The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-10-25


constructed South? Do You ask
the people Of tho South to divide
their votes and give part Of them
to such a party rs that? If you
do. you insult our common nature.
No honorable man would make
such Il request, and every just man
would dcspisc people who would
grant it. Out OF their broken
estates, their ruined plantations,
the poverty and distress, hundreds
of millions of dollars were extortcd
by the shameless,
BRAzES EMMIssARlEs OF THE REpuB-
LlCAE PARTY,
and carried away to secure regions
for quiet enjoyment. On this
point history will make no mis-
take, and record no uncertain yer.
Dict. Tho blacklist pages in the
history Of tho human raoo contain
no account Of such robbories under
tho forms of government, Warren
Hastings, in his plnndcr Of the
East Indies, becomes n moderate
and respectable character in com.
parison with many of those rapac-
ious wretches who fastened their
fangs upon the property Of the
South after tile war was over.
Seventy years before tho birth OF
Christ, Sicily was ravagod and de-
spoiled BY n consul of Rome.
Though more than nineteen cen
turtles have come and gone since
then, yet the name of Worries TO-
tains all its freshnesS Of immortal
infamy. lie was prosecuted by the
authority Of the Roman Scnate,and
fled for an asylum to strange and
foreign lands. lie died miscrably
in exile, and his dishonored dust
was not permitted to mingle with
the soil Of the Roman Republic.
We find, however, in Middleton's
life of Cicero that all tho pecula-
tons, extortions, brides, and lar
eenics charged upon Vorgas during
his entire administration of the af.
luirs Of Sicily did not exceed
81, 100000, equal to only one-third
Of the amount for which Governor
Scott fr0udulcntly issued the bonds
Of South Carolina in . single tran.
saction. And yet you are expected
to DO shocked and Mortified be-
cause the people of the South do
not vote the Republican ticket
Mon 60 about in your midst Ia.
menting with ,pious horror . solid
South who have Endorsed every
criminal transaction which has
made her solid. You hear the
voices of canting hypocrites on cv'
cry hand pretending to bewail q
united South, and invoking q uni
ted North and the Army and Navy
against her, Can any one be SC
blind as not to SEQ the object Of all
this? The leaders Of the Ropubli'
can party desire TO unite the North
in solid hate against the South
They also desire Il pretcxt for the
use of military force by which tc
subvcrt our system Of States, ant
to erect upon their ruins what they
style Il Nation, centralized con
soliLated Government, monarchia
in spirit, and destined soon to DO Sc
in form and namc.
STATE RIGHTS.
It.is in this connection also thai
the doctrine of State rights is con
stantly denounced in your hearing
Sherman and Foster pretend to DO
lieve that the Southern people still
claim the right of accession. Thoy
know better, but tho statement has
q tendency TO unite the North, anc
hence they make it. There is moi
representative man in eithol
branch of Congress from the South
ern States who has not renowned
the doctrine of secession, and de-
clared it forever buried by tho 70
suits Of the war. Every newspaper
in thcssouth has done The same
with the exception, perhaps, Of OFT
Or two which are paid by tho 10
publican party 10 publish pretend
ed Southern sentiments for North
crn Use. Every State in the Soutl
has legally and officially ratified al
the constitutional amendments
thereby making a solemn agree