The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-26

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To the People OF the United states
FELLOW CITIZENS: We congratu
late you as patriots, as partakers wit
us in the common destiny Of Amer
can freemen upon the results Of tn
October State elections. We rejoic
in the victory which the peoples bal
lots have bestowed upon the friends o
reform, in the valley of the Chic
where the Republican hosts had al
overwhelming ascendency in every
Presidential election since 1856. We
rejoice In the assurance these elections
convey that your ballots will bestow
decisive majorities to the allied forces
of Democracy and Reform in the No
vember elections throughout the Tn.
ion. But We rejoice not as parti-
sans; we rejoice with you as fellow
citizens.
And when the decision of this week
of one million voters along the valley
of the Ohio shall be ratified next
month, by the fiat of eight million
voters throughout the whole Repub-
lie, we shall still rejoice, chiefly for
the reason that not one of its citizens
can miss of al equal share with us
who are Democrats, in the political
peace and good will which will then
and there be established among all
sections, races, classes and conditions
of men, and in the prosperity of which
political peace, based on equal rights
and fraternal good will, is the hrst
condition.
Upon the three States of West Vir-
ginia, Ohio and Indiana were concen>
trated all the influence of the Admin
istration, all their efforts, and all ;l.a
vast sums OF money forced from the
one hundred thousand ofice-holders
Of the party in power.
These were fearful odds, not again
to be contended against so concentrat.
ed; for in the November elections the
contest will be in every one of thirty
eight States upon the same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds tie
Democrats and Reformers of West
Virginia and Indiana have been vic~
torious, and in Ohio they have all
but rescued State hitherto deemed
hopeless, and have created an assur-
anee Of victory in November.
fit falls to our lot as National
Democratic Committee to congratu'
late the people of tie Union upon this
victory in the first battle of the re-
form campaign, il is only because
Democrats have been honored to be
the leaders of the people in the work
Of national regeneration.
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 Repub-
lican party may be thankful that the
misdeeds Of their unworthy leaders
have been rebuked and are to be ar
rested. The suffering whites of the
South may lift up their heads to greet
the dawn of better day for them as
well as the nation at large. The col
Ored citizens 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 the law amid
universal good will.
As for the Reform Democracy, to
whose standards victory has been tied,
with all her garlands OH, it only re-
mains for them to welcome every
ally, every friend, close up the ranks
and press on, shoulder to shoulder,
under the banner and with the one
watchword, reform.
Fellow-citizens; Peace between all
sections; Prosperity in all our homes:
Of those you have been for years de-
prived by the mistaken solicitudes of
patriotic Republicans, played by sell
fish and corrupt leaders, who have
kept tanning the dying embersof civ>
il strife in order to escape inspection
Of the trusts which they have betray-
ed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. At no time haveyou
had the substance of peace. In lieu
thereof you have had the grinding
taxation and wastful expenditure of
war. Just before every election ev-
cry year you have had the preaching
of a new crusade against section ut
terly defeated in war, and anxious
only to be completely reconciled in
peace,
For eleven years the power ct the
men who have seized away the con-
troll of their party from the hands of
its statesmen and founders has been
supreme in almost every department
of the Federal Government.
describing the hope of prolonging
their domination by benefcient puis
lie measures, they have created and
traficked upon public calamities.
The policy they adopted has been
worked cut. lis failure has been alb
solute.
In place of past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
profer promises already broken as
their titles to further trust.
Having Frustrated our manifold IN
dustries by the vast aggregates and
the worst methods Of federal taxation,
they now again solicit your confidence
as the instruments of retrenchment
and reform.
Having debauched the public ser
vice, and having just now, in the face
of open day, assessed their army of
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