The Van Buren press., 1879-02-01
Vol. l6.---No. ~

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regiments towards thi national capiti.
as the legions, in olden time, moved TO-
wards Rome, when the empire had been
sold to an adventurer, without the con-
sent of the people.
The Democratic party Is denounced as
the party Of notification, but not one
word of condemnation or even protest.
has come from the Republican press
against the extraordinary declaration. OF
Gen Grant that if silver was remvnetizei
he would advise every business man and
merchant in the United States to refuse
it in payment o! any debt, or In the dis
charge OF any contract In other words
he would nullify an act of congeess en-
acted in obedience to the overwhelming
will of the people
Is 1t at all surprising that Gen. Grant
is the idol of the Centralzationists Or
TO nse the language OF Mr. Howe, Of
Wisconsin, having exhausted the hon.
ors Of the Western hemisphere. he has
gone abroad that the East might stand
up to do him reverence
The programme will be consummatcd,
when, in a few months he returns by the
back door Of the republic, and making
this triumphal march across the conti-
nent, attended by the plaudits OF the
Eastern bondhoders and gold owners,
shall realize those sonorous verses OF
Homer:
Hark to Tylides, rushing from afar.
As with its golden chariot wheels,
lie thunders to the war.
In nothing, however, is so clearly de-
monstrated the centralizing tendencies OF
Republican party, as in its so-called re-
construction policy towards the South.
Under pretence OF protection to the col
ored man, and insnring his equality be-
fore the law, the republican leaders have
attempted to strike down the system Of
state government, and to create upon its
ruins an elysium for the licensed thieves,
who, protected by federal bayonets, have
plundered indiscriminately, whites and
blacks, OF the little left them by the war.
And here let me say, distinctly and en-
phatically, that no true democrat wishes
to disturb any amendment to the federal
constitution, or to take from any citizen,
white or black, any Of the rights confer.
red by federal legislation. On the other
hand, every patriot must recognize the
absolute necessity OF maintaining these
amendments, and of elevating the color
ed race to true citizenship by education,
and full guaranty for every legal right.
In vain, by such charges, and by appeals
to bitter memories Of the past, do the
republican leaders attempt to lash the
north to fury, and seize the government
for another presidential term. The scene
enacted here, to-day, when the Democra:
cy Of Missouri, send as their senators to
the national congress Scared veteran
of the Union cause, and one who espou.
sed that of the lost confederacy, is elo-
quent of the great truth that there is
peace in the land.
A few months since, when the yellow
demon held high carnival in the stricken
South. a vessel, freightcd by generous
hearts and hands, foated down the FAITH
or of Waters, bearing aid to those who
were once enemies, but now Of kin,
through the g great touch Of nature"
The commander of that vessel, gal.
liant Union soldier, now sleeps npon the
historic hills OF Vicksburg, fit monu.
ments to the memory Of him who died.
not amidst the crash Of martial music or
Of shot and shell and sabre stroke, but
with higher and nobler courage, silently
and calmly gave up his life for those he
had fought and conquered.
In all history, what scene, save that
one on the hills Of Judea, is more sub
lime than that upon the banks Of the
great river, where bearded men and pal
lid women with loving and tender hands,
aid in its last serving place the body OF
The Northern soldier, who died for the
people of the South. The angels looked
down with moistencd eyes aud from all
nature arose the hymn of love which
once hoated over the Egean:
. Love- sons Of earth for love Is carth's soft lore,
Look when you viii, earth oyerhows with me.
Learn from the waves that ever kiss the shore.
nd the nesting winds on the heaying sea-
Yes, love is stronger than hate, and in
,he grave of that dead hero was buried
.he last vestige Of sectional strife.
The North needs the South, and the
South needs the North. The South needs
.he energy. intellect and wealth of the
great North, whilst the Norths needs the
semi tropical products of the South,
which God has given to no other part OF
his continent. The South asks for no
PENSIONS, no bounties, no payment of its
var debt. There is not confederate
oldier, warthy the name, who would re-
,eive one cent from the federal govern.
nent, in pension or bounty. All that tho
south asks is peace. lasting, real, true
,eace-peace, in which to build up its
ulned homes and harrassed industries-
'eace in which to pay its full proportion
If the national debt.
What the country demands. to-day, 10
he development of its material reseur
es, the protection Of all it's citizens in
very right, and that every section and
itizen shall he enabled 10 increase tho
General wealth.
The country is heartily and thoroughly
ired of sectional strife and sectiona. lc.
1slation 1t demands an equitable dis
Iibution of the federal appropriationl
nd instead of millions being expended
pom insignificant bays and rivers. and
thousands upon the father Of waters, the
act should be recognized that in the val
y OF the Mississippi is the empire Of
le continent.
Let this mighty river aud its tributa-
les be the especial care of the govern
lent. No one state, 10 five states, can,
r ought to undertake this great work.