The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-09-09

BY appeals to sectional prejudice The war
is over and the embers OF war are dead. The
people of this great republic, long estranged,
are now united in union that cemented
with the blood of its best and bravest sons,
is indissOluable forever. Neither fools, or
fanatics, or demagogues can rekindle the
passions that burned themselves ont amid
the terrible scenes of the war. Those who
attempt ii are doomed to defeat and disgrace.
Mr.. Blaine was beaten for the Presidency
when he yielded to fools advice, and in
Ohio furled the banner that waved above his
flushed and victorious army and ran up the
wretched rag Of crimson that he himself des-
pissed. When he made that bitter speech in
Augusta, after the election; he reconciled
to his defeat half a million voters who, until
then, were unreconcilable.
If anything is settled il is that the masses
of the people, North and South, are tired of
strife. They want peace They have so de-
clared over and over again, and the thunders
of their declaration have drowned again and
again the vicious outcries of the politicians.
Whatever party pledges itself TO the reopen
ing of wounds, but lately healed and the re-
lighting of consuming fires that were ex-
hnguished twenty years ago, will be repu-
dated at the polls. If the Republican party
commits itself To this narrow and insane
policy, the Democratic party will remain i'm
power until new parties and new issues arise
illness and sincerity Of her course, so long
pain to observers must be maintained. She
was brave enough to meet the shock of war
without quailing and was brave enough to
accept its results without reservation. In
stead of sulking amid the ashes and ruins of
her homes, she set earnestly TO work to re-
pair the desolatiOn of war, and fashion her
fortunes anew out OF such pitiful resources
as was left her. From first to last she has
been earnest sincere and honest
in her re-established relations with the
North. BY slow but sure process this
simple truth has cut its way.thrOugh the
sophistries of the politicians, and carried
conviction 10 the people of all sections. The
election of Mr.. Cleveland was proclamation
that at last the real purpose of the South was
understood by the North, and confidence
between the sections restored. The sensible
and conservative course of the South. since
Mr.. Cleveland's election has confirmed this
confidence.
Policy, then, as well as patriotism, will
hold the Southern people to the large-mind-
ed and abiding love of the Union, the manly
and candid desire for peace and brotherhood,
the deep and inspiring sympathy with
American institutions and American glory,
that lives in the hearts of her people and
makes itself manifest on every proper oc-
casion. Far above the mere triumph of
party or the petty plunder of office the
her, in that it closed the chasm into which
she had cast her blood and her treasure, and
il reunited in heart as in hand the Union
she had honestly sought TO divide. 1t is her
concern chiefly that the Presidency, won
chiefly by her votes, has been so administer
ed as 10 strengthen mutual confidence. dispel
suspicion and doubt, and bring to the death
bed of the illustrious American whose taking
away the country still mourns, the full re-
alization of his Immortal appeal, LET us
| have peace.
The Republican politicians may wave the
| bloody shirt, the Republican party may
| plant itself on the platform of sectional hate.
| SO be it. Neither will avail against the in
| evitable. The South can not be shaken from
her consciousness of honest and patriotic
| purpose, nor diverted from the straight and
simple way she has marked out The North
can not be again misled by prejudice or de-
| ceived by Misrepresentation. The people
| have come together and have shaken hands
and made up. The politicians can not again
| divide them.