American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-16

ing the reinforcement of pretensions of
a purely local interest through the in
PREVENTION of Congress and of the Fed
eral Courts, as well as the unvarying
abuse by the Federal Administration of
power intrusted to it by a contiding
people," and denouncing as well 1.-THE
systematic plumber of the Treasury by
favored partisans and the frauds and
corruptions at the Federal metropolis"
At the first Inauguration of President
Lincoln this Republican was found ap-
plauding these sentences of the inau-
gural address: 1.-The mystic chords of
memory stretching from every living
heart and heal thstone all over this broad
land will yet swell the chorus of the
Union when again touched, as surely
they will be. by the better angels of our
nature"
At the Convention of 1864 such a Re-
publican was found resolving to main
tain the integrity of the Union and to
prosecute the war until rebels "return-
ed' to their just allegiance. At the
close of the Democratic Convention of
August, 1864, such Republican not
only forgot what the Republican Con-
ventions had insisted upon. but snecred
at that part of the Democratic platform
which denounced the direct interfer-
ence of the military authorities in the
elections OF Delaware and Maryland.
During 1866 the Republican party
urged the restoration of the Southern
States to the Union and supported the
measures of Thaddeus Stevens for re-
admitting the Senators and Representa-
| tives of those States to Congress when
ever the States modified and con-
formed their Constitutions to the new
amendments and their laws to the re-
suits of the civil war. In 1867. when
our typical Republican ascertained that
/ the IS carpeJ-bag whites" were not like
ly to return solid representations of
Radical CoLgresSmen, he dropped the
phrase restoration of States" and
adopted in its place the phrase .'re-
construction of States.' In 1868 he
had come to regard all the Southern
States as in the nature of colonies on
which territorial organizations were to
be imposed and from them new State
Governments ultimately to be con-
/ structed. In 1872 he was tanning
the embers of CAM fires that
he had agreed seven years before to
extinguish. In 1876 he was willing
to regard the Southe n States as er-
ring sisters that could be forgiven if they
would only cast electoral votes for Hayes.
And in 1880 he is found urging that
solid North should arrange a political
punishment for South that's likely to
be solid for the candidate of the Union.
Thus, after many administrations. the
Republican partisan who has faithfully
followed his party platforms during Il
quarter of century finds in 1889 that
he is hidden by his latest platform to
occupy the position of sectional hate
and jealousy which he alleged in 1860
tina this Southern neighbor occupied.
Such Republican gives us new
illustration of a story three centuries
old. The modern Vicar of Bray may
answer the unfeeling people who twit
him with his inconsistency that though
his platforms have changed and even
been reversed his principle is the same.
and that alike while protesting against
military interference in elections and
while upholding military interference
in elections, while deprecating sectional
feeling and while making his sole
appeal to sectional feeling, he
has been true to his principle
and has never failed to pursue the of
fees. When Flanagan bears of the Vicar
of BRAY the heart of the Texan states
man will grow warm within him, and
he will in imagination stretch out his
hand across the gulf of generations to
greet kindred spirit. N. T. World.