Show THAT WAR WAK TIME RELIC we lve do not blame th the nation in the let for not caring to k go 0 o back into the records for the purpose of reviewing 0 history as it is truth hurts no one but hypocrites and pretenders and sinco since the republican party claims to bo be the one which preserved the union why do republican organs groan and squawk over a 1 page 0 or so of republican history if the nation did not want this review of its party to be made why did it dare us to make it I 1 if the editor of the republican organ ta is not afraid of facts why does docs lie try to cover them up with personal cpr ional upon ono one who simply presented then them for his consideration and who only did tl that at upon a request made in the nation alter after republican orators and editors have terrified the northern masses for a quarter of a century by waving the bloody shirt th they y have by oft repeating taught themselves to believe in their ghost stories of rebellion until now the mere mention of the past sends a republican editor into in to convulsions and the people who were once frightened have grown accustomed to the ruse and they no longer tremble at the neigh of Republican u alican war horses the Tho sounds of war however long agone n are arc terrifying to tile souls 0 of f those who have no ear car for martial music but who love the sound of cymbalus cym balls or the roll of general booths bi big L drum such men aie patriotic till they sec the smoke of battle they like to boast of what their party parly lias has done but want their it hearers aers to keep the records closed they like to close their eyes and shake tho the bloody shirt but if perchance they get a look at it their bair becomes liko like quills upon tile the fretful porcupine ane nation refers to certain quotations wo we h have ave given from war time papers as being copperhead sentiments well that may may be a just criticism upon them but they were taken from the greatest organs of the republican party all the same to call those papers copperheads copper heads is no ino doubt the proper application of that term but when the nation makes tile the charge it lays itself liable to a char charge c of infidelity to its recent recently y adopted party in ili this discussion our neighbor has been unable to control his temper or to confine himself to the question at issue but he seeks to cast insinuations upon some one by calling him a hot blooded youth who hails from the south we cannot lay claim totham to that distinction we wa would prefer to be southern born true to our friends and our principles than to be born anywhere else on oil earth eartle and change 0 our views views and forsake our principles at every evary hint wink or pretended message we might inight rece receive i ve we seek no personal controversy with the editor of thear the nation we have tried to be impersonal in all in all references to that oran or organ t an to keep him and his paper separate in all our discussions but repeatedly lias has the nation violated that rule of conduct which it often lays down but never heeds it is stran strange 0 C buttrum but true truc that whenever our contemporary is treated with respect lie he shows how flow little lie he deserves it by his conduct in return A better disposition would be in better keeping with tile pre tensions tent ions of our republican friend |