Year: 1879

but its past history teaches that through
the apostacy and disloyalty of the Demo-
cratic party the heavy burden of taxation
under which the people are groaning was
laid upon their shoulders The country
was free from debt with q surplus in the
Treasury, up to the time the Democrats put
JAMES BUCHANAN in the Presidential chair
and Democratic rebellion ensucd Per-
haps the people may think that the hand
which administered the poison is the proper
one to apply the antidote but we seriously
question such conclusion in the
popular judgment. The most impu-
dent of all its demands, however,
is that which calls for a cessation Of inter-
"necine strife,' coupled with the declara-
tion that "for fourteen years they (the
Southern people, have been loyal to the
Government, supporters of the laws, and
true in every sense to the Union.n With
such perversion of history for fourteen
years soaring into the very soul of the Dem
ocratic party (if it has any, who can trust
its sincerity or honestly The mind which
would make such q declaration must be
clothed either in ignorance or in mendacity,
for the page Of recorded history which gives
the lie direct to such an assertion is too
broad to be introduced here and now for its
overthrow. 1t is safe to say that not day
has passed in fourteen years in which there
has not been some crime committed against
the Constitution and laws of the United
States by the people of the South. The
thousands of murdered victims, white and
black, who have been sacrificed for political
opinions sake, cry out from their graves
the Southern people have been for four
teen years last past loyal to the
Government, supporters of the laws
"and true in every sense to tie
Union" The Ku-Klux give the lie TO
such an assertion. The Whitc-Leaguers,
the Whitc-Liners, the Rifle Clubs, and the
Bull-Dozers, as they stand on the page of re-
corded history, pronounce that declaration
q wanton violation of the truth. The dec
laration of Southern men in Congress with
| in the last month confront it rs u lie. The
Southern press are regarded rs the index ol
| @ObtuSlu Nhu AiiNJ piO'S u'''
the assertion is not founded in fact. The
| fleeing throngs of Southern citizens who
are dcserting the places of their nativity
and parting from lifelong homes to escape
expressions that are heaped upon their lives
and their rights of citizenship, which are
guaranteed to them by the Constitution and
laws until they have become intolerable, are
all witnesses to the truth that the Southern
people, instead of being supporters of the
laws and the rights guaranteedby them, are
their constant violators. II the page OF
history can be mendaciously put ont Of
countenance, then q iallacy may be made
| to appear as the TRUTH and this newborn
zeal for the Constitution, the laws, the
rights of citizenship, and even life, may be
| accepted rs sincere Offering Of conversion


and reform but the public mind will hold
it on probation for n while yet before it ell
joys full confidence and respect One thing
is patent-every demand that is now made
| by the Democrats for reform has its neccs.
sity under Democratic policy and action


After doing all in their power to ruin the
country they now impudently demand thai


its policy shall be shaped under their die


tum. That thing will not work