The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-05-25
Tho Importance Of The Next Presidsn.
tial election.

ilulOrtnuJ ~ ltS lC1 lDy on tOc Nri~
fare of the country than that which
will take place n..t Novclber. 1t
is 81 easy to say - he North foryet
and forgive, while tho Democratic
South denounco9 Northern men as
thiese. arl rascals Even IN South
CarJ,.nr, With d. 'arge Republican
majority. tic Democracy assail every
whito Ropub,icau "ith The utmost
yencm hold tpwnd him as much
Il threatening attitude as the,
dare snl think they dettroy h.
happiness because they osiracisc
Lna Not 90 the Northern imam With
Southern principles. He fllls ni.
turally into the anna oi the Demo.
crate. who receive him as the nohlest
'orn 81 man.
Ii now remains 10 be decided
whether the cost and suffering II the
v r ehali be made to Weld the fruit
oi national peace anil prosperity (:
whether tho Democratic states ~
the So.th cdsll continue defiant in
Idi,lovnlty and adj other Southern
| States t. theu whether. indeed.
the safety of the Union j. a-sured
. iha pfcsCuce Il 80 many az .COhf"i.
crates IN The Nouss of Rcprezentq-
They are there f,r no good II the
truth were told ~ how many 81 them
/ got there il would not relOunl to
their credit The asnctlty OF the
ballot box has little respect in their
/ eyes and "A to the rights ~ citizen
3hip when .he citizen in not in NC
coriaucc with their political vicwl.
IL is short shriit or swift dispersion.
1t would be inicr"sting TO know in
many cases how many Republican
votes were cast by Republicans in
districts overwhelmingly Republican
aud yet Democrat claims to repre- .
sent them But it never happens
the other way No Democrat dis
trict has Republican representatives
- that ia quite Que sidol affair, in
which Republicans are made to snii.i
hv the cheating to eIilt that kinl Of
Southern Democrat whom Rnpubli
cans dspise, because Of his dislovnl
ty. The backbone 81 the Democratic
party Ia made up Of the old Bourbon
rebel element. The Southern d..
mocrscy have got the Northern Dem
orrnt's nose to the grinistone aud
mean To- soep it there. At no time
has the Democratic party been weak.
er OF stood in worse light before
the best citizens Of the country
Under TIE lead of Soulherners oI
tatnished surrounlings the Demo.
cratic party has been guilty Of mn.
.utterahIe meanncss, and played int,
the hands Of di~loyal men. who ar,
, plotting to reverse the reconstrrc.
tion measures Of Republicans an.
preventing the education and pros
perity OF the co'orel people.
Here n great question arises which
ought to receive Il settlement tha
cannot be disturbed, As on. of tn,
issues OF the war the colored MAJ
not ouly Y obtained his freedom bn
had conferred upon him the right,
Of II citizen. 1t will not DO in "a rrea'
republic like this for men. who b,
their rebellion songht to do it ire.
parable injury, TO defy the Na,ionn
Government, which il the cmbohi
ment Of the popular viii. Elthe
the rights of citizenship shall be en-
joyed by the colored man or the peo
pie must understand that the Dem
ucrntic party does It's best tD depriy,
him of those rights and keep him il
II servile condition. And this is tn
centennial year OF national freedom
md Independence
But the backbone OF the Repnbli
! can party ia composed Of the old
fashioned Free Soil element, whicl
has history OF which the conntr
may be proud. Starting ont will
. the recognition Of manhood. what
ever hue the skin might be-. freedom
, and the rights Of citizenship we,.
conferred, which must never h.
abandoned until they are secured
:. II is all very well for the Dernocrac
y of the South to say that slavery j
dead, and that the old Shareholder
would not have it again if they coull
This is not trne, startling as it ma
appear Where Republicans are i
the ascendency colored men the
have their nights, aud they are pro
: tectcd from the INSCRIPTIONS de
signs of the bourbon Democrats
But in the States which have bee,
seized by the Penn mocracy the colore
mau as few rights they recorniz,
u He is n condition of scrflom with Il
near an approach to slavery us pos
- siblc. He is wilfully kept ignorant
that he may be imposed upon
he hires hnd it is at n disadyantag,
I he fruit OF his crops and Of it's Ia
: Dor is snatchcd away from him an
, his family, The Southern Democ
racy seem to have combined to on
rich themselves ut the expense {
the colorcl people. aud to RELY upo
their ignorance to do it eifectuall,
Ii the colorel man complains he ha
no redress, No Democratic law, q
will take up 10 case. No Demo
cratic Judge will 10 him justice an
Democratic juries always decide i
. favor of their Democratic friend
Then again, petty crimes, ofte
u brought about by tho poverty
" colorel man who hnua hnnn Ill