Daily Republican., 1879-04-16
A NOTE.
A NOTE.
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Soldiers at the Polls.

all this imaginary buster on the part
Of The Democrats about the use of troops
at the polls appears. At the very out
set of Mr.. Blaine's speech he showed
the hollow dishonesty and cunning Of
the Democracy in trying to create the
impression that the Repu ublicans in the
administration Of the general govern
ment, had used troops right and left
in every direction. 1t is true that Mr..
Blaine is master in the art of satire,
30 much so that no Senator will attempt
to cross swords with him, but it must
be admitted that there were volumes Of
truth in what he said, and the Demo-
orats felt i! keenly, as he cast q glance
over the Senate and said that there
were no two Democratic Senators who
could 20 into the cloak room and look
each other in the face without smiling
Or rather blu hing over the miserable
farce they were playing. With all air
Of conscious triumph he read from a
paper he held in his hand an abstract
OF all the troops in the United States
east Of U#s9a; including a territory
populated by At least Ii 900, 900 OF peo-
pls, and within that territory there
were but 2.797 soldiers, which were
soaring the Democrats out Of their wits.
To every million of people there were
but sixty soldiers. "The Honorable
Senator from Delaware" said Mr..
Blaine, "was alarmed about the over
riding of the popular ballot by the
troops Of the United States while there
was not single federal soldier in Della
ware. The Honorable Senator from
West Virginia had spoken Of his State
being trodden by the iron heel of a
military despotism, while there was
not a solitary man in United States
uniform on the soil of West Virginia,
and Mr.. Blaine might have added that
the last time U. s. soldiers set their iron
heel upon the necks of the people Of West
Virginia was when called there by her
own Democratic Governor to quell a
riot. In the whole State of Maryland
only Que hundred and ninety-two ar
till-rynen stationed at Fort McHenr,
guard the entrance TO the beautifu
harbor of Baltimore. In the old mothe
State of Virginia, there is a school O
practice at Fortress Monroe, but outsid,
of that Fortress there is not a fedora
soldier in the st ite here once the can
ital Of the Southe' Confederacy will
Jeff. Davis a: its head, was located
There are but 30 soldiers in North Car
olina guarding a fort at the mouth O
Cape Fear River. In South Carolina
the very hot bed of rebsllion there wer,
but one hunlred and twenty artillery
men t. guard the entrance to Charles
ton Harbor. The Empire State of tn,
South, Georgia, has twenty nine fedora
soldiers within her sacred domain, anc
in the federal forts on Florida soil ther,
are one hundred and eighty two sol
disrs. In Tennessee, Kentucky ant
Missouri not single blue coat can b.
found. Arkansas has fifty seven, an,
Alabama thirty two, and in the bull
dozed State Of Louisiana there are bu
two hundred and thirty nine. Th
great State of Mississippi, that send
Chalmers with his hands stained in in
npcent blood to Congress-, and elects th
assassin OF the Chisholm family 10
Sherlff's Office has no hated blue Goa
on it's blood stained soil, and the stat
of Texas has but handful guarding tn
frontier 10 keep the Mexicans fron
stampeding tho Texan cattle. In tb
South tnes arc 500, ,COJ of popu
laiou with l l5j soldiers to intimi id at
and over awe, cppresS and destroy lhei
liberties. There are in tie south 20
counties, or rot quite a 81 ii4r to eacl
county, or me soldier to about sevel
hundred square mile o. ter tory. "Il
Nv England" sal Mr.. Blail-, they
had $50 >Oldier5 or about Ole hun ire,
aud ,wenty to every million o pop q
whereas the ratio in tn. SJrta wa
not quite evenly; y the people @
New Eugla"d neyvr e' mp&intd oI th
mill ar! power. The enency o thi
talk, Mr.. Blaine said, was to ms ep a
sent Us abroad, auu The Democrati,
party stood IN nlctru AID he hereby
charged them With public slander q
Their country, or a'ing tIe impressi
in the civluLrd world that We are un
der mil.t .ry despGt's IN. "What" sal,
Mr.. b., "wouId any Europ-an, tamilia
with large artui~s, thin: Of sLcA sser
tions when he learne hit !, ,ljj 81
diers were -prrosd over territory large
than France, spain, Portugal, Gr"a
Britain, B'lIium II N,iiani aud til.
German Empire Mr.. Blaine made al
excellent impression upon the aud enc,
in the galleries, and the Demo rats il
the Senate almost hung their heads il
confusion as h" shove how utterly
prrposterous was tn. hollow outcry o
thp IrmnrratI l nai ct tha an l,u,nur