Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-09-04
Peace orWsr.

Peace or War.
If Gen. Grant shall be elected Presi-
dent, no man fears, or even affects to fear,
reign Of violence or terrorism. No ex-
listing government will be overturned or
subverted. No person OF class no en-
franchised vii! be deprived Of political
rights. On the contrary, the work Of en-
frsnchisement will move steadily, rapidly
on, ill every disability w;ll have been re-
moved. Ths masked sssassins who now
make night hidfoua - the South will
shdefslAbd sho. {hcy must quit, sndlwill
do il. The three States which have not
yet framed aud adopted free constitutions,
will close on the work forth with, and be
again represented in Congress. There
upon Military rule will cease in those as
il has done in the seven States already
reconstructed, and the few soldiers re-
naming In the South will be simply SER
wants and hackers Of the civil power.
-Four years Of Grapt ahead will be like the
four years more Of Lincoln decreed by
the people in 1864, when the Rebels saw
ih bis reelection fixed resolve Of the
loyal States TO fight four years longer III
necessary, and thereupon concluded that
they might as we'll give IL up. The re-
election of Lincoln was Peace, though
Seymour & Co. insisted that it involved
interminable War. So the election Of
Grant will insure the removal Of all re-
naming Southern disabilities by curing
the spirit and arrosiing the outrages which
have rendered restrictions indispensable.
If Grant shall be elected there is no
vengeance to be gutted, nothing estab.
lished to be subverted, no class to be de-
prived Of their rights His election will be
due notice that violence and outrage
must cease, that school. houses must no
longer be burned and may safely be built,
that there is to be education in every
State aud for every class, and that the
farmer, of whatever hue, may henceforth
plow and SOW in full assurance that he
shall harvest and enjoy. There is not in
the South an acre Of land, coal bed, q
water fall. that will not be increased in
value by the news Of Gen. Grants cleo
ton.
Should Seymour unhappily be chosen,
there is not an implacable Rebel in Amer
lea who will not believe and feel that the
cause which was lost on the battle field
has been regained at the polls-that the
verdict Of the ballot-boxes has reversed
that Of Gettysburg, Mission Ridge, At
lanta, and Appomattox. "You have had
us under these three years." they will say
to their Union neighbors; snow IL is our
turn. ave will show you who Is master
nowl' And they will drive out "the car
pet-baggers,' as they call the Unionist
who have migrated from the North, hunt
ing them as though they were Wolves
We know this, for they threaten it-not
one, merely, but thousands Of them--and
are sure to be as bad as their word. They
did hunt our people out in the Spring Of
1861, killing them by scores; and they
are to-day unchanged in spirit and char
acter. We're Seymour's election assured,
the Yankee teachers of Black children,
Bureau agents, &C., &C., in the South,
could not live there another week. They
would be hunted aud killed precisely as
the Blacks were in New York City in the
great Democratic uprising Of July, 1858.
The Blacks would not fare SO badly IL
they bent abjectly to the storm; but let
oue VI ihem hPPfoach she o"H"s,p"A WIN
intent to vote, and he would have knife
thrust into his body, law or no law. The
Frank Blair revolution would be complet-'
ed within a. month after the Rebels bad
chosen President after their own heart;
and thenceiorth no "carpet-bagger" or
"scalawag" could open bis head at the
South and live. Every one who stayed
there would swear that he was jealous
Seymourite, and ready to rip up every
''nigger" who should presume to offer
vote.
We do not believe ii probable that
Reaction and Aristocracy--the right Of
the cunning and strong to do as they will
with the simple aud weak-are about to
triumph in this Republic. The calamity
would be so profound :.and pervading that
we are sure the country cannot afford 1t.
There is no industry, there is no legitim
ate business, which does not imperatively
require the election Of Grant and Colfsx,
and we do not apprchend National sui
.-TShelbyvill Union,