The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-23
UNJUST.
The Administrations Against Appoint
ments By the Administration.

The Administrations Against Appoint
ments By the Administration.
The disuniou press is constantly harp
ing upon the elevation of ex-rebels to
office and the neglect of Union soldiers
by the Administration. 1t is their favor
tie 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 fr-
get tha: when their party was in power
they first gave the example of placing
ex-rebeIs in positions of trust, and thar,
too. in a very short time after the war:
Indeed, they preferred Them to the sol
der who bad perhaps, lost IS leg or an
arm in lighting for the Union, bat who
was excluded from all consideration
because he was n Democrat \ Demo-
cratic soldier was good enough tofurn;Sh
food for powder, bu. not to be put in
an office. That was reserved solely for
:he 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 Republcanism. 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
few ex-Confederatc 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, a sa-
turnala of shame and plunder, 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
tyranny as remOrseless and cruel rs that
which kept Poland at peace after the
had fought to the last for their cause,
but We're considered rs 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 We're
not removed, even jeff Davis himself.
We're 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 living.
When the Democratic party came
into power it tOunda united land, the
South wing in loyalty to the Union
with evpry 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-b bag governments
had cast her; and was winning her way
.O'proSperity anu industrial independ-
ence. The negroes, who. had been the
especial property of the Republican par
ty,. had broken away from It, convinc 1t
by bitter experience that their worst
enemies were those who had plundered
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 No tn who has visited the
South of late wears 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 Op-
pressed and deprived of their cOnst't tu-
tional rights. They appear to like such
oppression to Judge from their content
ment and friendship for their white
neighbors. An industrious cOlore man
can find prosperity and pref, rment in
the South, which would be denied him
in many Republican communities on
this side of Mason and DiNOn'S Inc.
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 Wan Department. Demo-
cratic Exchange.
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