The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-23
UNJUST.
The AnintadversioAs Against Appoint
fnebsG hH the Administration,

UNJUST.
The Administrations Against Appoint
mehss ny the Administration.
The disunion press ii constantly harp
ing upon the elevation of ex-rebels to
Office and the neglect Of Union soldiers
by the Administration. It'll their favor
tie method of attack, hext, Perhaps to
the bugaboo OF d bloody shirt They
howl necessarily over the ''humiliating
spectacle of traitors rewarded" and
endeavor to stir up public indignation
oh this score. But they appear to for
get that when their party was in power
they first gave the example Of placing
ex-rebels in positions of trust, and that,
too, in a very short time after the war.
Indeed, they preferred them to the sol
der who had, perhaps, lost a leg or an
arm in fighting for the Union, but who
was excluded from all consideration
because he Wa a Democrat. A Demo-
cratic soldier wa good enough to furnish
food for powder, but not to- be put in
an Office. That was reserved solely fol-
the faithful partisan who was willing to
do battle for the Republican party in
every political campaign.
In their desire to bind more closely
the letters they placed on the South,
the Republican missionaries held out al
Turing offers to some of the MOST PROM
inent Of Confederates to abjure the
Democratic faith and enter into the
bosom of Republicanism. They hoped,
by the aid of such agents, to reconcile
the South to the happy horde of carpet
baggers who were let loose on that
sore1y distressed section and to stife
the public voice protesting against such
uncalled-for tyranny. By securing q
few ex-Confederate leaders by the al
publicans thought they could keep the
South for an indefinite period in the po-
sition Of legitimate prey. The terrible
record of the carpet-bag tyranny, a sa-
turnalia of shame and plumber, is part
of American history.
During that time the Southern rem
egades who consented to join the Re-
publican party enjoyed the sweets of
Office, while their countrymen were
ground down under the heel of q
tyranny as remorseless and cruel as that
which kept Poland at peace after the
partition. Among them were men who
had fought to the last for their cause,
but were considered as washed from
all their sins by the saving waters OF
Republicanism. As long as there was
q chance to make them useful to the
party favors were lavished upon them.
The ex-rebels, whose disabilities were
not removed, even JEFF Davis himself,
were placed in the same category with
the Democratic Union soldiers, who
were excluded from all offices under
the Government they had helped to
save, and some of whom were suffered
to beg for a living.
When the Democratic party came
into power it found a united land; the
South vying in loyalty to the Union
with every other section, and the issues
of the war buried fathoms deep by the
general consent of the people. The
South had risen from the degradation
into which the carpet-bag governments
had cast her, and was winning her way
to prosperity and industrial independ.
ence. The negroes. who had been the
especial property of the Republican par
ty, had broken away from it, convinced
by bitter experience that their worst
enemies were those who had piundered
and deceived them. From that regen.
| Grated section, in which white and col
ored people are united in developing
its Unreasonable resources, the Demo
cratic Administration selected for som,
offices men of integrity, honor, capacity
and education. Not a word could b.
urged against them save that they hat
fought against the Government twenty
years before, and their records since
that time had given the most conspicu
GUS proofs of their loyalty to the Union
Every prominent and intelligent per
son from the North who has visited tn,
| South of late years has borne ample
testimony of the harmony and industry
existing there and the peaceful relation.
between the whites and negroes. Ye
we are told that the negroes are op
pressed and deprived of their constitu
tional rights. They appear to like sucl
oppression to judge from their content
ment and friendship for their whit,
neighbors. An Industrious colored mai
can find prosperity and preferment il
the South, which would be denied hin
in many Republican communities OF
this side of Mason and Dixon's line.
Regarding the charge of %neglectin|
Union soldiers, the record of appoint
ments made by the Administration
speaks for itself. On it will be foun,
numerous names which figured on tn
lists of the War Department. Demo
cratic ETckGnOe,