Year: 1876

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The loyalty of the South to the Unior


is still much questioned BY large mum


ber Of Northern politicians, and those
journals which have the same purposes to


serve in such radical sentiment. In pur'


suing this there is 40 cause too base and


no theory too badly established, for them


to offer in the effort to prolong the life el


the party. 1t has even lead to the charge
against Gov. Tlden, that he is rebel in
sentiment, and that if elected to the Presi-


dency, it would endanger the safety Of the


government, BY placing it under control
that would not render movement to
effect its dissolution an impossibility.
These assertions we declare, even clad in
the dress Of political capital, which every
intelligent person knows they are, to be


unbecoming in those who profess to have
American sentiment, and hypocrisy in
those who advocate the propaga-
ton Of peace. 1t is a slander upon
those Democrats who fought in the ranks
and as officers to sustain the Union. If
the Democratic party was made up of men
who fought in the Confederate army, and
had never sworn allegiance to the Govern
ment, it would give the truthiulness of the
party different aspect.


The South, in the Presidential election,
will occupy position of voting strength
for the Democratic ticket that is threat
ening to the safety of the Republican party.
This summarizes the secret of the untruth-
full opposition to the candidacy of Cover
nor Tilden. The charge of disloyalty
made upon the South is contradicted by
evidence stronger than any that the pen
of writer could offer, or the voice Of an
orator enunciate. The actions of the
people Of that section are proofs irrefu-
table that they have accepted the situa-
ton, and are willing to abide by an hon.
est administration of the Feder-
al Government; but because they
are opposed to an administration that has
plunged the country into burdensome
debt, and prostituted public Office to per-
sonal gain, as even Grant himself and some
OF the highest officers within his appoint
ment have done, is no reason that its peo-
pie should be characterized as disloyal. Do
the advances Of the South to perfect every
movement In the direction Of peace, give
cause for such charges? The North, under
similar circumstances of military despot-
ism as those that the South has been placed
under, would have reballed. If there has
been color line in the South, the military
has provoked it. And we charge that all
disturbances which have occurred in the
South, and given color to the bleody shirt,
were provoked by the military and the
human yultures more generally known as
carpet-baggers that have preyed upon the
wealth of that stricken country and dis
corded the harmony of peace for political
purposes.


The almost unanimous decalration of
the South for Tilden and Hendricks, has
revived the old party cry Of Republican
politicians, and Republican political jour-
mails; that the South is disloyal, and needs
but such leader as Tilden to stir up the
slumbering embers of secession. This is
an untruthful, if not to say, an indecent
party tactics resorted to by the party in
the desperation of its sinking power. The
weaker side it has always been said resorts
to stubborn untruthfulness in the place of
and we see it we'll evidenced.in |
the line Of fight the Republican party
intends to pursue in this exciting cam
paion