Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-05-07
=" GOOD Behavior" /"

1t may be safely asserted that, taking them
as whole, and with proper consideration
OF all the circumstances of the case, the
Southern people have set an example of good
behavior since the war which history cannot
parallel.-St. Louis Republican.
On this text the Republican breaches a
sermon on Northern Lunacy" in the
matter of the treatment of the Southern
question. The thousands of assassina
tiOns, the scores of massacres and bloody
riots, the numerous attempted usurpa-
tions, the threats of new rebellion, the
complete social ostracism of carpet
baggers, the terrorism put in operation
at every election at the South to deter
negroes from the exercise of the right of
sutfrage-all these evidences of disloyal-
ty to the amended Constitution and of
bad faith toward the new element of
citizenship go for nothing with the Re
publican. Against them all, with an
audacious assumption of the air and
mien of judicial fairness, it coolly asserts
that 1.-THE Southern people have set an
example of good behavior since the war
which history cannot parallel" More
than this: To give the lie to its fair
| speech, in the very issue in which APP
pears this judgment, so partial as to be
ridiculous, there goes forth to the people
news of the violation by the Democracy
of Louisiana of a solemn compact entered
into with committee of Congress to effect
a compromise in the interest of peace in
that State. In the very face of this new
pertidy on the part of the unreconstruCted
| rebels of the South the assertion OF the
| Republican that their good behavior is
unparalleled in history is a piece of un-
paralleled impertinence. But it is what
might with reason be expected from q
Democratic organ falsely calling itself
an Independent" newspaper. The vio-
| lation of the Wheeler compromise by
the so-called Conservatives of Louisiana
was to be expected we predicted it, and
warned Congress and the Republicans
of the State against being decoyed into
political trap by the necessarily false
promises of an INSCRIPTIONS opposition.
Nor was 1t to be presumed, in reason,
that Democrats North or South would
condemn the treachtry of the White
League Democrats of Louisiana. The
whole history of the Democratic party is
history of fraud and chicanery; Of
fraud ON the ballot-box, of fraudulent
legislation, and of chicanery in the con
duct of every phase of political affairs
The Democratic party, in vulgar phrase
keeps what it has, and gets what il
cam" keeps by fraud and gets by fraud
Every Democratic paper at the North
applauded the Wheeler compromise and
predicted a reign of peace and good or
der in Louisiana as sure to result. Now
we venture the assertion that not one
paper In a dozen of all those which thus
Rpplauded will so much as family con
denim the treachery by which the com
promise has been broken by Democrats
We desire TO impress upon the people
this fact, that the head and heart of th'
Democratic party are at the South. Be
fore the war of rebellion, Northern Den
ocrats invariably sneezed when South
ern Democrats took snuff. The Demo
cratic party North was party o. ablec
serviles, party of doughfaces grovelinj
in the dust and begging to be used ant
abused for the benefit of the slave oil
garchy. The Democratic party Nortl
of to-day is no whit more honest or indie
pendent than that of the slavocracy ere
1t hates the negro and reviles the carpet
bagger; 1t Whines about "the suffering
of the southern people," and prates 0
oonciliation, because these cant phrase
constitute the refrain of every Souther
lmpaign song it tborrows its platform
from the teachings of Southern treacl
cry and tramples upon them wheneve
they have served their purpose of cheat
ing the people into spasm of confidence
To presume that the American peopl
will again trust this party of fraud an
treachery is topresume that they hav
J lost capability tc reason, and are read
| to be plundered IN pocket and robbed Q
their political rights. 1t is an indisputa
} BILE fact that the Administration {
1 James buchanan, as an exemplifcatio
= OF moral cowardice, and the Tamman
Society, as an agency of the most str
Q pendous system of corruption known
I modern politics, constituted the twi
8 barbarism known as the Democrat