Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-11

Cardinal These two men have done
what no Northern men ever could do
they have made Tweed and Cronin
respectable by contrast.
| have heard both Hampton and
Butler explain the part that they took
in the campaign-Hampton as to his
political course Butler as to his con-
duct in the Hamburg massacre. l can
not reveal what heard in secret ces-
sion; but would not wish my worst
enemy to bear the name of either man.
Hampton is man of very limited
capacity. He looks like an English
fox-hunting squire. Butler has face
handsome in features and intellectual
in aspect; he is the only man of more
than average ability among the Demo-
cratic leaders in the State. He is not
! the equal of Chamberlain, but he is
the ablest man by far in the ranks of
the opposition.
Democratic Niggers.''
There are, here and there, few
colored men who are Democrats
as Soath Caroliniaus call them, "demo-
crat niggers." mean, apart from
those who were forced by threats to
| Join the Democratic clubs. Nearly all
of them are shrewd old fellows who
were once Republicans and joined
the Democrats to get the business
patronage of the whites or the most
| ignorant and degraded class of plan
tation hands who were afraid of losing
their leases of land and being turned
out on the highways without shelter
| for themselves or their families. One
| of the democratic witnesses before
the Congressional Committee. a living
rag heap, swore that he joined the
Democracy of his own free will; be-
cause he became convinced that the
principles of the Democrats were true.
He was asked-"What is a demo-
crat ?" and he gave this lucid defini-
ton of the conservative creed:-
"What l would call it, may be it
wouldn't be to you-but still they
said the colored people as far as |
learn the colored people and ali
that Joined the colored people-they
said they were republicans and all the
white people were democrats. That
is what the people said"
He was asked whether it would
make any difference, as far as his
means Of support were concerned,
whether he had remained Republi-
can or became Democrat To this
he made answer in these words:-
at would make difference with
me in this, sir. 1t would not have
been any different at all, providing, if
thought to myself that / feel it to
| my interest that | was doing harm to
| myself when knowed this much-be-
cause if come to befriend you, when
the time comes back to you, to you to
befriend me as | friend you you
know don't say Il don't want any
thing to do with him. I will try him
because I have done proved him
because / saw his name and went to
his assistance and took it to be a
friend"
| QueStion-Your interests were with
the Democrats p?
Answer-Tbey did.
The Coming Issue.
The Union was worth saving even
at the cost of half million of lives
and mountains of treasure. This is
the verdict of the American People.
What was worth saving is worth pay
ing for and perpetuating. We shall
never have homogeneous and united
Nation until all the people in every
State are educated citizens. Educa-
ton must be made compulsory and
the National Government must en-
force it. The Democratic dema-
gogues oppose education. In igno-
rance is their strength; from intelli.
gence springs ours. This is the COM
ing issue.
JAMES REDPATH.