Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-11-08
The Southern Democracy,


cratic Rutland Courier, it occasionally has
some lucid moments in which it lets out
the truth ia spite OF ITSELF Early in the
war it had lucid spell IN support Of the
war and the war party, but afterwards bad
severe relapse. Recently the Griffin
(Ga.) Star, a southern rebel democratic
paper, took the Courier to task for nom-
mating Grant for President We give
most of the reply of the Courier of last
week, and our readers win of course make
the proper allowances for some Of the al
lusions which it Of course can't help put
ting in, and we give it only on account of
the occasional lucid momeot which ii cou-
tains:
You 1.-THE South are merely residents
OF conquered provinces, and under the
rule of military commanders appointed by
and wearing the uniform of the United
States. There was time when you had
political rights, and we now ask whose
fault is it that you are deprived Of those
rights, while your ignorant negroes, $50
recently your slaves) are suddenly clothed
with the full power of citizenship, and die
tate to-day as to who shall represent ten
States as Senators and representatives in
the American Congress? Whose fault is
it.? The Democracy of the North are not
10 blame, and the Radical Republicans had
no power to annoy or disturb you, had you
not set the torch TO your own dwelling,
when they at once seized on the opportuni.
ty and famed the flames which you had
ignited with your own hands.
You say, for Cons sake let shoulder
straps alone. Pit up Statesman, ?" We
did. The Rutland Courier was the first
paper in the United States to hoist TO the
mast head the name of that glorious
Statesman" Stephen A. Douglass, for
President. You of the South bolted his
nomination, made at a regular National
Convention of the DtmocI attic party, and
by SO doing you set fire TO your own dwell
linss, brought relentless bloody civil war
on united and happy people, and DEATH
taxation and ruination on a country at
peace with the world, and population en-
joying wealth and general prosperity such
as the world never before witnessed. Tell
II not to us Democrats of the North to
"put up statesman !" When we offered
you statesman, the only statesman of our
party that could at that time have been
elected, you secuted the idea. You de-
manded two-third vote in the conyen-
ton yea, more, you passed resolution
that the nominee must get 202 votes, and
after being fairly nominated you (of the
South,) bolted bis nomination because he
favored leaving slavery in the territories,
to the people of those territories. You
voted for Breckenridge, thus dividing the
party, and nsuring your enemies an easy
victory. This was the beginning of the
troubles you brought upon yourselves
The rest is written in blood, and to-day,
we repeat, the ignorant negroes, Qately
your slaves) are goair masters. Why did
not you Southerners vote for ga states
man in 1860, instead Of boiling a regu-
lar nomination? BY standing up manful-
ly for your Constitutional RICH we Dem
ocrats of the North were left in a misera-
BILE minority in every school district, yet
we spurned the bride Of office, power and
place, and stood by yoa. We offered you
a Statesman" whom, if elected to the
Presidency, would have settled the slavery
question without bloodshed. You rejected
him, and have brought desolation TO hun
dreds of thousands of happy homes, North
as well as South, and debt and taxation,
too grievous to be borne al all; yet, to-day,
you censure US for nominating General
Grant "a1 odcaaace Of nomination.
while the telegraph informs us that at your
election in Georgia. on Tuesday last,
the negroes hare IL all their oacn ,oay.''
1t will not do for Southern papers to
put on airs as they were wont to do in
more prosperous days, while they stood by
the regular nominations of Democratic'I
Statesmen" OF the ten States thai took
part in the rebellion, all OF Them are in the |
hands OF negroes, with net vote for the /
Democratic ticket for the Presidency in
1868, achoecer may be the candidate. The
monstrous and damnable CT rse of the
Northern Radicals, in elevating the iono-
rant negroes over the intelligent whites of
the South, is just beginning to cause po-
litical reaction in the North and for the
protection of North as web as South. from
continued military despotism, avatlaJil;ty
may be necessary in the approaching cam
paign for the Presidency, and even shout
ders'aps may render more magnanimi,y
and justice to our neighbois of the Star
and the Southern people generally, than
would any of the +" Statesmen" Of the