The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-24

the Shareholders Rebellion was set afoot to
promote. Do all good ex-slaveholders, even
in their low estate, feel called upon to sing
hosannahs to an ex-tyrant even in his low
estate |? IF so, let them sing. But, by all
means, let them also find somebody who is a
real, honest, rational Secessionist to lead the
music, and not this humbug of Mobile phi
losopher.
THE SUPPRESSION OF ELECTIONS.
From the N. Y, World.
1t is claimed that the Republican party has
finally restored the Union by admitting to
representation in Congress every Southern
State. The falsity of this claim we propose
to show by showing that in no less than three
of these States--to wit, Georgia, Mississippi,
and Texas-the Republican party has for
hidden any election for Representatives
this fall. .t- f..
In Georgia the Republican Legislature
passed on the goth instant an act, drawn up
by Attorney General Akerman, to alter the
time of the fall elections from the Sth of No
vember, the date fixed by the Constitution of
that State, to the Goth, 21st, and 22d of De-
cember next; the plain intent of this act
being to tide the election over till Congress
shall be in session this winter, so that if the
exigencies of the party require such step
1t may be still further postponed until Novem-
ber, 1872.
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by the Republican party to forbid an election
for Representatives in Congress this fall
When General Ames, as district command
ant, proclaimed certain persons elected in
1869 as the Legislature of Mississippi, said
persons kindly reciprocating, as will be re-
membered, by declaring General Ames United
States Senator, he announced sundry scum
as elected to the unexpired term of the Forty
first Congress, and other scum to the full
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latter certifcate-a certificate altogether in
valid, since the Federal Constitution expressly
ordains an election of Representatives every
second year-it is declared that Mississippi
is to have no Congressional election this fall;
the idea being that it is better to have the
full delegation of five Radicals elected in
November, 1869, than to have that delegation
stand three Conservatives to two Radicals, as
it assuredly weuld with an election in No
vember, 1870.
From Texas it was some time since an
nounced, in petition of the people of
Texas to Congress to guarantee to the people
republican form of government, that the
reconstructed State government meditated q
denial this fall of Congressional election,
by failure on the part of the Legislature to
| enact the necessary legislation; and by latest
| advices we have it that that body has finally
| adjourned without taking any steps towards
| such legislation. The consequence is that
| there will be no election for Representatives
| in Congress in Texas this fall. In is an
nounced that the people, indignant at such
disfranchisement, will hold an election of
their own motion; but, as it is a foregone
conclusion Congress will pay no attention to
the credentials of any Representative so
chosen, it may be set down as absolute that
Texas is denied an election this fall.
| The net benefit to the Republican party of
these several procedures is, first, complete
notification of the danger of seven Demo-
cratic Congressman coming up from Georgia
this fall; second, full delegation of five
radical members from Mississippi; and third,
such condition of allegiance in the Congress
sional election in Texas as leaves said election
to wait the pleasure, or the necessities, of the
party. In one form or another these advan-
tages are gained by denial of those elections
which the Constitution requires, which the
Republican party promised, and on the popu-
lar impression that such elections will be held
that party now banks. 1t becomes the duty
of every Democratic press and speaker
throughout the country to dispel that impress
sion, and, in the light of the facts hereinbe-
fore stated, show that the Republican party
| has disfranchised no less than three States,
now that they are fully reconstructed, as
completely as it ever disfranchised them in
the palmiest days of its bayonet reconstruc.
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