Year: 1876

elgnt ID an sct OF Jolly Wnlcn ID Only eA-
eelled by its cowsrdice.


Every dictate Of policy and duty should
impel the Republican party to make the
Southern question the one-absorbing issue
in tho pending presidential campaign. New
Hampshire and Connecticut show that it is
the strongest issue the Republican party
can WELD in the coming contest.


That there may be NO mistake in regard
to this matter, quote from the Democratic
paper in this city, and give you the Repub-
lican reply. The Democratic paper, in
speaking Of the speech of General Frye in
opening the campaign in Connecticut, says:


But short time ago Massachusetts and
South Carolina Joined hands at Lexington.
and at Philadelphia this year the Union
will be once more cemented in the hearts of
the people of the whole country. Beware,
Mr.. Frye, how the old wounds are re-
opened; the people have suffered and bled
for peace, and it is not for such as you to
delay the golden era OF reconciliation and
rejoicing.


To which the Republican replies:


Perhaps giving the paragraph the gratu-
itous benefit of our circulation will heIp dry
the tears of our ''independent" neighbor.
And we will try to console him further by
inquiring if he read Ben Hills speeoh9 If
he has, will he tell US whether it is Ben
Hill or General Frye who reopened the old
wounds which are so painful to our s'inde
pendent neighbor. We happen to know,
aud our friend at the corner knows, that
Massachusetts reached out no hypocritical
hand at Lexington. We know, and our
almost OVERRIDING "independent" friend
knows. that Ben Hill and his sympathizers
broke that friendship by their abuse Of the
North in Congress If the independent"
paper is really independent, why doesn't
it tell as its opinion of Ben Hill and his
followers in Congress? Perhaps it is
busy, and will be until after election.
This independent paper would have
the people believe that General Frye,
without any prOvOcatiOn whatever, went
into a Wholesale denunciatiOn of the
course of the rebels during the war, when
the truth is, as thousand or more listeners
on the conduct of the present House of Rep
resentatives in Washington, which is now
in session. deliberatlng on the very topics
the General discussed. If the 'independ-
ent" paper can furnish q more, real live
issue than this for the campaign, please
send us a wsrd and We will send the boy
over for it. In ali these criticisms by dis
guised or assistant Democratic papers, the
average reader cac hardly fail to observe
how sensitively they Jump up at the word
rebel. One would think they were personally
affronted, or that an indignitv had been put
upon "blood relation" while the Southern
sympathizers may say as much as they
please to extol JEFF Davis, and abuse Lin
coin and the North, and then the "inde-
pendent" papers of the ilk Of our neighbor
are deaf as beetles in both ears.


Can not the Confederate leaders see that
the recognition of the humane and civil
rights of the emancipated race of the South
is the only solution Of the conflict between
the North and South and which has lasted
as long as the government has teen in ex'
istenoe lfor this conflict began with the
first effort to form tree government in the
New World, and must continue until
America is either monarchical o. repub'
lican,! Have the Confederate leaders any
conception of the state of culture, enlight-
enment and power which the Republican
idea has reached in New Englandf In thei,
attack upon New England and the things
for which she stands, the leaders Of the
Democratic party are attacking . force
the recoil Of which will be felt in every
Northern family. Right or wrong New
England stands for the political brother
hood of man. Right or wrong the original
free" States of the North will stand by
the Pilgrim band in this new phase of the
old conflict between the Puritan and the
cavalier. b.