Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-01
CAPTURING THE CAPITOL.
Impossible forhe Northern Democrats
to Resist their Confederate
Masters

masters.
From the Speech of Hon. Glenni W. Scofeld
at Warren, Pa, June 81, 1880. "The Pur-
pose of the Confederates."l
But, it is said the Northern Demo
Gratis will resist the Confederate policy
Possibly to some extent, but | fear i
will be but little Resistance under
the circumstances is not easy. They
will be in small minority of the party
-out-voted two or three to one in eau
Gus. The policy will not be voted up
on as a whole. 1t will come up piece
by piece and item by item; with plaus
ible pretexts on each occasion. Before
them will be the persuasive power o
Executive patronage, and behind the
coercive power of caucus. All may
not yield but enough will yield to make
a majority, and excuses and defences
will be invented to sooth the betrayed
people at home. How has it been in
the past? Have they not always sur
rendered to the South :? Did they not in
violation of pledges vote down the
Wilmot proviso that the master might
make California a slave State Did
they not against their own conviction
vote for the fugitive slave law because
the masters demanded it Did they
not vote to repeal the Missouri Com.
promise, that Kansas might be slave
State, not because they denied it, but
because it was demanded by the solid
South? Did they not suffer the Union
to be dissolved under Buchanan at the
demand of the solid South ? For four
years did they not throw all possible
obstacles in the way of restoration in
the interest of the rebel South ? Did
not they vote against the Homestead
law, and their President, Buchanan,
veto it to please the solid South
When in forty years have the leaders
resisted the dictation of the South
Van Buren made some resistance on
the Texas question in 1874 and they
drove him out of the convention and
finally from the party. Cass took
ground for the Wilmot proviso and his
early and humiliating recantation was
demanded as the price of an empty
nomination. Douglas having yielded
much refused to yield more, and they
organized bolt and drove him to his
grave. Every leader from that time
to this who has dared to resist the
South has been consigned to private
life or found home and welcome in
the Republican party. Tilden declared
against the. Southern claims in 1876
and they have refused him a renomina-
ton.
Have they not taken Northern can
didates? Yes, to fool out the forty
seven Electoral votes Why else, did
they not select their own men They
selected them, however, under the two
thirds rule, so that none could be cho-
sen by the Northern majority ga
Northern man with Southern princi-
ples," was their motto before the war,
and it is their motto now. They elect
ed a Northern man Speaker of the
House, but took care that the commit.
tees that control Legislation should be
made up in the interests of the South
Our Monongahela river rises in the
South but runs North for considera-
BILE distance, then turning southwark,
empties it's waters in the Southern
Gulf The Democratic party is like it.
Though it's source and strength is in
the South, it holds northerly course
until after the election, but when Con-
gress assemblies it makes a short bend
southwark and empties the power it
has deceitfully gathered into the Con-
federate melstrom The roll-call of
slaves on Bunker Hill is not talked of
now, but in its place the South stands
in the halls of Congress and calls the
roll of its Northern helpers. If there
is doubt about the response, caucus
is called in which the South has the
majority and acQuieseence secured.
During the sessions of the present Con-
gress if it was not humiliating, it would
be laughable to notice the frequent
calls for caucus, when veto or some
unsouthern measure Unexpectedly came
up.
1t is in this way that the solid South
with its 1873 votes and the Al which
they hope to secure from the North,
to dominate the Union.
The antagonism between the inter-
ests of the Union and the late Confed-
eracy constitutes the leading issue in
this campaign. The Democrats try to
avoid it and get up abstract issues.
They talk about DECENTRALIZATION" and
Estate rights" That is the old dodge.
The South has two great staples, cot
ton and State rights. They sell their cot
ton to the Republicans and stuff the
Democrats with the other crop. When
Judge Black was taken prisoner by the
Confederates, he asked his captors
what they were fighting for. Well"
said one of them, 81 don't exactly know
but if there are any of my rights that
| havn't got, l want 'em." 1t is fair
of the unmeaning clamor
for State rights.
Consider it for a moment. We have
four governments the town, county,
State and United States. The town is
by far the most important. Itexercises
more control over our persons, proper
ty, health and liberty than all other
governments combined. 1t makes the
roads, takes care of the poor, builds
the school house, the bridge, the mar
ket, supplies water and light, puts out
fires, settles our disputes, and guards
our homes. Every day and hour we
feel the protection and restraint of town
law. And if it were not for these Pres
idential elections, a man might spend
his whole time in this country (the
South in the meanwhile keeping the
peace), and never find out there was q
United States Government. Next in
Importance comes the county. then the
State and last of all the United States.
Each has it's duties to perform and
neither can properly interfere with the
othor Tho constitution of tho Cnvpral