The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-11

beasts of burden Gnd things OF BAR
a ter, that the remainder might live II
. ease and arrogant idleneas- WI!
, should We wonder that people
educated to believe that oil these
q denominations were right, should come
to claim the power to dictate rules
, of political action TO other men
, And when, in defense Of this audac-
ious system of wrong, oppression
, and insolence, they resorted to war,
, AID came cut Of i; beaten, and
, bruised, end poor, their accursed
system of labor destroyed, their
slaves converted into meu with the
chagrin OF defeat and the compulsiog
TO labor added to the decentralization
Of century of iniqaity, we must not
expect an instantaneous change.
They don't Ike the changed conG;-
ton Of their Affairs.
THEY DON'T LIKE II.
They don't like the government
which brought it about nor the men
WAC filed, and paid, and supported
the armies that conquered them. 1t
is hard for man who has fatten ed
on the labor of other men to come
down 10 labor for himself It's hard
for family used to pnmpered lux
ury, drawn by oppression from the
unrequited toll of ether families, to
take up the drudgery Of life and work
as other toilers do. A despot don't
like to become subject. It is hard
to throw off life OF Incidence and
put on one of labor. People 80 stu
ated will look around for relief The
Southern people have always looked
to political action for relief To that
they are looking now They looked
to secession and were overwhelmed
by force of arms. They have not
surrendered that madness bat their
present resort is the new idiocy of
home rule
a VICIOUS POLITICAL SYSTEM.
These home.rule Democrats work
with will, and persistently. The
Generalization, OF which / have spo-
ken, dominates their politics without
limitation or restraint II required
a vicious political system TO support
human slavery That system has
survived the war, and causes ell of
the unrest and injustice which plague |
the South to-day. 1t has no element !
of good faith 10 il. The men who
work by il, and through it, deem all
things fair which tehd to assure their
political purposes. They make po- |
Ii:ical bargain but to violate it, if
that course will serve their purpose |
best They profess loyalty, es they
took the oath of allegiance during
the war. merely to escape restraint.
They participate iG elections with no |
thought Of abiding by the result If It
be against them They promise pFo-
lection TO all, to gain power with |
which to oppose them. All Of these /
elements are apparent ia the South .
Carolina and Louisiana cases. De- |
feated iu the elections in those States,
notwithstanding the atrocities resort
ed 10 to overcome the universally |
known large majority of Republican
votes, they defieG the law and the
government, and demanded posses /
sion of the States They make
ALL MANNER OF GOOD PROMISES
to induce o compliance with their de-
mand. The promises were accepted |
and the States turned over to them.
With what result ? Not stipulation /
has been observed By them; not a
promise kept They are minority |
governments, and as oppressive to-
wards the majority as hate and 1
wrong can make them They are
exemplars of home rule, granting IN
bridled indulgence to Democrats, and
applying the iron hand to all politi
cal opponents. To conciliate them,
the government surrendered its SOW
ereignty and withdrew ia troops,
not only from those States, but from
almost the entire South. The South
ern Democratic politicians followed |
up this advantage to Washington,
and insisted that the President as
Commander-in-chief, and the army,
should be so crippled and stripped Of
power, that they could no longer in
terfere with the lawless doings of
the votaries of home rule. Upon
this they planted themselves to deny
army appropriations unless their de-
mGnds were conceded to them 1t
was done and now we see more of
their deviltry. The great whisky
ring of to-day is in the Southern
States. In the mountain fastnesses
and out-of-the-way places of those
States, illicit distillation is carried on \
to an enormous extent. On the right |
hand and en- the left
THE GOVERNMENT IS DEFIED,
and its revenue defrauded. Gov
ernment officers attempting to enforce
the laws are fred on like dogs, and
when, in self-defense, they kill a
murderous member OF this home-rale
whisky-ring, swiftly they are indict-
ed as murderers in the State Courts
The United States law says that
such cases, upon application of the
officers accused, shall be transferred
to the Federal Courts for trial. That
application was made in the South
Carolina cases. 1t was contemptu-
ouslv denied by the State Court, and
the Democratic home rulers of South
Carolina, in State conventions a
once resolved that the President
ought, in furtherance of conciliation,
dismiss all of the prosecutions pend
ing against the illicit distiIlers, as be
did those ia the cases of the Edge
field county outlaws. As these
home-rulers could not fight their way
out of the union, they now demand
that which will next best serve their
purpose-to be absolved from the
operation of United States laws, and
to be let alone. These are some sf
the beauties of home-rule. These
are the terms of conciliation present
ed as basis Of the pacifcation of
the South, from Democratic sources.
They won't be complied with.
THE IOWA METHOD.
The Republican party Of Iowa ex
pressed itself on he question cf paci-
fcation of the South in these words:
"Tbe permanent pacifcation Of the