The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-24
MIR. BLAlNE's SPEECH.
Like It's Author 1t Bristles With
Aggressivoness.
The Democratic Responses to Our Late
Candidates Words--A Chorus of Demo-
cratic Howls, But Blainc's State
p. mcnts We're True All the Same.

mcnts Were True All the Same.
Mr.. Blaine made his Augusta speech,
as he himself says, 'purposcly' and
'instnctively.' 1t is a speech which,
like its author, bristles with aggressive
ness, and has already aroused chorus of
howls, in which the voice of all the ours
of high and low degree alike may be
readily distinguished. The Louisville
COWier-Jou1nat says:
at furnishes conclusive proof of his unfit
ness fOrany confidence or trust IL Is simply
II declaration of eternal war between the
North and the South.
"Iis reasoning is as false as his spirit is in
cendnry. He shows himself poor whipped
cur, who has not courage enough to keep
his mouth shut. The people of the South sim
ply pity him and feel n sympathy for the
brave and good men who had the misfortune
10 be forced to support candidate capable OF
making such an ignominious spectacle. The
North, which Is clcar-headed and sensible,
will spit him out of its mouth and thought as
a wretch, who, seeing the world through his
own basoness, would betray his country with
the turpltude of 0n Arnold or the equanimity
of Burr.
'Thls is a fit elimination of the campaign
of lying and buying inauguTated by Mr..
Blaine, and a brilliant, though disgusting,
picture of n sonsatlonalist and an adventurcr
unexnmpled In the political annals OF any
land or people,
This is worth reproducing, and will
fairly stand as sample of the Demo-
cratic response to Mr.. Blaine's words.
What is it that Mr. Blaine saidP In
brief, il is that the Solid South is in con-
troll of the Government; that it is there
by virtue of forty-two electoral votes
given it upon the basis of vote which
is not allowed to express itself; that
every Senator in Congress from the
Southern States was an active partic-
ipant in the war of the rebellion; that
in the States composing the Southern
Confederacy the one essential to political
preferment is to have served faithfully
in the Confederate army; that to have
been Union man during the war of
the rebellion is a political disqualified
ton; that, in effect, the change accom-
plished by the late election is to put the
men in command of the Government
who did their best to destroy it, and
that this remarkable metamorphosis is
accomplished within the lifetime of
those who participated in the greatest
struggle of modern times.
Now, we submit that this statement,
whether true or false, can not be blown
aside by epithet. Chevalier Watterson,
Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart, can not
satisfactorily answer the arraignment
by splitting in the face OF the alleged
facts. Are Mr.. Blaine's statements
true or false? That is the question. II
they be true, then they will, in time,
awaken consideration commensurate
with their importance, and the Depo-
cratic party, the party of treason and
rebellion, will be forced to plead to them
before the bar of the public Judgment
and Of history. II Mr.. Blaine's words
be true, then the change sought TO be
accomplished is as great, to use his own
comparison, as If the people Of England
should recall the Stuarts to the throne,
or the people Of France summon the
Bourbons to power; or, we may add,
as great as II the people of the United
States within the first twenty years Of
the Government under the Constitution
should have intrusted the administra-
ton to the Tories.
The proper answer to all this depends
upon the spirit and temper Of the South
ern people. Are the Southern people
themselves so far removed from the
memories of the war that they are not
dominated by themP Is there any evi-
dence anywhere that the Southern peo-
pie have reached the conclusion that
they were wrong in their attack upon
the Government Have they brought
forth anywhere fruits meet for repent
ance? Have they indicated in any de-
gree that they VIII administer the Gov
ernment along the line marked out by
the result Of their appeal to armsP On
the contrary, it not every shred Of evil
dence, that may be fairly called eyi-
dence, directly 10 the contrary Has
there been single act Of legislation
growing out Of the war that was not
met by the determined hostility Of the
men, North and South, who triumphed
In the late electionP j. c. S. Blackburn
declared that every vestige Of the war
legislation should be wiped from the
statute book, and he is at once promoted
10 the United States Senate. Before him,
General Francis z. Blair said that the
Democratic party should ride through
Congress booted and spurred, and over
throw the reconstruction measures, and
he was at once rewarded with the Dem
ocratic nomination for Vice-President
OF the United States. In the Chicago
Convention OF 1884 the Democratic par
ty nominated Grover Cleveland solely
because 1t was believed he could carry
New York, and then, pell nell, II
rushed into the arms Of Thomas A.
Hendricks, an anti-war Democrat Of the
strictest sect, one who, George William
Curtis said only eight years ago, had
done everything in his power TO destroy
the Government We submit that these
cases are not sporadic; they are symp.
tomato, and in that lies the danger o.
q "change" which brings into power
the same old Democratic party o.
lS60-65, with its spirit and purposes un
changed, its organization In the sam,
old hands, lis Southern and controlling
wing deiiantly rebellious as ever, theil
hands dripping with the blood Of mur
dered thousands OF their fellows, Il
whom was given what has proved TO b
but the mockery OF equal rights, anC
holding their power by majorities taint
ed with fraud and saturated with blood
Mon are made neither loyal nor NOR