The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-14
THE SOUTHERN BUGABOOS.
A Southern Congressman ON the Re.
suits of the War as EinaA, North
and

suits of the War as EinaA, North
and south.
Extract from Speech delivered at stocton, Ala,
by H. A. Herbert, renomnated for Congrcss,I
Quoting, then, the eloquent passage from
Hancock's letter of acceptance, In which he
speaks of the Union as the main pillar in the
edifice of our real independence, Mr.. Herbert
added that if we could only get the masses of
the North, those who are honest voters and not
office-seehers, to understand and know that
this is the sentiment that actuates us, that zoe
recognize the results of the toar fully, that zoe
support the constitution toih all its amendments,
that zoe protect and guard the rights Of these
freedmen uoho constitute so large part of This
audience, we should add thousands of votes to
Hancock in November. But every vile
SANDER that ingenuity can invent and
titled into the ears of the Northern
people. John Sherman, in a speech made
at Cincinnati, actually stopped SO loto as 10 tell
the people of the North that If the Democracy got
in po,cer the South ,uould claim pay for its
slaces. I see that Porter, candidate for Gov
ernor, is repeating the same stuff in Indiana on
the stump. The idea is so prepoSterous thai it
passes my understanding that any ooer' could be
influenced by ii, but such men as Porter and
Sherman would not condescend to use such an
make votes by it. To catch uote there is moth
ing that they 1oouLd not sag. This is hard
saying, but l am justified in it when men of
their intelligence resort to such arguments.
Look at it. The South contains scarcely more
than one-third of the voting population of the
Union. The Shareholders loere not a third of the
Southern aohite people. Since The freedmen hdUe
become uoters The former Shareholders are not
more than one-eig1,th of our uoters. To pay
this o''e-eighth of our people zoe 'oo1Id hdue to
saddle The other seue,l-eigfhs of our people touh
debt of one hundred and fifty billions Of dollars.
Why, ifaoe ,oere separated from the North by a
gulf so ootde and deep that the lightning OF me
telegraph could not leap it, could not pass suot
tdao Fellow-citizens, this is Demo
cratic district. I am the Democratic
nominee. believe I am acceptable to the
party, but If should seriously announce to the
people that tc0s in fduor of taxing the uoters
,oho acre ,aeuer Shareholders to pay those 'oho
acre. could not be elected. could not carry O
county in the district There is not district in
the South that could be carried on any such
platform. When. then. Mr.. Sherman announ-
ces that there is danger that the former slave
holders of the South will make the whole
United States pay one hundred and fifty billions
of dollars for liberated slaves-wel, my friends,
will only say he knows better.
Another slander he indulges in is that if
Democracy is successful 1oiM endedUor to
pension Con federdte soldiers for the Confederate
war. CIentlemen, L was COnIeQ6Tdle UcdI
on my person scars received in fighting under
the Southern cross. yield to no man in love
for my dead comrades or in sympathy for the
living heroes of that Confederacy. Yet hneUer'
came into my mind in the ,oildest flights of my
imagination, nor did it eUe1 cross yours, that
the Government of the United States or any
ether government could afford to pension
soldiers for fighting against 1t. 1t is equally
untrue that we could or would embarrass
the Government with claims for quartermas-
ters' stores taken during the war. All that
class of claims. like slavery and secession, were
settled by the war. AU zoe ask is the right OF
local Seif-goUe7nnaent. We don't want to con-
troll the domestic affairs Of Indiana. They know
how to govern themselves in these matters bet
| ter than we do, and we know how to control our
| domestic affairs better than they do. We want
n fair share in the blessings of honest govern
ment We demand to be admitted to afull and
free participation in its benefits Us equals, and
| we do not expect the Government to
| enrich its people, for the Government
! has nothing but what it takes from the people
| But I cannot waste time IN answering Sher-
| mans ISLANDERS here before this audience.
only wish the people who listened to him were
| down here to listen to me and to shake you by
| the hands and talk to you. Then they woulo
ind out how the people of the South are Sian,
| dered and they would spurn their deceiverl
| from them, and in November next they would
rise in their might and rebuke by an over
whelming defeat this Republican party as dis
turber of the peace of the people.