The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-03-02
Tho Country Sold to the Bondholders.

Tho Country Sold to the Bondholders.
From the lights now before US, we suppose on
Monday next tho great fraud Of robbing the
people Of these United States Of the President
and Vice-President whom they have fairly and
honestly elected, will be consummatsd, and
Hayes and Wheeler will be inducted into the
offices which belong to Tldcn and Hendricks.
And from all we can see and hear the fraud will
pass unrebuked by the people. The leading
presses of the country have all along aided the
fraud by counselling submission to it. Unfor-
}tunatsly for the people the leading newspapers
and politicians of the country have fallen into
the hands of capitalists, politicians and rings,
who own the larger portion of the Bonds Of the
United States, and upon which they pay no
taxes, but draw the interest upon those Bonds
| from the hard earned taxes Of the masses Of the
people. These Bondholders, through the press
| and Congress, have, from the time that the Re-
| turning Boards Of Louisiana, South Carolina
aud Florida first met, been counsellng peaceabls
| submission to the frauds committed upon them,
| until now the lamentable fact stares us in the
face that the people are educated to submit to
fraud, to sell all their rights as American citi-
zens and jeopardise the very existence Of q Re-
publican government and this not to protect
themselves or Republican institutions, but to
| protect the bloated Bondholders, under the spe-
cious plea that it is solely in the interest of
| peace.
So long as the Republican party feel safe
,against the uprising Of en- indignant, people, SO
long will its leaders continue to rob the people,
through Returning Board frauds, and high
sounding Commissions, of their right to elect
men of their choice to fill the highest positions
in the government.
Some may admire the moderation of the peo-
pie of this country under such intense provoca-
ZION, but we cannot look upon the whole affair
with the least degree of complacency. On the
one side it is fraud upon every principle of
right, justice and Republican. government; on
the other it is abject and cowardly submission,
betokening moral and political depravity un-
becoming the people of great nation.
| When the campaign opened last summer, the
Northern Democracy called upon the South to
strain every nerve to carry the election for the
party, promising us justice and equality in the
government. The South arose from its lethargy
and responded to that cali Us no people ever did
before, and after of the hardest struggles
I ever engaged in, and in defiance Of the bayonets
of the opposition, presented with q solitary cx-
ception, solid Electoral vote for Democracy
and reform. But how have our efforts been re-
| warded?
| The peculiar position of the South made il
impolite, if not absurd, for her to demand the
recognition of the victory thus fairly and nobly
won, and she naturally looked to acr Northern
| ortv nj fo t,Eo 4 he
ing the schemes, so openly and fagrantly set en-
foot by the defeated party, to defraud the peo-
pie of the lawful results of the election.
The North has refused TO resist the great
fra I'd, and again the South is left to the mercy
of her most malignant enemies.
Again newspaper writer's cajole the South with
what may be termed problems of the policy Of
the incoming administration toward the South
1t is the old story repeated; and what makes
The story the more unre liable is the fact that oil
these fair probabilities come from outsiders
1 men who have no authority to speak with tho
least certainty upon the matter, or are editors
and attaches of newspapers owned by Bondhoid-
ers Their whole object is ~ lull the people to
a peaceful sleep until the robbery is made COM
plete and resistance impossible. And they have
succeeded
To our mind the only course for the South to
pursue hereafter is to act Independent Of any
national party. She has 1873 electoral votes,
which she can throw into tie scale of any party
that size believes and ,cW give her the great
| est relief.
| The National Democratic party has proven un.
worthy our support or confidence. We plainly
won the victory for it, but its Northern leaders
have allowed our enemies. TO wrest tie results
from the hands of the people. We can have no
confidence in it hereafter. It has lost the golden
opportunity to restore itself to power and res
cue the country from anarchy and ruin. 1t has
proven too weak and embecile to graphic with
fraud and corruption in high places, and the
South will never again make such struggle for
it as che did last Fall.
While the Republican party can never secure
the support of the intelligent Southern people
there is now great danger that our citizens will
hereafter evince but little enthusiasm in the
election of any candidate for office outside the
State. The policy will bs, select good State Of
Rcers and leave the election of President to
fraudulent Returning Boards and unconstitu.
| tional Commissions"
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