Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-01-15

please note the CHANGE Of TITLE. ofthis
aper, from THE NORTH BRANCH DEM
oCRAT to WYOMING DEMOCRAT.
A Confession.
That the whole object of Reconstruction
by-negro.snffrsge and white disfranchise-
ment, has been said is, to proloDg the Re-
publican party's ascendancy we have often
asserted. Months ago their journals used
to deny the charge Indignantly. They
told US that their reconstruction measures
were the best they could devise for the
good of the country, They scorned the as,
persion that mere partisan purpose to
prolong their party ascendancy was the
sole and only aim of all their measures
We now have to thank the Tribune and
the Times for opening the new year with
a plain confession of the truth of the mat
ter. Says the Times:
"The Radicals in the Republican party
intend that these Southern States shall be
readmitted to the Union in time to be rep
resented in the Republican National Con-
vention and in the next Presidential elec-
ton, prorided The suffrage lace they adopt
are such as to give assurance that their votes
piH be on the right side
Through the agency of the Congress
sional Committee, the operations of the
Freedmen's Bureau and the secret machin-
cry of the Loyal Leagues, it is believed the
votes of every one Of them can be secured
for Judge Chase; and when this is made
reasonably certain, they 'ciN be admitted to
the Union 1hnterer IN other respects may be
the char tcter of the constitutions they adopt.
"THE GRAND AIM AND object OF THOSE
WHO HAVE CONTROLLED THE ACTION OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY SINCE THE WAR WAS
CLOSED, HAS BEEN TO SECURE TO THEM
SELVES TEE PREsIDEyCr.
"There has scarcely been any conceal
ment Of this purpose; indeed ii has been
avo,Ced as the sufficient reason for the re
construction policy that has been adopted.-
And it is not likely to be abandoned or
modified in the slightest degree, how that
the time for its consummation is so near at
hand"
The Tribune is less frank, but II is none
the less inspired by the cold, remorseIess,
partisan purpose. so explicitly admitted by
the Times. 1t upholIs the Reconstruction
policy, we assert, solely because it is the
only means of securing the next PresideD-
cy for the Republicans. Fifty, therefore,
it defends the Observation-Disclosures
suffrage policy because, not applied to Ma
ryland, the Republicans lost the State,
whilst applied to Tennessee, they gained
the State. Says the Tribune:
"The trinmph of the conservative or
rebel party in the latter State (Maryland)
is q standing proof of the result which
would have been suffered in the entire
South bad the Republican party lacked the
courage to extend the right of suffiage to
the blacks. The Republicans of Maryland
had at one time the power TO make suffrage
! impartial, but dared not. AS fit conse-
quence and punishment they now hold not
q single Office in the State, ana are politi-
cally as helpless as the class they feared to
enfranchise."
Reconstruct by y-negro-suffiage thus OPP
enly cries the Tribune, because, SO Recon-
structing, you may save the Republican
party by the Southern vote. We lost Ma.
! ryland proclaims the Tribune to its adher-
ents, for lacking boldness TO impose negro
suffrage there. Let US not lose the ten
States South of the Potomac for lack of
holiness to impose aegro suffrage on them.
Saws the Tribune again
ain Tennessee, on the other hand, i'm
partial suffrage has secured the political
control of the State in the hands of men
who we're loyal diring the war, and who
were in favor Of equal political and civil
rights for all. The same experiment on a
| larger scale, with the same results, was in
evitable in the len reconstructing States"
Brownowism has kept Tennessee for
the Republican party, cries the Tribune.
Therefore let us apply BrownIowism to
the ten States sOuth-ouT ten Irclands.
We have DISTINGUISHED enough whites in
Tennessee and given the ballot TO all the
blacks. whereby Tennessee votes the Re.
publican ticket. Let Us disfranchlse whites
enough. and drive up the negro platoous to
the ballot tox in our ten Polands, SAYS the
Tribune and we shall be able to carry
them also for the Republican party.
Beware of peaceful Maryland, her vote
is against US. Behold BrownlowiZed Ten
nessee, her vote is with us! ! says the T-i-
bune, Reconstruct by negro suffrage and
white disfranchisement, because it gives the
best security for prolOngIng Republican
rule
1t remains for the people Of the United
States 10 say whether they can afford to
have the country ruined 10 keep mori-
bund political party on its legs four years
longer World.