Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-08-22
END or THE CIVIL WAR.

chothe, MO:
END or THE CIVIL WAR.
/ am happy, gentlemen, to be able
to say to You that the civil war in tbs
South is II On end. That noble army
which for the lsst thirteen bloody
years of peace has upheld the Repub-
lican party and the carpet-bag gov
ernment in the South, is no more.
After SO long and arduous . service,
in which it never failed to attend the
elections and to see to it that Demo
Gratis were not allowed to vote in num-
bers sufficient to win, or il allowed TO
vote that their votes should not be
counted !; in which 1t was always on
hand to inaugurate Radical COVER
nor who was not elected, abolish q
lawful Legislature, crush the liberty
OF speech and the freedom of the
press. ut last rests from ITS lsbors.
The order Of the president to break
up the encampment and march North
was received with come dismsy.
Troops in the full ride Of victory psV.
er like to retreat. Aas the veterans
fell back in good ordar. They are
now oonsoled by the reflection that
their fame ID blended With the immor.
tai names Of Q Warmoth aud Q Kel-
logg; and that during oil the time
they we're In the South they never
failed when they brought out their
guns to gain . splendid victory over
the unarmed citizens. It 10 said that
Blaine, Conkling 4 Co. have express
cd their opinion that without these
able politicians their party viii nevev
carry another election 10 the South.
THE DEMocRArIc PARTY.
Standing a. the Democratic party
now does on the very edge Of victory,
its organization intact, its spirit high,
Its principles strong and pnre, its
great heart swelling with sentiments
of justice, respect and love for the
whole people, and burning with pa
triotic ardor to correct all abuses and
rebuke all wrongs, where is the enc.
my Of the people and the enemy o.
his country who asks Il to surrender
its position in favor de some nther or.
gsnization2 Itch you, citizens ot
Livingston oountysSif you would dc
any good just nowtp yourselves OF
your country stay in the Democratic
party if you are there now; and, i
you are not. get into It As soon as yor
can, and help 1t as much as you can,
for you can do no good anywhers
else.
THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
II there ever waa q doubt about tn
fact 1t is now certsin that Tilden ans
Hendricks were honestly. elected
president ard vice-psssident Of The
United States in November. 1876
The frauds deliberately contriyed te
defeat the popular .Nii, the world ir
the first instance pf Low partisan VII
lains, subsequently, approved. adopt
ed and supported, by, ''visitting Re
publican statesmen, finally ratified
and sanctiHed by fsithless electoral
commission, have ,heea successful SO
far as to induct into Office men. who
were never elected. In everything
else they have failed Of success. They
have fixed indefble disgrace upon
the original actors and subsequent
spprovers. They have divested the
Republican party OF its seif-.espec',
They have stripped It OF I'll claim to
the respect Of tha people. They have
rent its organization. In twain. II
the voice Of the people, fairly spoken
In November. 1875, has not had fer
NAL legal exprsssion IL hes not bsen
without Sorcible moral expression.
The truth has gone forth and 10 known
of al men, and has announced in the
aear future the triumph OF Democrat.
ic principles.