The clarion., 1884-12-10
THE END OF NORTHERN AFRO.
GANCE.
WHAT a UNION SOLn. .-'N LAS 10 oA4
ON THE ELECTION OF CLEVELAND
AND THE CoLLAPsE OF THE REPUBLI-
CAN PARTY-LIFTINa TaE VEIL OF
THE FUTURE.

EDITOR CLARION: As an old Union
soldier, Who went into the war of the
Rebellion in 1861 anu stood the racket
till 1866, serving in the ranks and al
yays at the front, with the single pur-
pose of the preservation of the only gov
ernment on earth that recognized the
individuality and liberty OF man; as the
impellirg motive for taking up arms,
desire, at this stage of our national
activity, to exchange a few words, both
friendly and congratulatory, with, allow
NE to say, the Solid South. When /
was mustered ont of the Union service
at New Orleans, March ~, 1865, I went
home, saying to myself that, though the
South was apparently conquered, the
ballot in the a2nds OF a semi-barbaric
race would sonle day gsoFS that the
war was almost total failure. 1 knew
that every instinct, sentiment, judg-
ment and reason of the Caucasian race
you'd revolt against the domination of
a race morally. socially, religiously and
politically barbarig ia impulse and ac-
tiol--imitative and not inventive, as o..
barbaFie raees are cOnstitutionally. The
Southern people kHsw this by reason
and experience, and, had tie North eA
ercised reason, instead of passion and
the lust for power, the great mistake of
the century. the enfranchisement of the
negro, would never have been commit
ted, The North should have known
that ballots in the hands of negroes
would be like fire brands in the hands
of children. 1t is an undoubted fact, in
nv mind, that three-fourths of the
Northern people, both Democrats and
Republicans, are now fully convinced
that the ballot in the hands of the negro
makes him a suppliant tool and dupe to
the wiles and craft of reckless dema-
gogues, instead OF an integeF to good
government; and I believe that Repub-
licans, who arrogate to themselves the
championship of freedom, would solid
ly revolt against the political condition
into which they have tor twenty years,
70 coerce the South. and
the reaction which has just now taken
place by the election of Grover Cleve-
land, has proved that the Republican
party had endeayored to perpetuate its
power on a political cSsibility-on a
basis too low in the scale Of human de-
velopment TO be compatible with civil
government. 1t made the whites of the
South united in opposition to it, as it
would the whites of the North were the
situation reversed.
When | left the army | harbored no
i'll will or i'll feeling against any person
in the South, nor had | during the war
As a soldier | went not as an enemy
against the welfare of single Southern
er, but considered it my duty to defend |
the only free government ON eaFth-the |
only place on earth in which liberty of !
thought and speech could thrive; the |
only place on earth where people were |
not taxed to death by pampered priests |
and princes, / thought everybody in |
the North should be as kindly toward |
he South as ] was; and when 1 got /
nome and found the Republican party
leaping insults upon the conquered |
south, | unhesitatingly pronounced the
lct as cowardly and infamousi and
whether the 9.bioedy shirt" was waved
oward the South by Blaine, Logan,
Garfield, or lesser lights, they
,rostituted every element of stateman-
hip to the level Of cowardice and pol
roonry, devoid of spark of honor or
Logan and others may
ave possessed the quality known as
'hysical courage, mere brute daring,
ut twenty years in congress has proven
hem moral coHards, If not political
nayes. The patriotic soldiers, both
federals and Confederates, would shake
ands as personal friends when the var
- done, and say, "We opposed each I
ther on grounds we believed to be |
Ieht let ns now IS frienIs ii common
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