The herald., 1893-02-05
e OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY s, 1898.
TIE RAWLINGS OF A MADMAN.

tion-since the war for the union ended.
1t was professedly waged for the preser-
walton of the union of the states and
not in turtherance of sectional malignity.
When this grand purpose should be nc
complished there were repeated declsra-
tions that it ought to cease. And, yet
there are some unreconstructed people
yet, and they live mainly in the north.
Iowa has some of them, but she has
shown in recent elections that she is
tired of them. Amongst these is one
]. s. Clsrkson, at one time known as
'headsman" Clarkson, from his skill in
decapitsting Democrats when he was
assistant postmaster-general. Heis one
Of the proprietors and editors of the
Iowa State Register and his frantic wav-
ing Of the bloody shirt is q sight for
gods and men. Hear him in the issue
Of the Register of January 29th:
James q. Blaine wac the last of the
great and unconquerable leaders who
equipped, sustained and nerved the
grand army that temporarily strangled
the most damnable rebellion of history.
The ''lost cause" has steadily regained
strength and power as the nations most
illustrious leaders have passed away,
and within the next five weeks the
rebels will be in complete control of the
government they did everything within
their power to destroy by armed rebel
lion. The majority must rule, and the
probability is that it will yet dissever
the union. The new rebel government
has no love Tor the nation. Its chief
present purpose is to humiliate and i'm
poverish the veterans who throttled
treason for time, and it will undoubt-
edly place agreater brand of odium upon
them than the noble victors have ever
placed upon the traitors they conquered
during the war of the rebellion. His
tory will demonstrate that the worst de-
fest that the union army and the nation
sustained during the long and bloody
war was In the victory that was thrown
away in the declaration of peace at
Appomattox.
1t surely required matchless degree
of impudence to associate the name OF
James G. Blaine in this idiotic TRADE.
The dead statesman years ago disasso-
ciated himself from all connection with
the madmen who waved the enssnguined
undergarment. The man who in 1857
helped defeat the force bill by his rulings
as speaker Of the house would have had
nothing to do with auch frenzied senti-
ments. They sound more like the
howlings of hyena than the utterances
of a man OF sense. If ever there were q
people who squarely and honestly &C.
cepted the issue OF the war it was the
people of the south. 1t is largely owing
to their fastidious delicacy in all that re-
lates to pensions that the appropriations
for that bureau will amount to the enor.
nous sum of $2O0,000,00O next
year. In every way in which
the people of the south could show
devotion to restored union they have
done 80. Under the direction of Cleve.
land we are sure to have patriotic and
conservative administration, whose prin-
cipal business will not be, as was that of
Harrison, the "blowing in" of the sur
plus. The idea of the severance, or at
tempted severance of the union, is
bugaboo to scare children and fools
with. 1t could only have its origin in a
disordered brain and in heart gangrened
with sectional bitterness. He who
could think that there is danger of a
serious attempt to dissolve the union OF
states could evolve delirium tremens from
glass OF milk or bloody panorama of
war from children's May Day process
sion. We regret to be obliged to say
that one ]. s. Clarkson shows all the
signs of softening OF the brain if he be
not indeed congenital jackass.