The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-12

The Republican partisan press and orators
make dead set for the trrhcl brigadie's In con-
gicss In and out Of season. We regard such
sh,ieking Rs intensely foolish well rs mean Is
there any person In the NorllI that has reached the
wears of discretion and IL Of sound mind Who would
not sooner trust man who had the courage aud hon
rsty fight FOR his oplniois-rycn II they mis-
taken oncs-tlan for y hucksierlng politician who was
instrumental IN bringing on great war hut when the
war came betOUk him Ia urging other people Ia fight its
battles In opposition 10 the short sighted pariisars
we say that nothing that the south has over done Is
mon. deserving of admiration than its loyalty To the
soldiers who fought It's battles, We think that the
south committed a great political luudrI la sr,rnr
We believe that under the Constitution rs It was in
1859, any than under the Constitution as 1t IL
there could lie and can he ~ pcacebe secession
Secession means war-hluody revolution and nothing
else. In our view, the North, az representing the
National Government aud the National Constitutions
was III the right while the south wholly In the
wrong, ~ well as being the aggressors al the start
But the Justice uf cause has nothing Ia do with tile
question whether the persons who believed in that
should support ana he loyal 10 Those who fought and
rskod their lives for II. Those less than men u
would forget this sacred duty
The korth rs far behind the South IN this regard
The politicians at the North-thc engineers uf the
maclne-were wise in their generation. They sent
the rank and the file of both parties Ia The font Ia
fight aud die, and they iemalued AT homo To control
The patronage Since the war, as before ", they have
remained In power. once Ia while a man who
served I'M tile Army " thrown bone, hut the fatod
cali rs reserved fur the men who were not foolish
enough to 60 NEAR the trout IN the great Rebellion.
The North has rewarded IS takers about the war and
the south has rewarded It's workers In II. And one
great Of the continuous how against Tel brir-
defh IN Goggles n hNhuhe then presence There 4.
10 be constant Icbukc to the politicians Of ti,e
North, who spout from the stump about "uudylng
gratitude - 10 the veterans, aud when offices are Ia he
fed put IN political hack who sneaked out of hear
ing his part In the war tu the exclusion OF man who
did his duty maniully IN the great struggle, Ihro
In the senate Of the United states the follow nr
Union soldier: gen. John A. logan, Uiep., OF
Illinois; Lieut.. Col. Preston D. Plumb Of kansas;
cob William T.. Kellogg, of Louisiana, and gen,
Ambrose r. burnside, of Rhnde lsland-fuur In all
As one of them Is from the south the Norlh has con.
trbuted Just three Union soldiers 10 the United States
senate-ihat is. less than ten per cent of it, reue.
sentatiun.
The less Republicans say about rebel brigadiers N,
better why do not they send Union soldiers Ia Offset
them They surely are not afraid 10 trust them Ia
Congress any more than they were In the field. There
sim another why Republicans should not ahus,
the tonfederates In 1877 II WAS owing to the Con-
federates that President Hayes permitted tu h,
iuauguratcd. Tie Republican leaders We're able I,
treat with them when they failed utterly ia dealing
with Democrats who Had never taken up against
the country Pariisags should have itti" gratitude.
II viii be found that the most conservative element,
North aud south the who did not prove sneak
IN the great riiss hut WHO rsked life and lint tOsup-
port tile cauhe Ia which they believed. ~ L. Graphc,
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