Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-03
Shall the Revolution Back ward
he Continued and Completed?

worst, and the best that can be said for
it is, it has left no doubt on the minds
of the weakness and wickedness of the
party leaders who are its masters.
If the war was not on the part of
President Lincoln and the people of the
States that adhered TO the Union and
supported the National cause, a great
blunder and greater crime, the ground
taken by the Democratic party in favor
of State supremacy in general affairs is
untenable.
If just now we are not to consider
that reputation is the essential essence
of the Democratic creed, then denation-
alism is so, for we find Southern Sena-
tors and Representatives contending
that the responsibility of enforcing the
constitutional amendments rests with
the States alone; that the Q. S. troops
must be very carefully handled so as not
to offend the States that were in rebel
lion; that the U. s. Courts must be sub
Ordinated to the State Courts, and that
the Nation shall not have any rights
that the States are bound to respect.
The Democratic partyis distinguished
for submissiveness to the Caucus, and
two-thirds of the members of the Con-
gressional Caucus are COnfederates, not
only unrepentent, but vain of their part
in the warfare against the Government
not only uncOnvinced of error in as
serting the superiority of the States and
their sovereignty in all ultimate issues,
but rabid with great conceit on the sub
ject and full of fierce bigotry and impu-
dent intolerance.
Already in the Democratic party is
growing up the old hatred of abolition
ists,-nOt so contemptuous, perhaps, as
once, but making up in malignity any
deficiency in that respect. Again, it is
the thing to give token of Democracy to
bow and whiffie and cringe to the South
ern politicians; and the darker tie stain
of treason, the lower the bow and the
more subservient the attitude of con-
scious inferiority, and the more abject
all the evidences of volunteered serfdom.
As the Democratic party stands be-
fore the country to-day, its success in
the choice of a President would signify
the victory of the Southern Confederacy
over all its enemies-the vindication of
the principles upon which the Southern
people stood in their fight--and at the
very least the right of the South, as the
master of us all, to have the Confederate
cripples pensiOned, the slaves emanci-
pated paid for, and compensation for all
damage to Southern property done by
invading armies.
The citizen who undertakes to deny
these facts does not know what he is
talking about, or he is falSifying, with
intent to deceive his fellow-citiZens, the
most clearly written chapters of our
current history. They tell us the Con-
stitution prohibits some of these things.
Nonsensel These old COnfederates are
experts with the Constitution. They
propose to turn it over to the States.
The States would repudiate the amend
ments. They are "war legislation" and
would be wiped out. The Democratic
doctrine of this day does not include the
the validity or the enforcement of the
Give us Democratic
Congress, with two-thirds of the con-
trolling caucus fanatical representatives
Of the white and Solid South, and at the
same time Democratic President, and
the Army and Courts would be at once
for the purpose of Southern
izing them. The buds of legislation we
have seen in this extra session would be
full blown. What has really been the
matter with the army that there has
been so much talk of cutting down its
strength and putting it under restraints
1t is not oflicered by COnfederates. 1t is
true to the Nation, and doesn't care a
button about the bloody heresy of State
rights, except to spurn and hate it. The
Confederate chieftains have not been |
invited to return to their commands. |
Hence the outcry for army reorganiza-
ion, and if that can not be had, the |
greatest possible measure of restriction |
There has been an assault upon the |
Courts, that is still continued-a war
If displeasure about jury system that
makes the conviction of a Southern
Of crooked whisky pos
ibility-a howl of rage because U. S.
harshals may put some bonds to the
'localism" in the swarming wards of
Northern cities, where fraud in Presi-
lential years is epidemic, and Republi-
:an States may be carried for the Solid
Southern policy by ballOt-box stuffing.
Well, the real trouble with the Courts
5 they are not Confederate. They do
lot reflect the peryersions Of law upon
which the Confederates in Caucus as
mount to display their wisdom
md authority. The National Courts
re true to the National doctrine, pur-
llant to which the Southern rebellion
vas put down by force of arms, and the
ebelliOus States restored TO the Union
It the point of the bayonet
That is what is the matter with the
'ourts, and the reason why the rider is
N the Judicial Appropriation Bill that
las just been vetoed. OF course if the
,Onfederates had President to sign
heir bills and make laws Of them, they
would reorganize the army and the judi
iary. The army would be reduced to
en- thousand men, and the officers cut
If, that it might not be tOp-heavy.
hen there would be war with Mexico,