The Butler weekly times., 1882-11-01

The Barton County -NiSSo"rIan.
4 Republican paper, helped eager
" by other Republican papers
throughout the State. is assailing
the Hon. Chas. II. Morgan bitterly
on account OF his war record. Why
these truly loval organs should be so
superlatively sensitive about any
body'S war record who served in
the Union army. we leave to the
fearful and wonderful make up OF
Republican politics in Missouri.
only stipulating that when they do
sropc about among the bones and
the graves of that sorrowful civil
conflict. they should at least have de-
cency enough to let the hair go with
the hide in the skinning process.
The greatest Republican grew
ance against Charley Morgan ap-
pears to be his enthusiasm as Il
Federal soldier. his bitterness of eN-
preston towards all so-called Cop
perheads, and his actions once in
Ohio as the aider and abettor OF
mob WHICH overturned Samuel
Medary's newspaper press, and
broke up for while the newspaper
itself, the CRISIS. then an outspoken
anti-war journal.
Suppose he was bitter in his eN-
pression-whicn nobody believes
except some enemy who means to
vote against him, and who would
vote against HIM even though John
the beloved deciple, had annointea
his brow with heavenly grace, and
made 1t shine as an aureole is be-
Iieved to shine about saint; and
suppose he did help to pitch a SEMI
secession sheet INTO river-which
nobody again believes-what Of 1t
all: The charges are simply made
to drive from the support of Morgan
those Democrats who may have
been Confederate soldiers during the
war, or ardent sympath,zers with
the Southern Confederacy. If this
be the object on the part of the Re-
pubiicans, and there can be no other,
they know SO little about the Con-
federate Democrats as to appear
ridiculous even in their very
ignorance. The Cohtederates are
perfectly willing to let bvgones
be bygones if the Federals are.
Nothing of the excesses of that
terrible time is good to stir. 1t
was Il fratr icidal strife, and combat
ants hated one another. Every evil |
passian known to the human heart |
came savagely uppermost. If there |
was murder done on one side; SO,
also. was there murder done on the |
other. If Oh one side there was
waste, pillage and wholesale harry
ing; SO, also. did the raid and the !
torch make all things even ON the
other. If a crow could not fly over
the valley of The Shenandoah without
carrying his rations so, also did the |
buzzards of Kansas have no need of !
haversacks. If Lee, in the magni- !
tude ofhis great, tender heart, spared /.
Pennsylvania: so, also, did that
splendid soldier Mcclellan make
war IN Virginia like christian
So, taking one thing with another,
and summing up poor human ma
ture just as it is, just as it always
has been, Just as it always will be.
and there is nothing and can be
nothing between the Federals and
the Contederates TO keep them apar.
tor single second, much less to ar
ray one against the other at the bid
ding of a lot of Black Republicans
who would be only too glad to see
them all go to the devil together po-
litically.
Any man who i washed in the
blood of Democracy, and made
clean before the throne of the NOM
mating caucus or convention. Is fit
to SIT on a throne by the risht hand
of Jefferson o. Jackson. 1t makes
no earthly difference wfs.-re a man