The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-30
The Ohio Waterloo.

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terrible destroyer of party '' issues for
no less than three Presidential issues,
upon each of which they were placing
a great deal of dependence. One was
the rag-baby issue. 1t was believed
that this would be found available at
the Northwest; that it would secure
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin,
and these, added to the Solid South,
would give them the President without
any aid from the hard-money East.
This was the Thurman idea. Another
was the great-fraud' issue. This. it
was imagined, would be available everv-
where. At the sorry spectacle of Sam
Tilden's gaping wound, the whole coun-
try was to be filed with fiery indigna-
ton, and reverberate from end to end
with the uproar of patriotic millions,
rushing headlong to the polls to avenge
the awful grievance of that saintlike
citizen. This was the Tilden idea. The
third was the State-sovereignty ISSUE
Though this, since the Southern at
tempt to make q contest on it in 1861,
has not been found available, it was
imagined that the North was now ready
to roll back the record of eighteen
years, deny that the war had any mean
ing, and begin anew where James Bu-
chanan, John B. Floyd and Jacob
Thompson left off. This was the South
-Brigadier idea.
The Bourbon Waterloo in Ohio has
completely ruined all three of these
hopeful .s issues" for the Presidency
squabble. The opposition leaders now
generally admit that the rag-baby must
be abandoned. Even the less stupid
Southern organs of Brigadierism admit
it. Prosperity has come again." says
the Gazette, of Washington, "and no
party in the future will indorse the pa
per-money heresy." The rag-baby is
sue for the Presidency squabble is plain
ly ruined by the political deadfall in
Ohio. -.E ..
So, too, as respects the "great fraud
issue. The Herald (the ablest of the
half-dozen or more unheard- of organs
ton). says:
Zone lesson of the Ohio election is
that the fraud issue is worthless, if
not more than worthless, as a piece of
political capital. The people don't re-
sent the theft of the Presidency as some
ardent Democrats expected they would,
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dispatches, elevated railway specula-
tions, income tax suits and Tilden's
general character for thickness, do not
lose Democrats votes, while the fraud
yell is impotent to gain them. No bet
ter opportunity for rebuking fraud could
be offered than presented itself last
Tuesday; but, instead of being rebuked,
it seems to have been condoned."
Tho 70 onf 30 To so Df I'd
on behalf of the most conspicuous fraud
average mind as good deal absurd.
been able to grasp the notion that q
President whose election has been de-
termined by the deliberate act of Con-
gress composed in the major part of
his political adversaries, is President
by consequence of fraud. The fraud
idea has therefore never spread much
beyond the inner circle of Mr.. Tilden's
peculiar admirers. .-
The solid South issue has been dam
aged as badly as the other two. Like
the drunken guests at the feast of Bel
shazzar, the Southern Politicians are
yet sober enough to see the handwrit-
ing on the wall. T" A solid South leads
to solid North" cries Georgia Or
gan of Southern retrogressiOn. 'There
is not State in all the North" says
mouthpiece of Brigadierism in LOuisi-
ana, upon which zoe" (the Brigadiers)
:" can count with any degree of GER
the Southern programme is as plainly
played out as the rag-baby programme
and the great-fraud programme. The
III <f oh
Mr.. Thurman, convinces the less
stupid Brigadiers that the North is
given over to .s eternal hatred against
the South, its form of civilization,
and its theory of Government"
which the North admits, and afiirms at
every opportunity. But that truth is
not expressed with precision in the lam
guage of the organs of Brigadierism,
whose intense Bourbon bias disqualifies
what the Northern idea is that antago-
nizes the Solid South, and is manifest
ed in an implacable dislike of its pecu-
liar civilization-or, rather, lack of CIV
theory of government.
Why is the South arrayed in solid
mass of political hostility against the
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question, and the Southern politicians
answer it by crying, "We have capt
ured the Capitol; we have regained
our .long-lost birth-right; we propose to
blot out the history Of the last eighteen
every vestige of your war measures,
and if you won't let US carry out this
we will starve your Gov
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these are only declarations of noisy
Southern demagogues, the Northern
people ask why it is that these noisy
Southern demagogues fill every South
ern seat in Congress, and speak as one
to carry forth this retrogressive and
reactionary. not to say revolutionary,
Southern programme?
The North docs not like this pro-
gramme. Its ideas, understanding.
convictions, aspirations, are all against
it. 1t is, in the Northern view of it,
programme which declares war against
American political progress, and
against the spirit and character of
modern civilization. Moreover it i'm
plies that the cause for which the North
contenaed in the war to put down the
State-sovereignty rebellion was false
and wrong, and that the cause which
the State-sovereignty rebels contended
for, and lost, was true and right.
While the record of Northern achieve
ment remains in the history of the
second great American revolution,
the North will never admit that
implication, nor cease to combat
a political programme whose car
rying forth would be the con-
demnation of the Northern people as
guilty of the greatest political crime
that has ever stained the history of the
world. The North entertains no hatred
of the Southern people; but in its heart
there undoubtedly is eternal hatred
against their distinctive political no
tions, the theory of government in which
its politicians embedy those notions,
and the low character of their civiliza-