Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — Ingersoll for Conciliation. [ARTICLE]

Ingersoll for Conciliation.

The democrats of the Ohio legislature were left by themselves oh the day when President Hayes was inaugurated and amused themselves between drinks by adopting a resolution which declared the destruction of their “faith in the mercy, justice and beneficent goodness of Almighty God.” It was a small loss to make bo much fuss about. It was not generally known that they thought anything at all about God until Col. Ingersoll commenced stumping the country for Bayes last trammer. It is hoped that those Ohio democrats will become reconciled to God again beforo long and not seriously injure His character or impair His reputation among the people. Old Simon Cameron learned that Rutherford B. Hayes was President of the United States, and then resigned his seat in the United States senate. His sod, Hon. J. D. Cameron, secretary of war under President Grant, has been elected his successor. Young Cameron announces his hearty accord with President Hayes’ conciliatory policy, whiah his father waa hostile to; indeed this course was made a condition precedent to their support of him by an influential number of the republican members of the Pennsylvania legislature. • _ _ . _.il _

“Eli Perkins,” who, by-the-way, is not always the best authority on oil topics, those of a social character particularly often being inaccurate upon, says: Whew is this republican party [of the South J? It is In the held* working—working the corn and the cotton. It is tbs bone and sinew of the South. The republican party does sll the work. The republican party made five million, bales of eotton last year, and made cArn and pork enough to support -themselves working and the whole democratic party es the South in idleness. A southern democrat dees not work. He ataadg around. He declaims. He spouts. He expectorates tobacco Juice. He busses. He eouspires. He inflames. He gu axles, lie grumbles. He does any thing but work. When Mr. Matthew Carpenter' Was defending Mr. Tilden before the commit, sion of arbitration he said that he desired people to understand, especially his old neighbors in Wisconsin, that bespoke as a republican who had voted for Mr. Hayes and not as Mr. Tilden‘s counsel; but now he wishes them to understand distinctly that he was then speaking os Mr. Tilden'* attorney and not as a republican who had voted for President Hayes Snow-storms have been of almost daily ooourronce this month. March thus far has been the most wintry mouth of tho season. The weather has been “perfectly awful,” as the ladies say. Almost every twenty-four hours there hot been a storm of snow or rain, or both. During the time there has been very cold mornings and evenings. Farmers begin to fear a late spring, and rough time for live stock.

Let it be remembered that it was a republican legislature this winter which has reduced the rate of taxation for state purposes nearly eight per cent.; and also that it waa a democratic auditor of state who recommended that the "rate be increased. The oonstant tendency of the democratic party in the state of Indiana is to extravagance and corruption. This is its history as showß by the records. Gilmore & Co., Solicitors of Patents, 639 F street, Washington, D. C., report the following issues of patents bearing date of March 6th, 1877, to Indiana inventors: A. Miller, Hagerstown, clover buller. W. W. Campbell, Frankfort, spring link. W. Smith, Cicero, supporting thilL Nothing shall prevent Thk Union’s trying to illustrate practically its admiration of President Hayes’ conciliatory policy. We repeat that the Rensselaer Sentinel ia the best democratic paper in Indiana, and that its editor is as natinleai as a young babe—a very young one. An Indian woman Is a squaw; therefore an Indian baby is a squawling.— 'American Ncwtyeper Reporter. A boy baby ia always a squawking. - - The democratic party has done nothing lit thin country for freedom, nothing towards extending the area of human liberty, nothing towards establishing human rights. Bt» for as the party has a history its efforts have been used to retard the national development, degrade the national houor, add make the experiment of republican government a failure by making it odious. We defy any person, we care not bow warmly be may be prejudiced In favor of the democratic party, to point to a single act which it has done tending to the na. tionai advantage or heuor. It baa done nothing for the country, nothing so| liberty, nothing for human rights, nothing for any grand idea,—lndianapolU Journal.

Col. Robert Ingersoll* of Illinois, the great republican orator whom democrats hate so bitterly on account of his infidelity, delivered a lectors In Bteinway Hail, in the oily of New York, one night last week upon the political condition of the United States. He came oot strong in support of President Hayes and his policy of conciliation, although it had been intimated that he would criticise both adversely. The following is his peroration: We have fought and hated enough. Our country is prostrate. Labor is in rags. Energy has empty hands. The wheels of the factory are still. In the safe of Prudence money lies looked by the key of Fear. Coufldeuoe is what we need—confidence iu each other, confidence in our institutions, in our form of government, in the great future : confidence in law, confidence in liberty, in progress, and In the grand destiny of the great Republic. I extend to you each and all the olivebranch or peace. Fellow-citizens of the South, I beseech you to it. By the memory of those who died for naught, by the charred remains of your remembered homes, by the ashes of your statesmen dead for the sake of your sons and your daughter* and their chlldreu yet to be, I implore you to take it with loving and with loyal hands. It will cultivate your wasted fields. It will rebuild your towns and cities. It will fill your coffers with gold. It will educate your children. It will swell the sails of your oomw merce. It will uau*e the roses of joy to clamber and to climb over the broken cannon of wftir. It will flood the cabins of the freedmen with light, and clothe the weak In more than a coat of mail, and wrap the poor and lowiy in measureless content. Take it; the North will forgive if the South will forget. Take It; the negro will wipe from the tablet of memory the strokes and scars of two handled years, and blur with happy tears the record of his wrongs. Take it fit will unite our nation, it will make us brothers once again. Take it, and 'justice will sit iu your courts under’ the outspread, white wings of peaoe. Take it, and the brain and the lips of the future will be free. Take it; it will bud and blossom In your hands and fin your land with fragrance and with joy. Take it, ands we have paused the midnight of our political history, and the star of hope heralds again the rising stin.