The Hartford herald., 1879-07-16


lodged in military prisons, when sol
diers protested, they Were arrested
and tried by Court Marshal. When
the soldiers had fought the war through
and put down the rebellion, and the
Constitution and laws were made su-
prcme, they, by military force, freed
the slaves of loyal citizens and in the
loyal States, and by military aid, forced
the States to adopt amendments to the
Constitution, confirming all their
acts. Then they entered ON a course of
plunder, through carpet-baggcrs and
scallawags, supported by military force,
in the States backed by laws of Con
gresS DISTINGUISHING the Southern pcO-
Pile. Their carpet-baggors and scala
wags, with the aid pf negro Legislators,
issued the bonds of the States almost
without number, sold them on the mar
kcts and converted the money to their
own use. Instance, the State of Ten
nysscc, they run her in debt Sl0,0O0-
l1O other States more or less, while
he Government was run 10y them in
imcs of profound peace, at cost of
l, l,l00,010,0Da, more than it cost before
he war, during the same length of
ime, viz: eight years, besides as much
more was plundered from the people by
the public officers of the Federal Gov
ernment, their friends and faVoritcsl
through the means of fat contracts,
credit Mohelicr and donations to rail-
roads, then as IN more by means of
duties on imports, amounting to prohi-
bition 81 that their friends and sup
porters could have entire control of
those articles and sell them for such
sums of money ~ they We're pleased to
ask. II will be seen by reference to
the figures, that since the war, they and
their friends, through the machinery of
| the Government, have plundcrcd the
people Of the United States Of more
than three, billions of dollars, besides
what their carpct-baggers and scala
wags have plundcrcd from the States.
| Oh reader, do YOU wonder that the
honest, intelligent Union soldier will
refuse 10 set down to their feast. They
passed laws to have soldiers, United
States Marshals and Supervisors of
election, in order to control the cleo
tons and keep themselves in power.
Since the Democrats came into power
in both Houses, they have repealed those
laws, but his Fraudulcncy, Returning
Board Hayes has vetoed their repeal,
and those odious acts stand ON the
Statute books to-day, disgrace to II
free people.
The people Of Kentucky, aye, the
people of Ohio county have seen sol
diers at the polls; men who had been
i'm the Union army, We're refused Il vote
at the dictation of Federal officers
standing around the polls with armed
soldiers at their backs, in fact, they had
counted and knew how many men to
drive away, in order to elect their man.
| The Federal officers Were furnished
with a list of names i'm the different
precincts that were TO be driven away.
No man on that day presented himself
to east IA vote but what had the right to
vote, under the laws of Kentucky; and
vet hundreds of such men We're driven
from the polls, merely because they did
not agree with the Republican party In
its policy, and they stood in the way of
its candidates. Last year, in New
York City, 1900 men We're arrested 10y
the United States Marshals, previous TO
the election, to prevent them from
voting the Democratic ticket, and
turned them loose without any trial for
any ofianse, rs soon as the election was
over. Union soldiers? You are all fl-
miliar with the fraud by which the Re
publican party put Il man into the
Presidential Office who had not been
elected by the people, and they are now
boldly proclaiming that the States have
no rights, and that they must be swal-
lowed up in strong Government at
Washington, and that Government
must be tor the benefit of the money
holder, bond holder, manufacturer of the
northeast and the laborer and the poor
be hewers of wood and drawers of
water and beasts of burden, for the Use
of the same bloated money oligarchy,
and to this end, they still hang on to
unconstitutional laws, authorizing them
to place supervisors, United States Mar
shals and soldiers mt the polls to crush
out the will of the masses of the peo-
ple-but have we not said enough.
There are thousands and thousands of
honest intelligent men who know the
truth of what has been written herein.
Does not the picture make the blood of
every honest man, run cold, his heart
stand still and paralyze his body ?
What would the patriots of the Revo-
luton do, could they arise from the
dead and behold the picture? They
would say that their blood had been
wasted, that it was vain that fhey had
marched barefooted through the snow
and over the frozen ground, hungry and
naked, to establish free Government.
Oh! readers, are We not unworthy
sons of noble sires, if we permit these
things longer to exist? c.