The clarion., 1884-12-10

sdAll1du spun hunters, nave lot twenty
ong years acted ON the theory that,
when they can get man down il Is
right to Insult, blackguard, kick raw
hide and abuse him forever Logan
was that kind of a bastard though a
brave soldier. Now that the South has
become the governing power in the ma
tion, possibly be may own up that he /
raised the first Confederate regiment Of I
Illinois, as he will be out of Office soon +
and need a job.
The Republicans, so-called have had .
a great deal of abuse 10 heap upon the /
head of Jefferson Davis. purer minded !
man than whom never breathed in |
America the grand old statesman, whose /
versatile genius furnished the military |
rules and regulations that governed the /
Union army in the war, that guided |
every action of the moHstrous legions |
from the private soldier TO the comman-
der-in- chief. | remember of shaking
hands with Mr.. Davis when a boy at
President Pierce's leyees, and my sensi-
live youth saw in him one of the noblest,
grandest types of manhood. | believe
in first impressions, and thirty years of
my memory of Mr.. Davis verilies their
truth. Ii is fortunate that he lives 10
see the dawn of a new era OF Justice.
The North practices now, and always
has practised states-rights, homogenity
of laws, local self-government. The
North would fight for states rights
against federal coercion If assailed. 1t
would suffer no federal usurpatiou or
arrogance at elections. Federal interfer-
ence in State matters was promptly re-
buked in the election of Grover Cleve-
land as Governor of New York by
200, 900 majority against the satraps AT
Washington. Before the war the con-
stitutional rights of the South were
trampled upon by the North without
redress. The property of the South
recognized by the highest law and main
tanned in the national courts, was
menaced and endangered The South
became reused against Impending dis
aster; security in legal rights slipped
away like guick-sand, year by year, till
the grievance became unbearable; hence
the revolt. Mr.. Davis was chosen to
represent his people in the great crisis,
as safe and reliable guide He proved
as equal to the task as any man could
under the desperate situation. The his
tory of the human race shows that when
appeals for justice are exhausted men
resort to the heroic argument of force.
Which ever party strikes the first blow
in an impending crisis is no citerion up
on which to base a discovery of the ele-
ments of loyalty or justice. If re-
bellion Is treason, then Washington and
every Revolutionary soldier were trail
tors. The firing on Sumpter was like
the Boston tea party; usurpation had
| been perpetrated, and the British tea
was tossed in the water. The cause of
the Revolution, as also of the Rebellion
existed in unbearable coercion and dis
regard of legal obligations.
never enlisted in the Union army 10
fight traitors, for truthfully there was
no element of treason in the rebellion
the people of the South moved unitedly
to defends rights recognized by the
United States constitution and the
Supreme Court. If there was any trea-
son in the country it was instigated
by Republicans and abolitionists in
hindering the operation of national law
in regard to property in the South
TO save the country was the watch
word of most of the Union soldiers
and it is doubtful if the North could
have raised much of an army if it had
been declared that the negroes were tc
90 free with ballots in their hands Mr.
Davis was no more to blame for the Re
bellion than every man in the South who
saw his rights of property assailed
Being President of the COufederacy
made him no more rebellIOus against
Northern usurpation than il he haC
carried musket in the ranks; and any
Northern man who singles him out a
? special object for contumely, eithe
ignorantly or maiieiously makes f;
mockery of the principles of representa-
: tive government, especially SO when tn,
. constituency approves the conduct o
l its representative. The whole land fo
d twenty years has staggered beneath
black cloud of political hypocrisy, 81
! dense that the masses Of people cOul,
neither see nor understand the truth
II youth, manhood and old age have stoot
: aghast at blood-curdling ghosu-stories o
Blaine and Logan. and so awful was tn
e pictures that to doubt was dangerous t
u the doubter The spoils of Office ha
become so valuable that men could Q
to Congress poor and become millionaire
i / in a little while on $1,000 salaries, pre-
vided, however, that they would ye
/ traitors and wave the "bloody dy-shirt
Il toward the South. But a change ha
|, now come. The election of Cleyelan
u is triumph of popular rights over
monied aristocracy.
Whatever errors the Republican part
y has committed whatever whisky steals
whatever star-route Fobberies, whateye
substituting of great corporations, to ii
J. poor Congressman pockets with bonds
whatever gigantic frauds in the nav
department.; whatever fraudulent b
y 7 commissions; whatever currency cor
traction and panics, to enrich banker
d and nrNi"ers: whatever robbing tn
T. people of the public lands; ,,'','''fVe
F federal espionage at local elections
whateEe. pTcstituting high offices TO
private gain, the long -upeiips s..43 fc'
n bearance of the South Is evidence tina
. . she will be charitable to the ignoran
: dupes whose blundering has so long KEEP
!. Republicans in power. As an homes
: party, as temperance party, rs labor
: reform party, as a "God and mOIaiit
o party" it is dead; and all that is vita
. in it now is the solitary fact that stand
7 the pledged friend of great corporations
i 1t is safe to prophesy that ii has eleetet
i its last President, as temperance peopl
u | can never trust III again.
The South now has the reins of govern
. ment. As an old Union soldier, to-
+ much crippled to ever bear arms again
a 7 trust and ever pray that the natiol
. viii be gos efae.t wisely and that ever,
= Southerner will heartily champion III
a Union and the Constitution, and help q
y make the government whatit ought to be
;. ad administration Of equal and exact iustic
! TO ali the people. 4he Republican par
+ ty disgraced and trailed the Old starr,
! Banner" in the dust, while high office
: were prostituted to private gain; and
|, hope the South will help shake off thi
! dust; i,s,,,, whiten the ocean with tn,
:, sails Of aier6hahc ships; nvip .eLcem
the fertile lands from floods help draii
! the swamp and b8yQqs of miasma; hell
: TO make the whole nation, not one d
> sectional hate and jealousy, but o.
mutual confidence and good fellowship
J w. EvARTs.
s11ooMISGToE. Ill, Nov. Is, iSS4. So4
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