The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-02
Congratulatory Address of tho National
Democratic Committee to the People
of the limited States.

i or tne Umteu StaleS..
Fellow CITIZENS We congratulate
you as patriots, as :partakers with us in
the common destiny of American free
men, upon the result of the October State
elections. We rejoice in the victory
which the peoples ballots have bestowed
upon the friends of reform, in the valley
of the Ohio, where the Republican hosts
| had m overwhelming ascendency in
every Presidential election since 1856.
We rejoice in the assurance these elec-
tions convey that your ballots will bestow
| decisive majorities to the allied forces of
Democracy and Reform in the November
elections throughout the Union. But we
rejoice not as partizans; we rejoice with
you as fellow-citizens.
And when the decision of. this week of
one million of voters along the valley of
the Ohio shall be ratified next month by
the fat of eight million voters through
out the whole Republic, we shall still
rejoice, chiefly for the reason that not
one of its citizens can miss of an 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 in the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Vir-
ginia, Ohio and Indiana, were concen-
trated all the influence Of the administra-
ton, ALL their efforts, and all the vast
sums of money forced from the one hum
dred thousand ofice-holders of the party
in power. :.
be contended against so concentrated
for in the November elections the contest
will be in every one of the thirty-eight
States upon the same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds the
Democrats and reformers of West Vlr-
ginia and Indiana have been victorious,
and in Ohio they hare all but rescued a
State hitherto deemed hopeless, and have
created an assurance Of victory in No
vember.
If it fall to our lot as National Dem
ocratic Committee to congratulate the
people of the Union upon this victory in
the first battle of the campaign, it 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 deliverance as much to
Republicans as to Democrats.
The patriotic masses Of the Republican
party may be thankful that the misdeeds
of their unworthy leaders have been re-
buked and are to be arrested. The suf-
fering whites of the South may lift up
their heads to greet the. dawn of better
day for them .as we'll as the nation at
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 the law amid uniyer-
sal good will. 80. h5A>
AS for the Reform Democracy, to whose
standard victory has been tied, with all
her gaflands on, it only remains 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 the
sections; prosperity in all of our homes
of these you have for years been de-
| priyed 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 order to escape inspection of the trusts
| ,,,1 ;ob tb oy, hovo hatro yod
| For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. At no time have you
had the substance Of peace. In lieu
thereof you had the grinding taxation
and wastful expenditure of war. just
before. every election every year you have
had the preaching of new crusade
against section utterly defeated in war,
and anxious only to, be completely recon
ciled in peace. = - 1I-1 u
For eleven years the power Of the men
1 who have seized away the control of their
party from the hands of its statesmen and
founders has been supreme in almost
every department of the Federal Govern
ment. "a 's.. ~ Z - si.l -.
Discarding the hope Of prolonging
their domination by benefcent public
measures, they have created and tratficked
upon public calamities The policy they
have adopted has been. worked out. Its
failure has been absolute. =
In place of past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
profer promises already broken as their
titles to further trust. 9 .'5.s; ~.
Having prostrated our manifold indus
tries by the>vas aggregates and the worst
methods Of federal taxation they now
again solicit your confidence as the in.
struments Of retrenchment.and reform.
Having debauched. the public service,
and having just now, .in!the face Of open
day, assessed their army of one hundred
thousand ofice-holders-the peoples ser.
vants-paid by the peoples taxes-in
order to create immense corruption funds
to frustrate the peoples will, they now
profess to be the champions of civil SER
vice reform. Having imposed upon the
Southern States the rapacity, fraud and
plunder of the carpet-bag governments,
having almost ruined the prosperity OF
the South, having created terror, uncer-
tainty and confusionin all the productive
industries of the South, which furnish
most of the exports of our whole country,
keep in motion the commerce and manu-:
factories of the North and East, and
furnish.a a market for the agricultural pro
ducts of the West, they now propose, by
renewal of the same fatal policy, to pro-
long their own power in hope Of conceal
| ;np thei misdeeds and for this purpOse
they do not hesitate to renew the cry Of
intolerance; to revive the dying memo.
ries of fraternal strife, and to appeal to
the fears and prejudices of the timid and
ignorant. ~. ~.
Fellow-citizens, these men and their
measures have been completely tried and
have completely failed. An oppressive
taxation, an exhausted South, an impov.
erished North, a auctuating currency,
the enterprise of an industrious people
locked fast id the paralysis of hard times
| -s,ich is The outcome of their political