Daily globe., 1879-04-26
THE INCENDI.lRY TLLK.

Congress on the pending measures, Democrat
or Republican, can not but be impressed
with the studied effort of the great majority
of Republican speakers to revive the old war
passions. Every taunt possible has been
hurled day after day upon the ex-confed-
crates, while the majority party have been
accused with equal frequency with
all the political crimes known to our his
tory. Not Republican speaker
has met the issue raised by the amendments
offered to the appropriation bills on their
merits, but every speaker has coupled that
issue with events of the war, while the
Fryes of the party have used the cunning
and malignity of the evil one to coin the
most insulting and exasperating illusions,
with the most bare-faced perversions
of facts and unfair conclusions from the
predicates advanced. A sample of the
style of argument (?) employed by these
men is found in the remarks of one Joyce;
who halls from Vermont, made in the
House Wednesday. We clip from the Asso-
ciated Press report of his remarks:
'Mr. Joyce stated that he had heard in this
debate men who had been disloyal to their
country prate about the constitution and lee
ture the Republican party about the freedom
of elections. He had seen them rise up and
howl about soldiers at the polls. When bands
of armed men in the South took possession of
the ballot box, stuffed it full of tissue ballots,
and killed men who would not vote the Demo
cratic ticket, delicacy should not be laid aside,
and men of the North should resent the insult
| and again hurl defiance to treason and modified
rebellion. The people of the North had no
concessions to make, but were determined that
the great principles settled by the war should
be preserved and enforced at all hazards and at
any COST and the men who in 1861 had barred
| their breasts to the bayonet were ready in
| 1879 to again stand in the breach and protect
the constitution from the treason of those who
were now seeking to. destroy the government
| under the form OF law
| In tone and sentiment the above is not ex-
ceptional but the rule in the line of argu-
ment adopted by the Republicans.
For what is this line adopted? To fire the
Northern heart!
For what? Another war!
Joyce has said it in the above. Frye has
said it, and other Republican speakers
have said it, and the sentiment is fippantly
re-echoed by some few of the party papers,
even the little piddling Dispatch, edited by {
so-called ex-soldier, adding it's mite to the wal
wave, with the owl-llke inquiry of "Have We
got to whip those rebels again.
Every one of mature years remembers thu
dark days of 1S59-6O, and the spring O.
1861 Then the halls of Congress resound
ed with infammatory speeches, each side
taunting the other with the readiness of theil
followers to ''bare their breasts to the bayo
net" in defense of their opinion. The wist
men of the country raised the warning, but
the Fryes and Joyces of the opposing forces
kept on, still hugging to their bosoms th'
hope that in the supreme moment the
other side would back down and the,
would come out of the contest victorious
Finally the infammable pile was fred ani
war with all it's horrors enveloped the coun
try.
But both we're mistaken. One result O
the late war was to show that the American
people, whatever else may be said of them
are brave men ready to lay down their live
in defense of what they believe the right.
The brave spirit that carried the people o
the North and South through four years an,
half of bloody war is not dead, but simpl
dormant and Notwithstanding the terribl,
bitter experiences of that war, it can b.
aroused to fever heat as it was in 1861.
But never again can section be arraye
against section, as then.
The issue, African slavery, that made tha
possible, died with the proclamation {
Abraham Lincoln and the final surrender {
Gen. Lee. Those who now invoke the
: arbitrament of the sword must know, or 6
} least they ought to know, that when tn
drums again beat to arms it will not be t.
!, rally armies on sectional but on party lines
and that every hamlet in the land will be th
theatre of actual conflict. Does any on
} doubt this? Let him look the thing squar
in the face. The contest in Congress ths
calls forth these war notes is not sectiona
it is party. On the floor of Congress wit
J the majority are confederate and Union ger
r erals. Among the latter some of the bra,
est of those who donned the blue in defens
, of the imperilled Union. Our sister Sta
| of Wisconsin swells the majori
party in Congress by two
its most gallant defenders, VIII
. commencing with the first battle
{ Bull Run, never chan eed the army blue +,
t the garb of the citizen, until after Ge1
j Lees surrender, and the gallant men of the
command went marching home with victo
), perched on their banners. We allude
i Generals E. s. Bragg and "Gabe'' Bouc
J, Other Northern soldiers equally brave al
!, true, help toswen the majority party. The
: men are in hearty sympathy with the s
: called confederate brigadiers'' fin the pr
Q posed legislation. Hear Gen. Bragg on IL
! same day of Joyce's inlammatory speech, al
:, mark the difference in the sentiments of Il
9 two, one those of fighting Union gener
? and the other of a stay-at-home brawler:
: Mr.. Bragg said the attempt of the Republ
G can party to arouse a feeling of alarm in tt
North had failed. The people of the Nor
Q knew that the men of the South had been bra,
: enough to fight the battle. When they had La
;, down their arms, laid them down as brave me
always did, accepting the consequences of the
s defeat, then the boys in blue and the boys
IS gray had knelt together at the feet of the go