The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-06-29
"Crunlbling TO Pieces

carpet-baggcrs have OverdOnc thoir work
The house of their party is divided
against itself, and with anything like a
judiciors treatment of the blacks the
white land holders have the reconstruct
ed and unrcconstructed Southern States
in their hands. The carpet baggers,
from their intestine squabhIcs over the
spolis, have so fur crippled themselves
already that it is plain to see that their
days are numbered. In truth, the Ad-
ministration must do something soon to
reGnitc the scattering forces Of the dom
inant party, or even in the North it will
90 to the wall in the coming elections.
in the distribution Of the spoils, where
for every man appointed to Office ten
men are disappointed, the Administra
ton has lost ground, the managing politi-
clans to 4 great extent have become dis
gusted and the rank and file demoralized, =,
and SO the Republican party, North as
well as South, is crumhling to pieces
/ From the National Intelligenccr.
/ 1t would be strange indeed if any other
end than that so confidently predicted
! by the Herald should await party
whose whole record is one of unprinci
pied eXpedients to pcrpctuatc itself, III
which infinite and unmeasurahe wrong
has been committed against the
peace and welfare, the laws, the institlI-
tious, and traditions of the county
| Every move it makes, or ever has made,
is with an eye single to sclf.preservation.
| Its reconstruction laws III the Southern
States were conceived, and, so far as car
ried out ut ALL executed in the interests
of the party. The disfranchisement of
the white race IN those States, and the
enfranchisement Of the black race, were
not designed to have any favorable bear
ing whatever upon the prosperity and
happiness of the people. but were dis
honest, unlawful and tyrannical devices
to give the party strength and promi-
ncnce in that part Of the country-or,
rather, TO extend itself there, where it
hardly had an organization, and where
! it had not, and can never have, any hold
upon the people. To execute these re-
construction laws they sent down merce-
nary and interested cOadjutors from the
North, chiefly from among the people of
New England, who are born with hatred
Of the Southern people, and the result is,
and it is what might have been expected,
as the Herald says, that ''the carpet bag
gers, from their intestine sQuabblcs over
the spoils, have 50 far crippled them
selves already that it is plain to see that
their days are numbered"
SO far as the Southern States are con
cerned, whether they be those recon
structed or unreconstructed, it would be
the height Of unreason to believe that
the Radical party could ever get Il per
manent foothold there Between that
party and the Southern people there is
an ineradicable antagonism. For time
the party may have things their own
way, as for time they have had them
their own way, solely by the exercise of
ungranted and arbitrary powers; but that
such state of things, such supremacy
of Radicalism, (even after the wretched
fashion and in the wretched sense that
it is supreme, should continue, is alto
gcther impossible in the nature of things
and in the nature of men. 1t is not In
human nature to return good for evil,
confidence for tTeachery, support for
cruelty, fraternal kindness for unappeas-
able hatred. The South and the South
ern people are no doubt resigned to the
bitter cup from which they cannot escape
or so long as they cannot escape from it 4;
but it may be considered a moral GER
tainty that they will cast it aside just as
soon as they have the power, as they
have now, and have ever had, the right,
and with no very strong affection for or
leaning towards that party, without a
touch of justice Or mercy, that forced it
to their lips. That the Southern people
will in time be emancipated from this
party thraldom and the obnoxious and
oppressive requirements to which, from
very helplessness, they are bound to sub
nit, and that it is mere matter of time,
is as morally sure as anything in the fu-
ture can be. There is nothing in the
power of the Radical party to prevent
it; the best and most, or worst, that they
can do is to delay it, aud that cannot be,
if we read the signs of the times Alright,
to any very distant day. The party are
rapidly reaching the end of their tether
They have not that blind and unreason-
able confidence, not creditable to the
good sense and sagacity of the American
t people, that they once had, and neither
their Southern nor their Northern policy
, is receiving that endorsement which il
once received. They see this, and find
it necessary to shift their sails. Witness
the vancouver in Tennessee, where q
Radical Governor, Senter, a candidate
, for reelection, comes out for the enfran
, chisement of the rebels, in which he is
sustained by Senator, late Governor
Brownlow, one Of the most vindictive
unscrupulous, time serving, and desper
ate demagogues that ever rose to the
surface in politics and in an era of dem
agogues. The opponent of Senter, VIM
R. Stokes, on the other hand, adheres to
the relentless and cruel policy of pro.
scription, thinking, no doubt, that thai
is the policy likely to win, for we do not
believe that he, or, for aught VIC know
: his opponent, has any principle in the
7 matter.
: So far as the Northern States are con
: cerned, if not the same or similar; Ger
r tainly equally potent influences to those
/ that are silently at work against the dom
inant party in the South are operating
also against them in the North. A want
, of confidence in them, on the best and
+ broadest of grounds, and in matters Of
2 the most vital and far-reaching sort, is
rapidly developing itself, and assuming
such proportions as must ere long prove
fatal to the continued monopoly Of
power by that party. This,we have rea
son to believe, they are not blind tc
themselves. They do not feel that the
, foundations on which they stand are as
! safe and sure and indestructible as they
once thought, or affected to think, them
They are manifestly uneasy and unset
tied That they feel the necessity 'o
abandoning some Of their grounds is
obvious, as in Tennessee. They hardly
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