The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-02
REPLY TO OLARA S. FOLTZ.

SLAUGHTER, W T., Aug. 26, 1850.
10 THE EDITOR or THIS NEW NORTHWEST;
Your paper has been welcome Wis
itor in the family for many years, and
seek through its columns to communi-
cate with your intelligent readers by
brief review of the above lady's article
in your issue Of the 18th inst. She says:
The intelligent women who make up the
rank and nle OF Woman Sunragists Of the
United states must know that TO the Republic
can party we are indebted for the preservation
otthe Union and an that makes Us great and
prosperous people.
II she will assume a position from
which she can take an unprejudiced
view of the true status Of affairs, she
will find that the Rebellion was put
down by the bayonet; that President
Lincoln called upon the loyal people
mot the Republican party to come to
the rescue Of the Union, and all party
names were merged into one, the Union
party; aud that there were more Of the
followers of Bell and Douglas that re-
sponded to the call than of the Republi-
can party. Hence the declaration that
the Republican party saved the Union
is a mistake. Aud il may be truly said
that we were great and prosperous
people before the Republican party bad
any appreciable existence; and beg
leave to urge that we are a great and
prosperous people now, despite the Re-
publican party.
The lady further says:
The Democrats are to-day, from every out
ward appearance, as deeply imbued with the
spirit of hatred 10 the Federal Government as
they were 40 any time from the firing on Fort
sumter to the Appomattox eapitulation.
This is certainly a bold assumption
for one versed in legal lore, and should
be sustained by some direct evidences
The writer evidently intends .o cols-.
the idea that the Democrat party
in spirit, in rebellion, ana makes tho
Republican party the Government Has
the lady's reason become 90 blinded by
prejudice and sectionalisa as .bus o
transcend the bounds of reason and pro-
priety, in the face of the stern facts that
| Douglas stated unequivocauy hat Lin
coins election was no gro1Id for seees-
sion, and that when 1900 troops were
called for it ought to have been 100000?
Can she find in any Nau-ueI Demo
cratic platform secession c.4IucI as
constitutional right under aug .-touL
stances? That the Dem6 .stio -e-.-
split at Charleston aud the Southeu
wing went into rebellion is no NOR
proof that the Douglas Democrs ere
, or that the party of to-day is in
and spirit hostile TO the FEEDER a-
erumeut, than the split in the N
Church in 1874 proves the whole church
infidel.
The outward appearances" referred
to are certainly not within the scope or
vision Of an Intelligent people. rot
the present platform upon which Cen
, eral Hancock stands and the docgue. @
from his hand loyal to the Cons.ltut oc
and the Union
The lady charges Hancock With have
ing "a rebel horde at his backu ~
the lady from home from 1S61-65 She
must know that the Rebellion was 11.
down by loyal arms, reconstruction vs-
effected under a Republican admiuissrs-
ton, was accepted and ratified by those
who had been IN rebellion, and that every
State and Territory in the Uniou was
constitutioualiy represented in Congress
Is there really any "rebel horde any
where IN the geographical limits as th + F.
Government? Would the writer hay
the doctrine that there is no repentance
beyond the grave supplemented 0y the
one that there is no repentance on tlfs
side Of the grave ? no atOnem ene9 no
reconciliation possible? None with fps
Republican party. 1t was conceived
and brought forth in hatred touarI tbe
South and toward all who would not
join them in that hatred aud .t seerz
"from every outward appearance t5at
that haired still constitutes its vitality
Your humble correspondent sucrifcsd
everything in Missouri for the Juior
but nothing for the perpetuatiou Of the
Republican or any other party.
I have received from the National
Committee of the "Union Veteran
Union" iu New York, the requisite pa
pers for the organization of Veteran
Clubs. These papers reveal the fact that
there is an immense secret military or
ization in the Republican party of the
United States, with L. 5. Grant as eou-
mander-in-chief Each State and Ter
ritory has its division commander. 70
whom monthly reports are to be made
Military commissions are to be issueJ
by the ommander-in-chief, tactics Of
the United States army are to be used
aud the organization may be called out
at any time, aud with the avo,0ed pur
pose Of making a Republican Presiden,
10 the monthly reports, the slightes
disaffectiOn Of its members is to be rs-
. ported TO headquarters. General Grant
letter of acceptance as eommander-ir
chief "a printed copy with the names %
division commanders accompanies ss if
papers-Gen. J. a. Garfield for Ohio,
Gen. J. F. Miller for California, etc a
more thorough military OrgdHizG 5a OF
- a party could not be devised. Tbini OF
= it. The military organization 0f q
party in a civil government to maze q
President! Why scrutinize so elosely y
. any disafection as to the grand pur-
l Tft,- d. loci fhs.