Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-05
Robert q.
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The Vital Issues Ofthe Campaign
"a Solid SOutil.''

The bloody shirt is placarded up by
the Democratic party like their charges
against Hayes, to divert from real, liv-
ing issues. The selection of such a
man as Tilden as the most. fitting Dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency,
has its deep significancy. The arming
Of nearly the whole Democratic white
population of the South has its signifi-
cancy in this same connection. The
volunteer Resolutions of the Demo-
cratic Congress recommending the use
of all proper authority for the suppress
sion of outrage in the South, comes in
here with its political mask and real
party design.
The bold assertion of the Democratic
press, at this time as never before, in
regard to negro outrages, violence,
blOOdshed and terror in the South, has
its place in the political signs, and its
deep and deceitful design as political
coup. Then, the course of the Admins
tration to meet the acknowledged und
real state of Southern dangers, in view
o. an election of National officers, and
the alarm it excites in the Democratic
party, as part in the grand political
panOrama-an alarm lest the negroes
should be restrained from butchering
their old masters and defenceless mis-
tresses-all show to thinking minds
the vast, the vital issues of this event
full Presidential campaign-a campaign
of life or death to the Lost Cause
This campaign has precisely the same
sectional elements and aspects of the
election as before the war; and the
Democratic proposition now. as then,
Is that the vital issues growing out of
the war shall be settled by Solid
South" And ever since the Demoera-
cy of the slaveholding power, the Sol
id South has aimed to rule or ruin.'
To-day, it is fitting inquiry of all re-
fiecting minds-Why the unusual arm
ing of the whites of the South, with
the alarm cry, negro 'outrages' Why
this arming and menace now, so soon
after a terrible war, in which tEey
were in the wrong, and were the main
sufferers? Why now their Rifle Clubs
Rifle Teams-Artillery Companies?'
DC. or what are they now afraid
prompting to such war demonstration,
and threatening such alarm? Nothing
but of themselves, and their own
ghosts. Why roam the country in
armed bands, especially by night,
making darkness hideous, If not TO in
timidate colored voters? No mystery
the universal and fierce |
clamor about military interference with
the acknowledged disordered and
condition of the South. No
Democrat of the South, for a moment.
apprehends that freedom to vote shall,
in the least, lie put in jeopardy by the
U. 5. military. No man anywhere,
has been hindered. Who?-when?E
where?-can be urged without fear of
challenge. Not SO of Republican vo-
ters -colored voters. especially, who
are Republicans from instructive love
Of freedom and hatred of slavery.
They dare not, in many places South,
vote as they wish, unless protected. In
National election they have the right.
as American citizens, to the National
protection. The National Government
las the National right to send the Ma
ional troops. to one part of the Nation
ii domain as well as to .another-to
south rs well as West or North. Moth
ng here peuliar Of any one State that
should be trespass to send troops :
nto the Southern States, as of French =
roops into Belgium. The contrary is
ecession doctrine, is the doctrine of
ilden Democracy, which now crops
ut in this Southern management of!
his Democratic campaign. StranyeI
indeed!
For what this loud bowling Demo-
ratio alarm about sending National
oops South in answer to their own "
arm clamor of danger from the rising r
the negroes? II the National force I
sent to quell insurrectionary move-