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Show The demands of the southern pol-tiicians pol-tiicians for soldiers to assist in the approaching elections bids fair to absorb ab-sorb nearly all of the effective army force in tho West. The late horrible butcheriej on the plains show that more men are needed to protect the Bettlers, yet every scurvy negro or carpet-bag politician in the South, , who imagines that he ia to be outvoted out-voted and defeated by the Conservatives, Conserva-tives, unites in the howl for troops to enable him to carry his campaign successfully. It is a disgraceful fact that under the reconstruction policy of the party iD power, the war status of the South is developing into a chronic state of belligerency. |