Middletown transcript., 1868-08-29
TOWN. NEW CASTLE DELAWARE SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 49, 1863

military despotlsm, when the Constitution
expressly forbids the suspension of that
writ, except Sin cases of rebellion or inva-
sion, and then only when "the public
safety may require it?'' They will ask
why, when there was no resistance to the
civil courts, the citizens of ten States have
been subjected to military tribunals, in vi
olatlon of positive law, and the most sa-
cred principles of free government? They
will ask why so many little States have
been carved out of the Western wilder
ness; why the President has been impea-
ched, and the Supreme Court threatened
and paral yzed why Congress has usurped
the power to regulate suffrage in the
States; why, in the exercise of this -usur-
ped power, every male negro in the South
twenty-one years eff age, has been made a
voter, and multitudcs of white men dis
franehised; why, by en post tacto laws,
new disabilities upon men who had been
pardoned by the President; why they have
removed them from many of the most no
! torious rebels, and enforced them upon the
less s-guilty; and, finally, why they now
propose to deprive even the negroes as
well as the whites in the South of the right
to vote for Presidential electors? To all
these questions, and many more, the Rad
ical leaders can in truth give but one an
swcr, and that is-''WE INTEND TO
KEEP POSSESSION OF THE GOV
ERNAlENT. We feared the people of the
Southern States would vote against us if
they were suffered to remain in the Union,
and for that reason alone ace practically
thrust them ont. We knew they would
still vote against us if allowed to come in
on the basis Of the constitution" assume
the power to regulate suffrage, cnfranchisc
the negroes, distranchisc the whites, and
impose upon them constitutions virtually
OF our own making. Fearing there might
be some resistance to our plan for secur-
ing to our party the votes of the South by
DISTINGUISHING the whites, and subiecting
them to the government Of their late slaves
we thought it necessary to suspend the
writ of habcas corpus, and put them all
under martial law The President was in
our way, and we stripped him of his legit-
innate powers as far as we could by legis-
lation; and not satisfied with that, we
would have removed him from office, but
for treason in our own ranks. 1t was ru-
mored that the Supreme Court would set
aside all our legislation "outside of the
Constitution" and to prevent that we re-
stricted its jurisdiction, and denounced its
members. Sad to relate, our new fedged
voters of the South most ungratefully
showed signs unmistakable of disposition
to go over to the enemy; so, to make sure
of the votes of the reconstructed States for
our candidates next fall, we have advised
their Legislatures, composed chiefly of our
minions, to take the appointment of cleo
tors into their own hands; and as Virgin
in, il reconstructed, would Immediately
follow the example of the adjoining States
Maryland and Kentucky-and go for
the Democratic ticket by an overwhelming
majority, we determined to prevent that
catastrophe, and have decreed by act of
Congress, though 'outside of the Consti-
tuition" it may be, that she, as well as
Mississippi and Texas, shall have no vote
at all. We remove the disabilities of ev-
cry I" red-handed rebcP' who will vote our
ticket, and enforce them upon every man
who seems inclined to vote against US. In
short, the j1Dtrer Of tie nation tc are deter
mined To retain bs ony and all necessary
means, arhethcr ''inSidc or outside Of the
C0nStitution" +"
Such is the practical language of the
Radical leaders. And if you ask them
how they expect to induce the people of
the North to sustain them in these open
outrages upon the Constitution, and every
principle of republican liberty, they virtu-
ally answer, ''We have popular Union
soldier as our candidate for the Presiden-
cy, and we expect the people to lose sight
of the principles involved in their admira-
ton of the man. In addition to this, we
have powerful arguments in ringing the
changes, through our organs and orators,
upon the words rebel, copperhead, syn,pa-
hi@er, traitor to the party, DC. &c. >
What but these are the means employed to
secure the ascendency of the Radical par
ty IN the fall elections? And now, hav-
ing subjected the white men of the South
by military coercion to the domination of
their recently mancipated slaves, less fit |
ted to exercise the right of suffrage than
the women and half grown children of the
North, and led on by adyenturers who
seek to use them as instruments to secure
Offices and riches, the Radical leaders fill
the country with the cry, "Let us have
peace" Yes, with their feet upon the
nocks, and their bayoncts at the breasts of
the white people of the South, they cry,
Let us have peace" Let us have tame
submission to all the measures of our par
ty to secure their own ascendency, howev-
cr unconstitutional, unjust, and opprcs-
sive. And if any of their victims eyince
disposition to resist their usurpations and
expressions, and seek relief, even by peace
full means, they denounce them as unre-
pentant rebels, seeking q renewal of the
civil war.
Has any man, worthy to be trusted in
public life, read SO little of history, or
studied human nature so unproitably, as
to believe that the white people of the
South are to be pacilied by being thrust