The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-05-15
The Confederate BrigadleFo In
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The Thirty-fourth and Thirty. fifth
Congresees, IN which tho Democrats,
aided by The Confede brigadiers,"
secured q majority in the House, thus
giving them controlling voice In pub
lie expenditure4 reversed the profit
gate extravagance OF the Grant Ad-
minisfration. The reduction in ap.
preparations tina: followed in the four
years, compared with the preceding
four years of unrestricted Republican
rule, amounted to between eighty aud
ninety millions of dollsrsI But for
the fact that Confederate brigsdiers
took the place in Congress of the ras-
caiiy carpet-baggers and their negro
dupes, this great measure OF economy
aud retrenchment would not have
been possible.
2 The Republicans when in unrestric-
ted power voted the money and cred
1t of the government to corporations,
in the shape of subsidies, to an amount
not less than q hundred million of
dollars. Not one dollar has the "Con-
federate Congress" so called, appro-
priated to such purposes.
The Credit Msbilier steal-the most
prodigious larceny in the history of
modern government-was tho pro-
duct of Republican rule and tainted
the leading men of that party. The
"Confederate Congress" has no sin of
this kind to answer for.
While, according to the testimony
of John Sherman, the Republican par.
ty has paid over one hundred millions
of dollars of Southern war claims
(mostly to aid in building up . Re-
publican party at the Soutb), these
payments have been entirely suspend.
ed since the South, has been repre-
sented by ex-Confederates instead Of
by, corrupt and thievinR carpet bag
gers. -' %
1.-THE votes of the Con federate briga.
diers secured that great act of public
justiee,, the .Hem0netization Of silver,
as we'll as the law compelling the land
grant Pacific Railroads 10 provide
'means for the re.payment Of the mon
eys with which thsy were subsidized
by the Republican party.
Charged with the duty of providing
money for the payment Of pensions Of
Union soldiers, no enc can point to an
instance where those 4"Confederate
brigadiersns failed In the, .slightest de-.
gree. Without their votes, the bills
for the payment Of srrearages Of pen.
sionS could not have become q law.
So in all other legislation necessary
to good government, for ell sections,
these, Confederate brigadiers" have
been discreet, patriotic and honest.
What more can be asked Of them
Must they continually be gstting on
their knees and asking tho pardon of
the stay At home shoddy patriots the
Republicans of the North send to Con.
gress in such Numbers
. Ne Republican OF sense or candor,
who calmly Investigates and judges
the composition OF Congress, can but
rejoice that the disreputabie rabblo
sent there by the carpet-baggers and
negroes has been succeeded BY man-o Of
courage and unsWerving In
tegrity, the noblest type Of American
manhood, even if they did bear arms
against the Union cause. Has not
the whole country been the gamer
that such men ~ Hampton, Lamar,
4 Gordon, Stephens, Joe Jehnston, Ben.
Hill, Morgan, Garland, and their as
s0ciates, have supplanted in Congress
the Pattersons, Conovers, Spencers,
Dorseys, Whittemores, Claytons and
other merchantable commodities sent
there, to represent carpet bag rapacity
and negro ignorance ?-[ Pittsburgh
Post.