Iron County register., 1885-07-23
UNJUST.
The Administrations Against Appoin

OtNOOSbs
The Administrations Against Appoint
ments by the Administration.
The disunion press is constantly harp
ing upon the elevation of ex-rebels to
office and the neglect of Union soldiers
by the Administration. It is their favor
ite method of attack, next, perhaps, to
the bugaboo of a bloody shirt They
howl necessarily over the '.humiliating
spectacle of traitors rewarded" and
endeavor to stir up public indignation
on this score. But they appear to for
get tha. 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 leg or an
arm in fighting for the Union. but who
was excluded from all consideration
because he was Democrat A Demo-
cratic soldier was good enough h to furnish
food for powder, but not to be put in
an office. That was reserved solely for
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 fetters 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
sorely distressed section and to stife
the public voice protesting against such
uncalled-for tyranny. BY securing a
few ex-Confederate leaders by the al
lurements of Government Office. the Re-
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, 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 8
tyranny as remosseless 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
a 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 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 p!undered
and deceived them From that regen-
Grated section, in which white and col
| ored people are united in developing
its immeasurable resources, the Demo
cratic Administration selected for some
offices men of integrity, honor, capacity
and education. Not word could be
urged against them save that they had
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 the
South of late years has borne ample
testimony of the harmony and industry
existing there and the peaceful relations
between the whites and negroes. Yet
we are told that the negroes are OPP
pressed and deprived of their constitu-
tional rights. They appear to like such
oppression to Judge from their content
ment and friendship FOR their white
neighbors. An industrious colored man
can find prosperity and preferment in
the South, which would be denied him
in many Republican communities on
this side of Mason and Dixon's line.
Regarding the charge of neglecting
Union soldiers, the record of appoint
ments made by the Administration
speaks for itself On it will be found
numerous names which figured on the
lists of the War Department. Demo.
cratic Exchange.