Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — The rennion. [ARTICLE]

The rennion.

We doubt if thsrs is • single democrat in Marlon county who bats been comfortable in his mind since Wednesday last. A democrat dreads a revival of ths wsr feeling as the devil hates holy water, and the gathering from all quarters of such immense numbers of old soldiers has satisfied them that the war feeling has been thoroughly aroused by the “solid south,” and is now stronger than it has boon since the close of ths war The impudent and defiant course of the confederate element in the lest congrsar, the millions of peboi claims already on file aud awaiting a favorable opportunity to be put through; the arrogant resumption of plantation manners by the “united south;” all serve to warn us that another attempt at the disruption of ths government is not by anv means improbable. The surviving soldiers of the war tor the suppression of the rebellion feel this, and it inspired them to come to Indianapolis, and once more renew battle memories, and pledge their vows to fight if necessary again, toerunb the spirit of treason in the truculent and implacable south.

It is useless to discuss the question of numbers. Estimates of loose crowds are always unreliable. Bat it democratic tongues kept up an appearance of courage, demuclatic faces, more candid, plainly told of tho dismay that the demonstration bad carried to democratic hearts. “Reform” trembled ia Its boots suit witnessed the endlcM throng of bronsed faces andgriuled beards, and read the earnest determination expressed in their countenances to vote as they shot. As we have said, it is not worth while to attempt an estimate of numbers, bat the city seemed fuller than ft over was before. Throughout tbs entire line of the procession Tnuraday, ths streets and sidewalks were literally jammed with spectators. There were twice a» many eoMien out of tbe proces-

eion as in it, for your veteran has an instinctive dislike to playing soldier. He has seen too much of the real thing. The democracy have been dreadfully distressed at the “imposition” practicticed on the honest soldier, by enticing him to attend a reunion gotten up entirely for “political effect.” Bless their sympathetic hearts! It «s rather rough on them that a reunion of soldiers al ways lessens their chances of getting into the pnblio crib. It is their misfortune fihat anything which revives memories of the sufferings, glory and triumph of our soldiers in the field, should just as inevitably revive memories of the sneaking treason of copperheads and sons of liberty in the rear. It is their misfortune that history is against them Of course these reunions are political. They couldn't be anything else in effect, unless the soul was taken out of them. The opposition of the democratic party to the war for the suppression of the rebellion is as ineffaceably fixed in the public mind as the war itself, and you cannot think of one without thinking of the other. Of course many soldiers who fought bravely for the old flag are now democrats but their action now can not wipe out the disgrace which ia eternally and ineradicably fixed upon the party as a party. There could be no reunion of soldiers that would not be a terrible political operating against the success of the democratic party. — Indianapolit Htrald.