Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-02-03
TnG RECORD.

In giving true account OF the situa-'
tion of our country we should be exceed
ingly cautious less we distort or falsify
the record. Each man and especially
the Chief Magistrate and the members
OF Congress should bo treated with due
honor. But in republic the people
must hive the faots, however much they
may reflect on politicians or individuals.
Nothing is gained by prevarication or
falls, hood. Miscegenation, or the inter
marriage Of different nations, or miscel-
laucous cohnbtation, las been used rs q
term to denote the sexual intercourse OF
the whites with the negroes. This prac-
ticc has been mainly confined TO the
inhabitants south Of Mason and DiNon's
line. The practice seems to have had
its growth in the system OF slavery.
Neither the Democratic nor the Repub-
lican party can claim tie credit of this
admixture OF the races. By issueing the
proclamation of Emancipation, Ahra-
ham Lincoln checked the practice. Gro
NeI NlCNOluDu COulNl Dub bb NbliNiNbN' Va
miscegenation unless Mariah llalpin, the
mother of his son, was negress or ,f
another race. If Mariah was of the
same race, Cleveland could not be
called n miscegnator, but whoremaster
and his son bastard. So far as Cleve-
lands election is concerned lie was cleo
ted by the South, aided mainly by the
votes of foreigners from the North.
If the votes were legally cast, then
Cleveland was fairly elected. II there
was any ballot-box stufling or bulldozing
or if there was any moral or physical
force to keep voters from the ballot box,
Cleveland was fraudulently elected
Gen. Sherman or any other man to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Dare any
man swear that the entire South voted
legally ? If there is, we pity either his
ignorance or his duplicity, or both,
Cleveland put good man at the head
of the Pension bureau. But that does
not compensate for his thirty or forty
pension vetoes. Cleveland ought tc
hang down his head in shame when he
excuses himself for the pension vetos by
saying q pension granted to soldier
would put him before the world as 6
pauper. Give n SO ldier pension
and thereby make him pauper
A powerful excuse. 1t might do for {
traitor who called the soldiers Lincoln'
hirelings and damned yankees. Is Com
missioner Black a pauper? Is Mrs
| Grant or Mrs. Garheld a pauper? Tn
humblest Union soldier of the unioi
army who bore knapsack and fed oil
hog and hominy was and is a richer maj
in honor than Stewart and peer to an.
man that ever put his foot on American
soil. Let him go to the poor house
The country or government which doe
that is disgrace to humanity and ough
to be wiped out. Cleveland might hav,
said in his message, we have a larg
surplus, let us pay off the soldiers. Blu
no. He had rather go fishing and vet
pension bills.
What has Cleveland done about rail
road and land monopolies Lamar dis
missed the land agent who said to a rail
road company You have forfeite
your claims the lands granted to yo
by Congress must revert to the govern
ment. Did Cleveland stick by this anti
land and railroad monopolist? No. H
pctted Lamar and put him on the benc
of the Supreme Court. Why? Fo
giving forfeited lands back to monopo
lies and saying on the floor of congres
that any man who said that Jefierso
Davis was traitor was liar; for break
ing up the Missionary schools among tn
Indians. Quite a job for Cleveland
Not quite right.
Now for that Surplus. How muc,
would have been left had Cleveland de
voted the share due to the soldier and
hundred or more national improve
ments? Cut down the revenue becaus
we have no improvements to make
Shaw A mean policy. unworthy of tn
Chief Magistrate of great nation. d.
g.