The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-09-03
The Bloody Shirt Alloy !

MANSFIELD, O., Aug. Ex-senator
John Sherman opened the Republican
campaign for Foraker In Ohio to-day by
delivering at Mount Gilead, Morrow
County, q typical "bloody shirt" Grafton,
in the course Of which he said:
sStrange to say by the detection Of a
comparatively few men in three Republi.
can States, our old adversaries have been
raised to power again in the national
government. The rebels are on top.
Some of the very men who boastfully
threatened to break up the Union, and
with the oath of Office in support of the
constitution fresh upon their lips, con.
spired and confederated to overthrow it,
waged war against it and we're the cause
of the loss of half million of lives and
thousands of millions of treasure, have
been placed in high Office In the very
seats of power which they abandoned
with scorn and defiance. Two members
Of the Confederate Congress and one man
who sympathized with them are at the
head Of great departmets of the govern.
ment. saw the Union flag at half mast
floating over the interior department in
sign Of honor and mourning for the death
of Jacob Thompson, whom ne regarded
as defaulter and conspirator. This
country is NOW represented abroad by
men who within twenty-five years were
in arms to overthrow it, and the govern
ing power in the executive branch of the
government is in sympathy with the ideas
of and selects the chief officers of the
government from the men who were in
war against it. This strange turn in
events has but one example in history,
and that was the restoration of Charles
II after the brilliant but brief protecto-
rate of Cromwell and, like that restora-
ton, is a reproach to the civilization of
the age.
"But even this detection among Re.
publicans would have been Ineffective
but for the solid South, held together in
political fellowship by crimes, violence
and fraud, which, if continued, will as
surely renew all the strifes of the civil
war as that the sun rolls around in its
course. The Republican party is faced
by solid South, in which the negro is
deprived, substantially, of al his politi-
cal rights by open violence or by frauds
as mean as any that have been committed
by penitentiary convicts, and as openly
and boldly done as any highway robbery.
By this system and by the acquiescence
of a few Northern States the men who
led in the civil war have been restored to
power, and hope practically to reverse all
the results of the war. This is the
spectre that now hauntS American poll
tics, and may make it just as vital and
necessary to appeal to the Northern
States to unite again against this evil,
not so open and arrogant as slavery, but
more dangerous and equally unjust. The
question then was the slavery of the
black man. Now the question is the
equality of the white man.
~ have seen many signs of disposi-
.tion to waive all the glorious results of
the war, to make no difference between
the blue and the gray, to revive again
the doctrines of secession and State rights
taught before the war. The tendency of
the Democratic party is all that way. I
do not question the patriotism of my
Democratic neighbors here in Ohio, but
we know by old experience they follow
the leaders of their party. The govern
ing force of that party is with the South,
as in the days of Buchanan. If they
continue under their Democratic rulers
the present system of ostracism and op.
preston and injustice q party can be
formed among them which will demand
Justice to all and thus break down the
solid South, based as it is upon crime and
fraud. If not, it is the duty Of the peo.
Pile of the Northern States, without dis
tinction of party, to Unite the North in
the execution o. the constitutional
amendments and, under the fourteenth
amendment, to deny the States that do
not protect their citizens in the elective
franchise representation based upon the
number so disfrarchised.