Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-02-04
Correspondence-
For the Gallipolis journal.
SaIdter,s INDIGNATION.

For the Gallip0lis journal.
A Soldiers Indignation.
Are Republicans to be deceived,
hoodwinked and fooled out OF their
votes by false statements and false Is
sues? Will they listen to the voice
of the democratic syren until they
forget the duties they owe to prinel-
pie, to party and to country? We
hope not, but earnestly wish our Re
publican friends would arouse from
their lethargy and lukewarmness and
take into candid consideration the
grave questions now presented to our
people.
1t is the idle and deceptive talk of
our political enemies that say there
is nothing at issue between the two
parties, that the old issues that di-
yided us during the war have passed
away, &c, and that we ought to let
the past be forgotten, and such pret-
ty talk as that. The serpent in the
garden talked well and made good
promises, but by taking him at his
word. came trouble and anguish, and
so it will be to us if we believe and
act in accordance with our political
adversaries, however well some few
of them may mean. The democratic
party of the North will be powerless
to do anything for the country save
what their old Southern masters (who
are fast coming into power may die
tate.
And Judging by the tone of the
democratic press, and democratic
leaders of the North at present, the
great majority of them are swift to
echo the fiercest rebel cry and howl
of the South, and to Justify the vilest
and fOulest deeds of the barbarous
Ku Klnx and White League Klan,
and condemn and denounce as theil
rebel masters do, the loyal people,
white and black, in all their efforts to
protect themselves by the ballot, OF
by asking for protection from the
government, when overrun and muir
dered by unrepentant rebels. Then,
can there be any sincerity or hon
esty in the democratic cry for peace
and reconciliation? Why, if there is
no rebel feeling and hatred of the
government in the South, why, ask,
are they electing to Congress men
who fought the longest and bitterest
against our flag, and boast of
it to-day? Twenty-seven of them
now in the lower House, three in the
Senate; in the next Congress more
than twice that number, unrepentant
of all the crimes they have commit
ted against our country. Does that
show that they want to bury the past
and renew the friendship of the earlier
days of the republic?
The news comes to us that Sena-
tor Schurz, of Missouri, is succeeded
by rebel General Cockerill, and no
less than six of that class were and
are candidates for the Senate in Ten
nessee. If this state of affairs con
tinues much longer, Andy Johnson's
assertion that rebels were to take
back seats, will be reversed and Union
men will have to take to the rear and
the Union officers and soldiers will
have to retire to give place and prece-
dence to those who fought to divide
and destroy this nation. l want the
soldier and the citizen who s'ood by
tho f1a1 of hona or on +ba hottIoGoI1
to pause and consider and study the
purposes of this triumnh"nt ,sbeL
host in the South. Union soldiers, it
bodies no good to us. These men are
struggling for power and by that pow
er they hope to wreak vengeance on
us. Think they in power will care
for him who has borne the brunt of
battle, or for his widow and orphans.
Then we see there is one great issue
at least between us-the same that
was presented in eighteen hundred
and sixty-one-Union or disunion,
law and order against rebellion and
We have no doubt as to
the result. These rebels South have
shown their hands too soon. Their
denunciations of Grant and Sheri-
dan-two men who did so much to
bring peace to the land few years
lgo, and are still trying to preserve it,
meet no response in the loyal heart of
The country, but deep and de-
purpose at all times and at
Ill hazards to stand by the conserva-
,ors of the peace in their patriotic eff
orts to preserve what we sacrificed so
much to save-an unbroken and un-
livited Union.
SOLDIER.