The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-01-26
HOW LONG SHALL THE PEOPLE
SUBMIr To BAYONET RULE.
Shall the People Quietly AequieseS
In Radical Tyranny and ReVOIu

shall the People Quietly Aequiesee
IN Radical Tyranny and ReVOIu-
tfOnE
The following article in the Pittsburgh
Post, Of last week, makes some important
suggestions, worthy of serious considera-
ton. We have been under the lordly and
military rule of minority for the past
nine years-a minority sustained by bay
onets as much as that of the Car or Ma
poleon. The majority they domineer over
outnumbers them by about two millions
of white male citizens.
TENNESSEE affords noted example of
bayonet rule and the People free and un-
trammelled. Two years ago Brownlow and
his bayonet Legislature drove things with
high hand-approved Negro equality
arranged the State Constitution to suit and
were delightfully."- accepted by the radical
Congress. All was lovely in Tennessee
Brownlow Q. S. Senator, negroes to vote
&c.
But, presto! At the very next election,
negro radicalism was sent deeper into
Brownlow's hell than Brownlow ever
dreamed. Members were chosen to a Con-
stitutional Convention and they are now
revising the bayonet Constitution of
BrownlOw & Co. All this has alarmed the
whole radical camp and hence their trou-
bic to admit Virginia, Georgia, &c. Our
tyrants find infinite trouble with their Po-
lands. But read the following article from
the Post:
"The Democratic party seek to preserve
our republican institutions by reason, if
Possible-by revolution, if necessary
So says the Post of the Goth inst, and we
cry Amen to the sentiment. We must get
back to the good old Constitution and to
the ways of the Fathers or we will be hur-
ried into an intestine war that will cause
values to shrink" and bonds to shrivel
IN manner quite distressing to the pos
SCISSORS thereof
Without claiming any special gift of
prescience, we profess to have looked for
ward for three years past to the time when
we would be compelled to resist by force
the conspirators who now sit in power
and who are as unlike the men who franz
ed the Constitution, as the Jews who cru
CITED the Holy One We're unlike Moses and
Joshua.
If numbers, one-third made up of the
ignorant cattle of the southern plantations,
are to rule, despite of law; if the bayonet
Is to govern IN the election of members of
Congress; if the shoulder-strapped serf of
Congress are to sit in judgement upon the
returns of members of State Legislatures,
the whole question seems to resolve itself
into one of Submission to wrong, or active
resistance.
If the Fifteenth Amendment shall be
proclaimed adopted, and an effort made to
enforce it, (when every honest man knows
its quasi adoption has been procured by
fraud and by the tyranical use of the bay
onet, and by the votes of the very negroes
upon whom it processes to coufer the right
to vote,) then It's enforcement must be re-
sisted-peaceably if we can, torcibly if we
must
To insure resistance, organization is
requisite, and discussion must precede or
ganiZation Let the State Central Com
mIttee call a State Convention composed
of one delegate from each Congressional
District to act as q committee of public
safety.
This proposition will doubtless occasion
a scream from that old scold, the Gazette;
but it will possibly find worse things to
scold at before 1t is through.
SAMUEL ADAMS.
JOIN HANCOCK.