Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1871 — Harmony. [ARTICLE]

Harmony.

We believe it is agreed, even by the members of the select convention recently held at Cincinnati, that the Republican party, as embracing the men of progressive ideas in this country, and representative of liberal principles, in respect to-the conduct of public affairs' is a necessity. It is a necessity, moreover, because the only other political organization existing in the country is totally unfit to take charge of the government. Wherever it is in power, there corruption is the rule, honesty the exception. Hut this might not be complete cause for utter condemnation of the party, which might purge itself of its dishonest officials, and elect honest men in their places. Hut even then, we should be no belter off than before, because the avowed principles of the party are those of retrogression, injustice, and political iniquity. There lias not been a State, fallen under Democratic control, that has not undertaken to nullify the most liberal provisions of the constitution, and to make it again an embodiment of injustice and wrong, instead of representative of political justice and truth, the freedom and the rights of all men. The political victories gained by the Republican party are no less grand than the finest victories of the war. When truth and justice prevailed in the triumph of the Fourteenth Amendment, more was done for man than when Sherman, and Thomas, and Hooker, and the rest under Grant, drove the rebels out of their works on Mission Ridge, and broke the back-bone of the rebellion. When political caste was banished from our fundamental law, by the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, the real victory was greater than that when Lee surrendered, and the rebel hosts dispersed. The first of these great political victories the Democratic party would perforce leave untouched. The next it would reverse, if it could. And should it succeed, it would inflict an unspeakable calamity upon the country. There is, however, a national necessity for the maintainance of the Republican party. In consequence thereof, there is necessity for harmony and good feeling in the party. Is this necessary harmony so far injured by the disputes upon minor affairs, either in regard to dogmas or persons, as to threaten the integrity of the party and Its disintegration ? We think not. Congress is evidently in a better feclingfnow than it was a fortnight ago. It will probably be in a better feeling a fortnight hence than now. Time will heal the effects of the unfortunate dispute between the President and Mr. Sumner. The question of the annexation of San Domingo will not lie permitted to seriously divide the party, or be the cause, for any great length of time, of any debate whatever. The disputes upon questions of finance and taxation will be settled in time. As for the question of legislation for the States lately in rebellion and still in turmoil, Republicans differ in regard to the projier means to bring about the desired result, and, in the present improved temper of Congress, a good practical policy may be confidently expected. Those, therefore, who were hut just now so busy in predicting the speedy disruption of the Republican party, find that, Congress having settled down to work, the spirit of conciliation and harmony prevails quite as much as it ever did in that party, or may be expected ever to prevail in an organization of intelligent men, governed by principle, devoted to ideas, and heartily agreed upon all essential points of doctrine.—Cnirapo Post, April 1.