Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — The Turning Over. [ARTICLE]

The Turning Over.

The Illinois Legislature cau not elect a Senator this session. y -p*—— , ' General Grant has felt much better since Tuesday; though -there is no grounds for expecting a perinauent recovery. The prospect for a great war in the East, between England an d Russia, grows daily more imminent, and at present there hardly seems to be a reasonable prospect that the war can be averted. The Indiana Legislature adjourned last Monday. It has been, on the whole; a wasteful, dilatory, dishonest, rabidly partisan and incapable body; although it has had a few good men among its members, and its works have not been wholly evil. w ■■ i wn— innll

(From The Chicago inter Ocean. ) The slow process of the turning over of the iceberg goes on. Republicans and patriots, Union defenders and anti-slavery men, Federal generals and abolitionists, civil-service reformers and Northern legislators are plunging to the bottom; and Confederates, rebels, K. G. C.’s, kuklux, moonshiners, destroyers of the Nation’s commerce, and enemies of the Nation's purity are ‘rising to the top, sittiug in the seats of the scornful and laughing at the foe to which it gave battle ill 1860-65, and before which it was driven into the last ditch. The return of the cavaliers under the second Charles, and the retirement of the. puritan s after the death of the grin}, stern, and wise protector Cromwell, was not a greater or more sweeping revulsion of power to strange hands than that now going on in this country. Indeed, the two events, are strangely alike in the elements involved. The republican party is now, as heretofore, the party of the middle classes, of the men of conscience, and withal of ihose who have sufficient fealty to principle to be styled by their adversaries fauatics- Their principal general in the great English conflict was the tanner Oliver Cromwell, as their first military leader in this second republican epoch of the English speaking race is the tanner, Ulys£eS S. Grant, who now lies dying

hi New York City. The part£ that has triumphed under the Charles 11, of this revo - lution, the immaculate Cleveland, presents the same apt combination of the sifk-stocking and the plugugly, the aristocrats and the mentals, the scented rosewater dudes, who’ despise a republic as beneath their tastes, and the villainous thags, who wopld so soon stuff-a baiiot-box as dance a minute, bias was the crowd that came in under Charles-li. and as nearly like hi ■ ■as the enange *in times and | ners admits of is the crowd which ; is now taking possession of the seats of power. There are accomplished and scholarly men among them, but they have all derived their distinction, without a solitary exception, by to laelieve in the right of all men to liberty, declining to believe in the obligation of the aristocratic but poverty-ridden and illiterate section of .our republic to bubmit to an undoubtedly fair election when outvoted by the richer, more enlightened, and more |ruly democratic North. Unbelief in liberty and infidelity to the tag are now the passports to power. The man who, anywhere in the ■Northern States, never raised a Union tag at triumphs of the Union aims; but chuckled broadly and felt when the tide bf bleeding tesh and bursting hearts was rolled back in defeat at Bull R un, * Fredericksburg, or Uhichamauga, can now have a mission or a Dostpflice. It is needless day by day to enumerate the new names preferred. . Phelps- of Vermont, is neither letter nor worse than Lawton, of Georgia, the Quartermaster Geueral of the Con--1 federacy. They are all alike in the one quality, that it is their hatred of liberty and theii* preference of the pretended right of ?nan-owning to the will of the majority of the American people foustitutionaliy expressed that ftbt* Hfts ink' power;