The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-09-23

towering above him az his l20, 900 men
outnumbered Lees 1000 at Apron at>
toN. Let the unbiased with just indig-
nation tear that mask of pretended
love of the Union and philanthropy
from oil the double dealing motives of
the Aholitionists, and then ask in the
name of all that is Just and true, who
were right? Conscience and public
opinion are the emily known arbiters.
and If left 10 these what will he the
verdict? With no qualms or misgivings
the South submits her cause To these
just tribunals.
hut what Of the promise given the
Democrats four years before in Con-
gress, by which they were decoyed into
"A war against their brethren? No PEG
pie in any age has ever furnished an
instance of greater perfidy. Instead of
bringing back the subdued States,
whom New England had sold slaves and
taught secession, with rights unim-
paired, instead of conducting the war
to preserve tie cOnstiflHion true to.that
old bred, in-the-bone Puritanic spirit Of
treachery and pillage, they unkenneled
all the passions of venality and rank
ling hate, and set them hungry and
fierce upon these bleeding States, dis,
franchising, depressing, robbing and
numbering, with "A brutal ferocity only
equaled 10y the baseness of their fore
fathers when they snapped the sur
rendered Pequods To the Barbados for
negroes. They kept this promise just
ms they had kept faith with the South
when they sold them worthless slaves
AMI wooden nut-megs. But this in
famous betrayal which led hundreds Of
thousands of Union Democratic sol
diers to take an oath to obey their SUI
periors, believing il was war to pre-
serve the Union and Constitution, was
but the exordium to an atrocious policy,
the prologue 10 tragedy that out
Herods Herod.
But for the firm hand of Grant, upon
whose name for the noble act, the
sweetest blessing of the South will
descend, that surrendered army would
have been butchered indi.criminately.
But for the outspoken Indignation of
the civilized world, jefferson Davis and
all his generals would have been muir
hxF ha l.nf ST
Surratt. And had it not been that re-
construction "fell of its own weight OF
infamy" the South would have been
made desert. The ravages of war was
ruin, but reconstruction sat upon the
South's enervated bosom like some
huge, hellish vampire and sucked at the
last drop of blood from her fainting
heart. 1t was Puritan, Abolition
job of black infamy, the depth OF which
would have blushed Constantinople i'm
her vilest days. When the South sur
rendered her armies, "they denied her
all rights of freemen, tore up her soci-
ETY., abrogated all her laws which could
protect her in person or property, broke
her local government in pieces and put
her under the domination of notorious
thieves and forced her to accept them
as her absolute masters" IL was worse
than the war. \ Georgia planter told
ME a few days ago, he came home at
the close Of the war and gathered up
about $4,000 OF his shattered fortune
of about $50. 900, but, at the end Of recon-
struction, he had nothing left but the
memory of the outrage OF every prin..
cirle that guides civilized people in
its treatment of prisoners.
Well may II be asked "whether there
can be found, in the history of the
human race, another instance of SINH
lar perfidy on scale so large" We
find very similar instance in their
selling the 100 surrendered Pequods,
but here they count their victims by
millions.
There is nothing strangein the South |
being solid for Democracy. Perfidy on
the one hand and desperation Oh the
other made them so, and IL the negro
could only realize how true it is, that
the Northern Democrats helped to free
them from principles OF tenevolence
while it was from motives OF sordid
pillage that prompted the Abolitionists,
they would be as solidly Democratic as
Texas.
Led now by men who no oath
could bind, after their characteristic
treachery with the Union men all
through the war, by which they secured
their neiarious ends, they DOTTED their
mask aud turned upon the Northern
Democrats to let them know they were
still objects of their malignity, declar-
ing that they could forgive a rebel
a thousand times before they would
forgive them. And with contemplate
bravado claimed the fruits of the war
and announced to the amazed world
that they had reuoiutionised the Con.
stitution, (the very thing that thousands
Of Democrats had sacrificed their lives In
opposing) and instead of
restoring its supremacy they claimed
that the victory of Federal forces had
1t and they were not bound
by its Limitation In their legislative,
judicial or executive measures Great
God And even have been asked why
Pm Democrat. And even Brother
Cundiff has had the brazen effrontery
TO ask why we voted for Tate. Has it
come to this? Why utter ruin lies in
that path. My classic friend remember
It was not the twenty-three CHASTITY
wounds OF the "cursed steel" that van
pushed great Caesar. He could have
Ihrottled score Of Cascas and shook |
he deadly daggers from their trembling |
hands. But when he saw his loved,