Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — That Rebel Yell. [ARTICLE]

That Rebel Yell.

’ t V* 1,1 ■ A few days ago the Washington Republican remarked that “ after a struggle of eighteen years in war and politics the Confederacy has at last captured the Capitol. that remark becomes true. Ihe Congress that meets to-day is under the domination of the Confederates, in both its branches. TheCapltol is theirs, but notthe capital. But an organ of the Southern Democracy, the Okolona (Miss.) Stales, quotes the words of the Republican, and then adds: “ After a utruggle of eighteen yexra in war and poUticn,the ConieUemcy hnx at last captured the Capitol.— WaihioQlOn Rriiublicnn.. " Yeo; thank God! wo have captured the Capitol, and in 188 our man will walk up the White Houae atepa and take bin seat in tho Presidential chair. “ Then will oar glorious triumph be complete. “ Then will we proceed to take your amend, n.enta from the Constitution and trample them in the mire. Then will we break the shackles you have forged for the free sovereign and independent Commonwealths of the Pnion. ” Then will we recognix- the right of secession —a right that is not deid, but sleeping. “ I hen will we decorate the Capitol with the pictures of Davis, and Lee, and tttnart. and all the glorious leaders of a cause that is lout, but living stilL , *• Yes. thank God, we have captured the Capitol, ana from that coigne of vantage we propose to rule the Bepnblic in a way that will make your Iladical laws snd lladical leaders forever odious in America." It may be said that this is the extreme view, and so it is. Not many Democrats, North or South, would publicly talk like that, and not a few could and would sincerely repudiate the treasonable sentiments of the States. It is none the less true that in this declaration may be heard an echo of “the still small voice” of Democracy. The very essence of Its nature is herein revealed, precisely as the Abolitionists before tne war were prophetic of the real drift and inevitable logic of Republicanism. The States is to the Democracy what Garrison’s journal was to the Republican party. The country will not be deaf or indifferent to such a Rebel yell.— It is too deeply significant. The meaning is plain. It shows that in one form or another Abe South hopes and plots to vindicate the Rebellion and establish the principle on which it rested. In proportion as the Democracy gains power does “the Lost Cause” gain recognition and strength. The election of Samuel J. Randall to the Speakership of the House of the Forty-sixth Congress is really a triumph of the reactionary Democracy. It means that the party does not propose to y ield to the demand for f'new blood.” It js true that Blackburn, the defeated, was a Rebel soldier, while Randall is a Northern man ; but the latter could never have made any progress toward the Speaker’s chair had he not been a willing and unscrupulous tool of the Confederates during the two terms he has already served in that position. He is a doughface of the worst type. It is from that class of men the country has most to fear. Top cautious to raise the Rebel yell, they are too cowardly to resist such demands as the Mississippi editor foreshadows.—Chicago Journal.