DEMOCRATIC REFORM. UNION SOLDIERS REMOVED TO MAKE ROOM FOR REBELS. What the Democratic Party has already accomplished. Disabled union soldiers turned, out, and confederates of various grades of incompetence put in their places— a carnival of ignorance and imbecility— and a fore-taste of what we may expect under Tilden. We quote from the New York Times of August 4th, as follows: "An examination of the table shows that there were discharged from the Doorkeeper's department 23, Union soldiers; from the Clerk's office, 19 Union soldiers; from the Post Office, 13 Union soldiers; from the Capitol Police 2,-making 57 Union soldiers discharged by the Democratic House since its organization last December. A number of these soldiers were disabled in the service. "There were appointed in their places, as far as can be ascertained, in the Doorkeeper's department, 19 Confederates; in the Clerk's office, 10; in the Post Office, 14; Capitol Police 1, and 3 committee clerks—making 47 Confederate soldiers appointed. The names of many of the employes of the present House, such as extra messengers, folders, and extra committee clerks, cannot be ascertained for the reason that they are paid upon vouchers instead of a regular roll. A great number of those extra employes are ex-Confederates, and if the facts could be ascertained in all the cases, the number of ex-Confeder ate soldiers appointed would be found to exceed the number of Union soldiers discharged. "The Post Office rolls show the most wanton disregard by the Confederate House of the obligations of the Government to its disabled soldiers, where nearly every man discharged served in the Union Army, and with two exceptions every man appointed was a Confederate." EX-REBEL OFFICIALS IN CONGRESS. Although allusion is frequently made to the ex-Confederate element in the present Congress, there are few persons who have any idea as to the real numbers of this wing of the Democratic Party. For the benfit of some of our Southern subscribers we have taken the pains to prepare a list of these gentlemen, with titles worn by them while in the service of Mr. Jefferson Davis. Senators. Goldthwaite, Alabama, Adju- Jones, Florida, Brig Gen. Ransom, N. Carolina, Major Key, Tennessee, Lieut. Col. Representatives. Williams, Alabama, Major. Davis, N. Carolina, Capt. Slemmons, Arkansas, Brig. Gen. Atkins, Tennessee, Col. Gause, Arkansas, Col. Gunter, Arkansas, Col. Young, Tennessee, Col. Culberson, Texas, Col. Hooker, Mississippi, Col. Reagan, Texas, Brig. Gen. Ex-Members of Rebel Government. House, Tennessee, Major. Culberson, Texas, State Leg. Leg. Gunter, Arkansas, State Leg. Dibrell, Texas, State Leg. Harris, Virginia, State Leg. QUESTIONS FROM EX-GOVERNOR AND U. S. SENATOR BROWNLOW OF TENN., IN THE KNOXVILLE “Gov. Tilden lays great stress upon the burdens of taxation we are compelled to endure, and the weight of them we are not disposed to controvert. They are heavy and grievous, and every time we are pressed with their weight we feel like hurling anathemas at those reckless Democrats who imposed them upon us. The great Republic was getting along very well in 1860, in so far as the prosperity of its citizens was concerned; and, although the Government credit was bad, it took but $60,000,000 a year to run it. There was no national debt of any consequence. Hence, there was no internal revenue necessary, and the great army of office-holders which has grown up out of the war to fasten and fatten on the people did not exist. But the Rebel Democracy, having failed to elect its President at the ballot-box, revolted and tried to destroy the Republic it had shown itself unfit to govern. It waged a rebellious war against the Union, to preserve which taxed the energies and resources of the loyal peo ple for more than four years of bloody war and ten more of quarrelsome and laborious peace. The national debt is, for the most part, a Democratic debt; and if the principle of indemnity insisted upon in the late Franco-German war had been carried out in closing up their rebellion, it would not have been the people of the United States but the rebel Democracy that would have had to pay that debt. What right have Tilden and Hendricks, both sympathizers with rebellion, to arraign the party which saved the Union for levying taxes to pay the interest on the national debt and make annual reductions from the principal? It is not those who pay, but those who make debts that should be arraigned." FROM EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL'S JEWELL BRATTLEBORO SPEECH, AUG. 17th. "As President, his past history indicates that he (Mr. Hayes) would aim for the best good of the country; that he would surround himself with the foremost men and purest statesman of his party; that he would expel every dishonest and unfaithful official, and keep every faithful and honest one; that he would promote resumption at the earliest possible day, and that he would be willing to name the day and prepare for it; that he would protect every citizen, regardless of color or nationality, in all of his rights, both at home and abroad. That he will do all this we have every reason to believe by his past acts and past avowals." EXTRACTS FROM THE LEWISTON (ME.) SPEECH OF COL. R. G. INGERSOLL, OF ILL. I belong to the Republican party, and I am glad of it, and I will give you a few reasons why I am glad of it. The Republican party is the conscience of the nineteenth century. What was the condition of the country when the Republican party came into power? I know there are those with envenomed tongue who denounce this party; men who, if they had had their own way, would not have allowed us to have a country to-day. The Democratic party made it the duty of citizens to hunt fugitives seek ing liberty. Such a law would disgrace the statute books of hell. [Laughter.] No man ever voted for such a law who was not a rascal. I intend to tell the truth, if I am strong enough, and I tell you I have an excellent constitution. [Laughter.] This crime crept up into the Supreme Court. That court was a farce. I know all about it. In 1861, if a negro had planted corn and the crop was ready for harvest, and a Democrat had come along to steal it, the Supreme Court would have decided with their spectacles pushed back on their bald pates that the corn belonged to the Democrat. [Loud applause.] This was the spirit of the good old party of reform. [Loud applause.] Imagine the condition we were in when the Republicans came into power. Justice and mercy were vagrants. At the North the Democrats were ready to give anything for an office. The Southern States took up arms -took up arms for what? Why, for the right to steal from four millions of people of different color. I believe I am superior to the black man—and so superior that I can get my living without robbing him. [Laughter.] The Democratic party commenced the war against the Union. The question was, Are you for or against the Union? The Republican party offered all that it could-it almost got into the dirt, but the South rushed to war. The great Republican party and every Union-loving Democrat in the North struck hand to fight for the Union. ry the Rebublican party won in 1860? the great Lincoln was elected President? the only man who, having absolute power, never abused it except on the side of mercy. Are you sorAre you sorry He was almost The Democratic party was opposed to the war; that ought to damn them eternally (I would be willing to let them end a little short, but politically I mean eternally.) [Laughter.] The Democratic party opposed the means to put the war down; they swore the debt never ought to be paid. They tried to impair the national credit. The Democratic party said, "Don't buy a bond; the South will succeed." If the Democratic party had had its way, the soldiers in the field would not have been paid. They ought (politically) eternally to be damned for that. [Laughter.] How many Democrats were delighted every time the Union army was defeated! [Voice," that's so."] |