The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-09-03
TILE HOnR HIS COME.

There are periods in the history of ey-
cry nation when falsehOod can no longer
deceive the credulous or impose upon
the simple. That hour has arrived in the
United States Republican outrages have
aroused The people to q just sense of the
insolence of Republican power; they
have long refused to believe that men in
power were daily invading the rights
upon which liberty depends; but the
days of doubt are passed. Facts have
startled the whole country into the
knowledge which il would be weak to
ignore and criminal to disregard. Men
who have commanded the confidence Of
patriots, the faith of Christians, and the
respect of political opponents, are to-day
covered with guilt and clothed with pub
lie contempt. The well-informed have
long since predicted the catastrophe
From the day military arrogance as
sumed military dictatiOn, and fawning
fraud was embraced by executive favors,
corruption has led the way, and ambi-
tious insolence has ruled and plundered
the people. Longer to tolerate public
fraud Is to sanction it. If the masses
were Cowardly, or if the States were
weak, it might be policy to submit in
silence; but an insulted people has al
ready pronounced its verdict against
substituting the sword for the pen, pecu
lation for honesty, bribery for statesman
ship, or Of the Hessians who have 80
long reveled on the public treasury, for
the honest and able men who in better
days administered our government,
The Augean stables must be cleansed;
the Hessians must be driven from the
crib, for the insults they have inflicted
upon the morality and intelligence Of the
nation, admit of neither compensation or
forgiveness. Tyranny has shown itself
as native to the instinct Of ignorant power
| in, the United States, as ferocity is TO
Spanish Bourbons but, thank God, our
people, as a people, eternally aspire TO
liberty, to, justice, to good government,
and they win not submit to being cheat
ed by knaves or governed by scoundrels.
We began to measure the gulf Of our
political debhsement when we found that
our last Presidential election was achieY-
| ed by falsehood and stimulated by fraud;
when Republican leaders, one after an
other, after gloating in the insolence OF
victory over the outrages which secured
it, were discoveredto be pefjured knaves,
land grabbing monopolists, salary snatch
ers, jobbefs on the public. treasury, and
debauched followers Of plimder, such as
eliminated in Shepherd at Washington,
Durell of New Orleans and the buzzaTd
gang which have hung Ike black cloud
of thieves over South Carolina and its
sister States in npppression. p.
! The whole country is tired and dis
gusted with the insolehce Of simulated
! honesty; it is determined to have rad
| ical change, i'll public morals and in pub
| lie men, and II will have it. The storms
/ Of liberty are to he preferred TO the
4 serenity Of slavery, Too Just to invade
| the rights of Others, we are too patriotic
| to yield our own, K. ~ X.
| Looking back t6the days of Jefferson,
| the founder to the wisdom of Madison,
1.-THE expoundef to the yigor of jackson,
1.-THE victorious Supporter Of Democratic
\ government, we are encouraged to look
forward, and, bearing the old flag, to de-
mand a restoration to honest govern
ment, to able men, to, Democratic rule.
! The fall elections aPProach-pfepare tot
battle, ~, -