New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-04-27
What the south Demands.


avoid the rock on which they split in 1865, it
Is clear that their Southern allies and old time
masters are resolved to permit no such temper
ling, time-seryug policy They have evidently
resolved on the issue 90 squarely presented
by FRANK BLAIR In bis BRoADHEAs letter Vi
June, 1868, and 80 emphaticslly Endorsed b.
the National Convention Of the same wear
That issue In express terms was. that all the
reconstruction measures of Congress are revo-
iutionary unconstitutional. null and void
| nder this bread and sweeping declaration the
/ 18th. 18th, and 10Th amendments are to be
stricken from the Constitution the emancpa
| ton proclamation is 10 be treated rs null and
void, the civil rights act IS TO be trampiet
under foot, all the laws re admitting the seeded
States to the Union, are to be repealed and
1 every act Of Congress inconsistent With the
Copperhesd theory, thaJ these States we're never
out of the Uuion and forfeited none oil the
/ rights or privileges they ever possessed BY
rebelling against the Goverument, is to be Set
at defiance. This is the platform they demand
at the next election as they did ia 1903. And
the Northern Democracy must yield to the
demand, whatever may be their view a. TO tue
expedency of such course.
! The tone of the Southern rebel press. with
scarcely enough exceptions to prove the
rule, leave 20 room for single doubt that
they Will tolerate no evasion of this issue A
few days ago the New York World ventured
to advise, IN yerg humble tones, that the
coming rational Convention of the party should
avoid the folly which proved so disastrous IN
1853, and accept the Constitution as it is with
negro suffrage and the equal rights Of all men.
as the fixed, irreyOcable law of the land. The
proposition created wide spread Indignation
and excitement at the South The whole rebel
press denounced the reoommen Iatons Is trea
son to their section They do not accept the
! World as true exponent Of Northern Demo
cratic sentiment. The Montgomery (Ala.l
MAJ, one Of the eblest aud bitterest rebel
! papers, confidently asserts that there is no
real difference between the Northern and South
ern Democracy upon this question, and that
! all Southern Democrats e believe the four.
| teenth and hlthteenth amendments to be reyo-
lutionary, null and void" The South. il
declares, must 90 into the next National Con
vention as an equal with the North or not at
all. With the overthrow of the amendments,
the AatI logically declares, must go negro
suffrage.
The Republican Us gross nsnomer) of Jack
sonville, in the same State, ridicules what the
| World represents 8 dead ssues"-negro sui
! frage and equal political rights-and boasts of
what will be demanded by the South and con
coded by the North when the Democracy come
into power and the Voice of the South is again
| potent in the nation. In its opinion the North
ern Democracy are only playing possum in pre-
tending to acqu!ese in the reconstruction meas
ures, aud will yield everything reasonable when
once more in power Neither the Nail nor the
/ Republican believe bat the Northern Democ
racy is represented by the New York World.
Replying to the Worlds article. the Augusta
I (Ga.) Constitutional says very emphatically,
that Z" it may as well be understood first az last
that the Democrats IN the States tyranni!ed
over by carpet bag rule do not intend to sdr-
render the rights of discussion and redress of
their grievances to the decision of Democrats
in other States who have never felt these
wrongs; and, further, that the Democratic Ma
|
OF implicitly, to signify with IMMUNITY that the
reconstruction measures forced upon the South
at the point OF the bayonet, and the amend
ments to The Constitution frauduently adopted
are now beyond the reach of public reprobstioA,
and are to be MANI lued as established .aW.
If Southern Democrats are to be muzzlei and
choked down By majority vote in the National
h Ial Hot =.
Even more emphatic is the denuuciation the
Atlanta ga IateIHgencsr pronounces against
the Recommendation of the World to accept
the situation La It's wrath it declares that
the fifteenth amendment is the plague-spot
- on the face of the great charter OF American
freedom This is the fruitful source OF our
greatest woe the authority claimed for that
infamous brood OF laws which are intended to
enslaye the people By destroying the freedom
Of the ballot and placing the country under
martial law at the viii Of the President This
wrong this usurpatlon, can never be sanctioned
by one who stands upon the principles of the
Democratic party. If it cannot be stricken
from the Constitution. let it be condemned as
the offspring Of usurped power, and the Gov
eminent placed ia the hands Of men who wall
pluck out its poisonous sting by repeating the
legislation which is claimed to be authorized
by it, and unnecessary 20 enforce it, but which
really has another object in view, the cen
tralization of all the powers of the system in
the General Government as a means of perpetu.
ating the ruling dynasty"
There is no ADLER or more influential rebel
paper published in all the South than the Mo
bile (Ala.) Register. rs editor is JOHN Fos.
sYrH, known throughout the country as one Of
the most prominent orators and editors and =
leading secessionist. The Register bitterly
repudates the advice of the World to acqui.
esce in the amendments and colored suffrage,
and declares that in the next Presidential cleo
ton the South will demand that the Democratic
party stand on the platform Of 1868, which pro
nounces the reconstruction measures null and
void.
Such 10 not only the general, but the uui'
versal, sentiment Of the Southern Dem ocratIc
press and people. The foolish broils among
few prominent Republicans, and the unjust
war made for a time npon General GRANT,
has excited strong hopes of victory In ls'2-
Elated with the prospect of again enjoying the
spoils of office, the Southern papers and poll