Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-08-13


would, in the Southern states, DO ignored and run
over.
TRUE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH
The condition OF the South, I doubt not, ia
improving politically. as we know il is rap
| idly In material wealth and prosperity; but
Sde soh S to sESnso ahS the
lion or purpose OF the Democratic masses Of the
south, should the Democratic party come into pos
white people are becoming somewhat accustomed
to the exercise by the .colored people Of civil
and political rights, and the tendency to violence
on that account has to some extent abated, yet 1t
would be great and fatal mistake to suppose
that they are recOnciled to their new relations to
the cOOred race, or have, in the language Of the
day, accepted the situation Although 1t is often
slavery II they could, yet do not believe It is true
in regard to the great mass of former Shareholders
while do believe TINT they look upon such restor
alton rs impossible under the circumstances and
hence do not live IN the hope OF It. But there is
| no doubt that the members of the Democratic
patty in the South. with few exceptions look upon
the colored people as race that ought stil to be
accident of war. and deeply resent their elevation
| 10 civil and political rights and equality. Aud
81 sSy do mot % M live 5 n the hope OF the
| hope and faith that the time will soon come when
the colored race in their midst will, by legislation
and the show Of force, be deprived of their pOiti
cal and civil rights and reduced to legal infer-
ority and position, midway between slavery and
TITLED by the Constitution and the natural rights
OF man.
THE WHITE MANS BAsIs-THE COLOR LINE.
Inelr policy may be summed up In q single
sentence-"The reconstruction Of the South
upon the white mans basis" This they can
ment remains under control OF the Repub-
liean party; but when they have Sc
cured the possession Of that then in the Southern
States, in which they have the power, they will
proceed without fear of molestaton or hindrance
to work out their policy of sublugatlon, and to ac
quire the power in other States by the fatal ma
chinery of violence and terror that have been al
ready SO successfully employed. To acquire the
possession of the National Government is the first
great step in the accomplishment of their policy,
and to this end they will mask their purposes as
far as possible, and do everything In their power
to lull the apprehensions of the people of the
North. To this end they will suppress, far as
possible, the violent utterances OF their pOliti-
clans and conventions, and talk In general phrase
of reconciliation and fraternity. To this end
they win toast and Aatter the correspondents
of Northern newspapers, lavish upon them
social attention, treat them with ostentatiOus
peace and good will to the ColOred TsCe and
weave around them net and maze of false APP
deceitfui and pleasing accounts which they would
have the people of the North believe.
But whatever facile correspondents may write,
the great fact remains that an overwhelming ma
jority OF oil who were engaged in the rebellion
are to-day bitterly hostile to the emancipation of
the slaves and their elevation to civil aud political
rights, and are watching with intense eagerness
for the hour and opportunity when they can cast
them headlOng down prectpice. They believe
these Will be found in the success OF the Demo-
| cratic party.
THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
II you would be fully instructed. inquire
cratic party. Not one who took part in the sup
preston OF the rebellion; not one. Their motto is.
let no such man be trusted. If any soldier who
fought for the Union imagines that he has OBJ
taine6, or can possibly obtain, the confidence of
the Democratic party, let him be undeceived.
They may, for purposes Of policy In doubtful local
tiles or States where they are weak, give him a
subordinate office, but even that no longer than the
necessity lasts, and never by any chance will he
be placed in a commanding position. Look at the
leaders Of the Democratic party in Indiana, Ohio,
New York, Kentucky, every where-they are Bour-
bons all, untainted by single patriotic resolve or
are your Thurmans, Hendricks, Ttldens, Bayards
SeymOurs, Kernans, EatOns, PendletOns. ct id
onlre geflus, gentlemen OF ability, each and every
one Of whom has been the unrelenting antagonist
| or the Government from the day our flag
amt ooTn H IN oood enn9 IRON the tRe summit o. Fort
| gress to cOerce a State to remain In the Union
They have asserted the unconsttutIonality of
| every great measure to prosecute the war They
cast the whole weight Of their Influence against
the Government throughout the struggle. They
proclaimed the Presidents proclamation of
emancipation to be q 6agrant violation of the
Constitution They went to Chicago in 1864, in the
| midst OF the last great campaign. and published
| TO the world that the warwas failure and should
be abandoned. They fought to the bitter end the
| Thirteenth Amendment, abOlishing and forever
prohibiting slavery; with equal bitterness they
| fought the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting
the assumption of the rebel debt, the payment for
the slaves, and establishing the equal rights OF
citizens in all the States. They resisted with in
teenth Amendment, which declared that no man
should be deprived of the right of suffrage on ac-
count Of his race or color And in , 1868 they sol
struotion laws were null and void; thus encourag
ing the Southern people to resist them. and max
and violence that followed that dreadful teaching
LONG AND CONSISTENT CAREER.
These are but the leading points OF q long and
consistent career, that have endeared these dis
tngulshed leaders to the Confederate Democracy
OF the South, and placed them with unquestioned
e at the head Ss OF the party whoever aspres to
claims will not be considered. This unbroken
career of fifteen yeas of opposition to every effort
IN n
erty and humanity, point with unerring signih-
cance and certainty to the future. 1t constitutes
platform for action. compared with which the
resolutions of Conventions are but empty bubbles
blown by straws. What these men would do in
power we know by their course for nearly O life
time out of power
THE TRUE PLATFORM.
But we are told that the issues OF the war are
settled, that old things have passed away, and all
and that the mighty issues of the were
settled forever and accepted by all; But the
tions the restoration as for as possible to things
ante-bellum, the placing of the Confederate upon
ment OF the Confederate warclalms, the abolition
Of all distinctions in the law between loyalty and
platform of political equality, and finally, pay
ment for their slaves,are to-day the cardinal, aab-
mocraoy, compared to which questions OF curren-
cy, tariffs and banks, are but as dust in the bal
the only passport TO office in the Southern States
As against the Confederate soldier, the Union sol
dler VINO may nave turned Democrat has no pos
sble show for Otiee. Adherence to the rebel
lion is the sole touchstone in the SOUTH not only
for political, but almost equally so for social and
business recognition. Even in Kentucky, lust
over the river, no Union soldier, be he ever
so loud in his professions of Democracy, can
be elected constable II any Confederate
soldier wants the place. And in the North the
men who opposed the war by every means in
their power. OF the kind have before described,
are the only accepted and trusted leaders of the
Democratic party. Yet in the face OF these nOtO-
rious facts, Democratic leaders and newspapers
have the amazing effrOntery to ask Republicans
to forget the war and the men who fought for the
Union, and 70 cease all distinctions between the
Union and Confederate soldiers. Such a policy
would be entirely on one side, and the Union
soldiers, forgotten by the Republicans, and alb
horred and rejected by the Democracy. would, to
use mild phrase, be left out in the cold.
THE NEXT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The next House OF Representatives will contain
seventy-fOur Democratic members from the South
who We're in the rebel army, and a number from
the North who were COnfederates in sympathles,
and in everything but the actual bearing OF arms.
And these are the men who are to legislate for
the loyal people or the Nation. But we are told
by gushing and sloppy tourists that all is now
peace and quiet In the South, and that the tales
OF murder. oppression and outrage upon black
and white Republicans were weak inventions Of
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