The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-03-16

against the rum, which 10 part his own
hands have wrought, in a letter intend.
ed to be read at the late Republican
Convention at Jefferson City, Missouri.
WHITE HALL Posr OFFICE,
Madison Co., Ky, Jan. 20, 1872.
Dear Sir Your favor of the 18th
inst, is received / regret it will not
be in my power to be present at the
mass meeting Of liberal republicans at
Jefferson City on the oath of this month.
10 1861, | WAS consulted by leading
republicans, anticipating the overthrow
Of the rebellion, about the doctrine
which some years afterward was 6evel
oped, and known as territorializing
the States" aud later in letter pub
llshed in the Louisville Journal, | pro-
tested against the same scheme. | held
that the States were indestructible, and
that when rebellion was put down the
States survived in all their original
sovereignty and equality 10 the Union.
The Constitution was based upon the
vital integrity of the States, aud their
unhappy overthrow was not necessary
to the suppression of the rebellion or to
the liberation Of the slaves, or to any
Legitimate pirpose for which the war
was waged.
The sad experience, by which eleven
years Of proscriptive rule on the part Of
the Grant party lenye the north ia hos.
tility, and the subjugated States 10 an-
nrchy, proves that my fears of such
policy were not ill.founded. No man
has made more sacrifices for the liberia
tion Of the blacks than I. SO, then
| have a right to be considered faith.
ful adviser in regard to the future.
Lineoln's emancipation proclamation,
and the battles Of Antietam aud Gettys,
burg, by which the power Of the south
was crushed, made the restoration OF
slavery impossible, and such was the
thought and avowal of the whole south.
1t was the DISTINGUISHING of the leading
minds Of the south, and the fatal at.
tempt to subject tho Saxon race-the
majority in numbers--te the minority
OF the African freedmen. which bred
that foulest excrescence Of slayery--the
ku klux khan
| remember no instance in all history
where the servile race has been success
fully set TO rule over their former mas.
ters; nor do | believe that now such
attempt will bear any ether fruits than
discord and ruin to one or both parties
Governor Andrews, OF Massach chusetts
whose sincere abolitionism no one will
question, was for immediate aud univer.
sal amnesty. He held truly that to
conciliate the masses Of the south, YOU
must win over the good will and allegi.
anee Of the leading minds that 10 pol.
itics, as in nature, "the head moves the
tall"
The Grant policy reverses all this.
He seems bent, not on restoring TO
health and normal action the wounded
south, but on destroying it,
1t the Democrats are wise and Just,
the blacks, five millions Of the south
will vote with the the south; not be.
cause they are Democrats or Republi,
cans, but because they are Southerners.
No man is more an Unionist than /,
yet | cannot fail to see that there are
New England interests, Western inter
ests and Southern interests--all of
which are and must be distinct-and
yet all, the Constitution being iutact,
are compatible with national unity. As
a Southern man in this sense, have
devoted my life to the overthrow Of sla-
very-because it was unjust to the
black, and cause of weakness to the
white.
Slavery being dead, resist with the
same earDestness that | did its existence
the attempt of the Grant conspirators
to subjugate the south and to make us
provincial for all time to more than
Roman imperialism.
denounce the attempt to weaken us
By a studied policy Of arraying the
blacks against the whites. l denounce
the design of barbarizing us, by the
corrupt and irresponsible rule of men
from the north, who have no common
interest in our affairs, who divide our
people, and waste our substance.
| deuounce the attempt to reverse
the natural order Of things, by subiu.
eating, by constitutional changes and
ingeniously contrived laws, the intelli-
gcnce and property of the south to
| Ignorance and pauperism.
| deuounce the enmity Of the Grant
rule to the Independence Of Cuba; be /.
cause they know that Cuba must in
interest finally gravitate towards and
belong to the south
deuounce the union Of the powers
of the executive, judicial aud legislative
departments, ia the military head Of
the nation.
denouuce the nepotism, favoriteism,
and corruption and prescription of the
Grant administration.
denounce the scheme Of suhiupa.
ting men and measures for the sole end
of re-electing military chieftain.
And last, and above all, | protest
against the unconstitutional and despotic
interference with the right of peaceable
assemblage of the people, and the ballot
box by the frequent aud alarming use
Of the cartridge box.
The denomination aud re election of
Grant is to consolidate all these usur.
paticus and abuses and open up high
way to the overthrow Of our liberties.
We want new men with new seuti
ments of good will, brotherhood and