The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-03-19
Ne condition of the Country. It's Causes.

me Condition Of the Country. Its Causes,
Mr.. EDIToR Why are the people
in such n ferment7 Have they mot
just saved their Hbertfes-made e1-
traordinary developments in resources
and virtue, aad conquered wonder
/ fuI peace What is now the maftsr2
All the worst tyrants, the slave hold
ers, have been subdued All the idle
that went into the army for employ
ment and pensions, have been made
ssbrave boys, of1ce-hold ders, and great
men our State Legislatures and Con-
gresses have Been crammed Igfthmen
found worthy Gin times that trisd
mems asouls,n and fortunes; and all,
the people have been singing Te-
Deum of praise over their own un-
selfish and ehivalrous exploits and
now, why are they moro discontented,
than ever before
The women say that what the war
did not k1ll intempsrance is killing.
Pensions and bounties won't save
what is lett Of those they coaxed into
the army. The Cleveland Herald
publishes startling Rumors,D aFehr-
enback and his co-engineers conspira-
tors" Danger to the whole business
of the country Coal beavers are
restless, Opelailves everywhere are
combining against the oppressions OF
capital. The body of farmers are dis
satisfed and trying 70 initiate our
Jeffersonian ancestors in drawing up
declarations Of IndeDenuence, as
though the tyranical dominion of
Great Britain, or ssthe sIayeocracg' as
it used to be called, was still over
them. Dfstrust and bankruptcy actu-
ally prevade every branch Of business
though to operators anything to. put .
face on things, audts cover up the real
situation with mask that none but
fools will fail to zee throngh.
Still, II thisbe 80, II Is inconsistant-
II early for the people TO complain.
It looks unstatesmanlike for them to
be dissatisfied so soon altar having
had things their own way, and fixed
them up with an amended Constitu-
ton and reconstructed country
What has Northern labor to complain
about after its crusade against South
ern systems of labor? Has the war
wrought out any new and unexpected
results and conseqnences7 Was it
development Of resources to impoT-
erish and devastate one half of the
country. and plunge the other half in
debt that win Atry the sonls1 of an.
ending generations to pay7e Was it
progress forward or back5 Has any
body been decaiEed Who has been
sshurt'2 why cannot the country
now take : rest. ana enjoy fully that
singularly profound and statesmanlike
apothem OF fits great President, = Let
as have Peaeev ssss is.
The causes Of the present condition
Of affairs lie only few years ahead
of the present movement. They and
their Immediate effects were not dtfR-
cult to understand Our present dis
| turbances were forsseen and dessrib-
ed by such men as Calhoun, Webster,
Clay and Fillmore. But American
stateananship has either died ont or
been driven into retirement before
1860. The era OF such characters az
Butler, Garfield and Colfax had ar
rived-the time had come to lionize
such al Lincoln, aud tack his figure.
head up by the side: of Washington.
The time had come for the people,
under shammY and false pretext and
delusfon, to ravage the soil of all the
ilIustrious names of Virgins, and to
sweep away their descendants with
the bosom of popular madness. The
time had come, in the language of
Webster. & to bankrupt the country.
and deluge it in blood.
Now let the people assume the cons
sequences of their acts, and keep the
peace long enough to look fairly at
what they have done. Let them meas
.ure the walls OF their new prison
house, and count the guns they have
placed on them With their own hands,
before they attempt to scale them.
Yours, SIC. sa E.
Aurora, March IA, 1874. q