Show KEEl TO THE liECOUD At the ratification of the Republican city ticket Wednesday night Jon HENRY SMITH is represented as saying that they the Republicanshad two foes in tnis city One of them was here to stay and in the past it had aided and comforted those whose hands were raised against the flag of the country We suppose in this remark Mr SMITH referred to the Democratic Demo-cratic party and the late war of the rebellion rebel-lion If so then we wish to say that Mr SMITH is not only very unfair to the political party ho opposes op-poses but directly insults those thousands of brave Democrats who gave just as good evidence of loyalty to this gov ernment during tho war of the rebellion as it ever occurred to Mr SMITH or any other Republican to manifest When Mr SMITH either directly asserts or indirectly implies im-plies that the Democratic party made war upon tho Hag of the country or gave aid and comfort to those who in an unhappy hour raised their bands against it the gentleman gen-tleman is to say tho very least inaccurate ami therefore misleading in his statement His inaccuracy would be pardonable and I unworthy of notice were it not to be considered con-sidered that Mr SMITH has given very close attention to all theso subjects and when he I I speaks even from the stump his word carries car-ries very great weight with it since it is 1 Known that he is a thoughtful serious gentleman gen-tleman not one of those liable to be carried away from a strict adherence to fact by the blare of a Republican campaign trumpet tho din of a drum or the fervor of his on burning eloquence Mr SMITH through carelessness certainly cer-tainly not design has committed a blunder commonly made That is he implies that the war of the rebellion was u war ol parties a war between the Democrats and Republicans Nothing could be further from the truth Some time ago the Republicans Repub-licans of Utah imported one of their partys strong men into our city to enlighten our people upon those principles of government and policy on which the Republican party is founded The gentleman so imported was once Representative in Congress and bore the name of HORn He too labored and for some length of time to show that the Democratic party made war upon the lingo the country and to do so resorted to one of the strangest methods of argument argu-ment to which It has ever been our fortune to listen With peculiar contortions of body and much affectation in manner of speech which was meant to pass for cuteness but which surely waa as ridiculous as it was amusing he informed his audience that at ihe very commencement of the war there came into existence such a term as WarDemo crats that is a Democrat who favored the Union cause in the rebellion and who was ready to go to the front under the flag and maintain its right to wave over every part of our country The honorable gen tIemans point in referring to the origin of the term WarDemocrat was to prove that there were sono who were nut War Democrats who in fact were on the other side in that unhappy war quite oblivious ob-livious of the fact that while proving that he was proving and that more strongly than ho was demonstrating the fact ho was aiming at that there were Democrats who favored the war on tho Union side Their number too was considerable con-siderable extending practically all Democrats Dem-ocrats of the northern and western states and they furnished their proportion of those who upheld the Union against the unfortunate men who sought to destroy it The war of the rebellion was a war of sections not of parties a war of interests not of principles True there were more Democrats in the states which attempted to withdraw from the Union than Republicans Republi-cans but it was their supposed interests not their Democratic principles which led them to attempt the secession There wore Republicans or what is about the same thing Whigs in the rebel army What brought them there their principles princi-ples No but a mistaken notion regarding the r interests We recommend to Mr SMITH a more careful reading of tho facts of history upon this subject and then we I I feel sure that his native fairness will lead 11 him to deal more justly by his political opponents op-ponents One other point we would suggest for the gentlemans consideration In the speech ho delivered at the Republican ratification meeting Wednesday evening Mr SMITH is represented as rejoicing to seethe see-the bitterness of the past disappearing and further on expressed the hope that all bitterness bit-terness would be turned under tho sod so deep that it could never be resurrected again Of course in this Mr SMITH was alluding to the bitterness which has existed in the past in this territory but we suggest sug-gest for the consideration of the better wisdom of tho gentleman if it will not bo equally praiseworthy to seek to bury all bitterness in the nation as well as in the territory And we further suggest that by charging the political party opposed to the one with which be affiliates with making war upon the flag of this country when asa as-a party they did not do it and are not end never were responsible for it is not tho way to turn bitterness under the sod |