The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-05-12

MEssRs. GATORS: am no croak-
u, but I firmly believe what the
heading of this article declares. If
he Confederate Democratic element
Of the South, aided by the we'll
though near sighted pOr-
ion of the party North, succeeds in
electing . President next Novem-
Der, is not the above prediction
likely to be realized? Place the di-
rection of the government in the
hands of the Democratic party and |
1t requires no prophet to tell that
the battle for the freedom of
the country will have to be fought
over. / care not who may be the
man. 1t makes no difference
whether New York furnishes Til
den, Indiana Hendricks, Delaware
Bayard, or some man yet unknown
to fame leads their van. The whip
is in the hands of their masters.
The Hills, Lamars, fuckers, and
Blackburns, of the South, WELD the
lash, and woe be unto The man who
dares to disobey their behests. she
who runs may read" The action
of the Confederate Democrats of the
present Congress tells very plainly
what will be done if the people
blindiy and wickedly let them get
control of the government. With
the Hottest pretensions of morality
and economy; yea, even with
some show of meekness, the briga-
diers aud colonies of the late Con-
federacy, at the opening of Congress
proclaimed their intention of "stay-
ing III their fathers house, "now that
they had, through Il was gong to
say the mistakenly cIemency of their
conquerOrs, been allowed to return
thereto.
1t is unnecessary for me to recall
to the memory of your readers with
what q flourish of trumpets the new
Congress commenced its work of
reformation. The Democratic pa
pers throughout the country point
ed with pride and exultation to the
fact that a Congress largely COM
posed of reconstructed rebels, elect
ed Northern Speaker, and placed
as the leader of the House Morrison,
of Illinois, a Colonel of the Union
army. The lion and the lamb had
laid down in leach others embrace.
The millennium was soon to be pro-
claimed, salaries were to be re-
duced. corruption was to be weed
ed out +; in fact, all the evils that flesh
is heir to was TO be expunged from
our very natures. The people look
ed on in wonder and in admiration.
For q time we believed "that q
change had came DER the spirit of
their drsams," and that we really
saw the dawn of honesty. That
large number of our Republican
brethren throughout the country
who had voted the Democratic tick
ct at the Congressional elections as
a rebuke to the wildness and ex-
traVagance of the preceding Cong
ress, pointed out with pride to the
doings of the present one, and "did
not we tell you that a change would
be for the BETTER" sounded in our
ears wherever we went. / was as
tonished, and for a time believed
that the lessons of the past were
bearing good fruit, and gave my
need of praise 10 all concerned.
But clouds began to obscure the
emblem of reform. The serpent
was gradually changing his skin.
The Leopard could not permanent
ly change his spots, and his attempts
to ape the lamb were smoothly at
first but gradually laid aside. The
farce of meekness on the part of
Hill, Tucker, and their coadjutors
North and South, were laid aside
Again the lash sounded, the party
whip was reared on high, and woe
betide the poor Democrat who dared
disobey. A bill, begging the MUIR
derer of the poor, starved soldiers
of Andersonville, to return to the
place in Congress he had vacated
was presented, and, bad not Blaine
and Garfield sprung to the helm
and pointed out the truths of bisto'
ry, the next Congress would have
in all probability. been disgraced by
that fiend of the rebellion, Mr.. JEFF
fsrson Davis. The seeming garb o
humility was now entirely laiC
aside, and instead of body of higt
minded, intelligent gentlemen, leg
islating for the good of the country
we find the American Congress
composed of near a hundred rebe
officers, buslly engaged in ferretinl
out Eye godsi would ye believ,
: it) the manner in which the none,
: raised for conQuoring themselve
was expended. Hon. Oliver P
NJ orion, the great war Governor o
Indiana, was charged with misap
propriating a portion of the $3.50,
600 that the worse than treason o
the Democr ats of Indiana COMPEL
ed him to get from the general gov
! eminent to put down the traitors q
! home and to equip his soldiers 70
l the field. Blaine, of Maine, who b,
= the sheer force of intellect aud par
limentary skill, has routed agail
and again the entire force of tn
Cenfederates, is also charged wit
great crimes. BristOw, the gallan
Kentuckian, who fought all through
the war, and whose eagle eye tina
never closes, and muscular arm tina
> never tires, who has been and still
lie engaged in ferreting out fraud
against the Government, who look
neither to the right or the left. Blu