Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-01

cOerCe State which was seeking to de-
stroy the Union. Through all their
sophistries the people recognized that UNI
der the amendment which devolved on
Congress the power, and hence also the
duty, to enforce (the strongest word In the
dictionary every jot and little OF the artl-
Gle by appropriate legislation, Congress
had enacted that wherever disguised
bands, organized and sworn to commit
outrage and murder, have made the ordi-
hary process of law impractioable, where
local authorities approve their horrid in
iquities, or are overawcd by them, this
reign of terrorism and fiendish violence Is
to be ended by the national power,
welded not for oppression, but to stp-
press disorder and protect the helpless,
Protection OF the poorest and huinblest
against outrages that would disgrace the
convicts of Botany Bay or the brigQnds of
Italy is the object of this much maligncd
law. And cts true intent and meaning"
(that the security of the citizen is the MOST
vlthl object Ut constitutions is appreci-
ated and indorsed and honored by mil
lions of American hearts--not limited, l
rejoice to say, to the ranks of any one
party in our land.
tits because the people at large recog-
nize so fully and detest so utterly the
wicked and bloody deeds of these danger
Gus bands at the South, who rob, burn,
beat, MAIN, shoot and hang; it is because
they reject so sternly palliations forth
atrocities which dishonor the Republic (;
and it is because they demand that, under
our amended Constitution, the weakest
citizen shall be defended against the most
powerful organization and conspiracy at
home, as he would be against the most ar
] t,.a hx
the whole power of the nation, wherever
the exercise of that power becomes neces
sary, that all the Democratic arguments
against the Ku.Klux legislation of the Re-
pubicans have not only fallen so point
less, but, recoiling, indeed, on their au-
thors, have proved to them so unmistaka
bly, an element of weakness.
Nor is this all that has tended to sap
the strength and blight the hopes of the
Democratic patty There is dangerous
| Glass; North as well rs South, which the
people feel it would not be safe to install
| in power in the persons of their favorites
or apologists. Go into any of our large
cities, East or West, Ask any of its cit
liens, of any party, this question: In
the quarter of this city where vice and
evil reign supreme; where everything
that is good and Just is trampled under
foot, and everything that is wicked and
vile and iniquitous Is dominant; Where
you would not dare let your wives OF
daughters walk after nightfall unattended
to which party do their denizens give thei1
confidence, their Endorsements and then
approving yotesS" And the answer yor
are sure to receive is, to-day, the weak
ness of the Democratic party. With the
dangerous power of the dangerous classes
North and South, as plainly illustrated a.
it has been of late, the thousands of vote
our opponents receive from them arr
more than offset by the tens of thousand
who refuse to cast their votes in the samt
direction, and thus to be found fraterniz
ing with them at the polls
With a hearty Endorsement of the re
forms | attempted to outline in my ar
ticle of last month on the Pathway t
Victory with generous reductions o
taxation, and especially treating taxes ol
tea, coffee, incomes, etc, as war burdens
to be dispensed with in peace, and reserved
for the monetary exigencies of war
with thorough and searching retrencl
ment and economy in every branch of tn
service-provingR Republicanism to be tn
party of genuine practical reform, o
philanthropic principles, of even-hande,
Justice, and of healthy progress-the new
est departure of the Democracy, what
ever shape it may finally assume, can b
made confusion of tongues for it, result
ing only in defeat which will shatter
as a political organization hereafter, an
become, at last, only winding sheet G
all its future hopes.-[New York Indt
pendent.