Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-03-25
The Right Kind Of Talk.

ne hight Kind OF ak.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi,
who was recently inaugurated thus
makes known his intention in re
gard to enforcing the laws, the
rights Of colored men and his opin-
ion of the Democratic party.
"But 50 long as I shall have the
honor to govern the State the laws
shall be obeyed Even poverty and
helplessness shall, while 1 preside
over the government, be held 81
cred within our borders from law
less violence. Old citizens or new,
black citizens or white, natives OF
foreigners, coming into this State,
shall be shielded by the law as with
a panobly of steel. The migrant
who comes among us, and the trav.
elcr who passes over our domain,
may feel assured that henceforth
having nothing to apprehend from
the pistol and knife, they will be in
the inviolable keeping of n civil
power at once omiscicnt and omni-
present.
Within the limits ofthe per cent
age of crime incident to the best or
dered societies, / shall not attempt
repression by agencies other than
those of Courts. Let lawlessacss,
however, run riot; let criminals es
cape by reason of either the COW
ardice or the sympathy of the peo-
pie of a beet or of county, and l
shall not hesitate to bring that peo
pie to sense of their obligation to
law and order, even though the,
shall have left me for that duty ot
government. no means less painful
to my own feelings than that of call
ing out the militia. And here does
the question Of economy pass be
yond the control of either the Gov
ernor or the Legislature, to receive
| its limits directly from the mora
sense OF the people
Slavery is dead Free labor de
mands the abolition Of code based
on bondage. The past must be swept
away from our statute book to be
replaced by the present. An equal
ity before the law must now be es
tablishcd by legislation in a form
which shall throw open the ballot
box, the jury box, and the offices oil
State to the competent and s'hon
est without distinction of color
The colored citizens NUT be protect
ed in ali their rights of person and
property and being placed, not on.
ly in theory, but in fact, on exactly
the same footing in the courts as al
other citizens, skall be left free to
pursue the race of life under a code
which throws upon all the reward
OF success, intellectual or industrial,
to be worn regardless of the previ-
GUS condition of the winner.
The Democratic party Inherited
the theories which have been pro
nounced by the war a system O.
brilliant follies. Like the gift of the
Genii, those shining treasures have
tnrned in our hands to witheret
leaves! The existence of that par
ty as it now languishes out Of life i:
fact tied up in the dazzling alb
stractions which the war has de
clared to be utterly impotent, be
cause utterly unwise. The Democ
raey of the South is thus seen, on
general grounds, to stand drawn uE
across the true road of Southern
progress. Thus it is seen than tn,
Democratic leaders occupy a posi-
tion in the way of every Southern
mans interests, inasmuch as thei
thinking has directed, and while it,
nature remains unchanged, ever mus
continue to direct the whole ener
gies of our people to the accom-
plishment of the unreal. The fna
dissolution of the diving Democrac,
Of Mississippi ought to become
therefore, consumation most de
voutly to be wished for. by all thos
independent thinkers who, thougl
acting with it, fall not behind tina
capacity for instruction which ha
raised the people Of Austria, in
few short years, from the depth o
crushing defeat to the hight Of pc
; litical and material grandeur.