The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-05
DEMOCRATIC VETERAN EXPLAINS
THE REASONS OF HIS VOTE.
Significance Of the Victories Over Eadi.
calism.
TCorrespoadence of the st. Louis Times

TCorrespoadence of the st. Louis Times,1
COLUMBIA, Mo-, Nov. 26, 1874.
The DemocTat says: Somebody polntediy
asks. concerning the Democratic victory, /
anyone can tell what the victory is for:
can tell that Mr. Somebody what one vote
in the victorious column was tor. | have
some very clear convictions on the subject,
and I am quite certain that one voc will be
for (tornent) the Democratic or any other
party which shall do as the Republican has
Cypress, corrupt and steal, and declare oppres
sion duty, and the plumber OF public funds
the legitimate perquisite OF the successful
partisan.
| One vote, at least, was against the Admin.
istration for allowing its agents to cheat the
Indians out of their just dues, and for turning
them loose we'll armed and well mounted TO
make reprisals on the frontier settlements, to
rob, and scalp, and torture and burn defense
less homes while the army We pay to protect
them is used in the South to Cypress our fell
low-citizens and manipulate the carpet-bag
victories, and depose disloyal governors.
One vote was for the tiend-lke expressions
of the South for placing q refined and virtu-
GUS people, bound by corrupt satraps. in the
power OF british and lustful horde Of Afri-
cans for demo,alizing noble army by using
it to spoil, and arrest, and cast into bastiles,
the best citizens of the land for desolating
and running the revenues OF the most produc-
tive portion Of our heritage for wantonly I'M
poverishing and driving to utter ruin and des-
peration a chivalrc and magnanimous people
One vote was for expressing an impoverish-
ed people with one hundred millions of annual
taxes more than was needed to support the
Government and pay its debts.
One vote was for assessing this tax on the
products of the impoverished farmers OF the
South and West, leaving out the wealthy man
ufacturers, the railroad rings, merchant princes
aud luxurious bondholders
One vote was for blotting out our CONNER
cial marine; marine that far surpassed that
OF any other nation; that whitened every sea
and carried the commerce OF the nations a
marine that filed the land with wealth, gave
employment to million men, and fOstered
that hardy, generous, daring and patriotic race
of American seamen, who were better bull
wark against foreign foes than all the fortifca-
tons and monitors, than all the Iavies in the
world
One vote was for allowing its party pets and
officials to steal some S5O,OOO,OGO from the
public treasury every year.
One vote was. for placing in the highest and
most responsible positions the most corrupt
and abandoned men in the country; for send
ing murderer and a convicted purjurer to
represent US at the first courts Of Europe; for
placing we'll known thieves and men who
openly bought their places in the highest
seats in Congress; for reappointing to places
Of hiS trust men so VIGOROUSLY corrupt that
their own party friends drove them from
Office
One VOTE yea, and thousands more, were
for acts too numerous to mention, but fully
as corrupt as these, aud for which the Repub-
lican party is justly held responsible.
~ Al -
spotless True! Some of its members cor
rupted the municipal authorities of New York,
but the stain was promptly wiped out, and its
leaders are either in prison or in exile.
True the Democracy went whorlng after
Greeley and Brown but that unnatural crime
was promptly rebuked and has been long since
repented in dust and ashes
ALIENS Fog-Horn," in Ohio, struck the
key note of our ancient faith capacity, i'll
tegrity and economy-and the clans rallied
from every mountain and valley, from every
highland and plain between the Penobscot
and the Rio Grande, from the Narrows to the
Golden Gate, aud the nation is relieved OF
part of its nauseating and dangerous load.
Ii those we have placed in power prove trre
to our ancient faith and show themselves equal
to the crisis, one more rally of the clans i'll
'76, the centennial anniversary of the nations
birth, will give us a new birth and send re-
generated people on new career OF higher
progress and greater prosperity.
The liberated South, both white and black,
shall spring to new life. Her ruined homes
shall be restored, and her plantations shall
ring again with the cheerful songs OF happy
labor and abundant harvests.
The giant West shall clean out the high
ways of trade and speed her multiplied har-
vests to the markets Of the world.
The East shall feel the life-giving pulsations
from the regenerated plantations OF the South
and from the invigorated harvest fields of the
West. through every nerve and fibre Of her
manifold industries. Her shipyards shall dis
play their old activity: her cotton and wooden
her shoe and sack and needle and
pin factories, and her foundries, all shall buzz
and ring again with true Yankee industry.
Her starving labor shall find plenty and pris-
tine content, and her capital more profitable
investment. Her commerce shall whiten
every sea and fill every mart. And this gene
raj prosperity shall even send new hands to
cultivate the deserted farms of Vermont and
New Hampshire. And even Vermont and
Maine and Iowa shall learn through their
quickened industries what this victory is for.
SMEx.
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