Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-29

he shOuld nave the temerlty 10 lnJer-
pose himself between the Treasury of
the Government and their rapocity they
would rend him to pieces with the fierce
and rcvengeful mad voracity of pack
of furnishing wolves.
But there Is an alarming feature asso-
ciated with the support OF Mr.. Tilden
which, as a1Southern man, seems to me
full of dreadful import, prognosticating
another deluge of blood and destruction
TO the South, while shaking the Union to
its center. The Southern States are array
SRg thsmselUes seetiOndlIy again on the
Presidential issue, rs in 1860 relying
upon the Democracy of the North and
West again to stand firmly by them in
the event of further sectional antago-
nisms. They have preferred this course
TO taking that to which they were gencr-
ously and earnestly invited IN 1929 by
the Republican party leaders and organs,
following President Grants reelection,
and after they themselves had actually
abnegated all their past ideas and senti-
ments, as was justly supposed, through
the support they had given to Horace
Greeley as their own selected Presiden'
tial candidate. 1t is plain that If then
they had yielded to the overtures made
to them through the columns of the New
York Times, ms the recognized national
organ of the Republican party, and the
Washington Republican, which was then
considered as the special organ of the
Administration, complete national har-
mony would have followed, and the
carpet -baggers," so called, would have
been superseded by themselves through
out the South But they rejected these
overtures of the Republican party in the
spirit of sectionalism, Notwithstanding
their support of Greeley, and their APP
parent abnegation of everything that had
originally impelled them to the sectional
issue. Their course has been, therefore,
tantamount to madness that mad
ness that assures ultimate annihilation.
will not follow them in this combined
course of hypocrisy, duplicity and mad
ness l will not aiG in the work of their
utter destruction, which is apparent to
my own mind, but upon which it seems
they are blindly rushing. Indeed, it has
seemed evident to me that the former
citizens of The South, ever since the close
of the war, have taken counsel of their
mere chagrin, passions and prejumces
And among those with whom unreason.
ing passion and a disposition to revenge
have most ragged may be found those
Southern Unionists who never donned
the gray nor contributed II dollar unless
enforced, nor lifted finger nor uttered
word of cheer in support of the cause
of the Southern Confederacy until the
war was over, and they found themselves
disappointed in their expectations of
being constituted by the authorities at
Washington the recipients of all favors,
and in being made, as they had selfshly
calculated they would be, the rulers and
governors of their own people because
of their treachery and poltroonery. How
ever much may commiserate others now
and prospectively, have no compassion
for them. They are like those fallen
spirits in Dantes Inferno" who
Nor the rebellion Joined, nor yet were true to
God,
But for themselves were only Mercy and
Justice pass them by alike in scorn.
l deny such wretches even the privi-
lege of a voice in any of the present
affairs of the South, and when they un-
dertake to wag their venomous tongues
against any brave Southern soldier who
venturcd his life in the war for the sake
of the Confederacy, on account of any
political attitude he may now think
proper to assume as best for those for
whom he gave his all and imperiled his
life, they simply play an impertinent
part, only worthy of contempt. All
principle, all fidelity, all honor and all
patriotism with them was and is shut in
and circumscnbed by some disreputable
game, with an office in view to them.
selves personally.
In regard to the monetary stagnation
and consequent business depression ex-
listing in the country, it will make little
difference whether Mr.. Tilden or Mr..
Hayes is elected. 1t is the law of trade
that expansion will be followed by cor
responding contraction, action and reac-
tion being in all things equal. For the
past three years matters in these respects
have been resuming their normal condi-
ton. Money was never more abundant
or more cheap, and where confidence eX-
lists, as in regard to United States secu7
rites, it can be had in any quantity at
from II to 2 per cent per annum.
Those who have been thoughtful OBJ
servers of the effects of financial crises,
and who have studied the term of their
duration, estimate that in a country of
real resources, as Is the fact with regard
to the United States, it usually takes not
more than four years to bring about such
restoration of confidence in values as
will inaugurate the resumption of bust
ness activities. This being so, it may
be safely said that, following the termi-
nation of the Presidential struggle, al
though the winter will close up many
business avenues, and there will be much
distress, yet that activities will be re-
sumed in the spring, and all depression
pass away as if by the stroke of an en-
chanters wand, particularly if the Re-
publican party proves triumphant. Ev-
erything in the country will have re-
sumed normal and healthy condition,
and JOY and plenty will abound in the
land. The condition at present existing
is not attributable to maladministration
as it clearly was in the heyday of De-
mocracy during the administration of
President Van Buren.
In conclusion, there is one fact asso-
ciated with Rutherford b. Hayes, unless
/ greatly err, that should be received
with especial interest by all Virginians
who have not lost becoming respect for
the breed of noble bloods" among
themselves. AS his name imports, he is
of Virginian parentage, and in his veins
flows the tide that warmed the heart of
that Col Rutherford, of Richmond, who
in my youth was Mayor of that city,
meriting and receiving for himself and
all his race the unbounded esteem of the
people Of Virginia Rutherford B.
Hayes may have differed in his views Of
the late war from those entertained by his
kith and kin in Virginia, and sided with
the action of his own State, Ohio, in the
contest. But throughout that struggle,
and in every relation in life, both private
and public, he has borne himself bravely,
justify Jhumanely, and honorably, in
proof of his ancestral origin, and, as a
man of honor, prObity and courage, his
word as to that he win do as President
contained in his letter of acceptance is
an assurance of reform in the civil