The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-10-19

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throughout the whole republic. we shall
still rejoice, chiefly for the reason that
not one of it's citizens a miss OF an
equal share with rs who are Democrats,
in the political peace and good will
which will then and there be establish
ed among all sections, races. classes,
and conditions of men, and in the prOs>
perity of which political peace, based
on equal rights and fraternal good will,
is the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Yir>
ginia, Ohio and Indiana, were concen-
trated all the influence OF the Admins
t~ration, all their efforts, and all the vast
sums of money forced from the one
hundred thousand of1iceholders of the
party in power.
These were fearful odds, not again to
be cOntended against so concentrated,
for in the November elections tie con
test will be in every one of thirty-eight
States upon the same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds the
Democrats and Reformers of West Vir-
ginia and Indiana have been victorious,
and in Ohio they have all but rescued
a State hitherto deemed hopeless, and
have created an assurance of victory in
November.
If it falls to our lot as a National
Democratic Committee to congratulate
the people of the Union upon this vic
tory in the first battle of the reform
campaign, it is only because Democrats
have been honored to be the leaders Of
the people i'll the works of national re-
generation.
The victory Won, the victory still to
be won. will be a deliverance as much
to Republicans as to Democrats.
The patriotic masses of the Republi-
can party may be thankful that the mis-
deeds of their unworthy leaders have
been rebuked and are to be arrested.
The suffering whites of the South may
lift up their heads toigreet the dawn of a
better day for them, as well as the ma
ton Mt large. The colored citizen may
share the general Joy that he will soon
cease to be the stock in trade of corrupt
politicians. but shall enjoy his rightful
liberties and his equality before thelaw
amid universal good Will.
As for the Reform Democracy, TO
whose standard victory has been tried,
with all her garlandson, it only re
mains for them to welcome every ally,
every friend, close mp the ranks and
press on, shoulder to shoulder, under
the banner and with The one watchword,
Reform.
FeIlow.citizans, peace between oil
sections; prosperity in all onr homes:
of these you have been for years depriv-
ed by the mistaken solicitudes of pa
triotic Republicans, played upon by sell
fish and corrupt leaders, who have kept
tanning The dying embers of civil strife
IN orier to escape inspection 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
wasteful expenditure of war. just be
fore every election every year you have
had the peaching of a new crusade
against a section utterly defeated in war
and anxious only to be completely re-
conciled 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 su>
preme in almost every department of
the Federal Government.
Describing the hope of prolonging
their domination by beneicent public
measures, they have created and traffick-
ed upon public calamities. The policy
they adopted has been worked out. It's
failure has been absolute.
In place of past performances these
same corrupt aud selfish leaders now
proffer promises already broken as their
titles to further trust.
Having Frustrated u manifold in
dustries by the vast aggregates aud the
worst methods of Federal taxation, they
now again solicit your confidence as the
instruments 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 officeholders-the peoples
servants-paid by the peoples taxes
in order to create immense corruption
they now profess to be the champions
of civil service reform. Having impos-
ed upon the Southern States the rapaci-
ty, and plumber of the carpet bag gov
ernments, having almost ruined the
prosperity of the North by destroying
the prosperity of the South, having
created terror, uncertainty, and confusion
in oil the productive industries of the
South. which furnish most of the ex-
ports of our whole county. keep in
motion the commerce and manufactor>
ries of the North and East, and furnish
a market for the agricultural products
of the West, they now purpose. renewal
of the same fatal policy; to prolong
their own power in the hope of conceal
inn their misdeeds, and for this purpose
they do not hesitate to renew the cry of
intolerance; to revive the dying mem
cries of fraternal strife, and to appeal
to the fears and prejudices of the timid
and the ignorant.
Fellow>citizens, these men and their
measures have been completely tried
and have completely failed. An OPP
pressive taxation, an exhausted South,
an impoverished North. a fuctuating
currency, the enterprise of industrious
peOplc lOCheu ldSG III tho paralysis Vi
hard times-such is the outcome OF
their political policy, such are the
achievements of their long supremacy.
Your ballots in November can alone
dictate a change of measures aud Il
change OF men. Shall not the uprising
of patriotism along the valley of Ohio
go on to a complete and beneficial revo-
luton in the administration of the Gov
eminent of the United States? Will
you not, by the voice of overwhelming
majorities at the polls, proclaim your
invincible faith, after all these years of
corruption and passion, in the high inn
mortal principles of government by the
people for the people, in simple homes
ty and strict economy, as the supreme
wisdom of public policy, in justice as
the mother of power. and in civil free
dom as the be-all and the end-all of a
true Republican nationality?
viii you not build up a new prospect
ty for all the people OF the old founda>
tions of American self-goverpment, on
peace. reconciliation, and fraternity be-
tween all sections, all classes, and all