The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-26
SOUTH CAROLINA,

The act OF President Grant ana
his Cabinet in the use of troops in
South Carolina, is a revolutionary
one, infamous and damnable, preg-
nant with war and it's horrors, and
demands at the hands of all good
citizens unembarrassed by party big
otry, their disapproval and condem-
nation. The situation in this out
rageously carpet bag ridden and
plundered State is an open book to
all intelligent readers of the news of
the day. The negroes of that State
are largely in the majority. They
have uniformly voted solidly the
Republican ticket. There, as else
where in the South, divisions have
began to arise. These divisions of
the colored vote came from dissatis-
faction with the division of the spoils
of office, with the general tendency
of the State and local Government to
burthen and paralyze the productive
energies. of the country, and thus
cut the laboring classes from remu-
nerative employment, and with the
the general treatment that the blacks
received at the hands of the white
Republicans. Divisions of the col
oredsote is but a legitimate result
of the working of natural laws, and
is a consequence not to be prevented
except through the maintenance of a
cast iron discipline. This PROPOSE
ton needs no argument to force its
acceptance by fair minded people.
The colored population of South
Carolina constitutes the Republican
party, and the white population the
Democratic party. This Republican
party has had control of the State
government in every department
since the war. Its leaders are adj
v~enturers; carpet baggers-men who
simply became citizens of the State
to get power and place and to recruit
their broken down fortuAes. They
have robbed and plundered the pool
people until they are about impovcr
ished and the State bankrupt. The
Democrats proved this so plain Il
the intelligent portion of the negroes
that they began to see that while
these carpet-bag thieves were always
getting turkey, they were receiving
for the most part buzzard, and were
almost On the verge Of starvation
This condition of things was aliena
ting a sufficient share of the coloret
vote to jeopardize the success of tn
carpet-bag thieves, and they becam'
alarmed. They found that neithe,
: coaxing or intimidation would ans
| wer their ends and that their onll
hope was in infaming the black
against the whites and bringin!
about q collision this they IN
fortunately succeeded and then ap
pealed to the miserable, debaucheC
tool at Washington city-who seem
) ever ready to add infamy and dis
t grace o.the place he, has dishonoret
. by serving party aspirants-and re
ceived it in the use of the army 70
their infamous purposes. The who'll
object sought for in this nefariou
business is to intimidate the coloret
voters, who are clamorous for
change, and force them into the sup
t port of the carpet-bag robber CHAN
BERLAIN and his thieves, and cast tn
t Electoral vote for HAYES for Presi
dent. 1t is a bold and revolutionar
step of the Grant dynasty to perpet
uate its power and fasten upon tn
d people four years longer its robberie
and its $4,000 office. holding leeches
We doubt however, wether it will b
e successful; we believe an honest an,
/ outraged constituency, even in poo
t carpet bag cursed and plundere'
South Carolina, will see through tn
, fnfamyof the move and place thei
. seal of condemnation on it through
!. the ballot box on the 7th of No
vember next.