National Republican., 1878-10-25

" die rebels !" and the insanity Of the hatred
Of the North could only be exceeded by
their ignorance aud brutality in the South,
which was apparent on every hand. Even
the women had caught the infection. They
were Democrats, rebels, and lovers of
slavery, and they boasted that they would
rear their children to avenge their wrongs
and the wrongs Of their rebel fathers, for
the rebellion, they said, was the chief end of
the Southern Democracy.
All this became known perforce to the
Union soldier fighting in the field, and the
grand armies of the Republic suppressed the
rebellion and saved the country. But the
soldiers of the Republic came chiefly from
the Republican party for the Republi-
can party is the party of Union, Of
freedom, Of equal rights before the
law, of manhood, Of humanity. The
Democratic party would have allowed
the Union to be destroyed, and, II 1t dared,
would have assisted in its destruction. And
it did assist as far as it could, and has al
ways been dragged at the heels Of the dis
loyal Southern Democracy.
thc "ui Nuo pNti tiC Suibh tpthiNi
had done his duty, and was justified in ex-
pecting to enjoy the blessings of real and
solid peace. He expected to see the South
abandon its disoyalty aud become assimi-
lated speedily with the spirit of freedom
and the loyalty of the States of the North.
He expected to find transplanted from the
North those free institutions which had
made II great that the South might partake
of the benefits OF the entire Union, with
every vestige OF the rebellion eliminated
| from it.
But the Union soldier has been disap-
pointed. He has waited long and patiently
| for the South to exhibit moral and politi
cal purgation that should fit it for restora-
tion to the Union in sentiment, in politics,
and in manliness. Nothing Of the kind has
taken place. A solid Democratic rebel
South has been cemented by the blood and
sutfcrings of Republicans; and it has been
procured by the junction and approval of
the Copperhead Northern Democracy with
the rebel Democratic party in the South.
To-day Louisiana, South Carolina, and
Mississippi are more bloodily disloyal than
during the war all of them with rebel
Democratic Governors, who crush out the
Republican vote by the Ku-Klux, the Rife
Clubs and the White Leagues, bearing arms
furnished from the armories Of the United
States which Union soldiers had borne in
the war, and which are now turned against
Republican citizens because Of their loyalty
| aud t1olitkr 10 Ia rp nnI tho .a na nf
freedom. The solid rebel Democratic South
prOclaims that this Is a white mans gov
crnment; and such miserable towards as
Governors (?) NICHOLS, OF Louisiana, and
| WADE HAMPTON, of South Carolina, sur
rounded by these bands of cut-thrOats now
yclept the militia, partly paid, Of course, by
the taxes of Republicans, are content to
occupy high Office by fraud, as neither were
elected by the people. The South is rot
ten, fostering mass of corruption, worse
than at the outbreak of the rebellion, and
growing worse and more untitled to be u
part of the Union. There is o constant sys-
TEN of violence and bloodshcd, which even
the presence of yellow fever has failed to
cheek. And for years past the rebel Demo-
Gratis have been arming and drilling and
preparing, until the South is now an armed
camp, ready for'any emergency, and it will
take the field against the Government If it
fails to secure the control OF Congress and
the control Of the national affairs, with the
counting in of the next President.
What do the soldiers of the Union til ink ?
What do they think Of the prospects? Are
they satisfactory? II is quite clear that
the rebel Democracy have enslaved the
Democratic party of the North. Even the
Greenback party delusion, which pleads for
the issue Of irredeemable paper money, is
held to be continuation of the rebell on
which the Copperhead Democracy are labor.
ing to make a Success. The danger, then
Is appalling. The leaders of the Democratic
party are in alliance with the rebel Demo.
cratic South; and Il Democratic success at
the next election on the 5th Of November
means national ruin.
The country appeals TO the veteran
Union soldier to save 1t q second time from
the hands Of the rebel enemy. The Green
back question and all other questions oI
that kind are only intended to draw public
attention gaway from the principles fol
which the citizen soldier fought, and which
are Of vital interest to the nation, while the
South prepares by violence, fraud, and in
timidaton to seize upon the national
power. Soldiers of the Union! you hav,
given evidence OF your patriotism and de
votion! Your country calls upon you once
) more to stand shoulder to shoulder with
your faces to the foe. What did the Demo
cratic party do in the dark hours OF the
Republic to keep ii from destructionr The
, Republican party, through the soldiers o.
the Republic, saved the country Ant
} soldiers are asked to cast their ballots fo
, the party that stood BY them iu the field
D Let no minor differences prevent you from
casting your ballot for the Republican party
E that Republican majority may be sent Il
7 the next House of Representatives The un
= elected rebel Democratic Congressman viii
e then disappear like snowilakes in the sun
5 But SO sure as the Democracy again com
: into power will the Republican North hav