Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1878 — PUT IT IN THE BOND. [ARTICLE]

PUT IT IN THE BOND.

The bloody *lilrt having served IU purpose la no longer recognized aa the ensign ol ropublli canlsni. Southern claims la now the radical . ahibholctli. They fauoy they call ten in the ; presentation of uiimurons claims against the ' government from the aouth, a united effort to cuumo tile puyiuunt by the government of the l entire losses of the south from the war. Now, the Timrt lias also an opinion uiion this matter of southern claims. Momhersof congress when called noon to consider and pass upon one of theso hills should separate themselves ns far ns may be from all partisan feeling and decide the clulm wholly upon its merits. If tiie claim is Just, pay it; if the claim is based upon the natural nud unavoidable results of the war, reject i it at once and forever. Tilt) war was caused by tho rebellion of the southern pcoplo* and any nttempt to make tile government pay for tho losses they sustained Is an outrage which every patriotic citizen, bo ho republican or democrat, 1 should resent. War Is not the innocent game of children; it Is a sad, a terrible reality; and those whose rebellious acts rendered tfio late war a necessity should not expect thut tho government will reimburse them for their losses. When tho government forgave the southern people and welcomed them hack to their allegiance, it did not agree that they should bo paid for the losses they had sustained through their own folly and crime. In other wards, the government did not agree to whip tho rebels and then pay them fertile privilege.— Delphi Tint**. All credit to this democratic newspaper for these brave wortls. The idea is correct. Rebels ought not to be paid for rebellion. The solid democratic south was iu rebellion. From the solid democratic south which was in rebellion come these claims against Hie government for the losses rebels sulTeTedwlille iu rebellion; —These claims nmouut to many millions of dollars in the aggregate. They assume every conceivable guise, form aud pretext. Ninety-five out of every hundred of these claims for personal relief and so forth, filed against the government hy these ex-rebel democrats, are presented by democratic representatives and senators. All the effective opposition to their payment comes from republicans only. Notwithstanding (lie fact that Mr. Tiiden as the candidate of tile democratic party warned the country of its danger from litis source, within half a year afterwards a democratic majority in the house of representatives defeated the proposition to report a constitutional amendment prohibiting the payment of these claims. Although they arc fuliv apprised of this danger every democratic convention held thus far has been as silent upou the subject as the inhabitants of the tombs of ancient Tadrnor. prominent democrat, except Mr. Tiiden (and it is charged that he was.defeaied. because hftdld-Ba), mo r a democratic newspaper of influence has opposed the scheme which they so well know exists and hangs like the sword of Damocles over the public treasury. During the war the democratic parly at the north as an organization sympathized with the democrats at the south who were solid in rebellion. Siuce the war extraordinary acts of friendship from uorthern democrats have kept the wings of tho party united. Southern democrats never asked for a favor, from the hounding of a poor slave woman to the dismemberment of the United States, that northern democrats were not ready with some pretext, excuse or argument to favor. When Jefferson Davis president of the rebel democratic Confederacy announced to his democratic sympathising friends at the north that it was the earnest wish of the rebel democrats at the south to be iet alone and to have the Lincoln hireling dogs choked off, Mr. Voorhees lifted up ills stentorian voice and shouted back, If erected ta congress! will never vote another man .nor another dollar to prosecute this unholy war against our southern brethren ! If it was .an unholy and uujusi war on the part of the government, then is reparation due from the|government to the democrats that were in rebellion aud their claims for spoliation should be paid. We have never seen an authoritati re statement from the democracy, state or national, that they have changed their opinion in this respect, while niauy circumstance which Thb Union has pointed to on several occasions indicate that they still cherish their old doctrines. The Delphi Times is probably honest, but whether honest or rtot Its influence is circumscribed to very narrow limits compared with the magnitude of the subject. The record of the democratic party is bad; the Times is not authorized to promise anything better front it iu future. It is not safe to trust the democratic party unpledged- Let them put it in tiie bond as Mr. Tiiden did—let Mr. Voorhees do this—that they will oppose the payment of all these outrageous southern democratic claims; and • -tlxm-vnle rnpiililicima into office tO he sure they will keep their word.

Elsewhere, under the caption of Democracy and Temperance,” appears a criticism of the address of Hon. John Lee before the Jasper County Temperance Union last Alon«lav evi niiie. It will be observed thatour correspondent uTucllSetl to lie ironical- He no doubt considered the address smacking of deiuagogisru. Tub Union does not share that opinion. Mr. I*ee is an earnest advocate, both theoretical and practical, of tern* pwaiice priueiples. He is a professor , of the democratic political faith, aud no doubt rejoices, as every thorough temperance advocate must, to see temperance practices permeating every grade antHStfmlltion of society. The Union joins hands with every effort, from whatever source, to elevate the moral standard of the people. God speed the reformation among politicians without (jlstinction of race, color or previous condition.

What few adherents to the new *‘natfmrafl f ' party visit this region occasionally have a peculiar, sinister habit of mysteriously Ijlhling at revolution, bloodshed and rapiue that savors strongly of communism and illy becomes intelligent men living under a republican form of government. All political evils can be made less Intolerable at least at the bi»llot-box, if not cured entirely. This is a much better and more civilized as well os healthier and tidier method of settling disputes than an appeal to arms. Rifles, cannon, gun-powder, bayonets, sabres and hemp-cord are dangerous articles, that should never be handled carelessly by the young and giddy. They have hurried many a promising youth who was just ready to enter upon the duties of vigorous manhood, down to an untimely grave. As a common friend of the entire human race Thb Union begs to donate for the consideration of those sad-hearted nationals and every other sect of democrats, this morsel of sensible advice: Don’t shoot before election, don’t upheave after. It has lately been discovered by the Valparaiso Messenger, MontlceJlo Democrat and the Rensselaer Demcratic Sentinel that The Union is not an advocate of the doctrines ofthecom* munistic democracy. It was thought that an idea of this kind would penetrate their pachydermatous intellects before the campaign ended, but not that it would "get through so soon, though truth is “powerful skrohl at times. The Union is an independent paper for a fact—only $1 a year. Tiie Oxford Tribune suggests Simon P. Thompson of Rensselaer for nomination by tiie republicans for state senator from this (tiie 24th) district, ff nominated no democrat outside of Topliet can beat him ; and if elected any man who gambles may safely bet his final dollar that Hon. Daulel W.” Voorhees will not be returned to the United States senate by thehelpof his vote. As a senator Mr. Thompson would be a credit to the district. One of the United States senators from Wisconsin got up and Howe-led at President Hayes, last- Monday, but lie don’t feel half as good about it as the democrats do.