Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-08-31
TAKE TIMELY WARMING.
What we are to look for when the DEM
ocratic party comes into power
Southern Slaves to be Paid For.

OCTduC party comes sntO power
Southern Slaves to be ePaid For!
What We have heretofore said in
regard to the remuneration of south
ern shareholders when the Demo
cratic Party comes into power, is
fully verified in the following article
from the Richmond Thig; of the
18th inst. 1t is faithful mirror of
the expectations INDUCED in by the
members of that party south. Let
our people read and take timely
warning against such terrible
event:
The Southern States, under any
fair apportionment that may be
adopted, will have twelve more than
q third Of the Representatives in
Congress and in the electoral col
lege. United and harmonious, this
would constitute 4 power ade-
quate for self-protection, if not suf-
.licient to control the action of the
Government. We have common in
terests-one, especially, of towering
and controlling influence, capable of
welding the whole Southern popula-
ton, black and white, into one sol
id mass for joint and common ac
ton. Slavery has been abolished.
But slarery has neeer been paid for
1t was q constitutional and vested
right, if there be such thing. No
Government ever conliscated such 4
property and of such magnitude
without compensation to the indi
viduai. 1t would unsettle and con
found and leopard all the rights.
The blacks can be made have the
same interest in this right as the
whites. The market value of the
porperty at the outbreak of the war
was estimated at $3,000,000,000
The half of that sum might redress
the whites, the other half would
console ii. e., bribe) the blacks, and
prove q far more substantial bless
ing than the imaginary "mule and
10 acres of land" We have no idea
Of pressing this, reclamation ut the
present time. But it is shot in
our locker which we are unwilling
to surrender, and would be ready to
use whenever opportunity presents
itself. A Southern Conference,
either the coming winter or some
future time, can arrange the pro
gramme, the mode, measure and
time for urging this calm. We
would not hurry tit is perma
nent bulwark and source of safety
and harmony to all the distracted
clements of Southern society
Whenever the signal is given it will
bring white and black together,
shoulder to shoulder. The north
sold their slaves and pocketed the
money, and then contiscated the
slaves Of the south, for what they
pretended was the public good.
THEY aeesSt pay for III 1t is only
question OF time, and though we
are all, white and black, very poor,
we are not impatient. They turned
the poor blacks out of house and
home, with the delusive promise Of
q mule and forty acres, and left them
to the cold charity of the world. The
blacks must be paid for their conlis-
Gated home and right to protection.
But, as already stated, we do not
urge it at the present time. We,
however, are. unwilling to abandon
it, or jeopardize its recovery by dis
banding ali Independent party = or
ganization. That independent par
ty may save us when all other expe-
dients shall fail. Gen Grant him
self might be willing to achieve q
reelection by according to us all,
and more than we ask. At any rate,
it is the best trump out, and if judi
ciously played may win the game.
The weather is too warm for elabor-
alton. Hints must suffice. Wise
men can take and ponder them; and
if there be good in them, like bread
cast upon the waters, it will return
TO bless us after many days.