Show > < J = I SHERMAN ON DEAD ISSUES I I Under the above caption the Eureka Sentinel of yesterday has the following excellent article one that should be read by all for the intrinsic worth and the facts which it sets forth I Senator Sherman in a recent speech in i Ohio that was meant as an opening of the I Fall campaign made a statement that is both interesting and significant as showing the tendency of Republican thought and probable prob-able Republican policy The Senators speech is therefore extremely discouraging It is a declaration that the late enemies of the Government have been restored to power and hope practically to reverse all the results of the war Such an assertion comes with an ill grace remarks Harpers Weekly from tho party leader whoso party in Virginia has just nominated for the Governorship Gov-ernorship of the Stato one of the very rebel leaders whom ho describes Thoro is no moro reason to question tho honorable honor-able acquiescence in the results of tho war of General Johnston or of Senator Hampton Hamp-ton or of Secretary Lamar than there was for Washington to doubt the loyalty to tho Constitution of Patrick Henry or Edmund Randolph or Colonel John Lamb all of whom had strenuously opposod its adoption Mr Randolph was onoof tho three members of tho Constitutional Convention who refused re-fused to sign his name to the Constitution But Washington made him Attorney General Gen-eral Patrick Henry led the Virginia opposition opposi-tion to tho adoption of the Constitution But Washington offered him the Secretary ship of State when Jefferson resigned And although Colonel John Lamb in New York was so conspicuously opposed to the Constitution Consti-tution that his house was mobbed Washington Washing-ton made him the first Collector of the Port Of course ho satisfied himself that however hostile all these men had been to the Constitution Con-stitution they were then faithful How is it now The war was begun by tho Southern South-ern leaders under tho plea of State sovereignty sover-eignty to secure slavery It ended in an unconditional un-conditional surrender of the armies of secession se-cession and in the adoption of three amendments amend-ments to the Constitution one prohibiting slavery forever one making nativeborn or all naturalized persons citizens and ono prohibiting the abridgement by any State of the right of citizens to vote on account ac-count of race color or previous condition condi-tion of servitude Senator Sherman says that the Southern leaders propose to reverse these results But certainly nobody in any part of the country proposes practically practi-cally to enforce the old theory of State sovereignty or to restore slavery the abolition aboli-tion of which was the great result of the war while wrongs upon the suffrage in some parts of the Southern States like other wrongs upon it in Northern States are either not remediable by national legislation legisla-tion or the Republican party has proved its inability to deal with them If the National Government can redress the wrongs of the suffrage in the Southern States why have they not been redressed during the long Republican ascendency or in what way would the party redress them should it return re-turn to power |