The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-05-27
NUMBER 81.
WHAT DIFFHRENCEs.

IL WHAT poEs OUR GOVERNMENT AS now AID
SINIsrEREp DIFFER FROM TIES CENTRALIZED
DgsFGT,sN eF EURoPg?
A large meeting was held in Baltimore, to
welcome home the Congressional delegation.
Among the distinguished speakers present
was the Hon. Montgomery Blair. who. upon
heing introduced. said that il gave him great
satisfaction 10 meet his fellow citizens once
more in Baltimore. Il was refreshing to
come among the people and Look into the
countenances of those sturdy men on whose
hearts aud hands depend the salvation of the
repuhlic-it was pleasure after contemplate
ing Congress to come once more to the peo-
pie and fee! that the country was safe The
country was drif,ins into despatism The
same process which had deluyed this country
in blood was driving it 10 deSpotiSm. "Whas
Difference was there between this government
rs now administered and the military despo-
tiSm of Europe ?" Desootisms existed in
4 Europe on account of the strifes and jealous
les of nations. Armies sprang up there to
settle these disputes. and they would not
/ down at The bidding Of the men who created
them and thus emperors and despots have
been enthroned according to the passions that
predomnated at the time Some Years ago,
when the Missouri Compromise was repealed,
Colonel Benton said "You have done an act
which will lead 10 boodshed" He sided
! with Colonel Benton. The Aholitionists,
from being handful, became the controlling
power. The army toek possession Of tina
South. The President, hv his soldiers, elect
cd himself. Congress to-day passed bill to
put IL Ia his power 20 elect himself again
this is time of prasound peace. The Presi-
dent had said, in his annual message, that
peace prevailed Speaker Blaine had said
the same thing on the ith of March, So also
the governors of all the Southern States. All
the pvetences now set up for TIE passage of
the ke-klux bill have been exploded by the
Radicals themselves Disorders existed in
the South, as they had existed in the North;
but who thought of declaring martial law in
the coal regions Of Pennsylvania, where out
RACES were being committed on a far greater
scale than had ever been perpetrated III any
district of the South ? Senator Pool. suppos-
ing he was talking to one of Mr.. Forney's
reporters, told him they must work up these
! Southern outrages, that they wanted public
sentiment created. This was followed bv an
address from the Radicals in the North Caro-
lima Legislature melting the negroes to rob
and piuader--an address written nv Senator
! Pool. MIR. Pool was also one of Holdens
| counselors, and advised him 10 employ man
Of desperate and violent character to arrest
| the leading Democrats in the State because
! he said that this desperate would find il con-
venient to lose these distinguished citizens if
writs of haheas corpus were issued. This
damning fact was proved by Mr.. Badger, one
of the gentlemen consulted hy Holden, and
he adds this advice was pronounced attrocious
even by Holden. What interest have the
propertv-holders of the South in creating dis
turhanees ? They steadily winning their
way back to the control Of their State govern
ments bv dignity, patience and wisdom. The
Radicals were the only persons interested in
creating these disturbances. Governor
Bullock of Georgia. was compelled to admit
in bis late message-that the State was fair
lv carried by the Democrats. The same
thing occurred in North Carolina The ne
groes voted in some instances against the
scalawags and arpet-baggers who were Gre
ating enormous debts selling out railroads,
plundering the property of the State and the
/ people, and the negroes were whipped and
scourged by the Loyal League because they
voted the Democratic ticket. Did this look
like Democratic intimidations ? The speaker
went on to criticse the Ku-Klux. You have
! put over you the power of one man. You
have the testimony of the Judiciary Commit
tee that Grant violated the law in taking mil
! itary possession of Georgia q year and half
ago. ard the testimony of Carl Schurz, a no.
BILE defender of civil liberty, that he is vio-
lating the laws of nations and the Constitu-
tim in dealing with Sart0 Domingo? What
think Won of the United States government
| administering the criminal law Of MARYLAND?
| Suppose they we're to bring man here from
Allegheny County to try him for murder be.
fore United States court. They have
right To do it under this bill. Could more
cruel, unjust, and dangerous system be de-
viSed than to drag man from home and
/ friends to be tried before a packed jury of
negraes at the instigatiGn of the malignant
pariisans of a distant government How
terrible these agents are all who know what
| the carpet-baggers have proved themselves to
! be will comprehend. Mr. Blaine said be was
no excessive par.izau. as they all we'll knew.
! He was born Democrat, bot he left that
party when he believed il was forcing the
negro issue. and eecting President after
! President that issue. lie stood by
/ Thomas Benton. who stood by the flag of his
country. Radicaism was born of the blood
Of Lincoln. He hal put down Radicalism by
declaring that the States should reconstruct
themselves and refusing his sanction to the
reconstruction act of 1864 Radcalsm was
| dead in 1864 hut Lincoln was killed by a
maniac. and Radicalism again sprung into
! life. Mr.. Blair continued his remarks unou
the Ku-Kfux bill. He spoke of Blaine.
| Dawes and Blair of Michigan, men of char
aeter, as being opposed to the bill at the COM
uencement of the SEES, ion. lie wound IN bv
saying that the Democratic party sought the
common good of all, and the ext;nguishment
of that sectionalism which endangered the
liberty of all.
What Is the annual corn crop of Kentuc-
ky?' asked foreign tourist of Kentuck-