Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — Encouraging Words. [ARTICLE]

Encouraging Words.

MuLKERKY Ghove, Ks., May, 1874. Edxtoes Union : Your political positions do not disconcert me in the least, and are by no means unexpected. Although I did not condemn the increase qf CpngressVnerTs salaries witli the vehemence of many, yet the “back pay” part was a villainous steal that should be .condemned. I could never understand yOur Congressman’s course. Every move he made always seemed to me to be dictated, by subserviency to rings and cabals. Through his career I have never known a, statesmanlike act that lie has planned or executed ; .übl a I

vM<- ttiar ! 1 nor a SliiifiUli in- nus made, > lujwol him equal to mediocre. IJ is nitty- \ ination in the first place was a.' surprise, and his public life has ! lii'C'ii a failiWci He neither served Ids district with zeal nor tact. The radical and persistent manner by which you 1 have assailed hinragainst all opposition and great odds, entitles you to claims of independent journaiship, and should contribute to your influence in the new party now organizing.. Tire disintegration of the Rcpublican party bad commenced when I announced it in the Prairie Telegraph seven'or eight years ago. But Mr. Greeley’s.defeetion was so palpably uustatcsinanlike and personal as to shock those lie, attempted .to lead, and galvanized the party which slu qrik back upon itself at the ekultant fierceness, transparent folly and impotant rage of the fossil Democracy. The Democratic party is dead, and can never get power in the United States again. In its war record it not only repudiated personal liberty, but also the fundamental principles of the union of the States, and the gl6iidus~greatness. so dear to a majority of the people of all parties, North and South, that.the free electors of the nation will never forgive it, entrust it. The objects for which the Republican party was organized have been triumphantly accomplished. The abolition of slavery has rendered every issue upon which the party was brought into power permanent and unassailable. New questions are now upon us. The chief one is, Shall the laborer be paid his wages, or shall corporate wealth absorb tliucarnings of white juen, as -individual masters did tliq income from the labor of the slave? There is no question of right involved in this issue, for that is settled intuitively. Everyone knows that the negative is wrong ; and not even the transparent screen of “cursdd be Canaan” can be used to mistify it. The difficulties in the solution of this problem are, to fnnTliow to prevent the wrong, and how to fortify and protect the right, lie must have read history to little purpose and must , possess a limited, knowledge of men, who cannot see that in r struggle whel-e only equals are engaged the majority cannot hut mast3i- and command the minority. It is, therefore, simply a question of time, and that time not distant. One, or two at most. Presidential and Legislative campaigns will determine the whole thing. Some State constitutions may need amending, and one or two ‘items may need to-be incorporated into the national compact; but the right will triumph aud the decision cannot be long delayed. I have Been your course in Tiie -U.M-ioy-with * ploaeures—-I-knowdrlTat~ love of justice is not only congenial to your natures as men, but, being laboring men, it could not well be otherwise than that you should be among the first to Stand forth prominently in their cause. That you should be brave in the work, is simply a reflection of your war records; that you should be prompt and frank is natural to your Youthfull vigor. Had Tiie U:nio>' adopted any other course, its patrons would have been disappointed, and would have regarded it with suspicion and doubt. But your course is consistent with your former records, and may your success bo

equally brilliant.

R. B. JAMES.