The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-05

Mr.. EDITOR: Grant and Wilson have been
nominated by the mongrel Philadelphia
Convention for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, and it now behooves
every intelligent white citizen to use his utmost
endeayors to defeat those august aspirants.-
No man i'll this country has made more rapid
strides towards Dictatorial power than Grant,
His toady, plant Congress have passed act after
act to destroy our constitutional liberties They
have added amendments to our glorious consti-
tuition, until they have destroyed all its effective
beauties, and rendered that once famous instru-
ment the next thing to nullity Grant and his
satellites have been working ever since they
came into power to establish dictatoral oil
garchy for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and have
been maturing plans to retain power in their
own hands.
Grant has used every wicked device that he and
Ben Butler were masters of to crush the vital en-
crgies of the Sunny South, and bring the proud
intelligent Southerner of Caucasian descent I'M
der state of yassalage to the filthy, long heeled
ignorant negro and the unprincpcd thievng
carpet Dagger, and by their wicked measures
they have well nigh effected their foul purpose
We now see the Legislative halls of many of
| the proud old Southern States, once adorned
with able, hghtoned, intelligent, educated and
refined gentlemen, whose beautiful and chaste
cloquence could held their enraptured hear
crs spell-bound for hours together, occupied by
mob OF Ignorant illitcratc niggcrs and cunning
thievng carpet baggers, whose Joint administra-
ton OF the affairs Of their respective States have
been ruinous to the vital interest of the States
they represent. They have not passed one act
(since niger rule commenced,) to benefit the
people, but instead of digniied and useful legis-
lation those proud old halls have been turned in
| to filthy menagerie of ignoramuses, whose only
aim has been to make niger nabobs and mer
ccnary millionaircs. They have overwhelmed
the States with enormous debts, and taxed the
Caucasian ito the manor born" to pay the
money to go into the pockets of the nigs and
carpet baggers aforesaid.
Grant has with an audacity unparalleled de-
| clared martial law in time of profound peace;
suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and sent
his dear Niger troops into peaceful districts
to apprehend and punish innocent men,
because they happened to be white, and would
not be likely to vote for him or his faction. Many
| of these citizens now occupy felons' cells, to
| CRAFTY the mean revenge of q bloated oloarchy
intelligent African, the better citizen, or the ig
| norant savage niger must not be touched. 1t
is now dangerous to make wry face at one
of"de sons OBJ de mornin," and why? Because
Grant and his faction think to remain in power
| through the vote of their black allies.
We supposed that when the war was over
| and the people of the South had succumbed, that
| Il wise, pacific policy would have been pursued
towards them, in order to heal past differences
| and to unite our country into one vast brother
hood; but alas we have been sadly mistaken,
for Grant and his wicked faction have been do.
ing all their evil minds could suggest to open
| and keep bleeding the wounds that should have
been healed by honorable clemency long ago.
And now this self complacent ''son Of jesse
again wishes to be saddled on the country for
four years longer even if his election has to be
| procured at the point of the Ku KluX bayonet.-
And how if the people SHOULD so far forget their
country's peril, and re-elect the man that once
tanned hides, what is to hinder him and his negro
| faction, from continuance of power after the
expiration of his next term, by proclaiming him
| Dictator?
Wouldn't a Dictatorship under Butler
| Pinchbeck, Grant and Fred. Douglass be grand
| AFFAIR." And soberly speaking this thing might
yet be, you elect Grant next fall.
We cannot give too much praise to the Dem
ocratic members Of the last Congress for their
able and firm opposition to the wicked measures
brought forth by Grant faction. Right manfully
did they battle for the right though the odds
were against them. Yet by their able legisla-
| ton, and assisted by few noble, high.minded
| Republican members (who had become alarmed
| and Disguised with Grant and his dangerous ad-
hcrents) they succeeded in defeating some of
| Grants darling projects. Our own Representa-
| tive, the Hon. Stevenson Archer (of whom we
| have every reason to be PROUD has been very
active in advocating our constitutional rights,
| against the usurpation aimed at them by Butler
| and Grant, for which he has our unfeigned
| thanks. And now, voters, whether you be called
! Republicans or Democrats, the country calls on
| you to arise in your might, and peaeeably but
| firmly fight for your rights and thrust from pow
| or faction whose aim is TO destroy every YES
| tige of Republican government and establish in
stead an oligarchy, at the head of which will be
| Grant and his relations Mans