The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-31

Washington March 21) Correspondence of the New
York World
. There is no longer doubt of the issue
which the Radicals in Congress, abetted
by the President, ares prepared To- force
upon the South and before the country.
Alarmed by the certainty that the South
crn States, reconstructed or unreconstruct-
ell, cannot further be relied on to sustain
the Republican party, and convinced by
unmistakabie signs that that party, I'M
succ0red from the South, cannot overcome
The powers arrayed and rising against it
in the North and West i'll season for the
next Presidential election, they are ready
for the desperate resort of another civil
war Their legislation indicates this
their acts lead to it nay, their leaders pro-
claim,it here IN the national capital. Ii Is
their purpose to regain and retain by mill
tary force, If possible, the ascendency they
have lost in the quarter where they yaln-
ly thought to have constructed of negro
Suffrage, and cemented with carpet-bag
sism, n new political stronghold.
In Georgia, Tennessee and North Car
olina, the three Southern States where
symptoms of disgust at RadicaliSm and
its Northern ENJOYS are pcrhap s most sa-
liently manifest, the system Of repression
resolved upon is now surely destined to
TIE applied, if the people OF those States
can he goaded into furnishing a plausible
excuse for it. In North Carolina, Gov.
Holden has called for Federal troops, for
suspension of the writ of hqbeas corpus,
and for military commissions, with the
object of creating a reign of terror ami
preventing the people from Overturning
in August the dynasty which has ruined
the finances OF that State In Tennessee,
the Radicals, headed by their delegation
in Congress who were elected III Noyem-
lec, 1868, by fraud, now propose new
reconstruction, the disfranchiSment OF the
population, including the voters who
voted for them then upon fraudulent GER
tilicates of registration, but have since
turned against them tie overthrow OF the
present State government, and military
rule. In Georgia, Bullock seeks to set
aside the regular election in November
next, knowing well that the people
would, by an overwhelming vote, eXpel
him and his whole band of harpies. But
even this policy j. deemed by the bitterest
partiSans ofathc United States Senate less
prudent and secure than the establishment
in Georgia OF "A standing army OF Federal
troops, ckCd out 10y Il negro militia, To he
stationed in Democratic counties al the
expense of the local population, with mil
itary commissions organized To convict.
Such Is literally the proposition intro
ducCd in the Senate on Friday by Mr.
Drake, of Missouri, and supported with
rapccrous vigor by him and several other
Republican Senators on that day and To
day.
But it is not in these three States alone
that The Radicals in Congress and Presi-
dent Grant perc i've tie signs OF
a dissolution of the Republican party
aSccndency, and melting away
of their chances for the control OF
the national government They are aware
of the probability, which has long been
patent to Democrats in Congress, partic
ularly 10 such as have by their committee
relations been brought in contact with
delegates from the Southern people, that
there is hardly one, possibly not
one, of the Odds lave States which,
If left to itself, even in conformity
To the reconstruction laws. would fai Ia
roll in a Democratic majority 1T the very
next State OF national election.
The negro vote, first trusted 10y Radi.
cIllsm To sryc lis purposes and lhost
alone, is tou plastic To be relied on by d
party GOt actually in strong, controlling
power. Overwhelming evidence exists
white leaders, given fair field. to per
s'latle the negroes away from the support
of Northern Radicals and Southern apps
tates now set in Office among them, bat O
the actual tendency of the negro p0pula
ton to political alliance with their old
masters and friends for the practical pur
poses of local tranquility, Industrial pros
pcrity aud mutual protection
Throughout the South it is certain that
if let alone, the States viii elect no NOR,
Carpet-bag Governors, and send no more
Carpet bag or Radical members, of what
ever Ilk, to Congress. Likewise in Ohio
Missouri, Indiana, and other Northern anC
Western CONFERENCE.-The, theRadical party
feels its Former vantage ground crum
bling under the weight Of tariff and taxa
ton. From every side come warnings tC
the party of Il E.ll
The strait is the more desperate by rea
son OF the mOnstrOuS corruption in which
some of the leaders of the party are impli
elted-corTuptions which, in the event o
change of the national administration
and the overhauling Of department record
here, would al OEcc be exposed and f;ls
tened upon their authors. Motives tn,
strongcst-selfd defence, of sellpreserva
ton cyen-inspire these men and the;
political associates to- retain their hol,
unon the legislation and administration
of affairs.
In recent conversation. Gen. Banks
one Of the ahlest Radicals in the House
agcrrtd that, if he had his way, he woull
make war on the Southern States, an,
again obtain military pOsse ssion of them
Icing asked TO explain the object OF sucl
course against States which have com
Piled with all the requirements OIL tn,
reconstruction acts, he answered tina
what the Republican party have to fear i
the Northern and Western Democracy
and that safety in such juncture demand
new and arbitrary control of the Soutl
The statement al which the substance
thus given was repeated by General Bank
at "a dinner party. Nor are such assevcr
atoms confined To- HIM or to half dOzeI
like him.
General Butler, while examfning tn
Hon. Dorsey l.. Thomas, Speaker of tn
Tennessee Senate, as a witness before TIA
Reconstruction COmmiitc, last Thursda,
so grossly insultcd him that Democrat
members Of the committee had to inter
fcrc. 1t is believed that General Butte
has as much personal and political re-
sons as any man III his party for adopting
at this critical period, such methods Of re
prISal and aggravatiOn towards represeI
tatlves of the Conservative party i'm tn
South. lie is ready-anxious-t lead I'll
vindictive crusade; and, were it not ths
The President is so bent upon assumin
himself the role of leader, might hop
for speedy recognition in that capacit,
But President Grant gives every token {
willingness To play into the hands Of til
carpctbag Governors and COngressmel
whose game is now the game of Radica
Ism, as decided upon in It's most conlidcl
tlal councils. He has To day cxpresse
himself In favor of Bullock. and there
little reason to hope that he will not con
ply with the demand of Holden. II
promised ia his message To execute I'll
laws. Whatever Congress does, lookin