The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-10-09
THE REAL ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Chicago, in which the real issues of the
present political campaign are boldly
and clearly set forth. Every voter should
read them and reflect seriously on them
in connec ton with thethreats made by
Forest, which we publishedtwo weeks
ago, and in connection with the murders
of Union men in the South by the Ku
Klux:
"All the talk about tariffs and taxes
and currency and economy of admins
| tration, in our estimation amounts to
nothing. If there is any real disagree
ment between the parties, on these ques-
tions, it does not appear in their plat
forms. These questions donot touch the
real issue, and deserve not so much as to
bementioned in the presence of that is
sue. They are dwelt on merely to amuse
and divert, and, if possible, to decoy
the well-dispo sed and uniformed to vote
for what they would utterly abhor, if
they were to apprehend it as it is.
1.-THE true issue is manifestly this
Shall the government persevere in the
policy of forcibly putting down rebellion
and restoring the demolished State gov
ernments, thus preserving the Union,
executing the laws and securing peace
or, shall we repent having conquered re-
bellion in the field, vote away all the
fruits of victory, surrender the admin
istration of government to the rebels
and their sympathiZers, and insure re-
newal of war of ten-fold greater hor-
ror than the last? This is the real issue,
and the only one worthy of a moments
notice in the present canvass.
1t is evident that the southern rebels,
more bitter and relentless in their re-
bellion than ever, so understand it. This
is the issue, plainly stated by General
Blair in his letter, upon the strength of
which he was nominated; and the NOM
mating of him after publication ofsuch
q letter was tantamOunt to a second
declaration of civil war. Brick Pome-
roy, perhaps deservedly called the wick
eldest political editor in the nation, at
least asserts the merit of daring to be
frank, and consistent as it is possible for
wickedness to be, when he announces
that his true, reliable, out-and-out, red
hot, Democratic daily will, pesistenly
and unfinchingly, advocate the equali-
!, Ity of States, or another war; Well does
the Scripture use the terms 'wiched
man and fool as synonyms. 1t is only
the folly of wickedness that could thus
maintain that the crime of causeless re-
bellion and war can work no forfeiture,
and require no idemnities or guarantees
from reVolted States. The same moral
madness would declare that the drunk
ard or the highwayman is the absolute
peer of the virtuous and honest man,
and 'persistently and unfiinchingly ad-
vOcate' thrir equality of regard and i'm
munities, OF. war to the knife, until all
punishments for crime shall be utterly
abolished. This equality of States means
simply impunity for treason. This, or
gar afoI- ESQ =;
"And, cannot the moral mailman see
haf is M tn
liberty so great as the very means by
which he proposes to secure his liber-
tine equality of States? Civil war is
the establishment of that military des-
potism Of which he processes such hor-
ror-a despotism often more easily set
up than put down, and, frequently in
tvOked, it comes at last TO stay. Becom-
ing familiar with correcting and silenc-
ing law, it finally supercedes it alto
gether. The anarchy which comes from
the custom of appealing from the ballot
to force Will not be long i'll becoming sc
| intolerable that men will gladly take
refuge from it in the despotism of any
hero who will protect them from the nu.
man tigers it unchains. Then there viii
be equality of States with vengeance
All will be equally leveled and PROSTATE
at some lordly tyrant's feet; all leveleG
to common grave. That is the equal
ocratic policy is tending"
There is not one particle of sincerity
= in this clamor for equality of States. 1
means exactly the reverse of equality
the restoration of the former inequality
aggravated by making the three-fffth
rule five-tiths rule, whereby one South
d fern white shall WELD suffrage powe
y in the general government equal to two
n or three northern voters, as it was dur
ing the reign of slavery, only worse
g This is the kind of equality they ar,
is clamoring for. Their liberty means
slavery their equality means inequality
Like the Sons Of Belial in the days o
the prophets, they put darkness for ligh
= and light for darkness; they call evil
o good, and good, evil.
Of The Republican party have made al
E; important advance towards equality o
- States, and now these ruffian hypocrite
demand in the name OF equality a back
= ward movement to the old inequality
!. or another qcdr. And Pomeroy, thei
favorite champion, declares they have
! 100000 able-bodied men organized anC
sworn, and as ready to fight as to vote.
''Such threats are most infamous in
suit oto every friend of liberty ant
democratic government in the nation
Only actual war for the .subversion o
Or the government, OF permanently estab
ii liShed military despOtism, are NOR
dangerous enemies to liberty and dem
r ocratic government"
q THE party which seeks to contro
of elections by such means should be in
dignantly abandoned by every intelli
Of gent and patriotic citizen, irrespectiv
of all other issues. For the puttin
: down of party malignant enough ant
low enough tofesort to such prepare
tions and such threats to influence cleo
r tons, is simply a question of life o
death to republican or democratic libeT
ty. The men who are so lost to all jus
ideas of liberty or .decency as to pre-
pare for war before going to the polls
and notify the voters that they will hav
a a majority or have war, are no bette
" than traitors and murderers. To. vot
for such party is to vote yourself
wicked despot or cringing slave, an
meanly to surrender your country's lib
Ierties. If there is manhood among on
citizens, or mercy in heaven for our ma
o. ton, the infamous. democratic threat
will swell the vote for Grant and Col
fax to an Overwhelming mrjority."
IThese Infamous threats of war over
shadow and swallow up all other issue;
and leave the true patriot no option bu
tovote so as to FebVfke the treasonabl
audacity which resorts to them, no as t
7 make such threatening hereafter as in
= famous and contemplate as secessio
90 and slavery, of whose wrath it is bu
80 the prolonged echo And NAV Go.