Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-26
Hon ]. W seaton's Speech.


the court house last Saturday even
ing, to be addressed by Messrs Sea
ton and Bushnell. Both are yer,
prominently before the public jus
now and we supposed large audi
ence would be out. Whether th,
anticipation of the speakers was tn,
same as ours we do not know, but i
SO they were disappointed. Mr. Sea
ton is the candidate of the ''Reform
ers" for the Legislature. He is
man of high character, ability anC
responsibility. His no mination a
this time is one of the many ex
amples the Democracy furnishes III
that in cases of emergency their Dig
guns are brought out. When The
battle is one of certainty on Their
part, they make use only of theil
blunderbuses and squirt guns. Blu
this fact should induce intelligent
brave and vigilant men to use addi
tional caution against being mislei
and greater energy in accomplishing
the objects they have at heart. /
Mr.. Seaton is man in whom &C
quantances place confidence in bust
ness matters, and who uses good
ability iii efforts to make dominant
lis views, those whose cause is the
very opposite of his, have greater
reason to fear and oppose him in his
political aspirations. When we vote
men into office we should think only
of what they will do for us, not Of
the qualification or good it will dc
the man to hold the office. MIR. Sea.
ton is one of the most inveterate enc.
mics of our cause. He has always
opposed the Republican party and its
men and measures, yet, strangely
enough, be claims the victories of the
Republican party az Democratic
victories. democracy" he says,
FURNISHED the sinews of war
which crushed the greatest rebellion
ever known, and crushed the hydra
monster of secession ~ Nothing
could be more absurd. He might as
well say-could say with more truth
that the Jews crushed the enemies
of Christ, and established Christianity
in Italy. 1t is true that when Christ
was a man among men, there were
Jews who became his followers, and
in time thousands of Jews became
converts to the christian religion !;
but the Jews, as people, were the
enemies Of christianity, and are to
this day. So there were many Dem
ocrats who became Union soldiers,
and helped enforce the measures of
the Republican party in ''crus hing
the hydra monster of secession" but
the Democratic party always did, now
does, and always will, while it exists,
oppose those measures, and will con-
tinue its efforts by deception and
trickery in the North, and outrage
and murder in the South, to undo the
great work of the Republican party.
The Democratic party as a unit
should be opposed. The good men
in it should get out of it. They never
can control it.
We are disappointed in Mr.. Seaton
in another matter. The cry of the
Democratic party is, Reform" We
supposed its imbecility, corruption and
disloyalty were matters of history that
no intelligent man would dispute. and
they, acknowledging all, were under
promise to bury their past record
and act out reform. Mr.. Seaton not
only denies the past disloyalty of the
party, by which we must assume
that he intends it shall act out the
same kind of loyalty it has heretofore,
but he sneers at the wholesale muir
ders in the South, telling US they
have no political significance; by
which we are to assume that he will
do nothing politically for the protec-
ton of the helpless people there and
to prevent acts so disgraceful to our
boosted land of freedom. He tells us
the Coushatta affair was only a scene
such as we have had here. A man
went to the rivers edge where he
saw man whom he hated rowing in
a boat He shot the man whom he
hated and another one with him and
then fled, and Mr.. Seaton tells us this
is all there was of it. The GOODNESS
with which highly respected gentle
man, like Mr.. Seaton, tells this is
enough to chill ones blood. The
murders known as the Coushatta
massacre certainly exceed thirty, and
there was no possible reason for them
but political reasons. Part of it was
the shooting of six white officers solely
because they were Republicans.
The evidence of the murders and of
the cause is as fixed as that COM
panies of our soldiers were fired
upon IN the streets of Baltimore as
they were going to Washington,
early in the Rebellion. The Vicks-
burg affair was also treated as a
trivial affair by Mr.. Seaton The
assassins, in clubs known as
Kuklux, White Leagues, and White
Liners, every one of whom are Dem