The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-02

joy his rightful liberties and his equality before the law amid universal good will.
 As for the Reform Democracy, to whose standard victory has been tied, with all her garlands on, it only remains for them to welcome every ally, every friend, close up the ranks and press on, shoulder to shoulder, under the banner and with the one watch word, Reform.
 ow-citizens, peace between all sections; prosperity in all our homes; of these you have been for years deprived by the mistak- en solicitudes of patriotic Repub- licans, played upon by selfish and corrupt leaders, who have kept fanning the dying embers of civil strife in order to escape the in- spection of the trusts which they have betrayed.
 For eleven years you have had the name of peace. At no time have you had the substance of peace. In lieu thereof you have had the grinding taxation and wastcful expenditure of war. Just before every election every year you have had the preaching of a new crusade against sec tion utterly defeated in war, and anxious only to be completely reconciled in peace.
 For eleven years the power of the men who have seized away the control of their party from the hands of its statesmen and founders has been supreme in al- most every department of the Federal Government.
 Discarding the hope of prolong ing their domination by beneti- cent public measures, they have created and trafficked upon pub lie calamities. The policy they adopted has been worked out. Its failure has been absolute.
 In place of past performances these same corrupt and selfish leaders now proffer promises already broken as their titles to further trust.
 Having prostrated our manifold industries by the vast aggregates and the worst methods of Federal taxation, they now again solicit your confidence as the instru- mcnts of retrenchment and re- form.
 Having debauched the public service, and having just now, in the face of open day, assessed their army of a hundred thousand office -holders-the peoples sei- vants-paid by the peoples taxes in order to create immense cor ruptiOn funds to frustrate the peoples will, they now profess to be the champions of civil service reform. Having imposed upon the Southern States the rapacity, fraud, and plnnder of the carpet bag governments, having almost ruined the prosperity of the North by destroying the prosperity of the South, having created terror, uncertainty and confusion in all the productive industries of the South, which furnish most of the exports of our whole country keep in motion the commerce and man. ufactories of the North and East, and furnish a market for the agricultural products of the West, they now propose, by renewal off the same fatal policy, to prolong their own power in the hope of concealing their misdeeds, and for this policy they do not hesi' tate to renew the cry of intoler- ance; to revive the dying memo ries of fraternal strife, and to ap- peal to the fears and prejudices of the timid and the ignorant.
 Fellow citizens, these men and their measures have been com pletely tried and completely fail- ed. An oppressive taxation, an exhausted South, ah impoverlsh- ed North, fluctuating currency, the enterprise of an industrious people locked fas. in the paraly- sis of hard times--such is the come of their political policy, such are the achievements of their lonp sunremacy YOur hal