Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-03
THURSDAY. JUNE 8, 1896
A DESCENDANT Note.

The fraternal and patriotic sentiments
respectins decoration-day INDUCED In by
many Of the leading northern Republican
and Democratic papers were married by
only one diseordant croak. That came from
MIR. BIAISE's New York organ, the Tribune,
which ground out bitter, harsh, and ma
Iignapt tune, very suggestive, under the
circumstances, OF the sounds that are
emitted by SAW while undergoing the
process OF sharpening. "Indlviduals
decorste loyal graves" declares the
Tribune, "but the nation does not.
lis Government is busily engaged in re-
Numbering and rewarding men Of the other
sort. Those who helped to make these
graves at present make and execute the
laws" The Boston Herald, in replying to
this, says;
"sThe nation was never represented
more completely or more sympatheticallY
in the beautiful services in honor Of those
who died for the Union than 1t was yester-'
day Internationally in New York. But
the injustice and malignity OF the aspersion
TO the contrary are so clearly due TO parti-
san bitterness and disappointment at the
defeat in the last election that no harm can
result from The slur."
Correct. But the Herald does not stop
here. When II takes contract for bonn
harding The malignants with cold truths it
generally uses them up completely. Its
further comments expose so thoroughly
tie miserable hypocrisy Of the stalwars
tot III. nj nc has N
for the utterances OF the Tribune that pro-
voked them. The Herald adds:
alt is with the accompanying imputa.
ton that q majority Of the people have
most reason 10 be offended. II the Iri-
tunes words have any meaning, they
mean that those who participated in the
rebellion have no right Ia the particlpa.
ton 10 the Government. The President is
ensured for giving offices TO men OF the
other Chan loyal sort and the taunt
Is thrown that those who helped TO
make these graves at present make and
execute laws for the country Waving
the point that Republican Presidents APP
pointed TO Office all the 'men OF tn. other
sort whom they could induce TO accept
positiols-ranglng from the efficient Gen
eral Longstreet 10 Mosby-the inquiry
tudb tOututS tHc CVlO vi tuC OVhs'
plant is this: Why mott ID it was
not designed that the citizens OF States who
Joined IN the secession movement should
ever again hold places OF honor or profit
In the Government, why were they forced
back into the Union and given amnesty!
The war for the Union was colossal crime
and gigantic blhnder II II did not have
for lis object precisely the condition OF
th;fys which now exists-the RESUMPTION
by the States OF their places in the Union
and the resumption by citizens of those
States OF all their rights aud duties as eiti-
zens. II II be not only improper, but un-
safe, for those who joined in the rebellion
TO now participate In the Government OF
the restored Union, then the war was
fal.e rrctence and the Republican pirty il
the greatest failure which any country has
ever known"
We think WHITELAw REID would better
make for the woods and carry his BLAINE
boomlet along with him. Indeed, the whole
StalwaIt gang would better make for some
"boundless contiguity Of shade" and lave
their heated heads Ia the ice-cold waters OF
purling brook until they realize the fact
that another Republican President cannot
be gotten out OF an attempt to revive sec
tional prejudice. The country is getting
feariully tired Of graveyard politics, and 1t
would be wise for the malignants to make
virtue Of necessity.