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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
August
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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In romarking upou the hni . week'8 Cvurier the writer of th' ' not be understood as defendió d " whom that artiolu aswil, wh m1 bo that man-s politica] profeJ ruiy prácticos. At the otrtset th! shonld bo known that ho (the writ ?' not belong to the Greeley ,mrt, ' that matter, to the Grant party lift' Courier contributor, n„,jti,u '"' ■.thefopgottingofformorenr the hope of futun. brothcrhood b.t the North and the South Tlu tl I of treating tho "rebels" as brethro to painfully affect him, and accordi1"1 bimtheyshould bo placed bJ ban of perpetual nuspengion from n rights aud privileges whieh our syst. government vouchnaf, yet ubiectd 7 therelontinfliotionofitsIr ■vlties ; placing the people of the Houth"" a oonditaon of the ineanost servitud,, 2 the North ovor them fis lord of tho tional manor. ThU, if I mÍ8tak(i ■ the burden of his song. It muttors not who wrote the artid ' quoation. Plantagenet ur .Stuurt Uibdl tho same. To the iufinhe disort 3 botlx author and publisliur, there i8 ik samo bitter, insatiate hatred, the dispositaon to open and oau'sc to S afresh a woimd well nigh healea. Gr Repablicans, overflowing with tal patriotism, tulk of "Union" aJT" "Monroe Doctrine," and in th0 broath calumníate tho very moa T whoiu that union ghjuld bu formrf a' without whose co-operatio tlrnt doc'trio, could not possibly bc proruulgatci IJ are States to unite if tnen will not- if th poople of one State huto these of ano! or'' Yot, wliile ostensibly seeking tU union whicn wo all desire, the men „ power daring awl since the war hs sown the seods of the most intern sec tionul hatrod, and it is more thaa posa, blo that those seeds were not all Kn upon rocks ain barren places. Fe will deny that (Jon. Grant himself, if,t firgt lie had known tho real issue cía, wnr, would have boen found upou the otherside, and thousands of hamen mi him. That is a strango course of rernon vrhich would attempt to show tint ín. turnity could exist without friendship. Tho Union which our writer so lotdi; applauds, whilo at tho süiuc tioe h kicics and scorns one of its most umi. tant elemente, is but a politiesil fratenity, and tlie grandest of the ago. Eqoallv strango would be tho argument Uut without a magnanimous exerois powors t!iu viotor could hopo to win th respect of tho vanquished. ïhun wh Bword i- the pen of this man raigiitiirr Surely, not that of liis chatcjiion, Oa Gril rit. lic hiyri great strp.as pon the rjlit.ilous assuinption thnt if placed in power thu Greeley party will bankrupt . tionul treasury tlirough paying Soutliera war claims, and that it will rep : national dobt. At any atteuiptto kring aboat sach resulta tho whole ieop!e, of all sections and partie?, would ' cali treason nnd raisu the huoauJay'of determinod resiataiice. Appoaling, not to inioMigence ui frioudehip, but to ignoran and sectional hate, the article in tk I ■ must fail to ntirnm of tho Uepublicans. it is but typ?, fer, of thu Iiepublican editorial ml li everywhore of thr last tra jrwn valuablo possession for the iuudsger3 of any gvernrm-nt in ths wisdomti -that principie of politici! oienco tho full knowledge of whiclisisgests the wisest policy in directing affiin of national honor, both at hom nbroad. That knowledge is inherent B our peoplt?, and those of them who o best use it are tho best togovem. I:i i policy of the government towmvl the Sonth is inrolvod a principio of bond aud friendship. Oharitj-, sndahigbügurd for tho wishes of both - should be the ruling spirit. Tbeninstead of widening the "blooJy and filling it anew with the OOI our Southorn bretbren, let us "elP liands" across it, forget the .iiiinositiescf tho pust, nnd anticípate the time wke1 community of interestg shall mteb Xorth and South onoe moro &' hood of men aad of Americana. K G. ï.

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Michigan Argus