The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-30

Montgomery and Atlanta. 40 are dine only TO
Washington, to awaken them to the perils Of the
hour Leading rebsls in the Cabinet and in each
house OF Congress. with such . prep0nderance in
the lower House as to absolutely control its de-
alterations, and with an imbecile in the presi
Dental chair, who, if too young to be either q
rebel or q copperhead during the war, has never
dared to open his mouth against the
heresies which produced the war, and
are as rife to-day as ever, what
could we expect but such deifying Of jeff Da-
Wis as he is receiving and tho bold and daring ut
terances which he and his admirers have been
making in the face of high heaven and patient
people2
This insult to the American flag, this stigma
upon the name and memory of every loyal man
whose blood was she'd in battle, and whose
manned bodies yet preach to the world their de-
votIon to the great American idea OF nation, Is
the more dangerous because it finds hearty
sympathizers among even the sons and
brothers of the brave men who died In
the cause of their country. This sympathy
is not phantasm-a harmless spectre; 1t Is
fearful incarnation. It has flesh and bones, and
is armed from head to foot, and stalks with
proud defiance under the name and in the form
of the Democratic party. 1t sends its Heffrens
and Milligans, and Maurice Thompsons to the
Legislature, and its Cobbs and its Voorheeses to
Congress, and there is not one of them, as edi-
tor, or correspondent or candidate. that will
dare to utter one word OF rebuke to the damnable
treason plot which is but family covered by
words in the language of JEFF Davis and
his worshipers. They may blush under
cover, but they dare not deny or denounce these
preliminary preparations for future struggle.
more bloody, but, thank God. to be more deci-
sive than the mere skirmish in which Grant and
Lee measured swords. 1t may not come il this
generation. but it must come, and when it comes
again it will not wind up by putting the physic-
ally overcome at the head of affairs. Then trea-
son will attaint the man, if not the blood, and
will become as od1ous in social and
political life as were the Tories of
the Revolution / see no preventive
for this, as thirty years ago saw no escape from
the trial of steal force to settle the question
then rife Nevertheless, as l taught then l
teach now, that is the duty of every patriot to
act as if prevention is possible Had the people
of the decade made famous by the arrogance Of
the slave power honestly resisted that AFRO
gance at the ballot-box, beginning with 1852;
when it Haunted its banner and frightened
all towards, there would have been no
bloody war; But they played the
coward until crowded to the wall.
History is, to-day, travelling in lines exactly
parallel to those of thirty years ago Treason is
hearty sympathy with these men, and give it to-
day, as thirty years ago and during the war, its
only strength, while the Republican party, am
sorry TO say is afraid OF the taunt of waving the
bloody shirt. If resisting jeff Davis at Mont
gomery to-day is waving the bloody shirt it
must be waved or our children will wave it as it
was not waved in the darkest days Of the late
war;
It is not difficult to see that embryo treason is
growing holder and more defiant every day.
Neither jeff Davis nor any other Democrat
would have dared to utter such diabolical here
sizes in Montgomery as were made last Wednes
day, nor would Senator Brown, of Georgia, have
dared to stigmatize the name of General Grant
rs he lately did in Washington, ten or even
four years ago But being in the saddle, with
within and reinS in hand thew are ag defiant as
they were when they cracked the Shareholders
whip over the heads Of the Nation. Compared with
the question yet unsettled whether we are a Ma
ton confederacy, all questions of tariffs and
banks sink into insignifcance; and it is a very
small matter who holds the local Offices, SO that
the government itself is not in the hards of men
as much bent to-day on its destruction as they
were twenty-five years ago. The Democratic
party of Indiana is to-day in hearty sympathy
with all that Davis said-at least not a man Of
the party dares publicly denounce it,
u. L. SEE.