The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-09-23
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE

country, and of themselves especially.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
WAsHTNGToN, ID. G., Sept 16, 1876.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Evangelist Dana of the New York
Sun, who stands in pastoral relation
to the New York city Democracy,
jointly with the editor of the World,
is sorely distressed lest the atheistic
tendencies of Colonel Bob" Inger-
soils views may corrupt and lead
captive some of the followers of his
party, who are not we'll rooted and
grounded in the faith and both he
and the World man yesterday took
occasion to point out the dangerous
character of Mr.. Ingersoll, who the
evening previous addressed one of
the largest and most enthusiastic po-
litical gatherings ever assembled in
the empire city, and to exhOrt the
Democratic hearers of his mastery
speech, to steadfastness in the cause
of "Tilden and reform.H The same
papers, with forced Righteousness of
manner refer to the probable return
of the /" Boss" to the scene of his
giguntic robberies in the interests of
Democracy and reform but their ap
prehension of trouble from this source
to the great "reformer,n is apparent
in every line. The Sun dismisses the
result of the Maine election with the
statement that the returns are too in
complete to justify comparison with
the vote of former years; and the
World concludes that !" il the Dem
oeratic gain has not been SO marked
as to warrant hopes of carrying Maine
two months hence, it is sufficient TO
show that, even in Radical strong
holds, the Democrats are unfalteringly
aggressive, aud fight none the less
CALAMITY because they have no chance
of winning victory at home, though
they contribute to the encouragement
and assistance of their comrades at
other points along the line" The
truth is that no single event of the
present campaign has brought home
to every intelligent Democrat in this
city, the disastrous defeat awaiting
them next November, as the Maine
election has done. Tilden's record
during the war his intimate relations
with Tweed and his gang of thieves;
the exposures of the New York Times
touching his fraudulent practices in
regard to his income tax returns the
revolutionary character of the utter
anees of the Southern Democratic
press; the murders of political oppo-
nents already accomplished in the
South, and the wholesale slaughter
advocated; the nomination for the
highest Offices of participants in these
Outrages or those who encourage and
approve Of them, and the silence of
Tilden aud his managers relative to
the Ku-Klux method of conducting
the campaign, have all contributed
to arouse the masses of the country
who, espoused the Union cause in
1861, to the perils involved by DEM
ocratic restoration in 1877. From
every section of the country where
the campaign has been vigorously
comes the impressive in
telligence that it is hand to-hand
fight between those who fought for
or sympathized with the Union, and
those who actively sought its destruc-
ton by service in the rebel armies or
cowardly plotted to the same purpose
by melting draft riots; interposing
legal obstacles to the reinforcement
of our armies conspiring to Iiberate
rebel prisoners organizing and arm
ing Knights of Golden Circles and