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Show A REPUBLICAN TO THE FRONT. He Waves the Bloody Shirt and is Ready for a Hundred Wars. Salt Lake, September 6, 1S76. Editors Herald: You seem greatly exercised, because, be-cause, as you assert, the republicans insist on fighting over again in this campaign the issues of the war. You aak: When is this eternal round of, recrimination, this campaign of sectional sec-tional hate to cease?-You s-iy that the measures beiDg taken by the government gov-ernment to secure lreedom of election at the south, show that the republican party doesn't mean to relinquish control con-trol of the government, and much more of the same kind. Kow, the Boutbern people are persistent. So is the political party in the north which sympathizes with them. We thought we had the first pretty well cleaned out when Richmond fell and Lee surrendered. As tor the democratic party north, it has been adjudged dead and its effects administered admin-istered upon a dozen times in as many years. But these two faction?, so to speak, are exceedingly lively for corpses. Together they will cast more than 3,000,000 ballots in No- VSUlUKr, UU 11 IB ueausc tuam on fighting the old war issues ovrr again it is because tbey are now moving heaven and earth to achieve at the ballot box precisely what they lost by defeat in war, that the republicans repub-licans are obliged tu meet them on the same old ground. Do you suppose sup-pose the millioos ofvotera who defeated de-feated the effort to disrupt the Union by artm at such a fearful cost are not as tenacious of their principles and as determined in their maintenance as their. opponents ? So long as you bring an unittd south to the polk united by the terrorism inspired by wide-spread political assassination so long you will find an united north there ready to meet and drive them back, with ballots if possible, with bullets when ballots fail. Governor Hendricks Bays there is peice in the south, except in two or three republican repub-lican states. So was there peace on mo Aiuue o.uru ui. me pumt ui Custer's attack after he and alibi-men alibi-men were killed. I submit that the presilent of the United State would be most grossly derelict in his duty Bhould he not do what he can to protect unattending citizens in the peaceable exercUe of their political rights. Had our citizens been treated by foreign powers Ob they have been in some of the southern south-ern BtateB we would have gone to war for redress against the whole world, if need were, twenty times over. Ihe question whether the Unittd States is a nation, or two, or four, or thirty-eight thirty-eight Datins, is just as open now as it was in 1&G1. The southern people and their allies in the nerth are contending con-tending juat as determinedly and unscrupulously now to establish the right ot secession, with all that it implies, as they were then. The difference ii in the roetuod anil means, and it is atainBt the present. Then the end was openly avowed and good gunpowder and bright steel were ihe means employed. Now the end is sought to be covered by cries of reform, honesty, economy, sound finance, what not, and the weapons are misrepresentation, lies and terrorism, induced by aseassina- lence that are found requisite. Talk about reform with Tweed, Tilden and Alorrisey as your foremost representatives ! One-hundredth part of the mud that covers Tilden all over would kill the ablest republican we ever had deader than Julius Cre3ar, in a minute 'i1" BUa picion of crooltedneas even may not attach to a republican, but he is hurried hur-ried away and crucified. You know this is so everybody knows it, and it ihows with which party any hopo of reform lies. Now doubt the republicans will give up the government if they am beaten at the poll fairly, but not otherwise. Tbey will ultimately maintain their principle as tho policy of these United States at the coat of a hundred want, if need bo. The time will not come for centuries when the i northern people, including millions) who call tliPinselvPs durnocnits, will tamely consent to the rule of aniirch-Sals aniirch-Sals and aMUMtns men whose id can ' of morals are fundamentally deranged t anu corrupt men who naieu 1Mb L'nion became it restrained them from enslaving, from cutting, whipping whip-ping and burning at will their follow men Willi dark skin men who hate it now, who bate its office, civil or military, who hate iU constituent!) of republican politics, simply becauai! their existence is a proU'Rtagainnt and a retrain t upon their lawlrsft paniioriH. These causfl the dtjath from JWU to 110 of hundrrda of thousands of K'rd men; why should tho right or tho livfrt of ft fow thonnnridn mors he ftllowwl to stand in tho way of their Eratificalion '( Vou may say that I miflrrprr'ant ti porty and Mm objficln, that m-:ei-Jion ilfwrry ar dead, and all that t th, ftrf) Uk) J'"''' 'this ns muU-d hn.p Of north.rr, demr control of the government ? fhi lUKle purpose of rvcrfliIlfC th0 result of the war. Tho Union soldier is to i disgraced, tha confederate soldier ; honored. The war for the Union is . to bo declared to have been unconstitutional unconsti-tutional and wrong, and the north is 1 to be held responsible for its results, pecuniarily. The government debt is to be repudiated or the confederate debt assumed and made a part of it. The losses incident to war and emancipation eman-cipation are to bs made good to the Bouth. The reconstruction measures, with their constitutional amendments are to be repudiated with the war, the negroes are to be placed in a worse condition than theiroid slavery, and terrorism is to rule the south, with no one daring to question its right. By that means, with the aid of copperheads and doughfaces in the nortn, the government is to be won and held. Do you Btippose the republican party, which with the negroes and the war democrats is undoubtedly largely in the majority, is goiug to disband under these circumstance!, or that the "bloody shirt," as you call it, will cposfi tn hft their nriflamme? Don't forget this the couutry has got to sustain the results of the war national unity and all rights for all before the law, at the polls or iu the field. It can take its choice of course. But if it is faithless at the polls, it will be a fatal blunder. The results fondly believed to have been achieved by the war will not be surrendered sur-rendered by the northern people by the American people without many successive struggles, equaling in intensity, in-tensity, in cost and sacrifice, that from Bull Ruu to Appomattox, and that iB the long and short of it. Respectfully, REPUBLICAN. We cheerfully publish the above communication, though there is nothing no-thing new in it. It reads precisely like one of Mortou's speeches in Indiana and is conceived in the spirit that has animated the fanatical portion of the republican party since it had an existence. It was this unreasoning spirit which provoked the war, refusing to liBten to a sug gestion of compromise; it was the same spirit which thwarted Abraham Lincoln's policy of reconstruction and peace, and established the vile carpet-hag carpet-hag governments in tho south to harrass and impoverish tho people. We do not care to reply to this tirade, for it is little else. It seems to be a sufficient condemnation of the republican party to point to its position posi-tion in the ptesent campaign. The above writer claims that this party is fighting against a united democratic south. Who has it to blame for this Btate of aflairs but itself ? It had at the close of the war nearly every southern state in its hands to do with as it pleased. For years the army was mostly stationed in those states, and was moved about to meet the political exigencies. It has held the entire executive and judicial authority, and until last December the entire legislative power of the general government, and it did not use them sparingly either. It amended the constitution of the United States to suit its purposes, audit imposed the conditions of a conqueror upon the reconstructed states. It gave the negro a vote and for a time secured that vote as noarly a unit in its favor. With all these advantage iu the race the republican party ought un- 1 der ordinary circumstances to have held the south in perpetuity, for in addition to the assumed righU of a conqueror over tho rebellious states, it had. the opportunity of politically reconstructing their governments, and of maintaining the disfranchisement of their people at its pleasure. It had the united nrgro vote to etart with, which was itself a majority in some states, and to carry out its political programme it bad at its back the en tire civil ana military power oi me government and the moral force of a majority of the people at Ibc back ol that. Yet to-day the republican party is obliged to confess that it is utterly bankrupt in the whole southern' country, and that if it saves one or two states this fall from the general wreck it will have accomplished all it can expect or hope for. To do this it finds it necessary to employ the federal army and provide for the appoint-mentof appoint-mentof innumerable special marshals as officers of election. Even then the situation is confessed to be ft forlorn and hopeless one. To add to lis mortification the republican re-publican party now finds tho negro voters upon which it has relied for success deserting its standard and going over to the democracy. We can imagine its anguish of spirit at this turn of affairs, and our wonder that the "bloody shirt" should be waved more ferociously than ever ceases in view of the terrible disap pointment which this peaceful revolution revo-lution has occasioned. It is a hard case, and wo would almost he in-, in-, clinod to sympathize with the party which has Buflered theso reverses did we not believe that in thn wisedi-pensatioo wisedi-pensatioo of a oud providence, the republican party had already out lived ila usefulness, and that its extinction ex-tinction had become necessary (or tho nafety grid progressive development of the country, It will not do to keep u great people continually in hot water. Thero are revolutionary periods in tho history of all nations, which may bo regarded as safely valves, or moral restoratives, but we cannot always bo hatching groatrovc- lutions, and the republican party being responsible for one politico- j moral convuloion which nnarly upset -the government, can hardly bo in- 1 dulgod in another ellorl or. the kind during this century. Our correspondent is ready to fight a hundred battles if necessary, to establish the principles of the republican repub-lican party. Blow his soul; no principle prin-ciple was aver established by war. In this our belligerent sections mado agrave mistake in If the sculh hod succeeded it would not have Hlabliiihed tho principle of seccnaiun, and tho victory of tho north our correspondent cor-respondent admits, hag yot accomplished accom-plished no groat moral results upon the defoatrd parly. Whou both sod inns como to agreo that neither practical BOCOMiyn nor a imirm on forend by war is possible under our rpublio, they will then have reached the point where controversy on this subject will cease. The Union is one nud indivisible; nothing -but sectional sec-tional strife and civil war can make separation a reality. It is in this spirit that the Herald arraigns the republican leadors of the present campaign. They aro seriously seri-ously blundering in attempting to give arcactionary revolutionary character char-acter to this election, which is altogether alto-gether ill-timed and illegitimate, besides be-sides being perilous to the peace of the country. There is no warrant for such a canvass aayo in the fears of the republican party, and it cannot win unless the American people aro utterly demented and lost to all common-sense considerations. Then there is nothing novel in it. Everybody Every-body is tired of the old tune which has been for fifteen long years played I upon a harp of a single string. Let us have something new. We have received a dispatch from Cincinnati giving a description of a brutal prize fight between the two bruisers Goss and -Allen, which occurred oc-curred at Walton, Ky., on Thursday. Twenty-one rounds were fought, when on account of a foul blow struck by Allen, Goas was declared the winner, win-ner, although the latter was terribly punished aud almost blind at the close, while Allen received little or no injury. A militia company was on the ground and broke up the riDg, but only stopped the fight temporarily. temporar-ily. The particulars of the several rounds are not of su flic-ion t interest for publication in the Herald and do not furniah an instructive, or useful species of reading matter. It will be found in full in tho morning paper which makes its boasts of giving the "headless the commodity they are willing to pay for," and whose editors studv to amuse rather than instruct the people. Au honest coufession is sometimes good for the soul, though it places the culprit in an unenviable light. |