Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — The Work of the Republican Party not yet Finished. [ARTICLE]

The Work of the Republican Party not yet Finished.

Os this question. George William Curtis says, With "characteristic clearness,'in Hntper't Weekly: * - Old issues cannot be set aside until they are settled. The mere ascendency of a party, and the adoption of certain measures, do not set them aside. Nothing disposes of political Issues but general acquiescence. There is, indeed,' one point to. oar controversy which has been settled, aqd that Is emancipation. No party wishes of'would try to restore chattel slavery. But is the political equality of all citizens a settled issue? No one who is familiar, with Democratic utilities as serts it. Some Democrats 'thuiir that it ought to pe settled; do not deny that the party has not acquiesced, is the honest payment of the debt -a settledlssue 1 Is what is called State Sovereignty a settled issue? On thp contrary, thegreat questions of the war,, excepting that of-personal servitude, are still open.

No Democratic convention has heartily expressed acquiescence in their settlement: nor is there anvbody who does not know that, if the Democratic party came into power, every one of those questions might instantly become threatening. It Is not time, therefore, to assume that the old things 'having passed away, all things have become new; and that it Is not of very vital importance whether or not the Democratic party is snoecesfttL Old things have not passed away. Bo tremendous a civil convulsion as the war cannot suddenly subside and leave It, in five years, a matter of indifference to the country whether those who strove to destroy it shall control its government. It is forgetfulness r,f this bet in Washington, and by many Republican papers, which has caused an appearance of discord In the party. The enormous frauds at the New York polls, which the Democratic party could prevent, and does not, are now an essential weapon of that party for securing its ascendency in the country With that ascendency comes no acquiescence In the settlement of the war, but the bitterest hostility to them. With that ascendency comes possible repudiation and the attempt to invalidate the Fifteenth Amendment Could there be any political catastrophe more to be deprecated? Upon wbat principle of patriotism or honor does any Republican excuse his indifference? What conceivable advantage to the welfare of the country is promised by Democratic saocees? The sole hope of the undisturbed industry and prosperity of the Union lies in the continued predominance of the Republican party. '