Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-04

the Christians Bible. That 'God
seeks in mysterious way his
to perform, y has an unavoid-
able illustration in the fact that the
shareholders organized the rebellion
uopn their own terms, and suffered
the loss of their pet institution be-
cause their calculations had been
OF THE LOYAL SENTIMENT.
Time has not been when any public
policy was so strong as to dissipate the
seeds of opposition. With supreme faith
in the ultimate triumph of the right,
am unable to distinguish between the IA
cility with which vicious and moral poll
ticians are given growth. As if to serve
as an Offset to the years of preparation
made by cunning foe, involving active
assistance in every department of the
general government and by people in
every state, the most thrilling evidence of
nationwide and rock-ribbed devotion to
the cause of an inseparable Union was
found in the great sub-stratum of the
population which in the most of the
Southern states outnumbered, in the days
leading up to the act of open secession,
the dominant political class. ''Greeley's
American Conflict" justifies this state
ment concerning the numerical MAORI
ties of this oppressed and, for the most
part, ignorant class, when the clouds of
the war storm were gathering. In the
border states, and at points as far South
as loyalty to the old flag did not mean
certain death, these loyal sons gathered
in caves, on mountains, in glen, in copse,
and in canyon, and battled for ''old
glory" to the end. Whoever saw Noun
tain Fed. in the saddle witnessed crea-
ton of nature. He had not studied con-
situations nor laws. His position was an
inspiration. With loyalty thus stamped
into the Southern soil; with the loyal
administration of the Federal govern
ment supreme upon Northern soil; with a
revenue policy on the part OF the Federal
government which insured ample funds,
while the monetary policy of the confed.
crate government was childish in the re-
alities; with every Union soldier OF vot-
ing age, from state friendly to the ad-
ministration, an active participant IN the
affairs of government, while in Secessla
the deluded masses were marching under
the standard Of oppressors who were
chafing under the restraint of combining
the ropes of their bondage to the men,
bership of single race; with the North
ern army made up largely of men school
ed in literature,in the arts, in commerce,
while in the south it is grave question
whether educated men were sufficiently
numerous to officer the army; with an
active commerce throughout the North
ern states, while in the Southern states
trade was paralyzed; with more than
million men suitable for military service
to be drawn upon to swell the army OF
the N orth, while the Southern army had
all bat absorbed all men and boys in that
region capable of bearing arms; with the
productive capacity of the North stimu-
lated rather than weakened, by the war,
while the agriculture of the South lay
almost PROSTATE amid all these ele-
ments, is it strange that treason went
down in food of loyalty? Is it not the
strange thing that SO illy-considered a
conspiracy should have been given birth?
Is not the strange thing to be found in
the fact that some of the remnants OF
that shareholders army, upon getting
their heads above the food, cried out
that their cause was just-that they were
not whipped-that they were merely
overpowered! believe in the ultimate
thoroughness of the victory won by the
Union arms-of the broad realization OF
human liberty which ever hereafter-as
the result of the war between the states
must characterize every free government.
Yet sometimes almost despair OF seeing
the day when the great commercial
North, engrossed in its business pursuits,
will do the necessary act OF proclalmlng
to the leaders in the modern South that
crime against the war amendments to the
constitution is treason to the American
flag; that the spirit of rebellion, which
was subdued by direct means, will not be
permitted to re-assert itself by indirect
means! Iwould not underestimate the
gravity of the race question IN the South.
But our general government must be
practical. 1t can no more continue to ex-
list on the suppression of portion OF the
votes created by the national constitution
than it could live half slave and half free.
If in strongly negro localities, the white
citizen cannot otherwise obtain his con-
stitutional rights, it assuredly becomes
the province of the general government
to afford him adequate redress OF his
grievances.
SURVIVING ELEMENTS OF LOYALTY.
The remnant of our army is absolute
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