The Republican journal., 1870-11-03
HOW THEY MEAN TO DO 1T.
A late issue of Fomey's Press, contained
the following:

the following:
ALABAMA TO BE LOOKED AFTER.
| The State of Alabama being disposed to banker
after the defunct Confederacy, and to give trouble
to the union law abiding portions of the citizens.
the Administration has taken the matter in hand
and orders have been issued to make sepa-
rate military district of the State with Gen. S. W.
! Crawford OF Pennsylvania in command. Addition
al troops will be sent there to insure fair and free
election this fall. The President is determined TO
put down every sembance of dissatisfaction with
the Government in the late rebel States. This is
regarded as the only means of preserving order and
protecting the lives and property of Union men.
Upon this shameful announcement the
Hartford Times, with proper indignation and
perfect truth, remarks that Alabama is a
State of the Union, nominally and theoret-
cally as free and Independent as Massachu-
sets or New York. Ulysses s. Grant has no
more authority to take Alabama by the throat
than he has to throttle Connecticut. But the
President grasps States by the neck as easily
and familiarity as he grasps the neck of his
whiskey bottle. These United States soldiers
are sent into Alabama not to repress yio-
lence for there is none, But TO OyERAWE
THE PEOPLE, AND CARRY THE ELECTION for
party Radicalism. That is the plain truth,
tersely and squarely stated. These troops
are sent to Alabama to sustain horde of To-
norant plantation negroes in voting. in dit
terent precincts, three, five, or a dozen times
apiece. The white people are to be over
awed and complaint against this intended
intamy is to be precluded by stationing Fed
eral troops in convenient places, so that any
of the unprincipled persons who are distinct
y known at the South as ''scallywags' and
'carpetbaggers' may dispose Of honest and
law abiding white men in their own local
community whom they hate and fear for
Their watrhftlueaa Of roguos, by entering
a complaint against them ON the vague gen
eral ground OF "disloyalty." White men are
to be kept away from the polls by this style
Of intimidation; and the poor ignorant
negroes are to be permitted to vote, "earlv
and often" the ballots which the secret
"Union League" of the Forneys and W lsons
distribute to them, with ''League'' nstruc-
tions to vote more than once. For this latter
object the polls are to be kept open, in
Georgia and Alabama, two or three DAYS.
The protessed object of this high-handed
interference in State election, by the Fed
eral Executive, it will be seen, is the unsup-
ported assertion that ''the State Of Alabama
is disposed to banker after the defunct Con-
federacy." SO ''the Administrations
ing u S. Grant and the Radical general com
mittee-'has taken the matter in hand"
Alabama, or New Hampshire, has the
privilege, we believe of hankering after de-
funct Confederacies if it choose-the same as
Gen Butler may banker after other peoples
silver ware, or U. S. Grant has the privilege
of hankerng after Old Bourbon, and to 90
on q tearing "bender'' in private, and have
ii reported to the country that it is a case of
illness caused by too free indulgence in
strawberries and cream. 1t is new era in
the history of our republican government
when partisan President may prescribe his
own party friends in Missouri because they
don't vote for the right Republican, and
throttle a State like Alabama because her
people are suspected of hankering after an
other style Of government than his.
1t is this man Grant, and the party VINO
sustain him, who must be Cooked after
if the American people would save the free
dom which they once possessed, but which is
silently but rapidly slipping from their
Grasp.