Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-07-28

of the people, or establish military despotism
North as we'll as South to enforce the political
ideas of the party that happens to be in
power
The General of your armies has been nom.
mated by the revolutionary party as an in
strument to sustain by the sword the power
they may fail to hold by fraud, and by un-
constitutional legislation the power is placed
in his hands to control seventy electoral votes
to secure his own election. Seven hundred
thousand negro votes have been manufac-
tured by naked usurpation, not only to vote
down rebels, as is claimed, but to govern you,
me, and thousands of men who fought to put
down the rebellion, and at the dictation of
Congressional majority, change the Constitu-
tion of the United States under the mock
forms of law, backed by military force, and
subvert the Government of your fathers
The issue cannot be lodged. Are you pre-
pared to meet it like men or to become
slaves, not only of your former equals and
neighbors, but of the negro helot, who is in
vested with the ballot to vote you down at
the dictation of money lords and a bondhold-
ing aristocracy.
Look at what is now going on in Congress,
who having, by expelling minority at pleas
ure, secured two-thirds majority, are admit
ting by scores carpet bag Representatives and
Senators for bogus constituencies which they
have created. Who are they? Arkansas is
represented in the Senate by cotton specula-
tor Mcdonald, of Illinois, and Rice of Min
nesota Louisiana by adventurer Kellogg, of
Illinois and Harris of Wisconsin /; Florida by
Welch, of Michigan, and Professor Osborn,
&c. 1t was said that one DR.. Mcmillan was
to be a carpet-bag Senator from Louisiana,
man whom the Republicans of his own ward
would not have elected Councilman, notwith-
standing the Endorsement of the Ohio State
Journal and yet it is expected that our peo-
pie will calmly accept as an accomplished
fact this farce as the establishment of re-
publican form of Government. ''To send
parcel of Northern men here as representa-
tives, elected as would be understood (and
perhaps really SOY at the point Oft the bayonet,
would be dtsgracetm and outrageous and
were 1 member of Congress here, 1 would
vote against admitting any such man to seat"
said A. Lincoln in his letter of November
81, 1862, to General Shepley at New Orleans.
Yet such outrages now scarcely excite COM
ment. Republicans who voted against negro
suffrage in Ohio, have you read the bogus
Constitutions of Arkansas, Alabama, Florida
and Louisiana, providing that no one shall
register as voter who will not swear to sup
port negro suffrage now and hereafter and the
mixing of black and white children in the
same school, clause disqualifying majors
ty of the electors Of Ohio, and preventing
their settlement in these States-the very
purpose of the plundering demagogues who
thus artfuly continue the means to appro-
PIRATE the lands of the South for themselves
and the negro In vain did your anglo-sax
passion for lands keep the negro race out of
al l.
the fate of Hayti. Yet, General Grant, in
his letter of acceptance, says, let US have
peace. Yes, it will be the same sort of peace
that prevailed when ''order reigned at War;
saw" Imagine not that these usurpations have
n not already touched the States of the North
and West. Morgan has been deprived of his
seat in Congress under the pretence that Con-
gress can control suffrage in Ohio. Mckee
is given seat in Kentucky, where he had
been defeated by 1000 majority, an outrage
only paralleled in the Wilkes case by Troy
Parliament. Shellabarger, in your own dis
trict, has introduced bill into Congress to
authorize negroes to open side polls and vote,
if your Judges of Election refuse their suf-
frages in obedience to the Constitution of the
State and the verdict of $4,000 majority
The Radical Supreme Court holds that ne
groes shall vote without being questioned un-
der oath like white men, and in this district
you will have to meet a fraudulent vote of
hundreds. Yet the cry is negro suffrage is
no longer an issue, when by the order of Cen
era Grant himself, negro Lieutenant Gov
ernor presides in the Louisiana Senate, and
negroes sit in the Common Council of New
Orleans.
Time forbids discussion of the great farce
of impeachment and the humbug 18th Con-
stitutional Amendment, mere bridge to car
ry over the election, and then enforce negro
suffrage. The Democracy intend fully to
discuss all these issues before the people, a
change of one vote in hundred, with the
cry of one currency alike for the boudholder,
the pensoner and the laborer, will sweep Ohio
for the ticket by 10000 majority at the next
election.