American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-01
The Democracy Furnishing the Rad
icsl Party with Campaign
Ammunition.

just what the CITIZEN had Fore
told would be the result of an at
tempt on the part of the Democrats
to reopen the question OF the legality
of the Presidents title has beer
fully realized. A flaming address
from the Radical Congressional
COMMITTEE followed directly upon
the heels of this most unwise action
ON the part of the Democratic Con
gressmcn,-an address calculated to
arouse the sluIp bering passions oil
the larger element of the Republl>
can party, who were beginning to
manifest u spirit of peace and con-
ciliativn,-au address whose mani
fest object is to unite that ,liscordant
aud much divided patty once more
under the banner of the ''blOody
shirt 1t WAS a shfewd game the
Radical politicians were playing, and
they succeeded in trucking the Dep
ocraiic congressman, whose imbe.
cilIty has thereby been demonstra-
ted to degree that passes all CON-
prehensiOn.
Could they not see that the Rad
icals had cause to he most dissatis-
fed with the course Of President
Hayes, while the Democrats had
reason to rejoice that one Who filed
the chair OF Chief Magistrate Of the
Nation had conducted his admins
tratiOn OH the basis of restoration Of
the peace, veal and prosperity OF
the whole Nation I Could they not
plainly discern that the Radicals
were laying a snare when they were
revealing the frauds by which the
man of their own choice was made
President, wherein the guileless
Democracy should be betrayed into
going into an investigation of the
validity OF the election of one whom,
it is conceded on all sides. has done
moro than Mr.. Tilden ever could OF
y ouid have done toward banishing
the fanaticism that existed in the
North, restoring the States of the
South to freedom from oppression
and carpet bag and negro rule, and
bringing about relations Of harmony
and brother hood between the two
long estranged sections of the
Union
With a simplicity that was ''child.
ike and bland" the Democratic
Con gressmen made haste to place
heir feet in the trap SO artfully pre-
pared by their wiley adversaries.
And the latter are now showing
heir hand. First the address above
to. an address to the voters
If the Union, calculated to arouse
he volcano of hatred and fanata-
ism, that was quietly repOsiug un-
Ter the wise, equitable administers
ion of Mr.. Hayes, in which the
lction of the Democratic Congress
men is pronounced ia revolutionary
cbeme," aud those engaged in
the measure declared icon
pirators." At once the Radical
rgans are made to team with arti-
les denunciatory of the Democratic
'arty, utterly disregarding the fact
hat the allegations Of the frauds
7ere first prominently made by their
wn party leaders and Organs-nota.
Is among their leaders Mr.. C0nk-
ing, and. among their organs, the
lew York Sun. The latter has OBJ
persisted in styling Mr..
Iayes "His Fraudulrncy," and the
de .facto President" with lengthy
iatribes of abuse from the day of
is Inauguration. Immediately after
be unfortunate step of the Demo
ratio congressman, the opinions of
be various Governors OF the States
ERE sought by telegraph, and
mOng the Republicans, of course,
'rong disapproval of the course Of
ne Democratic Congressman was
expressed. tiOv. Gear, of Iowa,
ent SO far as to say that he is
prepared to use his power to main
lin the President, to the last man
nd the last dollar" The New York I.
ribune IL interesting reading as it {
DIV comes to us. That journal,
hich is fish, flesh or fowl by turns, ,
J occasion may seem to demand, -
hich is first for ''sbaking hands
ross the bloody chasm," and then
r exciting the hatred Of the KadI-
i fanatics, comes to us with every
'lumn Allied with abuse OF the
,uth-as if this section was the
st aud foremost to cry "fraud" I,
I'd 10 endeavOr to depose the Pres. C
ent. We find an article bitterly
Of the South entitled, a
The New Rebellion" We find it's
sding article entitled, "Tle Action i
the South" in which this section
charged with maniiesting dispo L
lion to re open "sectiOnal and par u