Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — A Return Shot.- [ARTICLE]

A Return Shot.-

[South Beud Herald] ; The Democrats of Ohio ought to ini vite Gov. Blackburn, Mr. Gully and i Mr. Barksdale into their State to I make a few speeches for their cause. < —Madison Courier. “Jess so,” and per contra, we suppose the Republicans of Ohio ought to invite—well, say Guerilla Moseby (to discuss war issues and wave the bloody shirt,) Secretary of w*rr Belknap, half a dozen or so pardoned whisky thieves, (let out of prison by Grant for the good of the party,) a few more of the ol I gang like Kemble, of “addition, division and silence” notoriety, Bullock, Moses, Scott and others, of fragrant memory in ’’carpet bvg” circles, and well, a few Christian statesmen—Pomeroy, of bribery fame, and others, not forg< Hing Madison Wells and ins very able coadjutors, of returning board fame. I-t would be interesting, t>o say the least, to hear that crowd discuss civil service, purity es election, et cetera.— Trot ’em out. Yes, and add John J. Patterson, carpet bagger, of South Carolina; rebel Gen. Longstreet; saddle-colored (Jassanave, who successfully requires Fraud Hayes and John Sherman to pay jugnients against him; Jim Anderson, the Louisianaliar; Lize Pinks ton, Agues Jenks, et al.

A promin mt Republican paper recently sent forth this item: “Step by step the authority of the Federal Government has been overridden- by Democratic lawlessness, nd the, question comes nearer and m-arer for decision, whether the bayonet or the shot gun shall rule in the South.” After quoting the language, Gen. Palmer, editor of the Springfield liecj later makes the following reply; ‘The man who can write and print such a statement as the above in a free country, and in time of peace, displays the instinct of a traitor, and i the malice of a murdeter. In time of I war the wholesale denunciation of ; tiie enemy may be tolerated and pal { liated, or possibly justified. The as I sertion that the authority of the Fed- ' era! Govejnmontlias been overridden ' by Democratic lawlessness, or any , other lawlessness, is utterly false, i Even if all the charges which are so | I'reelv made against the whi*e people j of the Soutn were true, instead of bei ing the damnable lies they are, the i tact would not justify the assertion that the authority of s he Federal Government has been overridden, for the Federal Government has no power or means to punish crimes against per sons or property. Tire assertion that . either the Federal bavonets or the shot I gun is to rule in the South, is ihe as- ! s rtion that the people there are ineaj pable of Self-government, and if this iis true of the eleven States, it is j equally true of the people of the othI er twenty-seven States, and the ex- : periment of self-government is a fail 'm e. There is no possible escape from | '.his conclusion.”