The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-11
still Fighting the South.

Cincinnati Is on the Ohio river. II Is n
border town. CovIngton, separated from
Cincinnati only by the Ohio river. Is a
southern town, but Cincinnati Is north
crn town, Jus. rs Richmond Is northside
town and Manchester southside town.
One would think that tho Republicans Of
Cincinnati would never dream OF making
capital sor their party by waving the bloody
shirt; but IL would be a mistaken notion.
Even the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Is
not ashamed 70 try 10 make II appear that
the Democrats of Ohio are not fit TO be en-
trusted with The government Of that State
because there was ''rebellion" about
twenty years ago. esaid "nOt ashamed"
but we are not sure rs TO that. The follow
ing is the article 10 which.we alude. II
contains internal evidence that its author
knew It TO be discreditable TO his party and
to the paper with which il originated. We
quote:
"The figure OF General Durbn Ward on
the stump fauuts before the peoples eyes
Nit' hl'ONI NuilA Va tuN VI wa $3.50
raises all these inquiries. He IS like Ban
qu0'S ghost. Thespectre Of the murderous
war cannot avaUnt and quit the sight Whiie
he stands there. His claim TO his country's
respect as 4 soldier brings the vision OF
the wars horrors. It's hundreds OF thou
sands Of victims are dead, and their brains
are out. and il j. time there should be an
enc. but ut bis voice they rise again. with
MI their murders on their heads, 70 reheaisc
the Democratic treason. The people want
to know what political speculation is in the
eye OF General Durbin Ward, that he wants
TO deliver the country into the hands Of the
party that he went down into the South to
shoot, s,ay, maitrcat, and make uncomiort-
able because OF gnfaitlfulness TO country"
General DUrpIN WAnD was 4 gallant SOL
der of fle war of 1876, and fought un-
der the United States flag. SO also, Judge
HoADLY. the present Democratic candidate
for Governor OF Ohio, was not only a
Union man, but Republican throughout
the war. Nevertheless, in order TO make
capital for Ifs party, the Commercials Ga
zette pretcnds that the mere mention Of
General WhBD's name, or his appearance
upon the stump, reminds il that he went
South to "shoot, Stay, maltreat, and make
uncomfortable" the Democratic party
Think OF that for 1883, more than eighteen
years after the close OF the war spoken OF.
General WARD, quoth orr Cincinnati con-
temporary. went South TO shoot and STAY,
not the Confederate armies, but the Demo-
cratic party. and now the Ohio people de-
maud OF General WARD why he wants "tc
deliver the country" (uOt Ohio into the
hands Of thc party that lie went South to
slay.
The dcplorablc fact is that there should
be in Clio persons whom this appeal will
strike as 4 reason for not voting Tor Judge
HoADLY. If there had been TO malignant
enemies OF the South in Ohio, this malicious
appeal would not have been made, the
very fact that it was made being evidence
that even right upon the border-line be-
tween the two sections there are voters
still so bcniSlted as to hate their southern
brethren for having engaged twenty years
ago in a cause which they honestly held to
be Just.