Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-27
SHALL THE NORTH SURRENDER

SHALL THE NORTH SURRENDER
Republic.
The peril of the hour is the unior
of the spirit of the rebellion and slave
ry with the elements of lawlessness
Ignorance, wlckedncss, fraud, and
general villainy that pervade The
cities and large towns of our com
mon country. The situation is abso
lutely startling, for the combinations
are not only perfect, but audacious
The criminal acts of the South are
indorsed by the original classes o.
the North, and the alliance is unani
nous in commenting and praising
their mutual rascality and infamy.-
John Morrissey, the gambler; Ben
Hill, the traitor; NJ. G. Butler, the
murderer, are representative men
and managers of the Democratic
campaign. Their agents are black.
legs, Ku-Klux, White Leaguers
Knights of the Golden Circle, ballot
box suffers, tramps, and law break.
ers of the baser sort, and their meth
DDS are in keeping with the infamous
nature of their purpose and the gen.
eral wickedness Of their lives.
The first actin the drama now being
played was to seize by violence and
intimidation the governments of the
Southern States. This was done by
armed force and assassination
With a large white Republican vote
and an almost unanimous colored
vote, constituting two-thirds of the
people, all bnt three of the rebe1
States succumbed to the terrors of
the Ku-Klux. South Carolina thus
far has been saved by the lack of eff:
fort to take it, and Louisiana only by
the army OF the General Government
in the latter State they made war
and finally submitted only to superi
or force. The facts are undeniable
There is thin pretense by Lamar
and some of the more cautious and
prudent rebels that the colored men
have become sick OF Republican rule
and have Joined the Democracy in
the South, but whenin districts which
formerly gave large Republican
vote only few votes of any kind
are now polled. as in late force Of
an election in Georgia, the lie is toe
apparent.
The fact that they object to any
protection to the colored men who
have not joined the Democracy proves
the hollowness of their sham pre-
lenses. The fact that Butler free
upon a colored military company in
Hamburg shows that he did not be-
lieve them body of Democratic
voters, though plenty of fools
at the North will swallow the absur
dity.
The next step in the career OF dey
iltry was the purchase Of a nomina
ton by Tilden. His friends openly
declared that he had money to spen6
until "bar'ls of money" became Q par
ty byword. 1t soon became eviden
that the money was being used. Long
before any campaign committees
were organized men without dollar
of their own were cruising through
the South organizing force for Til
den at the St. Louis Convention, and
barrels of money were being tapped
freely in all that region. Newspa
ers all over the country were subsi
dlzed by the hundreds and thou
sands with the bait of advertising
Tilden's virtues for pay, and conven
tons were supplied with free liquor
in abenance and promises almost al
gorgeous as the bribe once Offered
to the Saviour. The Southern peo
pie were told that they should hav'
pay for their contributions to the war
those who made any, and the remain
der should have office, and the North
crn Democrats were pursuaded to be
lieve that Tilden was the only MAJ
who could get the Southern VOTE
Capitalists at the East were told tha
Tilden was the man to bring abou
specie payments; aud inf1ationists a
the West were given to understand
that as Greenbackers, Hendricks ant
William Allen were inferior secont
fiddlers. At the South he was advo
Gated as the only prominent man ot
the east whose record was clean as a
secessionist, and at the East he wa
vaunted as a friend of the govern
ment and a confidential adviser o
President Lincoln. He establish e,
and paid the expenses of printin!
bureau at Washington and anothe
in Liberty Street, and down to thl
writing documents of both kinds
paid tor by his money, are bein!
circulated in the different sections.
He received the nomination in tn
face of the most damaging accusa
tions of acquaintances and part
friends that were ever whispered il
a public Convention against an,
prominent man. Some called him s
traitor to his flag, and that helpe
him. Some called him a sham, am
that helped him. The most notori
Gus gambler in the country was hi,
friend, and that helped him. Som
said he was pal of Tweed's, an
the fact was we'll known that he stoo'
by that stupendous thief through al
his years ofplunder, saw him gorg'
himself with seven millions Of stole
taxes of the people of New York
saw the money raised and disappear
one eye on the tax list and the otl
er on the Boss's bank account, an,
never lifted a warning voice, an
that seemed to help him. None 0
the damaging facts and circumstan
ces and allegations injured him Ii
the least, and when his purchase
m ajority made the nomination ther
was not virtue enough in those VIII
had made the charges and provet
them to resist the scoundrel decree
which imposed such nomination
upon the country and demand tina
it be accepted as the sign and watch
word Of a mighty wave of REFORM
We say nothing here of the trau'
and perjury on the income return
because these were not then known