New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-07

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such there be) should hencef'rth be subject to
sale and purchase on the auction block, and TO
toll thenceforth without reeempense, other than
coarse food and occasional 1oggings, for whom
soeyer would bid highest for them, and that
this election was held in pursuance and yindl-
cation Cor reassertion') of the Right OF Sell
Government" he might not be able to see 1t
exactly in that light. lie will thence,we hope,
be able to sympathize with our obtuseaess III
that regard.
The Record thinks dsbanding the armies on
either side would "render coercion impossible
and secure fair election in the South on the
question of Union OF Disunion. But we oppose
n this assumption the most notorious facts;
The Border Rufian" raids from Missouri INTO
Kansas whereby repeated elections Ill the
then Territory were corrupted and most in
tolerable usurpston established, were the work
of tho class 10 which The Record would submit
unuualifedly our National existence. The
lynchings shootngs, hangings. whereby tho
South was-durng the Winter of 1sGO-l-
tcrrorized into acquiescence in Secession, were
not tho work of armies, for none then existed
throughout the South. Frederick Summer,
New.York mechanic, then settled III Northern
Texas, testfes that the Secessionists commenced
killing Union men in his region before I.incoln's
first election. Senator Clingman of North Caro-
lima, proclaimed in debate, Dec, 1862 while
responding to suggestion of Gov. Seward that
the difficulties between the Free and Slave
States might yet be settled by amcable discus
sion. that
"A Senator from Texas told the other day that
great many Of Hfss yee dtbdfers rere hanging from
Tie trees Of has country
Such were tho terms, a thousand times re-
iteratcd, with every phase of dcrision and insult
of the slaveholdng response to our suggestion
that We would let the South 60 if shown that
her people, on full consideration, really desired
to do So Secession emanated from a conspiracy
of her political aspirants, duelists, and black
legs, with part of the slaveholding olgarchy,
to ret aside the rule Of the peaceful ballot and in
augurate instead that OF the bowie-knife and re-
yolyer. There are thousands of living witnesses
that no fair play was allowed to Unionists, IN
voting for or against Secession, wherever the
conspirators were in the ascendency. Votes
for the Union were systematically destroyed or
suppressed in many places. In Others, it was
openly proclaimed that whoever voted Union
ballot must expect the d!rcst consequences. In
several States, no popular vote was taken or
allowed on the momentous question OF Seces-
sion or Union. Violence, menace, Outrage
such were the most efficient means whereby the
Temporary triumph Of Dsunion At the South was
secured.
| -" But why not no,c have IA fair vote and
agree to abide the issue''
| We answer:
/. Because a fair vote cannot now be had
the Blacks. a party in interest, being allowed
no voice in tho matter. 9. because the means
of imbuing the South with true conceptions OF
our great struggle are not now available.
3. Because the losses, bcrcavements- ran
co.'s, of terrible civil war yet too fresh and
potent. a. Because the Rebel soldiers, though
Temporarily disarmed, would control the
voting and the result. :. Because We cannot
in common decency admit the right Of tho
White traitors TO decide by their votes whether
the Black Unionists shall henceforth be chattels
or freenen. 6. Because the Rebels, having
chosen their own ordeal and been bea.en by II,
il ia not fair for their attorney To move for
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