The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-28

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that which gives value to all property ano
makes taxation possible. If the Repub
lican party had any reallove for the negro
it would have brought all the power o
the Government to bear in an attempt t
restore material prosperity to the South
that the laborer, the negro, might be be
nefted. Instead Of this it sought to de
grade, oppress and abuse. Greedy New
England secured tax on exported cot
ton, Theytaxed tobacco TO its full value
They turned the carpet bagger upon thu
helpless South, and these camp followers
their negro votes and Federal bayonets
possessed themselves ofthe State Govern
ments, and finished all the party at Wash
ington had left, They contracted debt
by issuing bonds; they piled up the tax
alton until between interest and assess
ments, labor was reduced again to slavery
These States are now hopelessly bank
rupted, and nothing on the face of th'
earth to show for it but bloated carpet
baggers. No work Of internal improve
ments no hourishing towns or growing
cities; no manufactures no planting
interest able to exist; no laboring clas:
prosperous and content. Through the
entire South we have desolations, naked
ness, and the beloved negro is free only
in name.
They gave him the right to vote, and
a carpet Dagger and bayonet to teach
him how to vote, and that IS all. They
created for him Freedmen's Bureau
that when turned over to be wound up
by the War Department was found to be
so rotten, through fraud and theft, that il
smeled to heaven, and for proof Of that
read the investigators report. They
built up Freedmen's Bank, and poor
Cuff, proud to initiate his old master in
possessing a bank account, deposited his
hard earned dimes until the deposits gath
cred throughoutthe entire South amount
ed to millions. Then the bank failed,
and when its affairs came to be examined
il was found that Bob's friends, these SOL
dier loving negro worshipers, had waltzed
out at the bank door with all the money,
leaving Seneca sandstone, North Pacific
bonds and other fancy stock, not worth
waste paper, to satisfy the poor oppressed
negro depositor
Pretending to be conservators Of the
peace, they have promulgated the vilest
Communistic doctrines through the South
ern States, creating, as far as they could,
the deadliest antagonism between capital
and labor
Protesting to be the only friends of a
restored Union, every act of theirs has
widened and deepened the bloody chasm,
until Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner,
Charles Francis Adams, Carl Schurz, Cas-
sius NJ. Clay, and all the better class of
men who originated the negro party, star
ted back heart sick and disgusted at the
conduct of Bob's friends.
And Bob objects to New York Demo
cracy because he says there's larceny in
it. Standing IN the exposed fragments
of the CyedH MObiliey, the Black Friday,
the Pacific Mail, the San Domingo job,
the sale of French arms, the bribes of
post traders, straw bids and bankrupt
navy, and thousand other like offenses,
this gentleman is sadly afflicted at the
thought of what the New York Demo-
cracy might do in that line. The devil
quoting Scripture can well hang his dim
nished head in the presence of our bril-
liant Bob.
Why, as l said years since, and history
my assertion, Republican
platform is in fact a conjugation of the
verb steal from the present tense OF steal
.hou stealest, he, she or it steals, to |
might, could, would or should have stolen;
he, she or it might, could, would or should
have stolen, to the imperative of steal
thou and let him steal.
There is not patriotic friend of Bob's
in any part of the united States, who has
been in office more than five years, who
has not grown mysteriously rich on a sala
ry that would not support his family with
out the painfullest economy.
The biggest steal remains to be told.
All the glory of the Republican is steal.
The late war. so eloquently dwelt upon,
was fought, on the side of the North, by
he American people; Democrats stood
shoulder to shoulder in the hot contest
With Observation-Disclosures with pro-
slavery men-and, while the storm lasted
he names of party in the army was un-
known. And now, for these bummerS,
carpet baggers, pot house politicians who
as home, at home guard, orga-
nized to pilfer, to take credit to themselves
and their party all that people did, is
arceny no honest heart can forgive,
The glory Of the Republican party mar
lows down to the creation of carpet
Dagger and the Christian statesman.
The noblest sentiment is when one rises
rom his law making seat and says, "Mr.
Speaker, in the name of God, amen let
is rob somebody"
| note that big Bob claims credit forin-
using some piety in the Democratic par
y. He has done more than that. He
has demonstrated the liberal tendency of
he age, since the pious old Gazette not
only listens, but applauds a Goddess stump
orator in his anathemas of its enemies. |
rust that it will no longer shake with fear
in its aged shoes over the imaginary en-
of the Pope's toein our Com
mon Schools.
By the by, while have pen in hand
let me make two little corrections. l did
not mean to say, as the type made me,
hat Columbus was a filthy" city. What
tried to write was that it appeared hef-
". Again, the Journal that said | did
"a mean thing" in writing about Hayes
was the Dayton, and not the Columbus,
Journal, For Bickham to say did any
hing mean is praise in the ears of the
udicious; for Comfy to assert as much is
% put me in sack cloth and ashes. You
know
The poets lay with double luster shines
When Pope can praise or Dennis damnsthe lines
What there was mean in writing about
Hayes that which did not grow out ofthe
social visit, and could not, therefore, be
any violation of socialhospitality puzzles
my poor brain considerably. But then
Bickham is such a sensitive, delicate.
shrinking creature that we must make