The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-01-26
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vored the rebellion Of its chief wing, res
returns to the control Of that wing. and
under it's lead demands not change. OF
policy, not new measures under the gov
tent, but the forcible overthrow OF
national law, it is question Of national
order and existence; and it was as fOol-
ish to hope to be able to divert the pub-s
lie mind from it now as it was in 1864,
The result shows that it was SO. II is
not defeat so much as an extinction OF
the Democratic theory of the situation.
It exposes it's utter ignorance of the no.
BILE American heart, and the great pur-
pose of victrious and generous people
The Democrats appeal has been two
fold-to the meaaest form of selfshness
in the pocket, and to the hatred and jeali
ousy of race. They have both been as
scornfully and overwhelmingly rejected
as its proposition in 1864 to surrender to
the rebellion. Of the old free stateszMr.
Seymour apparently receives the vote of
two-New York, which, by fraudulent
means, gives him five or six thousand
majority; and New Jersey, which, by
the same method, may reach two thou
sand. He gets the vote of Louisiana
and G eorgia in which the directions of
Wade Hampton, to starve those who
would nos vote for Seymour, have been
followed and improved, and Kentucky,
Maryland. and Delaware vote for him,
the three States in which the old Slave
Democracy is still supreme. But the
conscience, the heart the intelligence.
the iudstry, the enterprise of the conn-
try, the indomitable spirit that pushed
the war to an unconditional surrender,
that emancipated the slaves, that saved
Io;o hat ;o E,,I1 .,f ,otb tbv vvit
every lover of liberty in the world. and
tat will greatly mould the future of the
world, have all resistlessly declared
against Mr. Seymour, aud the inhuman
and un- American policy of which he is
the fit representative. 5ss s se@
This isthe end Of the old form of the
Democratic policy in this country. II
will now cut loose from the corpse to
which thirty years ago it SO exultinely
chained itself. Its old Southern Lead
ers have lost their prestige. Yet they
have one hope, and it is in the ignorance
of their followers. The Southern chiefs
are the men of conviction and of pur-
pose in the party; and such men, as ex-
perience has shown in the history of all
parties, are very powerful. Hopeless OF
reversing the accomplished action Of
Congress-, the wisest Of these will now
endeavor to influence the vote which
they could not destroy; while the moro
stupid will continue to thwart and delay
a work which they cannot prevent. But
the duty Of Congress is clear. The
country has amply sustained a policy
which secures equal rights, and which
forhids all kind eff evasion and special
pleading. The country means fair play
to white and black in the Southern
States, and the new Admin stration will
take care they both have it. As to the
oppression under which the Southern
States are suffering, the elections in Lou
isiana and Georgia, and the universal
terrorism, show who is oppressed. In
every one of those States there are moth
ing but American citizens. American
citizens have equal rights; and the Ad-
ministration of General Grant, sustained
by the enormous majority Of the people,
will see that those rights are protected.