Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — A DISGUSTED DEMOCRAT. [ARTICLE]

A DISGUSTED DEMOCRAT.

He Ha* Traveled Through the South fur Twelve Tears and Learned Something. Spceial Correspondence Indianapolis Journal. Meridian. Miss., August 20.—1 am no* a politician-. never held an office In my life; never asked for an office. I was a lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Indiana volunteers, and resigned from ill health. I was born and raised a Democrat, and was one of the secretaries of the convention that nominated M. C. Kerr to Congress In 1864. I came Booth in 1868 and have been South ever since; and I feel it my duty to write you thia letter m the hourof onr desperate teed. There is no free speech here; do free press. Everything Is under the control of the old secession leaders. They are bulldozing the whole country, and if they get control of the National government, God helf> ns and the Nation. Our four years' struggle was f.or nothing. The boys who gave their lives for the Nation have died in vain. I was ordered to leave Pelahatchie, Missis alppi. a few days since, because I remarked Garfield was a good man. I was informed In Butler, Alabama, that if I was not a Democrat I must leave-the town. I was In both places on business, and when I left the first place I vowed mentally that I neve l - would vote, ano-.lier Democratic ticket as long as God spared my life. A man dare not saj he is for Garfield; it is more thii » his life is worth. • I will say to the bovs nt horie: Vote the Republican ticket, let Tom'Hendricks and Bill English say what they wiii. Neither of them wore, a blue <acket in the dark hours of 1861. The old Thirty-fifth know tne, and I ask the boys to vote the wav they fought. Secession leaders are in the ascendency, nud carry the country as they did In 1860 and 1881. There are many stanch Union men here, but they are di<*ensted with Northern Democracy, and say “it is useless to struggle against fate. We will be shot by private assassins in our homes and in our fields, if the North will not stand bv us we had as well give up.” I was In Vicksburg when General Grant was tbefe. He did not. but I did. hear what was snbl «mi the street. He was enraed and denounced bytthc vilest terms in the language, and the big Confederate aristocracy were licking the dnstat his’-feet. Tills is characteristic of Southern Democracy. They will wine and dine congressional committe*-*. bnt yon go through there as a private man, and they will show you another game.

The men who rote n Democratic ticket in Indiana are digging graies for their children—let n>e say that ;o them—and bloody graves. too. Secession is yet alive and is rostered by thd government. The infernal old rascnls who led the movement here, pardoned by tte government,arc now in tbe lead again, and hope by the nomination of Hancock and English to fool the rublie and get control of the Nations* government* .If they do they wilt organize the militia and prepare for another war I gm here, an old soldier nud an old Denanernt (<?od forgive me for ever voting tl.e ticket), and I know what I say Is true. If any of your Democratic editors, or' English himself, unknown, will oome thropeh thia country and nay he is a Garflt’ld man. dr a Greeobaeker, he will go home with a different view of the Suuth It Is said it is a Solid South. So It Mu and any man who dares to oppose it in Mtsais«ipp ; . Louisiana, Texas. Alabama or Arkansas, is adiadiuan.lt be does not run. The people are so sure of tbo election of Hancock and English that they are grcw’.ng more and more arrogant. I was Democratic almost to disloyalty in 1864. and I ear now to all those who love the Union aodequal rights, vote against anything that is supported by the solid South, for the solid South means the Southern Confederacy In the name of God, of humanity. Justice, right and reason, I appeal to the boys at home to vote them down, and show these fellows here that we are not blind and deaf, and that we rerj>ect the memory of the gallant fellows who fell frotu Bull Run to Appomattox. •