Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-21
What are they Driving att

HNo g, Ga is now restored to full
e 'nr communion, and the prospect IS
kat the whole organization, from
Maine to California, will be brought
nv the New York Convention into
battle array, and will make serious
struggle at the polls for the possession
of the Government. If it should sue
coed. what would be its objects-al- |
WAYS excepting, of course, the prima-
~ Democratic aim Of dividing and en-
loving the offices? Leaving out of
view, for the moment, its financial pol
icv. it is plain that the Southern wing
could not have been so efectually
rallied at the present time if its inter
ests had not been touched by some
hope connected with the OvershadoW-
ING question of reconstruction. What
is it. then. that the Democratic party
designs to do for the South whenever
it gets the power? The answer is to
be gathered from various sources.
The Cincinnati Inquirer, for in
stance. responds in behalf Of the Pen
dleton section, in the following state
mcnt Of points upon which the De-
mocracy Of the country are said to be
unit:
l. This was intended to be, and
must always remain, a white mans
government. None but white men
must vote Or hold Office.
2. Negro suffrage has been impOs-
ed upon the States Of the. South by
gross and scandaIous usurpation on
the part of the Federal Government,
and it cannot exist without a contin-
uance of that Federal usurpation.
The Democracy will not allow that
continuance, but will leave the matter
to be SCI tied by THE WHITE VOTERS OF
EVERY STATE and by no other people.
1t must be settled in the Southern
States, as it is ettled In the North
ern. by the votes of the whites alone.
,. Every means Of coercion upon
the white people. to force them to
have negro suffrage, will DE forthwith
stopped and declared illegal. as soon
as the Democrats are in power.
Further examination will show that
these words are spoken deliberately.
The same paper, in another issue,
says that the reconstruction laws can
not exist any length Of time after the
withdrawal Of the military; that new
elections Of members OF Congress
will then follow, and that a Democrat
ic House OF Representatives will rec
Ognize only such members as may
have been elected under illegal State
Constitutions and by white voters.
John Forsyth of the Mobile Register
says, in an article ochoing the same
view: Let the incoming Democratic
Administration only agree to keep It's
hands of. and we will soon show
which and what are the de fact0 GOV
ernments in the Southern States. -
The Montgomery (Aia.) Mail also
AYERS that The effect Of Democratic
success in the Presidential election
will be to declare that this is white
mans government, and that d foul in
EQUITY, conceived u party corruption
and brought forth in fraud and peril
DIV, SHALL NOT STAND 50 LONG AS A
SCORE OF LOYAL ARMS CAN BE RAISED
TO STRIKE IT TO THE DUST"
1t will be seen that the latter eX
preston contcmpIates a resort tc
force. But what else could be eX
pected of this programme Sever
hundred thousand colored voter;
would not be likely, if they had any
thing Of common humanity in them
to tamely acquiesce in their total dis
reimbursement and in their degrade
ton as near as possible to the STATE
in which they were before the war
They would Highland what wOulC
the General Government do in tina
event? The policy Of the Democrat
ic leaders evidently is, that the Gov
eminent should keep its hands off, al
Mr.. Forsyth says-renew that att
Jude Of non-mterierence which Tn,
same men in part succeeded, in 1861
in impressing upon James Buchanan
Aud what would be the end Of Il.
this but another civil war, with th
work Of the heroes, dead and living
of the last war all to be done owe
again? Such are the already fore
Swallowed fruits ofDemOcratic success
in 1868. We shall see them comm
more and more plainly into view a
the campaign goes on-unless, indeeC
the people rise in their majesty an
awe these mischief-makers, warme
into renewed lie in the bosom of til
Union, into silence if not into relir
quishment of their fell designs-Bo.
ton J0uHaL