Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-07-27
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DEGENERACY.
BY DEMOCRAT.

witness the shortcomings of our own
partizans in Congress, and Of the great
mass of the press standing in their tu-
torship crying amen to every totterlng
knee that bends before the demands OF
power in office.
We have but recently seen the arro-
gance of ore who fills an Office in the
army, (created in compliment to anoth-
er who has fortunately dropped out and
gone to where his deeds at home lind
louder applause abroad) using language
that ought to have admonished every
true patriot in Congress to repeal the
complimentary act by which he has
been pinnacled upon the pedestal made
for Grant in that expensive nuisance,
the army but not one voice is raised,
not one whereas enacted, to quiet his
presumptuous position in our useless
army. But, on the contrary, crlngIng
high heads in the halls of legislation,
representing democratic constituency,
like Belial bowing before Baal, vote 10
agree to the s25,OOO demand of the
late President makers, who for lack OF
opportunity leave the cents on dead
mems eyes, and 90 for what they can
hold by fraud and the army.
The poor Indians, too, many of whom
long since welded to peace, have to be
driven to hostile attitudes, per contract,
to make excuse to get appropriations
for the army from poor, timid demo-
Gratis in Congress. Such democrats the
early fathers of democracy would spew
out of their mouths as too cowardly to
stand upon the outposts Of defence.
Such submissive licking Of the hand
that smites, has not been witnessed
since the days of old Caesar.
But that is not all which humiliates
genuine democrats. A worse thing has
come upon US as a party; we elected TO
the office of. President of the republic a
man every way believed to be qualified
to fill the position with credit to the
whole people; but that man is defraud-
ed out of the office by palpable, glaring
fraud, aud timorous democrats consent
to tin fact help to enact the excuse
to do it by. And after the Inauguration
Of the fraud, and after a little favorable
experience by il, as a quietas to the
fraud, democrats are heard to say,
"uayes is better than Tilden. How
better, and in what? Pray tell gap
inc, credulous world. But soverei On
State questions the expediency to acqui-
esce in so outrageous fraud. An in
vestigation is inaugurated, and an old
saying approaches verifcation, viz :
"When rogues fall out honest men get
their dues" No SO, however, in the
presidential roguery; those inside go
back on those who are accomplices in
crime, viz: purgery and forgery, ct Get
era, and the villaiDy is laid bare. The
man whom the American people have
elected sits quiet at home, whilst an indi-
ydual never elected exercises the func-
tions of chief executive, and the lower
house of Congress, whose duty it is to
count the votes for President, declare
by resolution that they haue no poUsr
10 undo what stupid co,onrdiy set Of
predecessors enacted by unconstitutional
farce. That a judgment is in conflict
with an execution. To discover fraud
is well enough, but to set it aside is i'm
possible. Was ever the age we live in
more grossly outraged by unjointed
cowardice? When after ages view the
whole presidential comedy through the
transparent glasses of history, it will be
regarded as the major broUbenti"g Of
the age. Thank the Lord of high Hea-
ven! in the name of justice aud heroic
valor, fourteen members Of the lower
house of Congress bended not the knee
of tremor to the Molock of crime, or TO
criminals. Their names will live when
poor, time serving representatives will
have bended their knees to fraud and
be severely forgotten. The patriots
who have nobly recorded themselves as
fearless representatives of right, truth
and law, are Black burn, Ky.) Bliss,
Boone, Bragg, Cook, Cox, IN. W
Elane, Fuller, Hamilton, Hardenberg,
Phelps, Pridemore, Robertson, Ua.)
Smith, (Ga.) Springer, Southland and
Warner. Had the people been appeal
ed TO by Congress they would have III
structed their representative in tones of
thunder, but, instead, great leaders of
our party helped to continue the great
cheat into mock law, and now they
stand TO it, in the name of honor, as if
honor had anything to do with it
Speaking Of the prosperity Of the wick
ed, jeremiah, chap. II, verse IL, says:
"rhe spoilers are come upon all high
places" And it is SO now in the new
United States.
1t was exceedingly mortifying to in
telligent supporters of Tilden to witness
the crafty wiles by which that old Yer.
mont fox oul-generalled the democrats
in Congress during the enactment of
the sham by which the great cheat was
to be consuDmated, by leaving the
whole question as to who should be
president to one of his political friends,
and at the. same time an enemy of Til
den and democracy. A clear case Of
monarchial arbitrary succession, by
which the will of the people acting IN
Ger constitutional repub!icanism were
deprived Of their rights, because their
representatives were too base 10 main
tain them. And even now, whilst the
black mud from the swamps Of Louisi-
ana ard Florida is hurled in their faces,
still they cover as whipped spaniels be-
fore the major minds of Vermont and
Iowa. Yes, modern or latter day dem
ocrats think it well to convict criminals,
but wrong to punish them. Very prop