The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

together, and Of the Governors eff that
State since the war but one was either an
avowed seCessionist or a rebel soldier.
But l will even 60 further, and maintain
that in giving the prominence they have
done TO the old rebel element the South
is making use of the only material out of
which 1t is possible to construct a respect
able government The Confederate SOL
dlers constitute the intellect and activity
OF that section, and to prevent them from
taking controlling interest in the ad.
ministration Of the affairs of their States
Is to travesty all forms of justice and
government 1t is in the political as in
the animal world we do not set sheep
TO guard wolves, nor can ignorance and
weakness long keep down education and
strength. The Democratic States of the
South, those in which the executive au-
thorlties are backed by the wealth and
Intelligence of the people, are as quiet
and orderly as they were before the war;
whilst in the so-called Republican States,
those in which the stale of siege is still
maintained by the national authorities,
the whole framework of the government
topples over the moment they are left to
themselves. Frightened Governors trot-
ting OF to Washington and whining for
troops is what must be expected as long
as we follow the absurd plan of endeav.
orlng to reconstruct Southern society by
putting the bottom rail on top"
The last charge against the people of
South which | shall take notice is, that
they but await an efficient control of the
machinery of the Government in order
to remand the negro to Il state of servi-
tude. This would seem to be their nat
ural condition to any one who believed
that they are still enamored of slavery
but this is far from being the case. If the
reinstatement of the negro could be put
to vote of the whites, it is doubtful if it
could command one-tenth of the poll.
Not three months ago distinguished
Confederate general, one of the hardest
fighters in that hard-fghting crowd, said
openly that he would cheerfully fight
twice as long and as stubbornly to resist
the introduction of slavery as he had
ever done to sustain it. On this point
the people of the North may rest secure
Slavery is dead-as dead as the men who
fell in its war-and no one recognizes
this fact and accepts it more heartily
than the SOutherner of to-day.
Before closing, trust may be par.
doned for again insisting upon fact
which it especially behooves all Repubss
llcans to remember, viz: That in the
South Democratic" government means
economy and honesty in the administra.
tion of affairs. Mlttdto nOmine, it is the
old fight over again on a much grander
scale, which the decent tax paying por-
tion of the people Of New York waged |
against Tweed and the Tammany ring
though by some strange irony ofcircum.
stances, the Republican party, acting
from supposed political necessity, has
in this case, been made the apologist and
defender of the thieves and plunderers.
The issues which separate the two great
parties in the North are practically un-
known in the South. With them, to get
a Democratic" administration is to es-
cape from the clutches of harpies. Upon
this point, and none other, is there
united South" and it is to be hoped that
the decent people of that region, white
or black, will continue 10 stand shoulder
to shoulder SO long as the war is waged |
by them in the interests Of economy,
honesty and good government
N. S SHALER.