Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-08-27

OF course. If copperheads and secession.
lists lift Mr. Greeley into the White
House, they will claim-and il is now
understood that they shall have-their
full share in shaping the policy and filling
the offices OF the administration. They
are no bungIsrs, but shrewd at a bargain,
and sure 10 get good security ior prom
Sc. The cornerstone of their policy is
to repudiate our debt, or assume their
own. We shall surely hear that advo.
Gated We shal! probably see Jefferson
Davis in the Senate, and certainly have
his agents in The Cabinet. No doubt he
will be consulted in tho construction of
the cabinet. This is to put in peril all
the war has gained. am not ready for
such an experiment An old friend, now
residing in Georgia. who stood, rifle in
hand in Kansas all through that fight,
told me, just alter the Cincinnati conyen-
tom
''Sir, before Grant arrested those TWEEN.
" ku.Klux in North Carolina /, never
slept without loaded musket at my bed
head, and never ventured into tho viii
lage unless fully armed. Since that stern
Interference in North Carolina even afar
OF IN Georgia, sleep and walk about as
sale. carless and Tree as you do here"
ali Greeley is elected, suppose" said
/, you'll load those revolvers again"
Never know, by Southern boast,
what that election means. III never
risk living in Georgia under Groeley-rll
sell out and come North"
Such is the testimony OF loyal man in
the South That is how it looks in
Georgial
Ii Greeley is elected. We shall spend
our noxt tour years in fighting over the
WAR quarrels. constitutional amendments,
negroes right, State rights. rpudiation
and Southern debts. And we shall have
besides contemptuous ignoring OF the
labor question. Its friends were at Gin
cinnati. The convention scorned their
appeals, and Mr. Schurz himself affirm
ed that labor was mot live ISSUE"
President Grant means peace and oppor-
tunityio agitatc the great industrial ques-
of the day. President Greeley means
the scandal and wrangle of Andy John
sons years over agnin. with secession
encampsd in Washington.
Tho ssddest line to me of Mr.. Sum
ner's letter was where he warns the coli
ored men not "to band together in hostile
camp. and keep alive the separation Of
races p The negro, robbed, tortured.
murdered, trodden under foot, defence.
less in unresisting submission who has
tho heart to charge him with an iota Of
the guilt Of keeping alive the separation
OF races ?" Surely this lamb has never
shown any hate. or any undue prejudice
against the wolf. The Senator used TO
think all the fault was on the other side.
We put aside with the scorn it deserves
the insult implied in preaching to us for.
giveness and conciialion. Anderson
vile and Libby Prison are still living
horrors. Beside the thousands who
were starved there, hundreds still drag
out weary lives in our streets. poisoned
all through by that dread cruelty. The
graves Of seven white native Georgian
loyal men. ruthlessly shot down in the
streets, are hardly yet covered. The
first born OF hundred thousand house.
holds are still freshly mourned. Till
within year, throughout half the South,
the negro was robbed. tortured and muir
dered with impunity, the Southern press
glorying in the atrocities. Meanwhile
thanks to the unparalleled mercy, the
unutterable generosity of the nation
ninety. nine out OF every hundred Con.
fedsrate soldiers enjoys to-day all the
rights they had before the war. Jcffer.
son Davis and his fellow assassins-the
real jailors of Andersonville and Libby
| "Shame on those cruel eyes
That bore to look on torture
And dared not look on war;
still live, unframed, in peaceful posses.
sion of every right the law can give.
that of lifting their hands against the
government which has spared them. /
dare not affix the cpithet think fitting
to that mood of mind which deems ii
necessary and becoming to preach to
such community the duty OF forgive.
ness
Gentlemen, have another interest in
Grants election. The anti.slavery cause
was only portion of The great struggle
between capital and labor. Capital un.
dsrtook 10 own the laborer. We have
broken that up. If Grant is elected,
that dispute and all questions connected
with it, sink out of sight. All the issues
of the war are put beyond debate, and
a clear field is left for the discussion Of
tho labor movement. l do not count
much on the recognition of that move
ment by the republican convention,
Though l gratefully appreciate it. But
l see in the bare success itself Of Gen.
Grant. the retiring OF old issues and the
securing of place for the new ones.
We do forgive. We have forgiven.
But duty to The dead, and to the negro,
forbids US to trust power to any body
without undoubted, indubtable certainty
thst such hands are trustworthy. II wo
Il -. Al. ,l, n N an In he do