Year: 1877

States notwithstanding all the disadvan-
tages which have been heaped up by the
Republican party in the last fifteen years,
is still superior to any other government
in the world, and the people should not
despair. BY few manly efforts they can
yet secure concessions, from those who lay
the heavy taxes to keep up great salaries,
or turn them out Of power and put better
men in their places. So long as there is
no standing army but the army of Office
holders and tax gatherers there is hope
for reform, and a better condition of
things. It must not be forgotten that
our government is the peoples govern
ment.


Through the ballot we can make and
unmake rulers. We who have resided
outside Of the Southern States, and wit
messed the horrid acts of cruelty and
tyranny exercised in those States by the
aid Of the standing army of the United
states by which the people were put un-
der the feet of the ignorant negroes while
the carpet baggers robbed them, should
take warning. We should profit by the
example Of the brave Southern brethren
who suffered all the indignities that could
be put on them, and did not despair, or
resort TO bloody resistance; and thus by
suffering patiently they finally triumph
ed and are now apparently the happiest
and most peaceful people in the world,
although they are desperately poor.


They were wise enough to see that
their enemies in Washington, for eight
whole years sought to goad them into
bloody resistance, that the army might
be enlarged and be made more oppressive.
At anytime during that peroid the white
people IN either of those States could
have cleared sut the army Of their op-
pressors and the negroes together. But
such action wsuld have been made the
excuse for the Republican party leaders
TO bring about another war in which they
would have added to the millions they
have already amassed. To have carried on
such war they would have disposed of
the U. 8. bonds they hold and then re-
pudiated them in order to Issue and sell
other bOndS-this would have been done
under the cry that the ''life of the nation
is at stake" and with the use of the
army. They would have justified this
action BY referring to the fact that their
fathers sold negroes to the South and
then made war upon the South to set the
negroes free.


The people have seen the errors of the
Radical party and have repudiated its
PRACTICES The Southern people are to-
Gay after suffering all the evils put upon
them, more free and more independent
than any people in Europe, and under
wise craftsmanship will soon be able tc
reduce the heavy taxes which have beer
toist upon theStstes by outside influence
or 70 Tep~didte the unjust debts which
money dealers and bond buyers have at
tempted to enslave the people with
They are fools if they pay these debts
there is no honor in paying a debt pu
upon people in the way the Sontherl
State debts were incurred. The paw
ment OF such debts are on the contrar,
an invitation to other scoundrels to fol
low the practice of the Radical carpet
bag governors and other such scoundrel
who deal in such bonds. They ought to b
held as worthless as stolen goods: an
brokers who buy such bonds ought to b
held in the light in which junk dealer
are; for they are no better.


The peoples government establIshe
by our fathers,and safely managed by tn
old Democratic statesmen is the mo:
valuable to-day notwithstanding all on
trouble, and it is mortifying to hear 8
many Leople expressing fears for its safe
ty and endurance. The people have onl
to vote down the men who make tb
nigh taxes and who advocate hig
salaries and put real republicans
Office TO make our government bette
than 1t ever was, This will be done
the States south of us where the peop
are poor and feel the necessity of redu
ing taxation, and it should be done ever,


where in all the land.


No people were more mortified an


oppressed than the Southern peonle ve,


by the Radica. party. No other peop


in the world we're ever made subseryie,


to their former slaves, and made to Ii,


under laws made by the most ignora


and deoased; added to this was the ia


that the slaves were of a diffsrest rae


Notwithstanding all this the people


the South who fed 70 Europe to esca


persecution with but few exceptions !


turned and preferred to live in tn,


everal States.


From this may be adduced a powerf


argument in favor of the peoples COVER


nent which we now enjoy; and viii


the people have it in their power to g,