The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

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ed with the things that were-the
Southern States are represented by
their representative men in Con-
gress, and have attested their loyal
ty by the unvarying exercise of a
spirit of broad nationality. Nomeas-
ure has failed of Southern support
in Congress because it benefited the
North, and no man in Congress has
shown a more liberal spirit towards
the ex soldiers of the Union army
than has been manifested by the ex-
Confederates in that body. But, re
marks the Washington Post all this
avails nothing toward infusing the
spirit of peace into the perturbed
souls of the miserable ghouls' and
sdespicable jackals," whose sole
stock in trade is the 'sbloody shirt"
They keep up the endless cry of "re-
BEL" @rebel." Men who staid at the
rear and grew rich, men who fattened
on the skimmings of the tide of
blood, hurl epithets at the soldiers
who stood between them and the
enemy for four years, whenever those
soldiers express disgust for this
damphoolery of the "truly loyal"
It is not an uncommon thing in these
days, to hear questioned the loyalty
of men who bear honorable scars re-
ceived in the service of the Union,
and the men who raise this question
are invariably those who kept out OF
danger and devoted their energies to
money-making while the war was on.
But the great heart of the people
no longer responds to the wild APP
peal of these bowling demagogues.
Their false alarms have been sound
ed so often that they have ceased to
produce any other effect than con-
tempt and disgust. The country
wants and will have o rest from this
vicious clamor. Another "bloody
shirt" campaign will complete the
utter discontinue of the crowd who
march under that emblem Of hate.
Seeing is believing" The intelli-
gent voters of the North, seeing the
ex-C Confederate in Congress striving
to. promote the best interests of all
the people, seeing them animated
with sincere patriotism and impelled
by honest purposes, will believe that
the restoration of the Union is not a
failure, but a grand and successful
achievement. The storm of passion
will be hushed forever. The howl
ing Radical demagogue will no long
er have a vocation. The only re
naming public enemy will be sup
pressed.
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We have no objections to Mr.. Will
| liams quoting us when he does SO
correctly, but a mai is in a very
small business and not a very honor
able one, who will deliberately garble
I a paragraph for the purpose of doing
a political opponent an injury, and
persist in publishing it that way
We are charitable enough to believe
e that Mr.. Williams is possessed of al
least intelligence and brains suffi.
}, cient to read a plainly printed para
graph correctly, and that when he
: published that we said we would
q support jeff Davis in preference tc
sang other Republican," he done sc
i, sneakingly, meanly and cowardly
knowing that it was false. There
was nothing in the paragraph about
n sang other Republican" as he says
Z Let him take it and publish it Is i
i, was written, and whatever politica
capital he can then make out of it h
is welcome to. We have no politica
4, sentiment or views to- conceal-w,
have been here long enough for eve
,flry man of common sense to know
how we stand, and no one but a fl
subject for the ''fool killer" woul
/ ask such ridiculous and silly ques
; tions through a public journal
There is nothing smart in them
= they don't average the intelligence
: of even the chattering monkey, b
( cause there is no more likelihood c
T. jeff Davis being nominated for til
Presidency by either party, tina
a1there is of the Okalona, Mississippi
S. lunatic, or the editor of the Register
y If Mr.. Williams would use the CO
d umns of the Eaton Register for some
d thing beneficial to the tax payer
and more for the peace and quiet {
lie good neighbors and friends, instea
he of propounding such foolish que:
b. lions and then ranting and howlin
ID over them like a Camanche Indiar
t he would exhibit more the traits of
man, and less those of a fifteen yea
ut old school boy.
:. Representative FINLEY of Ohio, i
i a speech in the House last week, ez
C. hibited the beauties of the use
ie Federal Supervisors at our elections
He showed that these Supervisor
were used more largely in the clos
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