Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-31

In the presence of great audiences,
composed of the voters of the State,
Democratic speakers coolly defended
the course of their party in Congress in
seeking to repeal all National laws.
looking to the protection Of the purity
Of the ballot-box. Nor did they finch
from the advocacy of the monstrous
proposition of the Southern Brigadiers
that we are not Nation, and, corlse-
quently, that no such thing as Ma
tional election is possible. And yet
nearly half the voters of Ohio indorsed
this proposition by casting their ballots
for General Ewing.
The Democratic party of Ohio is in
perfect accord with the Democratic
party of Mississippi, 1t has never ut
tered a word in reprobation of the as
sasination of Dixon of Yazoo. 1t is
silent on the subject of the Chisholm
atrocity. The Democratic speakers in
Ohio carried the Democratic party of
Mississippi on their shoulders all
through the campaign. The blood OF
Dixon and of the Chisholm family was
upon their garments! How is 1t that
nearly half the citizens of Ohio voted
for Ewing, and hence for the murder
otis Mississippi plan, which neither he
nor one of his champions dare de-
nounce on the stumpP
Not once during the canvass OF Ohio
did the Democratic party deny its close
alliance with the Southern Democratic
PARTY of ex-Confederate Brigadiers
which carries elections by terrorism
fraud, and the shotgun. And vet near
ly half the voters of Ohio voted to sus-
tain the Democratic party OF the Ma
ton, which bases its sole hope OF sue
cess in 1880 upon carrying five Repub-
lican States of the South by assasina-
ton and fraudl
| Gov. Dennison showed the people OF
Ohio that, from 1865 to 1879, the South
ern Brigadiers and the English Con-
federate bonholders have never relln-
qushed the hope of collecting their
claims from the United States Govern
ment. He showed them also that that
hope rests solely in the ascendency OF
the Democratic party. But, notwlth-
standing this threat TO double National
taxation by paying the cost of an at
tempt to disrupt the Union, nearly half
the legal voters of Ohio voted to lift
the Democratic party one step towards
the accomplishment of its malign pur-
pose.
The people of Ohio were shown dur
inc the late canvass that from the time
of the advent of the Democratic party
to power in Congress Southern claims
commenced to pour in, and that in Two
wears these claims, public and private,
for losses suffered during the war and
for improvements of rivers and harbors
exclusively in the Southern States, ag-
gregated the enormous sum of tO0etUe
hundred and ftty million dollars! But,
in the face of this threat to bankrupt
the Treasury of the Nation and hope
lessly bury the people of the country
under an insupportable load OF taxa
ton, nearly one half the citizens of the
State voted to reinstate the party of
spoliation in powerl The Democrats of
Ohio were shown that in a single can
vass in Louisiana (1868), SeUen hun
dred and eiohty-foa Republicans ooere
killed, eighty fUe received gunshot
wounds, and three hundred and StGty-1IUe
sUere otherwise nlGltreated," solely to
crash out freedom of political opinion
and acton But the Democrats of Ohio
as a body voted solidly for Ewing,
thereby indorsing the party of brute
force and assassination!
prehensible feature of the result in Ohio
is the smallness of the Republican ma
iority. 1t leads to the query whether
there are any respectable, honest citi-
zens in the Democratic ranks. We are
not about to contend that the Demo-
cratic party is composed entirely OF
reckless, abandoned and hopelessly ig-
, norant men. But there is something
/ | int ho TfV
which can hold the allegiance of so
many upright citizens to a political or
ganization from whose record, policy
and practices the last vestige of public
virtue and moral rectitude seems long
ago to have utterly vanished. The
, spectacle of solid Democratic South
has enticed the Democratic party OF the
T North to its ruin. Northern Democratic
leaders did not realize that the crimes
, bv which the South was made solid
= would become a Northern as well as
+ Southern Democratic heritage, badge
of shame. They failed to realize that
, thew could not remain silent on the sub
+ iect of murder without being branded
+ with the guilt of murder. heprospect OF
, entering upon Presidential campaign
, with the certainty of a solid Democratic
I OOuln, WlJuoub iOBdlu w AiSA ~
: ciples, was very allTring to Northern
Democratic leaders, al they lulled the
g rank and file to sleep with the cry OF
t assured victory. In the light OF the
: late elections in Maine, California and
| Ohio, they begin to discern the danger
: of South solid for the Democratic
: party, for robbery and for murder. A
v few respectable Democrats wakened m
!. Maine and California; more have wax
i ened in Ohio, and more still will waken
a in New York. There are good many
0 repeaters and ballot-box suffers in the
n Democratic party North, but there are
; not many assassins. Decent Democrat
; North are becoming ashamed OF thei
i murderous party associates OF the
: South. Thus solid South, made
J. solid by crimes which shock mankind
h slowly reacts upon the North, and a
it last makes it solid for justice, right an! an
If the Union one and inseparable.-t11s
st cdsO Tribune.
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