The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-03

commission and the Geo. H. Pendlc>
ton deyotees have dccreed otherwise,
and cur President is so righteous,
yirtucus and conscientious that. he
feels bound to obey an unconstltn>
tional statute and keep the Republi-
cans in Office for life, thereby defeat
ING one Of the very objects OF Re
publican government.
What would you have thought OF
General Lee after he had captured a
division of the Federal troops, it he
had taken the Federal officers and
put them over Confederate soldiers,
or even General Grant after he had
captured Vicksburg, If he had taken
the Confederate officers and placed
them over Union soldiers? Tha:
policy on the part of Lee or Grant
would have been just as reasonble as
the policy persued by Cleveland.
There is no more common sense IN
retaining Republican officials under
democratic administration, than
there would have been in retaining
Union officers to command Southern
soldiers.
If there was nc patronage connect
ed with a government then no party
ought to have any, but since, Of ne
cessity, there is patronage, which OF
necessity, must and will go to either
the one party or the other, ought not
that party which is victorious to have
the patronage? Why give it to the
enemy? Upon what grounds can it
be withheld from your friends and
supporters. ITO the victors belong
the spoils" we say, if all other men
everywhere should say otherwise.
This is not the first time we have
said in these columns that we believe
Mr.. Cleveland's policy would disln-
tegrate the political parties South.
and if that is his purpose, we be-
lieve he will be successful, but we
must say in candor, that we look
forward to that day with fearful fore
bodings. We have been foolish
enough to desire a division of the
blacks and whites in the South, but
we have advanced from that position
and now say unhesitatingly after
careful thought on the subject, tina!
we hope we shall not live to- see
that day. Neither the whites nor
the blacks want such condition of
affairs to come to pass. 1t would be
terrible calamity to both peoples,
| and we fear would do the blacks no
good, and would recoil, with its car
AVIAN of evils upon our own blood
and race. If Mr.. Cleveland's pur-
pose is to disihtegrate the Republic
can party, we Lope he will not sue
coed. Two political parties are as
Indispensable to the purity and per-
petuity of republic. as Oxagen and
Hydrogen are to constitute water.
AS soon as one of the parties becomes
so weak as not to offer any resist
ence to the party in power, the con-
trolling faction runs into all kinds OF
excuses and finally if not checked
by some powerful opposition, in to
anarchy or despotism, Our own ex-
perience proves this, without going
to tho history of other peoples and
republics. When the old Wing par
ty disbanded, the Democratic party
burst It's BLADDER, and its head as
well, and the result was the late civil
war.
And after the war with no power
full opposing forces to the Repub-
lican party, it became corrupt and
oppressive, the history of whose
wrongs, outrages and hellish doings
we forbear to mention now, From
our standpoint we cannot endorse
Mr.. Cleveland's administration as q
whole. If we did we should do vio-
lence to Our judgment. So our friends
will please allow us to condemn his
mugwumpism.