The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-08-24
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From the Pittsburgh Leader ...t.
!; In 1872 the Liberal republicans pro
tested against the reelection of Cen
eral Grant. charging him, with being
utterly unfit TOR the position he occu-
pied, and Of being in the hands Of
daring, .unserppnIous gang of plunder-
ers, who were bringing shame and
disgrace, upon the natiQn.; Fonr years
have passed and every charge then
made :, has, been amply verified. we
have invited foreign nations to our
shores in order. to show them The
progress of.a free nation in agricu;-
ture, commerce, manufacture and art.
AS people we make a ,creditable dis
play in all these branches. But what
a lamentable spectacle do we present
as regards our administration! We
show them high cabinet officer guilty
of taking bribes, and when brought
to Judgment, by a democratic house,
he is cleared by a republican senate
"a reform senate-whose members
have been bossting for months that
they are in favor of retrenchnent and
reform. Look at the record. Every
democrat, with but one exception,
voted guilty., every republican with
but twelve exceptions, voted not gull
ty, the plea being want of Jurisdiction
this, too, in the face of having some
time ago decided that they had juris-
diction, or the case would not have
been proceeded with. We also show
our guests President who uses his
office to screen plunderers,w who accepts
designations from detected rascals
"with regret" in order TO defeat the
ends of justice; who whitewashes
sanity rascals with letters of approval
from the Pecksniffian COlfax to the
immaculate Belknap. Brothers and
brothers-in-law have traded posts OF
profit for money, by reason of inform
alton received from the President; a
legislature has been marched out of
halls at the point of the bayonet, i'll
order to- furtherIhe schemes Of Il cor
rupt ring of plunderers, and to estab-
lish u military government under the
supreme control of the stratocrat OF
the White-housc. We should Judge u
man by the company he keeps, and
s.birds of feather flock together. p
The Presidents intimate associates
have been such men as Shepherd, Bah
cock, Mcdonald, Joyce, and Avery,
while such men as Sumner, Trunbull
and Schurz were pushed aside. We
have lived under nearly eight years Of
the most shameless and unblushing
fraud and corruption taxes are in
creasing everywhere, both municipal
and federal : business is stagnant; the
workiugmen's savings are taken from
them to support men who haye their
arms in the treasury and laugh at any
attempt to convict when discovered i'll
their pilfering.s The democratic, con-
gress has been bounded and harassed
ItoUl udN ~ Ill Chol 10 " iC-
duce expenditures and convict rascals.
A republican senate has done all with
in lis power to cripple and impede
reform legislation, and but showed its
cloven foot in the acquittal of Belknap
thus placing premium on corruption.
Republican newspapers have pursued
~: aud hiS fog
with a vindictive malice and why !?
Simply because he did his duty in eN.
posing Belknap. The South presents
a pitiable spectacle under carpet-bag
misrule innocent negroes are! melted
to deeds of violence and the whites
driven to desperatiOn. Outlaws are
allowed to roam at will and slaughter
negroes in order to make bloody shirt
capital at the north. Troops are asked
for, ostcnsibly to queil these insur-
rections, really, TO control elections,
and perpetuate the infamous rule of
men who barter in human lives to
keep themselves i'm power. Every one
of the Southern States where they
have been allowed to select their own
government, is in a good condition
and at peace with the negroes. The
southern people are content, having
accepted the issues of the war, and in
this Centennial year we should bury
all sectional animOsities by forgiving
and forgetting. If we continue the
cry of rebel, rebel, at each succeeding
election, we shall never be a united
nation. We feel assured the. people at
heart are opposed to such appeals, and
when political speaker seeks to cover
up the issues OF to-day-the frauds,
the corruptiOns, the unblushing thlev-
ery-by bring up old war cries to stir
up hatred and strife, after ten Years
Of peace, he should be hisscd from the
platform. We see it stated that an or
ganizatioh called the Boysin Blue"
is to be formed and parade the streets
In favor of the republican candidate
for president. We advise every SOL
dicr who loves his country to keep
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aloof from such an organization. The
Democratic soldier did as much for
the Union as the Republican; and. if
every northern democrat had joined
the, southern cause, the war for the
Union would have been failure. At
ter having conquered the south and
maintained the Union, why now seek
to again destroy it by perpetuating or
ganizations, calling army reunions,
bringing up afresh deeds of vaior,
making a conquered enemy feel the
ing of defeat; in fact, saying plainly
to them: 1--WE are North; you are
South; we are not brethren, but your
conquerors!" Let every liberal re-
publican keen away from such organ