Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-16

necessity force it. Luckily for the
country, it can get along without leg
islation better than formerly.
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'sTHE NEW ADMINISTRATION"
Under the above caption the dr.
gus and Patriot has a long article,
from which we quote literally and
add comments. The time has not
come, even with new administra-
ton, when memory has lost its office
when those who fought to save the
country from ACKNOWLEDGMENT and de-
struction are to be ridiculed, without
resentment for having taken part
in the grand contest; the great re-
publican party does not propose to
suffer contumely and abuse from those
who, in the time of the nations peril,
were the abbettors and sympathizers
with treason; nor do we propose to
extol as saints those temporarily in
power, because the smallest circum-
stance of i'll luck has placed them IN
authority over the nation. The re-
publican party is loyal, it is magnan-
imous, it is just, but it will not be
tainted by those who deserve nothing
of country, without retaliation. But
we quote from the article mentioned:
"Twenty-four years ago last We'd
nesday Abraham Lincoln was inaug-
urated President, and the Republican
party, which combined all the ele-
ments of the opposition to the Dem
ocratic party, came into power. The
Democrats were hopelessly divided
in the canvass and foolishly persisted
in running two candidates, both of
whom were strong men, and differed
in sentiment only in single issue.
The slavery question entered largely
into the canvass, and was so skillful-
ly manipulated by the combined Wing
and Free soil parties under the new
name, Republican,, that 1t swept the
country and inaugurated war which
resulted in the overthrow of that in
stitution, and the continued series
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., populations,
thefts, defalcations and embezzle-
ments which have characterized the
continuance of that party in power. "
''The two candidates differed on a
single question: and that whether
the country should be all slave, OF
whether slavery should be confined to
its then present limits, by the voters
of the new territories. The party
Of one of the candidates was waging
war in Kansas with peaceful settlers
the party of the other candidate pos
sessed some little honor and patriot
ism and was willing to take its chanc-
es on the constitution and through
law for the maintenance of the noble
institution of slavery, that it NIGH
be made perpetual as one of the
formulation stones of the republic
"The republican party that inaugur
| ated war" The argus probably wei
: remembers how the republicans ?,
7 sent forces down to Sumpter anC
: drove the Federal garrison out o
) that fort after killing and woundins
, many, and later took possession o
+ L. S. forts ships, munitions of war
l etc. See, it was the republican par
5 ty, which sent troops from all over TIN
South, to fight under Beauregard
Johnson and Lee at Bull Run for tn,
t capture of Washington? 1t was thu
: republican party, was it not, that dur
e ing the winter of 1S60-61 left con
; gress from the states of Vermont
= Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa, etc. ant
went home to foment secession? Al
t of which resulted in the overthrow o
: that institution slavery "the grea
t superstructure" on which the seccde,
!, states declared the Confederacy shoul
f be founded 1.-The NAL administra
f tons" of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes
f Garfield. Arthur, ''Peculations an
It thef.s." History will record how tn
S great William M. Tweed, that char
) pion republican() of the republic
an(?) city of New York, plundere
e the city treasury, until his name be
W came stencil, even in the Democrat
e party, and the force of the examp
d of state treasurer in Tennessee, an
1t state officials in the republican stat
v of Kentucky will be painfully felt
r those states for years hence. Yes
re during that terrible period of repul
IS lican ascendancy we witnessed Il
IS overthrow of that benign Hiastitl
D, tion," slavery. Weep Aryus! wee
ne democrats
,e s'During the past twentyfour yea
. we have witnessed the terrible deva
u tations and bloodsLed of lingerr
T. civil war. We have behsld soye
ne eigp States deprived of their Repr
or sentatiEas in the National Congre
10 by the arbitrary exercise of powe
. We have seen fraudulent State lie
We islatures convened under proteclis
an of federal bagopets and State Legi
us latures dispersed By the same unIa,
he full means. Local elections OF Stat
IN have been manipulated and controls
by federal officers. The Nation
:" Treasury has been drawn upon to p;
I'D for horde of officials employed
IS. corrupt and overawe voters and fl