The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-18

OF ALL the pitiable Republican Bour-
bons of to-day, John Sherman is the
most pitiable. His brother fought from
Belmont by Vicksburg and the march
to the sea to Raleigh. where the insur-
gent flag was furled, but he knows that
the war is over. that peace has come,
that the laws are supreme in South and
North, and that the humhlest citizen,
black or white, is protected in all the
prerogatlves of citizenship; but John
Sherman. who never faced the perils of
battle, and who, as Grant said in his
last admonition to the country, did not
fully warm up to the war until the con-
f1ict was over, is now fighting the war
over again in Ohio in the frenzy of dot
age. When there is universal peace
and fraternity {; when the South is vast
ly more successful and harmonious with
its labor than is Ohio; and when the
industry OF the South presents increased
products up in the hundreds of millions,
John Sherman rises up from his Bour-
bon tomb and chOkes the people with
the dust of his tattered Bourbon spoils-
mems shroud by declaring that there is
only lawlesSness and anarchy in the
whole South, and that the North must
return to the dead issues of the war to
renew the incalculable evils of section
al strife.
Ten years ago there might have been
divided sentiment as to the truthfulne5s
of John Sherman's senseless Bourbon
TRADES against the South, whether true
or untrue but to-day there can be no
divided sentiment among intelligent
citizens of any section or party. His
statements accusing the Southern States
OF denying as free and independent suf.
frage to the blacks as is accorded TO
them in the North, are not only false,
but Sherman must know them to be
false if he is not bereft of memory and
reason. The colossal fraud of 1876. in
which John Sherman was one of the
chief criminals in the Louisiana electo-
raj burglary, was the last great wrong
perpetrated against the integrity OF the
ballot in the South, and since then. tens
of thousands of the most intelligent
cOlored voters have openly voted the
Democratic ticket and other hundreds
of thousands of colored voters have re-
fused to vote because their party lead
ers, largely appointed by Sherman.
were notorious and shameless thieves.
Ii John Sherman would go to the South
| ern States, visit the centres of politics
| confer freely with the intelligent col
| ored voters of each State. he would
| learn III detail what he must know as ?
! general truth, that Sherman's plundel
| ing carpetbag Treasury agents and theil
| fellow carpetbag adventurers forced
every colUred man who wanted honest
| government to separate from the Repub
lican party or retire from all participa-
| tion in politics. The wrltir hereof
heard these facts from intelligent apt
trustworthy co,ored men in nearly every
Southern State in 1881 and again il
| 1885, and they are now as we'll knowr
to every citizen of average information
as that two and two make eour. Sucl
mingled stupidity and falsehood cominc
from one of the Republican Bourbon
sooilsmen, must CRATE harshly upon tn,
intelligence of the people of Ohio. anC
OUTSIDE OF Ohio, both in North anC
South, they simply tell the story tha
Republican BourboEism is repeating th,
history of Democratic Bourbonism o
1850. Philadelpbid Times.