The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-22
A LITTLE RETROSPECT.

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reason and the glaring subterfuges
which the people have been delud-
ed and deceived, to be seen in their
true light. We would not have the
people forget that it was rung in their
ears by Republican speakers and
paraded before them by the Repub-
lican press, that the leaders Of the
South were unrepentent rebels, that
DREW, NICHOLS, KEY,
HILL, and others with them, we're
plotting to overthrow the govern
ment and disrupt the Union-that
the colored element of the South,
with a slender portion of the whites
under the lead of KELLOGG, PACKARD,
CHAMBERLAIN, WELLS and a few 9TH
ers, only were loyal-that the leading
and all important issue of the cam
paign was that of a "solid North" a.
gainst a 'solid South" The Demo
cratic party was charged with being
in collision with this disloyal ele-
ment ofthe South, and pledged to
them in case of success, that the De-
mocratic candidates for Governor OF
Florida, South Carolina and Louisi
ana, were to be inaugurated and re-
cognized, whether elected or not.
That the leading aim of Southern
Democrats in gaining control would
be to have the general Government
assume the rebel debt, that claims
for loss of slaves and property by the
war, was to be audited and allowed
by the Democratic Government and
pressed upon the general Govern
ment for payment.
How false and flimsy were these
CT argos and how Wretchedcdly were
the unthinking masses deluded by
them, has already been made to ap-
pear. To sustain their dying and
rotten cause, the Republican party,
as soon as the election was over, ap-
pealed for assistance to the same ell
ement in the South which they had
so denounced during the campaign.
Help us to inaugurate HAYES and
the government troops in the South
ern States shall be withdrawn-your
Democratic Governors shall be recog-
nized and your Democratic Senators
shall have their seats in the United
States Senate. We have no longer
doubts of your loyalty to the Union;
we now see that CHAMBERLAIN, PACK
ARD and KELLOGG are carpet-baggers
and demagogues and we will help
you to kick them out. BEN. HILL
and Judge KEY are not the unrepent-
ant rebels we took them to be, and
we will consider their.claims to places
in the Cabinet. We now see that
NICHOLS, DREW and HAMPTON are
the representatives of the honest, in
telligent, enterprising and monied
portion of the people in their respec-
tive States, and that their Inaugural
ton and recognition is indisputable
TO put an end to anarchy, misrule and
thieving by State officials in those
States. Join hands with us and the
BLOODY shirt shall cease to flaunt;
that ensanguine rag shall be washed
and cleansed and hereafter float over
our battlements as an emblem of
peace and good will. BLAINE and
merton and CAMERON, it is true, may
hold out against this course; the
Radical press of the country may
charge that HAYES has "Johnsoniz-
ed" but the spoils of office are dear
to us and must not be lost. JOHN
SHERMAN will be with us, provided
he gets a Cabinet appointment and
MoRToN's only hope will be to JUS
tain the administration. This course
may destroy IL chances of success
in the future, but it is only putting
off for four years more, that which
would be inevitable now without it.
Those issues which have served us
so well in the past will be forever
lost to Us in the future, and the cor
ruption and frauds of the Republi-
can party will appear in all their hid
eousness, but we are not in position
to surrender the books, the balances
must be struck, off or time given us
to cover up our frauds or to flee the
realm.
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