The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-10-20
THE GEORGIA FOLLY.

The Satanic Democracy having a bare
majority or almost a majority in the
Georgia House of Representatives, were
able to secure votes enough to sustain
the plausible proposition that an incul
pated party has no right to vote on his
own case, and for the monsterous infer
ence that if the right Of any class OF
members to their seats be challenged,
the challenging class shall decide the
question the other having no right to
vote on it. This puts in the power of
any bare majority of legislative body,
to make itself two thirds, or the whole,
on any day that it SO pleases. As new
plank in the Democratic platform,
this new mode Of government will at
tract attention. We may expect to re-
alize its virtues hereafter, wherever the
S. d. may have some power, but not as
much rs they have use for. In Georgia,
it works well-so far. The ruling being
first sustained that the colored members
must not vote on the question of their
own rights to seats, OF course the next
step was easy, and they were declared
ineligible by a handsome majority of the
rest. Now, to get clear two thirds
was easier still, by voting into the places
of the colored membrs IL cir defeated
competitors in the election Next, they
propose to turn out the white Republic
ans generally, on some different epretext
of ineligibility. The point of this latter
is not at first apparent, and looking at
the House alone, it seems but wanton
outrage. But looking at the Senate, the
method in their madness is clear The
requisite two thirds in the Senate for
legislative omnipotence can be obtained
only in this way, and while these lines
are being read, the Georgia Legislature
will be sitting in the simple capacity of
Democratic General Committee with
unlimited Legislative power, and prob
ably going through some short mode of
removing the Governor and any other
functionaries, executive or judicial who
may fail to yield efficient support to the
acts Of the restored rebel State Govern
ment.
Nothing in the wisdom and goodness
of Providence toward this nation has
more deeply stirred our gratitude. at all
times in the last eight or perhaps sixteen
years, I'll an the removal from this repro
bate party of all the ordinary restrain
ing influences. Evidently, its cup Of
iniquity is full, and the only unfinished
remnant of it's mission is to perish
execute justice upon the criminals whose
punishment God had committed to it,
that Office rever;e ed, under Providence,
to themselves, and we'll are they execnt
ing the sentence. Hardly can pagan
history show examples Of men so hereit
of ability to comprehend moral effects,
or any reality more remote than the i'm
mediate object upon which they wonld
lay their hands. They find in their
hands, through the moral weakness OF
Republican politicians. the means to Co
cree the vote of number of the recon
structed States for Seymour and Blair
And to do this, they give to their antag
Onists. at one stroke, more votes in the
great contested States that are to decide
the election, than the utmost efforts of
the Republican politicians could win ia
three months canvass! More tbaa
this, they demonstrate-thank God -
to the most purblind Humanitarian in
the North, tina, this generation must pass
away, or at least. all its political issues,
before political power can again be en-
joyed lin common by all classes Of citi
zens ut the South.
1t was feared and hoped that the facile
and snbservient black man would be
easily managed by his late master. I'll
the late master, as represented By the |
politicians of the South. had morality
enough, for an enlightened self interest,
he could do it. But transformed by his
judicially unbridled passions into a |
beast, he is capable of nothing but self |
and will prove the inferior,
in political ability, Of the despise,l black
man, whom he has in one NOM ent " ara ]
ed, alienated, and armed invineibly
against himself and forever
There may be no ready and expehient
way to exercise the power conferred up
on Congress by the Fourteeath Am nd-
ment, in relation to this case. unless the
Democratic Genera. Committee sitting
as the Legislature of Georgia shall pro
coed to deprive the colored people of the
ballot. Without THE and it cannot he
successfully carried throagh-the day is
not far distant when hardly a member
will be practically eligible to the Geor,