Year: 1879

Why THE CONFEDERATE GENE
Halls WERE PUT In PowER.-It Is a
most remarkable circumstance In the his
tory of the country that the Republican
party which started out after the war had
been closed, with every department of
the government inits control, to lead the
lway in the government of the country
TO introduce civil service reform, and,
according to the promises Of its leaders,
to make the land as near a paradise as the |
human mind could well conceive, should |
in less than decade, have lost all con-
troll of the legislation of the national
Congress and turned it over to the Con-
federate Generals, whom the Republican
press are continually denouncing as
"rebelsr and enemies. Was there ever
such revolution We doubt If there
ever was. Was every party holding every
Government office, controlling every es-
sential avenue to power and using the
Army and the Navy to keep itself in
power, making all the promises it did, SO
soon voted out of power We need not
90 to the South to find the evidence of
ri the dissatisfaction with the management
of the Republican party--the evidence
Of its failure to perform its promises and
to honestly administer the government
in the interests Of the people. We find
Il pervading the North even to Maine,
where its most active leaders have not
only failed to satisfy the people but have
been by the people voted out of this very
Congress which the Republican papers
say is now in the hands Of the late Con
federate Generals.


etl But if we 60 to the South for proof of
the unworthiness Of the Republican
leaders and the failure Of the Republican
party to come up to the promises it made
to the whole country, we are met with a
still more remarkable revolution of
public sentiment against that party. So
entirely adverse are the people of the
South to such government as the leaders
of the Republican party gave them, that
there is scarcely yestige of the power
of that party left in one Of the Southern
States, where but a short time ago they
held every inch of the soil and filled
every official petition, with about 100000
negro voters willing to do whatever they
were bid. hH


Why was this change in public senti
ment? The answer may be found ii
hundreds of Republican and Indepen
dent newspapers in the North. The
leaders of the Republican party in the
South were SO utterly without principle
SO reckless of the interests of their owl
voters (the poor negroes whose Nose,
the Republican party was to be, that
their own party in the North denounced
them as public plunderers--as knave:
and villains-who robbed the States tc
aggrandize themselves, and many o
these very newspapers who are now
abusing the late Confederate General.
now in Congress, censured these gentle
men because they did not take upor
themselves the government of thei
States; but permitted the men whom th'
Republican party sent down there to rul
the land into debt and to defraud the
people, the negroes as well as tn,
whites.


In short it was the failure of the lead
of the Republican party everywher
in the land to keep their promises to tn
people that induced them TO turn til
Congress over to the late Confederat
Generals. No where in the countr
where the ballot was left free and fai
and the popular voice not stified, wer
the Republican party leaders permitte


to remain in power.


w If therefore it is true, as is alleged b.


the Republican and other partisan paper
that the rebels are in power in Washing
ton, they were put there by the voice {


the people in order that their governmer


might be taken out of the hands of me


who had proved recreant to every trtis
9, and descended to the level of commo


peculators, many of them having to fe


from the laws Of the States which the


had themselves helped to make.