The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-04-16
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The Republican Howl.

The unreconstructed Republican newspalssrs
of the North are frantic because the Fresidfnt
has appointed so many ex-COnfederate soldiers
to important Government Offices, and are dot0g
their utmost to resurrect the bloody shirt Tisey
say that the President has given /" i've 6rst-cisss
missions" to the South that he has givSn
three missions to the North in all" that fie
majority Of the chief diplomatic and consular
representatives AFTER Mr.. Cleveland shall have
completed his list Of of foreign appointments
will be ex-Confederate Brigadiers, !" men whip
led the army of Rebels. who sought to destrtsy
the American Union" and that +" Of the min$r-
ity who represent the loyal portion OF tee
country the most will be Copperheads or dough-
faces who truckled to the Confederates." They
also charge that Mr.. Phelps, the new minisserNc
England made "a dsloyal spesch twenty
four years ago. How they do dig up the dead
past and gloat over old issues and old sentimerts
that have been trying to sleep for the last twet-
ty years. They insist that the South Is still In
rebellion" that the war is still going on, ard
that all men who are living on this side isf
Mason and Dixons line " are still Rebels AID
traitors, bent upon the ~destrucsion OF the
Union" And yet the country Is at peace; tAs
rife.pits have all been filled up and the fortiA-
cations are Overgrown with weeds and grass.
The Republican editors forget that Republii
can President sent Mosby and Longstreet ausi
Orr, on diplomatic missions, and that hundreds
of others, who fought in the Confederate army.
were placed in Office by Republican Administrs.
tions; that President Arthur was the close ally
of Gen. Chalmers, the hero of" the Fort Pillory
massacre" and the friend and supporter cf
Malone, the Virginia traitor. There was n1
objection to their appointments, although they
were just as great Rebels" as the Confederate
Brigaders who have now been selected BIT
President Cleveland to represent the Government
abroad.
All of Mr.. Cleveland's appointments have NOT
given general satisfaction it was to be expected
that objections would be made and that he
would be criticised and censured for what be
has done. There is, however the satisfaction bs
knowing that he has not appointed q corrupt
man to Office and that he had the good sense TO
select large number of his appointees from the
South-not from the South because of its geo
graphical position, but because he felt that Tie
men whom he has selected from the Soush
would do most to strengthen his Admin istrati,,n
and benefit the country. Commenting upon
this subject the Philadelphia Telegraph says:
"President Cleveland. it is to be assumed, IL
appointing few Southern men to office, rs
simply doing what President Grant, Hayes,
Garfield and Arthur did, viz: recognizing thss
the war is over; that peace is twenty years old,
that the North and South are simply geograpti-
ica terms that Soulherners are as loyal 10 the
Union as Norherners; that it is one country;
that We are all countrymen, united by stronger
bonds of fraternity Than ever before that this is
time OF goodwill and common interest 10
North and South, and that the more good fetl,
ing and interest cultivated the better it will
be for the whole people" 4