Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-16
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Now that the Radicals have resolved
to bring the Southern States into praeti-
cal relations with the Government by
means of military coercion, they are pre-
pared to bid for the vote of the South; 1t
will not do to allow the Democrats OF the
North to carry off so great prize. The
way the matter now stands, suppQgng
the negro vote will go with the white vote,
every State Of the South will act with the
democracy, This must be prevented at
all hazards, otherwise power viii not re-
main long with the Jacobins. First,
II; ,.v VIII ATTEMPT To control the negro
vote. Any agencies that may promise
success will, however yillainous they may
appear, be employed. Scrupling at moth
ing. the attempt will be made to array
the two races against each other by stuff
ing the colored ear with falseboods.
q They will be told that If the whites obtain
control of the States, they will restore
slavery and carry on matters after the
old fashion. Perhaps in nearly every
district in the South, instruments, native
and imported, will be on hand to whisper
the poison abroad, and take advantage
Of the effect it may produce This will
be the trump card, and it will be played
with desperation and danger worthy
of better cause. But the whites are
not to be neglected They will be in
formed that they are under no obligation
20 the democracy of the North, who, it
will be maintained, are responsible for
much of their suferings. In corrobora-
ton of this opinion, we produce an ex-
tract from the Cincinnati Commercial, a
leading Jacobin paper. Il says:
The Democracy of the North claim
paternal and fraternal interest in the
late rebels of the Southern States. Be-
: fore the war they worked in the same
9 political harness, and the conclusions is
that they should pull at the same traces
again, now that the war is over. This
claim excepted, the Democracy have
nothing to offer the South that entities
them to its gratitude, its respect or
It's affection. What single promise
made 10 their Southern allies before
the war did they fulfill What pledge
did they redeem? The resistance to
any attempt to coeree the seeding
States was never made. Deluding the
saeessionists into the belief that they
would achieve their independence peace
ahlv or By an easy victory over the Alb
olitionists, by their negative moral and
positive physical aid, they either shrank
from the responsibility Of furnishing the
promised suecor, or transformed them
selves into the fercest Of all coercion
ats, bowling with wrath over the
humiliation Of the flag at Sumter. The
most they did do for the cause of seces-
sion was to shed liberal food of mex
pensive sympathy, pass very brave reso-
: iutions by the light Of darklanterns, pro-
nounce the war a failure in open con-
vention, get up an anti-negro mob in New
York, attempt the release of the misera-
BILE prisoners Of war in Camps Douglas
and Morton, cry down the credit Of the
Government, and get up an Intellectual
fire in the rear of the Federal armies.
~ By their pusillanimous conduct during
the war they earned the contempt Of the
rebels aud guaranteed to themselves the
hatred of the loyal. They simply pro-
longed conflict they could not close in
favor Of the Confeieracy, and were I'M
willing to end in favor Of the Union. 1t
is this party that now comes forward, hat
in hand, soliciting the South, on the score
Of old association, to identify its fortunes
with them.
The Southern people are here invited
to kick over the Northern Democracy
and join hands with the JacobiRs. They
are invited to turn away from the vic
torious Democrats Of Connecticut and
throw their arms around the necks Of
Ben. Butler, Horace Greeley and Wen
dell Phillips. 1t is painful to note the
fact that the extract we have quoted, is
similar in tone and language TO the
recent speech Of Governor Orr, Of South
Carolina. Other prominent men of the
South appear to be inclined in the same
direction. The Democrats Of the North
have exposed the cruel acts and senti-
ments Of the Jacobins in reference to the
South, and now the JaeObins have com
meneed the work Of unmasking the De.
mocraey. The pictures on both side.
are horrid enough, but no Southern mar
who possesses the true blood Of his sec
ton. can ever affiliate with the mon
strous Jacobin party. They may pain
the Democrats in colors the most revolt
ing Il viii do no good. There is NJ
name for the feeling with which thI
South regards the JAeObina Tine vii
smooth many Asperities resulting from
cruel var. bui IL viii never recOucih
the outraged people Of the South 4
those Who have, from motives Of gain
Numbered and ruined them
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