Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Timely Remarks About the Bloody Shirt. [ARTICLE]

Timely Remarks About the Bloody Shirt.

The Democrats, who as a party rebelled against the Government of the United States because Abraham Lincon was elected President, are disturbed about The reappearance of an apparition which they call the “bloody shirt.’’ 'fhe conspirators who murdered Caesar were, .troubled, we are told, in a similar way. No one who has done

wrong since Adam ever liked to be reminded of his wrong-doing. The Democrats adqiit the facts, but enter the defense that they occurred some time ago. They plead the statute of limitations. But do all crimes cease to be crimes after two decades? The Democratic rebellion was not for a few years, or for twenty years, wrong, but, as Garfield said, “ everlastingly wrong.” The killing of Judge Chisolm and his children was a barbarous, beastly murder seven years ago, and will be seventy years hence, and a very live issue is whether the vote of an unpunished Mississippi murderei - or rebel shall equal in national affairs the votes of two New York or Ohio Unionists. So long as the ballots of the triumphant friends of the republic count less than the ballots of its baffled enemies, this issue will be agitated. So long as negroes’ votes are counted for representation in the Electoral College and Congress, and not counted at the polls, just so long will a loyal press and people cry out against such injustice.— New York Tribune. ..