Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-13
THE POLICY OF THE GRANTEES

THE POLICY OF THE GRANTEES.
The Chicago Inter Ocean contains letter
from exGov. Pennington, of Dakota, advo-
idency. He wants an aggressive campaign,
| and just as much bloody shirt and just as
much blood on the shirt rs can he crowded
into it. He is sure the North is not solid,
and that two or three Southern States are
necessary, and therefore Grant, with any
amount of arm, leg, facial and wind exercise
thrown in, can carry the day.
In these utterances Gov. Pennington gives
a fair reflex of the prevailing sentiment of
the Grant party and foreshadows the policy
upon which the campaign will be conducted
in case he succeeds in gaining the nomina-
ton. 1t is to be campaign waged upon
the issues of the war that ended fifteen years
ago at Appottomax. The Southern outrage
mill is to be set grinding with its old-time
vigor, and every effort will be
made to stir up sectional strife
to array the North against the South as
traditional and implacable enemies. This
will involvs the sending Of emissaries to the
South, as in 1872, where they will incte
riot, midnight assassination and bloodshed.
| Their mission will be to demonstrate that
tae South is still unreconciled to the Union;
that the colored people are oppressed and
deprived of their rights by their former
masters, and are in danger of being sent
back to slavery or are now being subjected
to outrages that render their present con-
dition fsEsworse than that from which they
were released by the emancipation proclams-
ton Of President. Lincoln. That thsse en-
isssries will do their work thoroughly and
unscrupulously does not admit of a doubt.
They have already shown their adaptability
for the dirty business that will bs entrusted
to them.
We have no desire to place the Grant party
in false position. In estimating it we
simply take the expressions of their leaders
as our guide. If We are guilty of misrepre-
senting the faction, the fault lies With its
chosen spokesman, who have taken especial
pains to announce this as their policy.
While it was in power this party lost no oc-
casion to malign the characters and misrep-
resent the motives of the Southern people.
1t has accused them and still accuses them
of reasonable purposes; of desire to re-
enslave the colored people; of intending to
extract from the national treasury payment
in full for the loss of their slaves with an
intention of abrogating all the recent con-
stitutional amendments; of numberless
crimes and intended crimes, all of them suf-
fcient to consign every Southern man to the
gallows. Though We greatly regret that
such g campaign has been determined upon,
it must be met from the outset. We are
gratifed at being able to state
that within the past few years
much light has been cast upon
the disreputable methods employed by the |
Republican party in conducting its cam
paigns, and that but few of the people can |
now be hoodwinked into a belief in the |
stories concocted by it's paid agents at the
South. The course of the Southern repre-
sentatives in Congress has been discreet and |
temperate. They have shown their patriot
ism; they have shown an earnest desire for
return of the era of fraternity. Their course
will be the strongest contradiction to the as
sertions of the GRANTEES that the people are
still disloysl to the government. Though
they have had the power they have allowed
no single claim Of disloyal person, and
have further taken measuraa t. mt q sion 70
all such allowances in the future. They
have shown commendabie disposition to
decrease the expenses of every department
If the government without impair
ng in the least its efficiency.
They have exposed fraud, and placed
barriers in the way of its repetition. They
nave, in short, demonstrated that they are
careful, sagacious and honest legislators, en-
titled to the respect and confidence of every
,itizen of whatever political party.
The war upon the South that is contem-
plated is utterly inexcusable. That it will
'e attem ted is without question. But the
people will not be slow to perceive the pur-
bose of the assault and the groundlessness of
he charges, and the weapon that it is thought
will prove so effective will turn out to be
boomerang that will do more harm to the ,
PROTECTOR than to the persons at whom it is
ERECTED. IL