Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-10-24
TIE CALI TO ARMS.
Gongratulatory to the Democracy Of
West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. :.
To the People of the Cnitett States


rejoice 10 the victory which the peoples bal
lots have bestowed upon the friends Of reform
in the valley of the Ohio, where the Repub>
lican hosts had an Overwhelming asceudency
in every Presidential election since 1856.
We rejnice in the assurance these elections
convey that your ballots will bestnw decisive
mpjorirics to the allied forces of Democracy
| and Reform in the November elections
| thrOuG hout the Union. Bn; We rejoice not
as partisans; We rejoice with you as fellow
cit zcns.
And when the decision of this week of one
million voters along the valley of tie Ohio
shall be ratified next month, by the fat of
eight million voters throughout the whole
Republic, we shall still rejoice, chiefly for
! the reason that not one of its citizens can
miss of an equal share with US who are Dem>
ocrats, in the political peace and eond will
which will then and there be established
among all sections, races, classes and condi-
tions of men. and in the prosperity of which
political peace, based on equal rights and fra
ternal good will, is the first condition.
Upon the three States of, West Virginia.
Ohio and Indiana. were concentrated all the
influence of the Administration, all their eff.
forts, and all the vast sums of money forced
from the one hundred thousand offceholders
OF the party in power.
These were fearful odds, not again to be
| coutended against 50 concentrated for in t Q
November elections the contest will be in
every one of thirty eight S;ateS upon the
same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds the Dem>
ocra's aud Reformers of West Virginia and
| Indiana have been victorious. and in Ohio
they have all but rescued State hitherto
! deemed hopeless, and have created an asSur-
ance of victory in November.
| 1t it falls to our lot as a National Demos
cratic Committee to congratulate the people
of the Union upon this victory in the first
battle OF the rnfnrm campaign. it is only be-
cause Democrats have been honnred to be the
leaders OF the people in the work of national
regeneration.
The victory won, the victory still to be
won, will be deliverance as much to Repub-
licsns as to Democrats.
The patriotic masses Of the RernbIican
| party may be thankful that the misdeeds Of
their unworthy leaders have been retnkcd.
ard are to be arrested. The suffering whites
Of the South may lift mp their heads to greet
the dawn of better day for them az we'll as
the nation at large. The colored citizen NAV
share the general jop that he will soon cease
to be the stock in trade of corrupt politicians
but shall Pnj " his riyhtfnl liberties and his
| equality beiure the law amid universal good
will.
A. for the Reform Democracy. to whose
standard victory has heen tied, with all her
garlands on, it only remains for them to well
come every ally. every friend, close M the
ranks and press on. shoulder to shoulder, un>
der the banner and with one wntchwurd,
RtFnRM
Fellow citizens Peace between sill sec
ti"ns; Prosperity in all our homes Of these
you haV" bcen for years deprived ny tko mis-.
tnkeE soi"tudes of patrrtic Republicans.
played upon by selfish aud c"Trnrt leaders
who~hsvc kept tauning>the dying euItters of
civil strife in order to escape Inspect on Of tie
trusts which they have betrayed
For eleven years you have mad the name
of peace. At no time haze you had the -uh-
stance of peace. In lieu thereof ven have
had the grinding t'xatinn and wastcful ex PEN
diturc Of just before every clectinn
every year you have had tie preaching of a
new crusade against n section utterly defeated
in war. and anxious only to be completely re
concltcd in peace.
For eleven years the power OF the men
who have seized away the contro! OF their par>
ty from the hands of its statesmen and found
ers has been supreme in almost every DEPART
ment of the Federal government
Discarding the hore of prolongine their
domination by hencfcent public measures.
they have created and traficked upon public
cslsmities The policy they adopted has
been worked out. It's failure has been abso-
Lutte.
In place of past performances these Same
corrupt and selfish leaders now prefer prom
ises already broken as thcir titles to fuHher
trust.
IiA.ing Frustrated our manifold industries
by the vast aggregates and the worst methods
of Federal taxstion. they now again solicit
yCur confidence as the instruments of rctrench-
ment and reform.
Having debauched the public service, and
having just now, in the face Of open dav. as
sessed their array of hundred thousand Of
ice hoidcrs-the peoples servants-paid by
the peoples taxes-in order to create i'm.
mense corruption funds to Illustrate the peo-
Pies will, they now profess to be the cham
pions of civil service reform. Having i'm
posed upon the Southern States the rapacity,
fraud and plumber of the carPet>bag govern
mentS, having almost ruined the prosperity
OF the North by destroying the prosperity of
the South, having created terror and uucer.
tainty in all the productive industries of the
South, which furnish most of the exports OF
Our whole country, keep in motion the COM
merce md manufactures OF the North and
East, and furnish market for the agrcul,u
raj products Of the West. they now propose.
by renewal Of the same fatal policy, to pro-
long their own power 10 the hope of conceal
ing their misdeeds. and for this purpose they
do net hesitate to renew the cry of intoler-
ence; to revive the dying memories of fra
ternal strife, and 10 appeal to the fears and
prcjudices of the timid and the ignorant
Fcllow.Citizens These men and their
measures have been completely tried and |
have completely failed. An oppressive taxa
ton, sn exhausted South, and impoverished |