation bills with party provisions attached,
actuated by n high sense of duty to the
right under existing circumstances. Though
we may have differed with the President as
to some features of his administration, we
have never given up the hope that when the
South, in its intoxication of political power,
should attempt to strike all the war meas
ures of the Government from the statute
book that the President would stand as n
wall of adamant between them and all such
purposes, In this we have abiding fifth
now, for we are convinced that the Presi-
dent loves his country and will stand by its
laws and its Constitution with patriotic
fidelity, and we shall not be prepared to be-
lieve to the contrary until he himself, by his
own act, shall furnish the foundation of
such a belief Under this deliberate con-
viction we have no reason for blufling"
him, as we most Nssuredly have no DISPOSE
tion to assume such an offensive attitude to-
ward the President of the United States.
If the OJserrer will possess its soul in pa
tiencc it will soon have an opportunity of
forming an opinion from actual demonstra-
tion as TO the correctness of our Judgment
regarding the future attitude of the Presi-
dent toward the pending measures.
THE most terrible thing that can be done
to Copperhead who was TOO cowardy, per-
haps, to take up arms for the South and
too disloyal to sympathize with the North
during the rebellion, is now to hold up to
his view scraps of the history of that bloody
contest. 1t sends him into perfect thrill
of anger and presents him senseess and de-
formed, showing conspcuously that
There is not in nature
thing that makes a man so deiormed and beasty
As doth inlemperate anger.
Cruel as this is to the disloyal Democrat,
we may occasionally offend by reproducing
some of the causes and symptoms that at
tended the rebellion. We do so for the rea-
SON that like causes and like symptoms
now present themselves in Congress and
out of it i'll the Democratic party, which
seem to presage a repetition of history at no
very remote PERIOD unless the cavorting
spirit born into that party of the other re-
belion is brought in subjugation to right,
justice, and propriely. II history offends,
or if truth plainly spoken ofends, we may
offend again and often, perhaps; but for the
sake of decency we trust that those who are
offended at such things will clothe them
selves in n spirit of moderation, and not
glare at MS with fiery eyes and contracted
brows," and talk incoherently of courage
and manhood, when such inspirations never
moved their hearts TO action. We might
pity those who are so tortured by the pro-
duction of "reminiscences OF the war if they
were not counterieiting loyalty that never
entered their hearts, and are now practicing
q gross deceit for petty advantage. In our
judgment no greater punishment can be in
flicted upon Southern or Northern Demo-
crat who didn't and wouldn't fight himself
but encouraged others to rebel, than now to
reproduce for his consideration occasional
scraps of history which call to mind the
spirit of that occasion, and lead to COM
parison of it with that which comes up
from the same party in the present hour OF
pretended conciliation.