The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-22
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in this great country and under our free
and beneticient institutions, why can not we
have a harmonious and happy people, &C
customed to speak in terms of respect and
confidence of each other in all sections of
the country? Why should such sectional
and partisan bitterness and malignity exist
AS that manifested in our political discus
sions n newspaper publications? Why
should representative men be tolerated in
saving that anything, however immoral or
criminal, would be justiiable, if necessary
to keep political opponents out of office?
After the War ana the abolition of
slavery, and that, too, at the expense of the
Southern people, every dictate of propriety,
policy. and wisdom required that oblivion
should be thrown over the unhappy events
OF the War.
The lapse of time has been sufficient to
abate the passions and animosities of the
War, yet the radical clamOr and abuse of the
Southern people, the argument of the
"bloody shirt" is as rife and as vociferously
proclaimed now as it was the first year after
the War. II we can not have a harmonious
Union; If the Southern States can not be
trusted as equals with the other States in the
| Union according to the Constitution. then
the War was a failure, a terrific failure. in
which the loss of life and treasure, the DESC
lation and destruction, the mourning, sor-
row and suffering caused by it were all in
vain.
Politicians and newspaper in the North
ern States have undertaken to show that
there was not, and could not be, homoge-
neity between the people of the Northern
and the Southern States; that the people OF
these several sections were so different in
civilization and habits that Ito use the ex-
preston of one of their radical organs,
"they were rs wide apart as Heaven is fro II
hell" Hence, according to the Radical doc.
trine, a harmonious Union of the Northern
and Southern States would be impracticable
The land of Washington, and OF Jefferson,
and of Jackson, and of Clay not homo
geneOus with the people of the Northern
Statesl Whence and how came this? The
people of the Northern and the Southern
States fought he battles of liberty and in.
dependence side by side in the Wa o
the Revolution. The Southern and
Northern soldiers fought side by side for tn,
rights and honor of the United States in
every war until discord was produced by
the Radical Republicans. Want of homo
geneity, indeedl The Northern and South
ern people speak the same language, are edu
Gated in the same literature and are of the
same religious belief, and have been ex
tensively connected in business and kin
dred by blood and marriage for more than 6
century and a half They formed the Unior
of the States together. and lived happily
and prosperously under it until the evi
genius of Radical RepublicanIsm entered
this paradise of their liberties. When SataI
entered the Garden of Eden his policy
was to divide and conquer. And
such appears to be the policy and spirit o
Radical Republicanism. Now, what is rad
icalism? As applied to religion and poll
tics, it means the doctrine of the ex
tremists, who carry out or seek to carry GU
their dogmas to their Ultimate consequence,
without deviation or modification, regard
less of the wrongs and human suffering con
sequent upon their dire results. In botl
religion and politics, all abstract doctrine,
have to be modified in their practical opera
tons for adaptation to mans frail condi
ton. In religion they are qualified anc
tempered by charity and a benevolent re
gard for the weakness n frailty of human
nature. In politics, all civil government il