Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-08-04
Political News.

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it is reported, The scared with the
fires of his Indignation Gen. Grant
and the Chicago platform. Whereup-
on a contemporary says: at must
be a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of runaway thief.
The Charlestown Is. c. Courier
explains on what basis it would have
the Southern vote recognized in the
Electoral College:
"Congress, by numerous acts and
declarations, has recognized as legiti-
mate all the State Governments ex-
listing in the South at the termination
of the war. Therefore, in case two
sets of electors should present them
selves from such states, the uotes only
of those should be counted aoho acre cho-
sen under the Government so formed by
the people. The country should see to
1t that the uotes of the negro orgamiea-
ton should not be receiUed."
Among those who have returned to
conduct the Southern canvass for Sey-
mour and Blair is John Forsyth. of
the Mobile Register, who gives his
views in a carefully framed editorial,
which is well worth considering here
at the North. 1t takes the ground,
it will be seen, that the diSfranchise-
ment OF disioyal men by the recon
struction laws should be openly disre-
garded by the Southern people, as
r follows:
We start with wha: we regard as
postulate, aud that is nothing but
an overwhelming Democratic victory
> in November, the effect Of which will
! be to drive from power the enemies
). of free government, and the Cypress
f ors Of the people of ten States, can
arert GIRL war IN the land. If by
any chicanery or fraud the legitimate
voices of a majority of the lOhoLe peo-
pie of the United States are coGtemn-
ed and the Radical candidates are
pronounced elected by the Radical
Congress, the Democracy of the coun-
e try lOiL not submit TO 1t, and UW take
e arms to sustain the DEGREES of the bal
I lot-box. This is the sentiment Of the
. Democratic party, and even the New
York World, with all its great ability
u and outspoken boldness on general
e political questions, has heretofore
G been fshy on this subject. in its last
number procIaims that the majority
+, under such circumstances would be
=, recreantS to duty and ancestry, and
d towards, did they not fight to main
Is tain their political rights"
W Here is another war threatened at
is the South, unless the existing laws are
20 disregarded and Seymour and BIail
are declared elected. Rule or ruif
10 is the policy of these men, as it wa:
eS in 1860 Worse than that, the cOun
tie try is notified of impending revo
lie without any reference TO the result 0
,r. the coming election. Speaking of TIN
-, rule now existing in the South, tn
- Register say:
IL And here we may as well say, tha
AT H. r @rl~.ef th~ G~--sIa - 6'soo's'
lis TO submit TO that permanent rule, resul
er. as the Presidential election may. An,
q they have only submitted to its iudi4
mites and insults 50 far because the
" have been waiting Tor the good sens
We and justice of the American people t
ad relieve them from it and restore theI
ey to their civi. rights in the Novembe
10, election"
lat The remainder of the article is dt
re voted to wheedling and intimidatin
'N- the colored voters But as it discIo
mo e5 a significant portion of the part
en programme, we copy the material pal
aid of it, as follows:
'es IF the colored people, by the
e 5 votes, help to give the victory to OF
ad- enemies and to keep Us white men
'ot our present condition of disfranchiS
5h; ment and outlawry on our own sol
nd they will forever make the whites o
Al the South their enemies, and let tie
as look to the consequences If, on tt
ed other hand, they vote the Democrat
lis ticket. vote with their own home pc
ma pie and not with strangers, vote to c
the Justice to their t)rmer masters and
lor give back to them the rights Whit
the robbers and Sc0agdreis lave deprive
no them of, then there will be peace al
he friendship, good will and mutual CO
Sc tidence between the two colorS, and +;
en- assurance that fail justice will be do
Der To them in the free bestOwal of owe
TO civil ami political privilege which
per- consistent with good government
the State. We declare our readine
to strike hands with the colored pc
- pie of Alabama on this basis of nut
IRA al benefaction. Let them be just
u Us while temporarily they hold t
power, anu We Will NC more IMAM ]u
lreu to them when we get the power, viii
SAIL is as certain to revert to US as th
SION the blood that is in our veins has nj
la''- er long submitted to be enslaved
1"o And to white men, it is said, that tt
ouV is no time for thin-skinned sensib
yeo ties and prejudices of a past era.
MS Radicalism has put the suffrage we;
ilih- on in the hands of the colord ms
ayS' 1t is the interest of the colored III
\, to turn against the hypocrites and
hes rants who gave it to him for their o.
COL internal purposes. There is the we;
Gne on. we must 900 for it. oraSn a