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Democracy hereabouts scout the
idea that the southern. claims intro
duccd inibills in the House for the
payment to those men who were in
rebellion of losses in horses, mules,
cattle, produce, wood, &C., &C., taken
by the Union army, is.ever.to be,paid.
What democrat iu the House ever
denounced these measures? Not one.
Nearly one half of the democratic
members .~.of thcI House are in the
scheme, and if Samuel J. Tilden Is
chosen president two-thirds Of his
electoral votes will come from the
constituency Of these southern NOM
bcrs, who are pressing these claims,
and how will he be able to Withstand
the demands. of these, his friends, the
men who..made. him President7 Be-
sides this, Tilden in the outset said we
had no right to suppress the rebellion,
and hence we were in the wrong we
were trcsspassers upon the south, and
this view he continued to hold oil
through the war. How, then, will
he be able to go back upon his own
declared Interpretation and refuse to
the south pay for the losses they In
Cured wrongfullyi at the hands of
the Union army, under his interprc-
4ation.
1t seems to us most wonderful that
people can talk and pirate about re-
form by elevating the democracy to
power when one-half its Representa-
tives on the floor Of the House are
asking to be paid for what they lost
in going voluntarily into rebellion.
Is it not enough that $4,000 graves
should have been filled by loyal men,
fighting to overthrow treason, and
that $1,000, ,00O, 900 Of treasure should
have been expended by US TO suppress
their rebellion without reimbursing
them for their personal losses in their
mad and unholy career. II these
claims are never to be pressed, why
introduce them. II they are scanda.
lous why do not northern democrats
dcnouncc them and upbraid their
bosom friends for introducing them.
Be not deceived. We were told when
we, a. republicans, wero trying to
use our constitutional privileges Of
voting for Abraham Lincoln, and sue
eeedcd In electing him, that We should
not have any war; but we know the
woes that followed; we know the
brasen boldness and impudence OF
this southern democracy; We know
what they did then, and the citizens
Of this country who expect them not
to pursue Ike bold course in regard
to these claims, learn nothing by
experience. Again, he who saw the
sympathy and aid given TO traitors in
arms by the democracy Of tho north,
has no adequate memory Of the past
ifhe does not feel that there 10 the
greatest danger Of the plant democ-
racy north aiding the south in sad
ding these claims upon Us.
We look for o decided republican
majority in California and Nevada,
as there was good round majority
for the republicans in Colorado. No
body expected Colorado to give such
: decided republican victory. We
think, too, that Oregon may 60 re-
publican, even though its history has
been the other way as rule. The
reason why we expect this result on
the Pacific coast is, that there does
: not exist there the foolish division
among the republicans on the green
back folly. When q solid south, with
the shotgun argument confronts US,
what in the name of all that ia good
: and sensible, do republicans mean by
allowing themselves to be an auxil.
tliafy of the Bourbon democracy?