The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-24

Mhats With the countrya VIA the censttutonf
with the States am No. Win U.S. Their test for
ship. 1t IL not patriotism. This common,
dalton of masaang + tricky T.. a r1ss.S q
state Of the hnancea Is not nelg, but but, =
weakness and burden, to the country. The North
a Alp sSSs sn@ ese
taxes The sooner she divides this burden WIZ us
the better. She is eager for the chance DSs %nm .
must be paid and IL cannot be reduced so long as
the army and ths bureau such their millions from
tension over sair period OF tme according to the
letter AND spirit OF the laws under which II was
republrsns do not 1--WE ana cannot give any relief
from The burdens Of taxation that now Cypress us.
VIII regard to ~ tS No tass
| or those trained In the law. And with reqard TO
this reconstructed engnery which u to take the
It is not necessary before an American audience to
exercise hangs our representative system II Is the
only vehicle OF democratic sentiment. The elective
as ss has IN and in this country
more with greater intelligence. II its ex-
preston Pre- Sn, Is the result Of intimidation BY
dethroned and democracy becomes despotism All
son, property, life and liberty-depend on its fair,
Intelligent and honest exercise. Now 1t lie to sub
vert TINS ae privilege that m has
unconstitutional laws, and that Northern taxpayers
sweat for the ratons Of lazy incompetent persons.
Ave thousand ratlons were issued last month, just
that that the the South is " thronged with inter inter.
lopers from the North styled rpetbaggers,"
acres and mule to each negro. It is to subvert
this privilege that the army at an expense OF one
kept up At n
october 1855 nearly al the troubles between the
whites and blacks "were IN consequence Of the
Wss and fores ess suags on
this system that General Grant, while secre.
the negros had not Intelligence suicient to combine
for the expression OF their will ordered the military
to be increased for some time to maintain the freed
men In their right OF suffrage and recommended
is reduction only after the election |" Which is the
General Grant to be apprOved 1t to this That radi
negro already votes In the South 1t is proposed by
the newly coddled constitutions to perpetuate
work and corner stone Of the new consti-
buttons In the South is this equality. 1t is
tends to the antagonlsm Of races the destruction in
the end Of the weaker race, and In its destruction
involving the social and material interests Of one
third Of the Union. To give one comprehensive state
ment over 100000 ignorant. negroes, mostly led by
itnerants, without name at the North, and seeking
the qualification OF their greed South, the bum
mers Of the radical army and the stipendiaries
Of Congress and Its Freeman's Bureau, are all
ators for the wSoe county, The cons
tuition Of Alabama is negro constitution to
the, extent Of 57,2a7 negro majority: In Georgia.
Florida, the CarOlinas Texas and Virginia, where
the whites had some twenty thousand more regis
tered voters than the blacks, nevertheless owing to
jorty OF ,49e. These constitutions were made to
order in Washington. They are all cut from one
alone but to the North also. Twenty Senators over
1ty Representatives and seventy electoral votes for
power Of ten States. They hold the balance of
power. In the Senate Florida nulIifes New
as in isSe-so, these black votes viii rule. We
are then black republic 1t Is terrible peril.
These 600 black voters can destroy best poll
cies. They may vote down our credit; tax at
pleasure; vote to themselves our public lands and
repudiate at viii. If your children 60 South to
acting that such suffrage shall forever be continued
The voter South must swear that he accepts the !
s s n voters political n ssa York omen
Wisconsin, Michigan Indiana and Illinois, who
have refused thus TO voter DISTINGUISHED. Nearly
two millions Of democratic voters In the North
thus aliens from the South Thus the union Of equal
States becomes q sham and a shame Next comes
Carolina, South Carolina louisiana, Alabama Geor
gia, and Florida, Virginia, Mississippi and Texas
may follow though see that today 1t Il proposed
then TO end in some giddy "Black Crook" spectacle
These constitutions are the product Of negro incu-
Migrants, who, cuckoo-like, have sat upon eggs
not their own. Here and there are dele
Mixed with this mosaic are unpardoned culprits from
Sing Sing; there morse thief from the penitentsry
Of Ohio Here razor-bearing barber, innocent of
all but lather and there . razor-cuttng assassin,
pare sovereign States for the family Of Washington
They are manufacturing radical representation. Lis
Where Ia the relief for thisi As President Johnson
said when he came to washington, 1.-THE only saliva
eval with the constitution and win be coeternal
with the government. In all that gives stability to
industry freedom to trade, standards to currency,
equality in taxation, economy In administration,
self-government to States peace to the Union-at
home peace, abroad peace and glory; in all that
verng party, the democracy win stand in the
next seventy years, as 1t has In the seventy years
before the war, as wall OF adamant against the
waves OF radicalism 1t is this party that has made
our land great and our government strong, not by
the collisions OF civil war; but by the cultivation OF
concord. Under the control OF democracy should
before now have had this whole Continent banded
under a federal head, holding half our hemisphere
tional law. Before the war the democracy strove
TO save the nation with earnest patriotic and
It's sons to the field with melancholy
pride and 1t gave its sweetest blood 10
the cause, as IL nad given us kindest connsels.
tration In New York. IL a fair type and noble
vndication and illustration OF democratic patriotism.
His record crystalline In vain SANDER assaiis 1t.
He like the party whose exponent he u.s. accepted the
results OF the war as they declared in honor
bound and In the spirit Of Christian amnesty 'swith
malice to none charity TO ALL To bind up the nations
wounds and TO do all that may achieve and cherish
a Just and lasting peace among ourselves and
with all nations" In this spirit the democracy In
tend to contend. II they fail then the stars in their
courses against them. If they succeed the spirit
OF Christ will temper the people, and all that Il for
giving and good will encompass the constitution az
sentines for Its guard and ITS sweet honor. Then
over and out OF the cataract seething and foaning
with the passions engendered by our civil STRIFE
there will spring like Hope
A radiant arch that with prismaiic dyes,
Links North TO south-Ns keystone in the skies
The band then played patriotic air.
REMARKS BY Mr.. RICHARD o'GORMAN.
Mr.. O'GoRMAN next addressed the audience. He
said that there times In the life Of every man
when negligence was crime. When mans rights
were assailed, when O mans honor insuted,
self-asserton became the first duty, and to fail in
that duty was base and pusillanimols. SO It was In
the life Of nations when the peoples rights were
when the nations future was betrayed, Ii became
the duty OF every citizen TO be q politician, and he
who not a politician In such times