The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-27

pedging his sword once more to his native
State. and swearing that at her call he would
hasten to her rescue from the afttermost bounds
OF the earth. Fresh from the meeting or the
| "Natioaal" Democracy, and planning political
campaign for the whole whole na,l,1n, u, ne yet nad no
| confined to the petty borders of the sovereign
| State of South Carolina. No, secession Is not
yet dead, and the Memphis APped! only gives
| form 10 the secret VOWS of the southern Demo
Gratis when 1t bluntly debates that the South
will yet be independent.
If Ifsecesson is thus still rampant the other old
heresies are not less vigorous. The spirit OF
feudal oppression and class privilege, the con-
tempt for honest labor, and the determination
to keep 1t in suhjection, which formerly maui
tested themselves in slaveholding, were, when
slavery was abolished, promptly reasserted in
the black codes enacted throughout the South
by MIR. Johnson's reconstructed Legislatures.
Now that these also have been swept away. the
same spirit reveals itself in the schemes to con-
troll the negro vote, and to render hun the
instrument OF his own dsiranchisement Public
speakers openly advise com bined action to throw
out oil employment every man who does not
vote the Democratic ticket, and associations are
| sprngng up everywhere pledged to carry out
this policy In an organized manner. III Is hitting
| that men styling themselves Democrats should
manifest such utter contempt for the first ele.
ment OF republican democracy.
| Nor Is the old intolerance, which placed
| paddock on the lips of every man who did not
| think with the majority, one whit abated. Free
| thought and free speech-the vital breath of our
insttutions-are as obnoxious to the Southern
mind to-day as when peaceful citizens we're
tarred and teathered for disbelievng in the
Divine appointment of chattel bondage. All
who frankly accept the results OF the war, all
! men, whether Northern or Southern who
honestly believe that the South can b. read
jused TO the necessities Of the new era, are
! denounced as unfit for human companioushp;
| they are to be placed under the D1n and eX.
! posed to ingenious persecution, until driven
away IN despair from a community which is
| obstinately determined to learn nothing and to
! forget nothing.
Stin more porienlous is the undiminished
vigor Of the old spirit OF lawlessness-the spirit
which taught that it was noble and chivalric to
| DEFY the law, and which ever sympathized With
| and protected the law breaker. The peculiar
! boast of modern Anglo. Saxon civilization Is the
| innate reverence for the sanctity OF law which
| enables vast communities to live with perfect
| safety to person and property, aud without sub
| lection to the bayonet. 1t is this training which
| ranges every citizen instinctlvely against the
! law-breaker, and thus relieves US from the ruin
| Gus expense aud Generalization of huge stand,
| ing armies, and in this training the South is un-
| fortunately more deficient than ever. Witness
! the hundred murders a month now occurring
! unpunished in Louisiana; witness the nine hun
! dred and thirty. nine homiCides which have been
! perpetraed in Texas since the RebellioR-was
suppressed, and Tor which but one murderer has
| been hanged; witness the burning Of negro
schools aud the lynchingo OF negro teachers;
witness the outrages of Ku-kluX Klsns,
combining :. every element of .,grotesque
| terocity. No one understood the power
of this spirit better than General Blair,
| when, foreseeng that the South would control
| the Democratic Convention, he bid for its sup.
| port by pledging himself 10 trample upon the
laws of Congress, to coerce the Senate into sub
| mission, and to disperse by force the recon-
| structed governments of the Southern States.
! The artiul bait was eagerly swallowed, and
! simultaneously every ORGAN of southern
| opinion appeals to force to carry the election,
or upset the election in case of defeat Every
| disranchised Rebel Is to vote, and il these ille
! gal votes are refused, the bayonet is invoked to
| cOmDel their rpppntiOO. virginia
! Texas, and Mississippi, States not yet organized
| or recognized, and the Senate is to be overaWed
| into counting their ballots in the Electoral Col
| lege; while, If these hopeful schemes fail in
! Winning success for their revolutionary candt-
dates, civil war is freely threatened as a last
We have no fears that this antquated system
Of lawlessncss, Of oppression, or arlstocracy,
and of secession can win an ultimate and per-
maDCnt victory, for the spirit OF the age Is
! against it, and sooner or later 1t must go down
and be buried with the kindred relics OF now
| forgotten wrong and error. Neither can we
| promise you that the success OF the Republican
party at the coming elections will at once ele-
vate the South from darkness into light. We
only know that as sure as there Is God in
heaven, progress aud enlightenment and free
! dom must triumph in the end. 1t rests with you
| to say whether this triumph shall be speedy and
peaceful, or whether the struggle shall be pro-
| longed and arduous, leading to convulsions as
| fierce those from which we have just
emerged. The alliance between the Demo-
Cracy and reaction is so thorough and cordial
| that the nomination of Seymour and Blair
is everywhere hailed at the South as the
justification of the Rebellion, and the bitterest
Rebels openly declare that, in striving for the
success of their candidates, they are but con-
tiuuing the battle for the lost cause-that they
are fighting now for what they fought for from
/ 1861 TO 1865. Should they by any possibility OF
force or fraud carry the day, think what a
dreary vista of anarchy and strife we shall have
to traverse ere we can restore the country to
even The measure of peace which we now enjoy.
| Exhausted as we are, and needing years of quiet
industry 10 make good the losses and the rava-
| ges of war, four years OF Democratic misrule
under the guidance of Wade Hampton and Blair,
would do moIe for oar prostration than was
| effected by the four years of the Rebellion.
Nor can we iatter ourselves that the cautious
seifshncss Of an intriguing politician like Sey-
mour would arrest the maduess of those to
whom he would owe his election. They would
be his masters, for in times like those which
would be upon US negative natures must sue
cumb to positive ones. We should see oui
Hampton in the War Department, and Rsphae
Semnes at the head OF our Navy. Should he
falter in the work he would be made TO feel thai
his safety depended upon his obedience, and i
this were not sufficient, the men who are already
invoking the dagger Of Brutus and the shade o
Wilkes Booth would not scruple to remove hin
that they might obtain the services of the reck
less and unpriucipled Blair.
Whichever way we turn, tellow-citiZens, we
therefore see that our only hope OF safety lies
IN electing Grant by such a majority as may
show to Democrats and rebels that the Ameri
can PEOPLE intend to perseVeTe in the patti
which they have entered; that neither threats
nor Establishments will turn them from theil
duty, and that they are irrevOcablY determined
that the cause which led to the rebellion shal
be forever removed from the nation.
These are the main issues awaiting your deci
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