The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-12
ARRANT NONSENSE.

0"hANA 1HONo6NO11'
at is this question whether the govern
ment of the people is to continue or to be
destroyed which must be settled in 1884, and
which makes Republican defeat more proba-
Bile next year than it was in 1876 or in 1880"
But for the two dates given the reader
might naturally conclude that the above
paragraph was clipped from a Charleston
paper of the early days of 1860 On the
contrary, it is the sentiment of a New York
paper of 1888. 1t is difficult to conjecture
what the writer means. He intimates
broadly that secession of some Kind will
ensue in case of certain events in 1884. Ac-
cordlng as the national election goes next
year will the government stand or fall. The
utterance in itself is veriest nonsense. No
milder term will do to describe
it. In view of palpable facts the
author of the above paragraph has written
himself down fool. There is no risk in
saying that there is not a sane man in any
portion of the country who sincerely believes
that the life of the nation is in issue in the
next general election. If the New York
w VIM AiOpAS any eAAiliS W SuNiA a PlSAOoNSA
Gus utterance, it means that the government
will be destroyed in event of another Repuh-
lican triumph. The same prophecy was
uttered in 1860, but in November of that
al ticket. A portion of the
States attempted to make the
prophecy good by passing ordinances of Sc
cession. The work of disintegration began at
Charleston, where the first formal declara-
ton of secession was made Dec. "a, 1860,
more than two months before the Republi-
can executive took charge at Washington.
Every thing had been prepared to make seces-
sion a success. The details need not be re-
peated. The Republican party, however,
then as now believed in one indissoluble
union of States, and Immediately on its ac-
cession to power set about the serious work
of obliterating the line between North and
South, and uniting all the people. 1t took a
herculean effort to accomplish this, but
in time it was done, at what fearful sacri-
flee of life and treasure the pages Of history
will ever show. The government was not
destroyed and now there is a stronger SYM
pathy between North and South than ever
before in the nations history. The country
is richer, stronger; there is more commercial
prosperity than for generation past
1t is supremest folly to talk of destroying
the government because the Republican
party is likely to again carry the elections
next year. A popular verdict in favor of the
Republican party is a new guaranty of nation
al stability. The government at Washington
will have a new lease of healthy life The
twenty-five years of Republican control have
not been in vain. The people know that
Republicanism means one government one
people. 1t means sound financial credit,
low rate of interest and the payment of
every dollar of debt The Republican party
restored the Union, built up the public cred
it, and has paid thousand millions of the
war debt, besides reducing the rate of inter
est from twelve to three per cent. 1t has
given the country a currency at
par in paper, silver and gold,
aud has established and per-
fected banking system good as was ever
devised. Unless indications are at fault the
party will be givena new lease of power in
1884. If the American people so elect, the
Republican party will remain in charge
without a doubt. This is no threat, but
simply an honest and unqualified determ-
nation to have and enjoy every honor be-
slowed by the suffrages OF the people, 1t is
useless to buster and threaten. The Repub-
lican party has faced both too long to be
frightened. A majority of the people
in legal way will determine
which party shall be in charge of their vast
and growing Interests. When the verdict is
rendered the party defeated will have to give
way. That is all there is about it. The peo-
pie will not suffer their interests to be jeop-
arded; they can not be cajoled; they will not
be bullied into accepting an atom less than
the full measure of their dues.
Despite the logic of events, there are polit-
ical mountebanks who persist in their
endeavors to antagonize the people of one
section against those of another. Forgetting
the lesson of the war, they imagine that the
people also have forgotten. Ignoring the
wonderful work of the Republican party in
the field, in the channels of industry, and of