The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-08
forces govern in politics in the South as
they do in the North, is sectonalism un-

forces govern in politics in the South as
they do in the North, is sectlonalism un-
and dangerous.
My fellow-Democrats, ii we who struggled |
so hard at the close of the war, to preserve |
the States can affiliate with those who |
labored to destroy them, why can not those
those who fought to destroy il? If the Union |
and the States have equal right to exist, why
is it not equally unpatriotic to overthrow
either? Demo, ats take to their embrace
and honor with office those who for time
aided to dismantle the States, and Republic
tse
highest places. What is il, then, but sheer
inbue the people or the races with the ami
m 3sities of the past? Restoration and peace
have come; let us welcome them as the harb-
mert Frown down every effort to evoke
dissension and hatred from the ashes of civil
war Drive into private life all who seek
enemies those whose interests and affections
prompt them to peace! Let politics be no
sress sSRsar questions Of pa6e policy seot
ing all races and sections alike, are
demanding solution, and the party that
and sections will be trampled under
foot and left by the wayside in the
But, my fellow-ctiZens, deeply impressed
as am with these truths, aud an nxioIis as NJ!
of us ought to be that sectional strifes shall
the late speech of Senator Sherman at Mt.
Gilead. Not in the darkest hours of the
bloody struggle through which the country
has passed was an utterance made more in
tensely sectional or more intensely danger
GUS to the Federal system. Not the seces-
sion of Jefferson Davis, not the imperialism
of John William Draper could more alarm
the true advocates of Federal Union than the
malignant words of the distinguished Sena-
iHtionNhe in cold bitterness There is no
war. There is nothing to warp the cool
Judgment of the patriotic statesman. The
battle are healing. But the Senator seeks to
tear them wide open. rs there no balm In
Gilead, is there no physc an thereT" What
rebellion incurable, exhaustive, killing, he
cheerfully lends his long experience, his
his ae ss to dU
ices in some lines of public duty, we must
hold him responsible for his present position.
sHERMAN'S SPEECH.
And now, my countrymen of all parties,
indulge me in a short comment on his late
sectional speech. That he should laud the
achievements is perhaps pardonable
vanity, for he has been one of its conspicu-
GUS actors.
Let him aud his party take whatever credit
an impartial world may give them. But their
acts and utterances are to be judged by their
real value and not BY their Own peons Of
must be tested by the future. The cardinal
| thought of the party and of the Senator is
ordinate provinces, and as much subject to
| that nation as Hamilton County is to Ohio.
He says our soldiers fought ''for the pre-
servation of the Union; Union not of States
but of the people of the United States; not a
confederate government but national gov
ernment" w, We 1 have then, under the Ell Re
consolidation into one mass of the United
States We fought for "a strong national
And to his
ut is said that this is matter for each State
to regulate. That doctrine we hoped was
rebellion abolished the States. And even
more emphatic, he says: 1.-The right of rep
resentaton is not to the State. but to the
egeead e as hoash IS
word in the Constitution itself which speaks
of "the people of the United States, as an
eepi''f peopie" Of the States separately. And in
| the face, too, of the plain letter of the Con
stitution which says: 1.-The House of Repre-
sentatives shall be composed of members
chosen every second year by the people OF
the several States; and the electors in each
State, shall have the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous branch Of
the State Legislature" And that Representa-
tives ..shall be apportioned among the sew
at least one Representative; and that in cast
of vacancies from any State "the executive
authority thereof shall issue wr;ts of cleo
ton to fill such vacancies" And in the face
too, of the decisions of the Republican Su
preme Court of the United states, that thu
|
still leave the States in control of suffrage
and elections except as to exclusion on &C
count of race or color" The States ar
eeaee a sss stase pasps as
ternal element of the autonomy o
the State, and not as a fragment of the aggre
mentioned in the Constitution scores of time
and recognized as having rights and duties
But neither the word nation nor ma
tional' is found in it. and not one single ,gh
or duty is alluded to in the whole iEstrumen
as conferred or imposed on any such bod
polite as the people Of the United States
, There are citizens of the United States, an
most of the rights and funct ons of the ger
eral government are national We are
% erai States T % are the % people % Of that nation an
the only people it has. But the Senator
bound to assume, and his party does pract
cally assume, that these plain provisions o
the Constitution are heresy; that the State
are vassals of the United States, and hol
their power at the will of Their sovereign; fo
claim the supervision and control.of suffrag
and elections in the several States
THE SOLID SOUTH.
In accordance with tn IS view he treats it Q
|, ern States should vote the Democratic t!cke
His wrath knows no bounds. That tn
thorough, policy applied to the .t Sout
should become States" of the Union; tha
negro to get his vote, and fasten the yoke {
!; Republican misrule on the whole country G
! well as on the defeated South and then los
wormwood. The medicine is nauseou
! Though brewed in their own caldron it come
: to their lips in the poisoned chal:ce" pr
: Republican "carpet baggers' formerl
: marched to the polls and voted by platoon
and regiments, now S vote With with their % nehig neg
:, South colored and white alike: by declarr
that the negro is deprived Of all his polite
as any that have been committed by pc
. !. itentiary convicts. and as openly and bold
= done as any highway robberI." VIII
= iority belonging to, party for that
u the assumptionl and suffers minority
drive him from the ,p polsss Suffrage is dh Of
- state of things did make "solid South
- men worthy of freedom would soon make
i. deceived the innocent Senator of thir
years experspSSei Si But he p proceeds sdso.
- that haunts American politics and may ma
,v it just as vital and necessary to appeal to t
u u Northern States to unite against this ev
= not so open and arrogant as slavery, b
- more dangerous and equally unjust. F
q % the solid South he AYERS is held together
" 70 fraud. which, if continued, will as surely
y new all the str:fes of the civil war as t
- - sun rolls round it in course" But the
1g publicans will first throw grass before reso
o 1r ing to civil war by throwing stones We mt
q. q, '.break down the sol d South, based as it
"a upon crime and fraud. If not, it is the du
IT. IT. of the people of the Northern Stat
u without distinction of party, to un
$ the North in the execution of t
~ ~ Constitutional amendments and und
..S the Fourteenth amendment to de
ts y the States that do not protect their C
" zens in the elect We franchise rep
IS sentaton based upon the number so disfrs
y chised." We are glad. Mr.. Senator, you "
q q throw statutes at our heads before drawi
~ ~ the sword? But the Fourteenth amendme
.e ie says, representation shall be apportion
70 among the several States, ETC., but when
,e p right to vote at any election is den
~ 70 = or abridged, etc." the basis of +,
,S ~ resentat on shall be reduced. Clearly Il
,d ,d ''denal" or 'abridgment' must be by so
~ ~ constitution or statue of the State, not b.
c temporary act of some dsorderly crowd
a a. an election. 1t must. to reduce represen
III III ton, be denial or abridgment by the Sta
Ill not by mob. And no such attempt at
- franchisement has been made, except
s ,Is legislation by Republicans in the No
rs against foreigners. How, then, can
IL ~ Senator carry out his threat except by w
he DEMOCRATIC ELECTION FRAUDS.
is But it is not the South alone that is wick
ed in the eyes of the Senator. Democrats of
| rth of lv fhair all los hrrt ho r,a