The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-03-12

, gives them n sword instead Of hore It fills
them with desrair Instead Of civil liberty Vt
gives them military %despotism. White dis
froncbiscment and negro domination was the
idea which inspired and provoked the riot at
New On leans. 1t has arrayed everywhere TIC
blicks md whites in hostility TO each Other
J often %resuliing in bloodshed oil over the South
f 1t tends directly TO bring on that war OF races
which in the West Indies enacted SCIENCES 81
/, horror to sicken Hne appal the world.
That war Is now impending over oil the
South-it is only the presence Of the Federal
Army which prevents its outbreak upon a gl-
!. pantic scnle- n war which, once begun, will
l end. | fear. in the exile or determination oil
! tho blacks from the Potomac 20 tue Rio
Grande. know the Senator from Ohio,
lMr. WADE in q speech in the late canvass,
D had no fears Uf sach n war OF OF us results
, lie 70 reported 10 have said, "let that war
, come let them fight it out" God grant tia
wur my never come But, IL it does come,
no amount OF military discipline con compel
the white men Of the North 90 Guke purt in
The massacre OF their own race and kindred.
MIR. President, having considered at some
length the second answer TO my question, and
!, finding that it is not sustained by the facts,
that il lie bad principle aud worse in policy,
/ repeat the question a.third time-Thy press
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South ? What reason can you give
r The leader Of the Radical Iorces-thot in
exorable Moloch Of this new rebellion against
the Constitution,
9TH strongest and the ferccst spirit
That fought in Heaven, now fcrccr bydcspoir,'
answers with boldness, and in pluin English
gives the true reason, namely, TO secure party
ascendency. This Is the third and last answer
which ] propose 10 consider on this occasion.
On the 81 OF January, 1867, Mr.. SrEvENs, in
the House of Representatives. used this lar
gunge, which J fluid reported in the Globe
''Anothcr good reason is, IL would insure .ho
asccndency Of the Union party. DO you avow
the party purpose, exclaims some hOrror-srick-
On dcm0goguo | do"
The party purpose is here Rvowcd in the
House. In his speeches Gnd letters elsewhere
Mr. STEVENS again aud again, in stronger Ian.
guage, avows the real purpose Of this legisla.
ton, to them | mainly refer. The negroes,
under the ~tutillage Of the FrecdmCn's Bureau,
led 10y Radical emissnries, or pushed By Fed
eral bayoEets, must take the political control
Of these States in order 20 obtain tlcir votes
in the Electoral College or in the House Of
Representatives In the election Of the next
President. Here Is n reason, and just such o
reason us the bold Radical would give. 1t is
in keeping with his revolutionary measures,
o.u ~ NSNF'"b WI" MS wv" iN'VIuN'VhA'y
history.
The letter or General Pope, when in cons
mand Of one of the districts, recently published,
draws nside the vail aud discloses The fact that
the came purty purpose seeks to control the
bayOnet also.
This argument, for party osccndcncy, Ill can
understand. II Is bold, cleOr and logical. 1t
is The argument Of necessity addressing itself
to ungcrupllous ambition. One syllogjsm con.
tains the whole OF it awe must" says tho
Radical, "olect the next President. The nc,
grces, rnder tho lead OF orr burca or the con-
troll OF our bayonets, will vote for our cundi-
date. The whites outraged By our attempt to
put the negroes over them, will vote against
him. Therefore the bayouet must place the
negro in power in these States to give US sew
cnly electoral votes for the President, twenty
Senators, and City members at the House."
All honor to tie Radical chief, the great
Commoner, who, with oil his faults, is too great
a man 10 resort TO subteriuge or shanls, or at-
tempt to conceal his real purpose in this legisN
lation.
Some who favor these measures do not nd
nit his leadership. But the truth IL, in some
wuy or other he does lead or drive the Radical
party in the end into the supper. Of all his
revolutionary schemes. Now and then one
shrinks back. More than once | have seen tho
"galled jade ~wince,'' but never fail at last to
obey the lash OF her master. Would 20 heaven
iC were otherwise Would to heaven that the
Radical party could pause and modify It's sui
cidal policy! But | fear the majority have
become bound to it-bound hand aud foot
with chains they cannot break that, however
much some may regret il or strive to conceal
regret, political necessities compel you to 20
on, and right on TO the bitter end. Yon have
stOled your all upon it. You muss live or die
by it.
The Senator from Massachusetts, Mr.. W.,
son., as il 10y authority, says, ave will take
no step backward" Mr.. COLEAx in his recent
letter Ieechoes. mot q hairs breadth." Such
| fear, is the fatal resolution taken by the mas
jority.
Tie result Of TIE recent elections, showing
that a majority in the northern and western
States is opposed to that policy. so far from
changing a resolution from which the Radical
party dare not retreat, is pushing il on to the
madness Of dispuir. 1t secs that its majority
in the North aud West IL already lost. II dare
, not exclude the South in the next election
(, The South mus. be forced at the point OF the
8 bayonet, by white Acknowledgement ard negro
, suiiroge TO vote for the Radical candidate, or
{ he will be beaten. The minority in The notth~
crn and western States against him must.
therefore, be overcome by the negro votes Of
the South.
Sir, we shall see II the people Of the United
States will allow the regular Army, which nov
controls tits ignorant negro vote in tho South
to hold the balance Of power in the Republic
D and to elect to the Presidency the candidate
y of negro supremacy, upheld by military dcs,
c potism. Shall Pretorian bands control tue
Presidency, us in the degenerate days Of Rome
= they set up the empire for sale? Gm no
prophet but, ii rot mistaken in the signs of
4 the times, the American people ale not yet
If prepared for that. The Democratic party,
everywhere freeing itself from the errors OF tie
past, planting itself upon tie living issues OF
the hour, welcoming into is ranks all who are
opposed to this radical and barbarian policy
of subjecting the Suites Of the South to negro
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