| Show i- i J JN 1 i N NOT T HONESTY BUT POLICY at The Kansas Post City Cit puts out the following As a matter of history and to refresh the minds of those who may have for forgotten otten the circumstance it is well to recall the di dignified passage at arms between two most distin listin distinguished guis d U United States Senat Senators r shortly after the national election of 1860 Senator William H. H Seward of New York boasted in the Senate Senate- that the reins of government were about to be handed over to the Republican party a party composed almost wholly of Northern people eople and ana that the scepter of power was was to be taken from from the proud and haughty baught- South Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi inthe inthe in the course of a spirited high class and erudite reply said Do not forget it can o-an never be forgotten it is written on ti c the brightest pages of human history that we the slave holders of the South took our country in her infancy and after rulin ruling her for sj S1 sixty ty out of seventy years of her existence exist exist- ence we now surrender her to you without one stain upon her honor boundless in wealth wealth Incalculable in her strength th the tho wonder and admiration ot o othe the world Time win will show show 1 1 ft what bat you you will do with her hert but put no time Will frill ever diminish Y J t our u. u glory lory or your responsibility l r This is so palpably and undeniably true that no answer answer f i I was nas s attempted and the debate closed and the session ad ad- 4 1 lt I. I It would be hard to find in the entire North a m man man n so intensely partisan in his R Republicanism as to assert that in incase it r ease case a Southern Democrat were elected President there would k be oe th the s slightest dan danger er of scandal or dishonesty in the pub- pub t. ni service Even the Northern papers concede the absolute lute honesty and hi high h conception of public duty of the t Southerner when in office office and all t the e world knows hi his abil abil- 1 1 iy itY Y to handle qu questions bons of great eat pith and moment In in the F I 4 realms of diplomacy and upon the t tented field The of men of-men personal honesty o omen men is not a question in f Presidential campaigns for the rule is that no man sw whose hose personal integrity was ever suspected could ever be thought of fo for U that at place Pol Policies ci rule in the selection of Presidents residents There was a great deal of bluff in the words i t quoted above from the speech of Jefferson Davis s' s Th That t bluff was at once called by Senator and Gen Gell l. l E. E E D D. D Baker which did not leave much of the Davis speech ch When that speech was made Davis had his resignation as Senator written the speech was intended in in- intended f tended asa as as' a justification on his part for his content content- L plated attempt to destroy the Republic and he made 7 it as strong as he could For twenty years prior to the making of that t speech eh the power which he ref referred to the slaveholding slaves slave- slave s A holding power had been intent on one thing which t. t v was vas the bringing of an everlasting guarantee to slavery slavery slavery sla- sla very or in the event of failure to bring around sion 1 1 t After After- the admission of California and the they y triumph of the Free State rule nIle in Kansas then its l chief work was preparation for secession That work i which involved the existence of the Republic and andt andi andt t t i which contemplated d the des destruction ruction of the Republic i went ea on but t the e who men carried ed iton were Were 4 I personally in their business affairs honest men As Asa a bookkeeping proposition there were no deficits inthe in inthe inthe the accounts Now in considering the claims of men South and North for the Presidency the question of the p personal personal per per- r- r honesty of men will not be considered For instance For instance the personal personal honesty honesty of Ben Tillmen Tillmen Till Till- men or of Hoke Smith has never that we know of oi been questioned any more than that of Senator Daniel Daniel Dani Dan Dan- i iel l or Senator son Culber-son but there are hundreds of thousands of men in the North who would be glad to vote for either of the latter two who never ever could be persuaded to vote for either of the first two The reason is plain enough The first tw two would be swayed by their prejudices a and d handicapped by their narrow visions th the latter two would every moment moment moment mo mo- mo- mo ment cover the whole Republic in thought and would execute justice alike to all sections The first two were born Calhoun n Democrats they have not the capacity to expand from rom that groove in the least least least- the latter two are Jeffersonian Democrats and nd are great enough to understand tl that at atthe the office of President is too big to be bounded by any sectional lines Speaking of ho honesty esty John C. C Calhoun was as as honest as Abraham Lincoln intellectually he lie was the peer of the foremost men o of his of-his his age but it was his influence uen e that finally culminated in the great war with its losses its indescribable sorrows Considering Presidential candidates the question is not Does he his l bills pay laundry but rather What do does doe's s he stand he-stand stand for fod |
