The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10
The Anti-Monopo1ist.

But lift is admitted that the South is
in the desperate and dangerous condi-
ton which the Republican papers pre-
tend, the next question to be asked is,
who is responsible for it
Clearly the Republican party. They
have had undisputed possession of that
region for over nine years. They have
filled it with carpet-bag office-seekers,
they have upheld every scoundrel who
robbed in the name of the Republican
party. Name every one of them, black
and white, from Bullock and Moses
down to the county officials, and you
will find them Republicans, worship
pers of Grant, Morton. Butler and
Cameron.
If the South to-day is failure, it is
because the Republican party has been
a failure. The misrule, the plumber
ings, the discomfort, the turbulence, are
the fruits of Republican control. by
their fruits shall ye judge them"
"And when He saw fig tree in the
way, He came to it, and found nothing
thereon, but leaves only, and he said
unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee
henceforth for ever And presently
the fig tree withered away
And this Republican party,
having made politics in the
South question of race, having
arrayed black against white, having
used the solid vote of the negroes to
perpetuate rule which has overwhelm-
ed the States with debt and
covered the land with restitution
as with garment; now comes for
ward and says, ''see this ruin we have
wrought; see these oppressed and en-
FILTERED populations; see these hostile
races, ready to break out into open
war. We have done all this; andthere-
fore you must maintain us while
longer in power. We need the bayonet
to hold this desperate people in subjec-
ton; and who can WELD the bayonet
so we'll as Grant p
This is the argument. But is there
not another way to govern9 Are not
peace, justice, fair play, economy, light
taxes and prosperity better than bay
onets! And if you pin down one-half
the nation to the earth with bayonets,
how long will the other half be free :
Would it be difficult to find in the de-
moralized and degraded South the ma
terial for an army wherewith to over
throw the liberties Of the North?
Remember that for years we permit
ted slavery to overspread the southland
at last it found its way to our very
hearth stones and demanded the best
beloved of our families and led them off
to death. Remember that ifw now
permit the people of the south to be
ruined, degraded and enslaved, that
crime too will find its way to our fire.
sides in tears and blood. Out of the
rudy currents of their own hearts the
people must pay the price Of every great
national crime.
If the Republican party has failed to
give prosperity to the north and peace
to the south, let it take It's chains and
its bayonets and step aside. Let US re-
vive the teachings Of Jefferson and
Jackson. Let us see if good order will
not flow from good government. Let
us see if God has not given us in this
fair planet, in the soil and climate Of
our country, in our own intelligence and
means of prosperity wealth
and happiness.
For one, we do not believe that the
universe hangs to the coat tail of Ulys-
ses Grant; or that the welfare Of man
kind hinges upon corrupt ring of Re-
publican politicians.