Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-10

| rrt,o C,on fedarate Dretense that their SUI
| e.,.;,,o,S we're so great under existing laws
that they had to repeal thell a. r,IlN,.os
] and that they must coerce the LIesauenS ''.sii
| =. 4ba name of popular liberty Dy With
iilI,Jjno supplies from the Government,
| e thforou0iliy false, and invented to cover
| The real intent, which is to attack and de-
| strov every vestige of National authority
i to put the Nation under foot and mag
nify the States, so that the Solid South,
consolidated as it is by the passions of
war, shall be supreme over all. We Op-
pose this programme, and, therefore,
/ we are denounced as Sectional - Just as
the armY-is declared sectional because
the men who deserted it for their States
and fired upon the flag they had sworn
to serve are not invited to tax command
of it.
Has the army been hurting the South
ern people recently2 Certainly not Has
| a bayonet since the close of the war ever
been interpOsed between Southern citi-
zen and the polls? Not in any instance.
Has the President, as COmmander-in-
Chief of the Army, eyer used bayOnet
near the polls, North or South? The
world knows he has not. Where are our
troops emplOYedf They are scattered
from Oregon to Arizona, from the upper
Missouri to the Rio Grande, and along
the two oceans, guarding frontier ex-
ceeding in extent that of Russia, watch
ing for raiders from Mexico and an in
VasiOn by Sitting Bull, and there is call
for help from Alaska.
: But the Democratic House of Repre-
= sentatiYes couldn't allow this army to be
paid and clothed and fed, without taking
pains to prevent any number of troops
! from being used under any circumstances
in keeping the peace at the polls! There
was nothing practical in this. 1t pleases
the COnfedeTates to look upon the army
as sectional, because they do not COM
mand it, and because they are aware it is
Y full of National spirit and cares nothing
: about the petty States; and they desire
the moment they possess power, to infiict
a stigma upon the army-tO make it re
pent the fact that it does not march un-
der the Confederate hag-to put up {
sign of surrender. And so vicious, ma
licious and eager are the COnfederates il
this matter, that they must insist upon i
to the extent of forcing an extra session
of Congress.
Take the test-Oath matter. The COnfed
i, crates have been guilty of the grOssest vi
olence and the most fagrant frauds in tn
disfranchisement of the cOlored citizen
of the South who, under the Constitution
have equal rights with themselves, anC
they are afraid of convictions in the Uni
Y ted States Courts if those who were en-
gagged in the rebellion are not to cOmpOs
the juries. All white men in the Soutl
under the age of thirty-three years ar
eligible for jury service, but this does no
ease the reconstructed rebel mind. Tn
u demand is for Confederate juries to max
t. sure that there shall be no chance of tn
8 punishment of bulldozers and the stuffer
40 of ballOt-bOxes with tissue tickets. Thi
is another matter so vital to the COnfed
ia Eerate cause that the servants of the Gov
De ernment must not be paid until the South
tV ern Courts of the United States are sui
/ nrdlinatpd and this Con orraSS had n n
forced prematurely upon the country.
The next point is in relation to the ST.
IN perVisors appointed by the United State
If Courts for the protection of the polls i
y Congressional elections. So rampant al
: the COnfederates and their allies for tn
H. liberty of fraud, that the late House ha
I'd to make an abrupt issue in favor of extiT
gushing alllaW for the exercise of N;
-, tiOnal authority in behalf of the purit
80 of the ballOt-bOx at Congressional elet
ne tiOns. This is criminal ignorance becom
he arrogant. There will not be COngre
IL sional election held, with the exceptio
- of that in California, for more than
year, but this suppression of National al
hd thority is made matter of urgency, an
ad if it is not conceded, a Federal famine
threatened.
:, Now, what does this all mean? Simp
." and plainly that the COnfederates haviT
Ia the majOrity-more than tWO-thirds
Ia the Democratic Congressional caucus
are in mad, hot haste to use the power
,o+ Congress to strike the Army, the Cour
!. ."' and the President of the United State
Tor They are doing this mischeviOusly, rec
nd lessly, wantonly and revengefully; al
to the leaders of the Cincinnati DemOcrac
~ abject in subserviency, re-echo the Co
o"' federate cries, and charge Congress th
DC F'not dollar'' should be voted to ke,
nd alive the General Government, until Il
elf Confederate conquest of the United Stat
~, is completed and confessed Cinctnnc
'0i Commercial.