Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-01
THE CANVASS.

EDITOR ELECTROMAGNETIC IL life long dem
ocrat, attached to the principles and anxious for
the success Of our party, permit me a word. 1t
has been we'll SAID by a writer In your paper that
a candidate who would raise the issues of the
w ar against II member of his party is no friend
OF democracy. understand that Col. Rathhun
carried around, as an electioneering card, u
notice of AN old military assessment, commonls
call the bone taX and read 1t publicly in a
speech at Chapel Hill during the present can
vass. When Col. Rathbun volunteered, less
than a year ago. to go hundreds OF miles to his
native state of ohio, and make a speech in behalf
of Gen. Ewing, OF order No. ii fame, did he use
such arguments as those now urged a-ainst his
competitor?
and rec:imination about the policies and
measures oil the war, would disrupt our party in
the nation, and turn Missouri over to the radI-
Gals. suppose that no one but a radical would
wish 10 drive voters from the democratic ranks
that they had Il patent right on the bloody rag
yet the colonel would out-do them in radical
Ism, for they do not haunt that garment in the
faces OF members of their own party. Witness
their treatment of Mosby. Lonsstreel, and others
who Knight be mentioned True southern men
are not less masninlmous than Radicals. The
ungenerous Treatment witch Judge Burden i5
receiving was never inspired by II heroic soul
like Hampton, Gordon, Cockrell or Shelby
These men, the type CT southern chIvalry, be-
long not 10 that class OF nerrow minded Judi
vidunls with whom every other consideration
must give way to self. We are on tn. rhr.sh-
hold Of II death struggle for constitutional
libsr Y. Upon one side Is arranged u sectional
party, C'HltI'llUS lpI ZdtlOiI ANU 'Fc
man: on The other, the great party OF the people,
the democratic party, tr:diunnel By more tnah
seventy years Oi glory, upon whose burners are
inscribed the eternal prime pies ot right, anu In
whose history shine the brightest names OF thu
great ard good men Of this nation. There sc
And Jackson, the friend of the Union in The days
of nuiliiicati IT, and in latter days such SIllal I
spirits "a Hampton, Gordon, Cockrcil, Hi,
Shelby, McClellini, Hancock and Shields, and
tens OF thousands OF others who wore The
blue amt the gray, all iii solemn council, united
In q band of bretEertlo0d for the 20 Il Of u COM
mon country. Men whose beautiful homes and
cities in the south had b.eI destroyed and de-
| populated by the hands of those they now clasp
IN trtcnd'y greeting. F""man WI" lad met II"
Ia. iirfce si'J:k al contcnilu- arms, and Whose
blood had mingled in Il common strelm from
the heights OF Gettysburg 10 the plans Of Texas,
Malvern Hill. fredericksburg the wilderness,
Shiloh. the valley Of Virginia. Georgia, south
Carolina, and our own loved Missouri, all Htt"St
the earnestness of the contest amt the fury OF It's
destruction. Yet to these men, so duuntlcsS in
war, 30 inagnaniIndu5 IN peace, the memory Of
that frntriCidal strife with all It's embltterei pas
sious is buried f,rever in the grave of the un-
happy past. What an eXample nave they given
us ? What monuments have they erected : Mon-
uments whose moral splendrr, Hndlinmed Ivy
the clouds OF fanaticism, shine on both heIniS-
phrres, Iind shall continue 10 grow brighter
durlag the lapse of ages And now, on the eve
of IL presidential election. which will tax every
energy Of our party. and test the fate of rcrub-
llcan institutions, Will any man, protesting to be
n democrat dare thrust himself into the ranks Of
these patriots to SOW the seeds of dlscord and
disintcgrate his party by opening airesh the
wounds of the war? Rather than arouse the
passions of an element IN his party, which
happens 10 be in the majority in thi. county
would It not he more manly In Col. Ralhoun to
show himself worthy to he probate judge. if he
closed with every patriot fifteen Years aYo'
! FAIR PLAY.