, 1867-12-06
ReconstructIng ReconstructIon.

While the mongrels are doing their utmost to
reconstruct the Southern States in their own
peculiar way, and upon manhood suffrage prin.
ciples, the democrats Of the North are doing a
little reconstructing of the Northern States on
their own account. The mongrels believed they
had these latter irrevocaby reconstructed, and
consequently put themselves to work away down
South in Dixie. The times, as we'll as mongrel
calculations, have proven to be sadly out of
joint, for quite goodly number of our great
northern States have, in Swinging around the
circle, swung into democratic hands. Revos
lutions, it is claimed by the radicals, never go
backwards. And in Difference, we presume, to
that theory, this political revolution was obliged
" travel around III n cIrcuItous manner. Thus
the democrats, anaconda like, have reconstruc>
ted New York, Pennsylvania Ohio, Connect.
cut, New Jersey, California and Indiana-with
g bright prospect of freconstructing quite num-
Der other northern States, in time for the next
Presidential campaign. This is the kind of re-
construction that the country most needs. Let
the radicals reconstruct the South as much as
they like, and what boots it so long as the
States of our own section are slipping, one by
one, from their grasp! The whole question of
reconstruction, in its present muddle, hinges
upon party control at the North. That is to
say, if the mougrels could hold sway in the near
future as they have for the past few years, re-
construction would be made upon their plan;
but should the democracy gain the ascendancy,
as they surely will then reconstruction will
adjust itself without much difficulty or with but
very little aid from them. The Southern States,
according to the democratic principle, are Ca
pabe of eecting who shall go TO Congress and
who shall be the officers of the res spective State
governments, without any dctation or control
by the people of the other co.equal States. This
is not only principle of the democratic party,
but it is also well established principle in our
form of government. The democratic theory is
no negro bureaus, no military districts, no
despotisms within States in the Union, no fore.
ing of negro suffrage or any other kind of suf
frage down the throats of an unwilling peopIe I;
but the States themselves shall have full power
over their domestic polty, without interference
from either the other States or through them by
the general government. In other words, the
constitutional theory in all governmental affairs
unconstitutional action in nothing.
The mongrel party in its greed after power-iu
its blind haste and zeal to remodel the republic,
has overstepped itself II sought. by all the an
pliances of party drill and despotic and tyranni
cal practices, to grasp both North and South in
its political clutches, and it has miseraby failed
The people have discovered the cloven foot in
their Infamous policy in time to escape the doom
ofanarchy and despotsm, 10 which this bypo-
critical party of crooked paths was surely and
swiftly drifting. That the people, then, have
commenced reconstructing the North into the
hands Of the democratic party-the real Union
party, the only Union party-ought to astOuish
nobody.