The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-10-21

4 OF horTorS, our Federai syStt ID Is ll
ruins and our pei pie, abon doning tht
country and the frugal industries o
| their fathers, are gathered in cities, and
getting rich, as they fancy, by traffic
with each other Ali this stupendous
ruin that now starps US in the face has
a very simple origin, palpable nough
| to the next generation, however bind
the present one-an origin that must
be understood beture there can be re-
lief or safety, and the sole problem be-
fore US is juss this-shall We come to
our senses and understanding the cause
| Of the national! caiamities, peaceabfy
remove them, or drift into chaos, and
fight out lour salvation through chaos
and blood uo1f n1a7ii - L- f.@af
I A lunatic faefion has eotferi pessess-
ion Of the symbols of power, and il is
trampling down constitutional laws,
principles, everythin. on which rests
our Republican institutions! in blind,
sinful and utter y beastial effort to req
lize its ...Idea" and incorporate four
millions OF. an inferior species Of man
kind in our! nationality anIIts desires TO
give krfednna to four miliiops of ne
groes. to abolish the natural supremacy
Of our race, to reverse the order of na
ture, to imp owe the work OF God, and 70
g We This imaginary aud impossible free
dom to nee rnes, it now really ensa
eight millions of. Americans in the
Sou'h. and if Grant is elected and is
faithful to the faction rithat elects him,
he can only have peace by enslaving
the masses of the n orth and the cstab. 4
lishment cf n military" despotism ever
the whole country. 'ai.o2 ,ot1 33s.q
Negro sgreedoms is only possible to
men or devils by white slavery-tnat is,
TO force four millions of neg roes into
the legal status OF white people, tn
must strike down the liberty of the
latter, of necessity, and the Sou'h Car
gilman Who. some years ago, wrote that
famous epitaph for his country, "Here
was once great people who, in striv
ing to give froodom to negroes, lost
their own simply predicted necessa
ry truth.
But can any one suppose that this
great country can be ruled ty militsry
despotism, or I hat an army of million
of men can preserve order with such
four millions of per-
vefted and debanGhed negroes, who,
thus thrust into unnatural relations with
Us, only obey the will of God when, as
in San Domingo, and Jamaica, they
exteTninated the white people?a No,
indeed; all the armies of Christen5om
combined cannot preserve order, if this
monstrous isction continues in power
nature g'll virdicate her outraged laws
the conflict of rae, S. notional bank
ruptcy, and horror piled on horror, will
sweep over rhe land, wrapping it in
mantle of fire and blood from the Gulf
to the Canada line !
This awful and bloody chaos towards
which We are marching may be avoided
by Seymour's election The far fetch |
ed schemes to get rid of a nato1al |
debt twenty years hence, has distracted |
their gaze from the awful present, and,
perhaps strll worse. the tinid twaddlc |
about the blair letter" and "recon
left to the Supreme Court
has weakened the Seymour movement
But the democracy must work as men
n. yer worked before to defeat the mon
grel factinn at the polls, and thus save
he fools and madmen they oppose, as
we'll as themselves. from tae bloody I
and horrible chaos otherwise unavoida
ole. ,n' !
Work, then, brother Democrats -
work like men whose very salvation de
Lends OF it, and If we elect our Presi
lent all may be wnrked out peacefully
md the grand cid Union of the Farbers
'estnred without the loss of another
acred American life aa trff