The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-08
Il II Ended3

\ In al CauQOT we WOuiu 8oA Liz iutCHl-
gent and thoughtful citizens Of the coun-
try if they think the mission Of the Re-
publican party is ended, and that there
| is no longer work for the great organi-
zation which has accomplished SO much
for this country? Can you read the news
of the daily outrages which occur in the
| Southern States, and the editorials from
Southern papers. which are as bitter in
there denunciation Of the national Gov
eminent as they were just prior to the
late rebellion, and feel that this country
would be better governed if surrendered
into the hands Of the party Of which these
men are representatives? This is direct
question, but it is one demanding an an
swer. If the Republican party's mission
is ended, it goes out of power to lie. the
Democratic party come in What the
mission Of the party will be when once
in power, we have no way Of judging but
by what its mission was when it did have
control Of affairs; only as we are helped
to an opinion by the expressions Of it's
leading men and papers. There is 10
lack of these now. The Southern editor-
al heart is all ablaze and every mail
brings US papers from which we are made
acquainted with the feelings Of the late
rebels if we Judge from the editorials con
tanned in the papers. The Alantia Neus
says: 1--WE blundered in laying down our
arms in 1865 Can we blundcr in taking
them up again when war cannot make
worse the condition we have been in for
nine years" The New York Day Book
q leading Democratic paper, is firm IN the
belief that the mission Of the Republican
party is ended, and hence it is not sur
prising that it gives expression to the fol-
lowing: That doctrine or the supremacy
of the white race is now assuming the i'm
portance the crisis of the period demands.
The ballot box privileges Of the negro
must be taken away" Candid Republic
can, do you think the mission Of your par
y ty is ended when the South openly advo-
Gates the taking up arms again against
! the government, and when leading
4 Democratic paper says, the ballot which
i is guaranteed the colored citizen BY the
constitution must be taken away? 1t
was by the Republican party that this
great boon was given Il race which had
been down-trodden for centuries, and
/ Democracy, bitter and unrelenting, OPP
! posed every single measure which gave
this race its freedom, and which protects
them in its enjoyment. With such Ian
guage as the above ringing in your ears,
are you willing to acknowledge that there
is no longer work for the party which
enacted the laws which the Day Book
now says should be repealed: The OPP
position Of The Democratic party TO those
measures is as bitter now as it was when
! the measures were first proposed, and, TO-
| day, all over the South their hostility
! is manifested in a thousand forms. No
4 indeed, the mission Of the Republican
| party is not ended and will not be 50 long
| as there is IA Democratic lunatic III the Hand
to suggest that the time has come to take
away from the people rights which her
/ guaranteed them by the Constitution
I 1t was for the freedom and protection or
/ the South that the Republican party gave
/ the country the 18th, l4th, and 18TH
4 Amendments TO the Constitution 1t
would be the bascst Of treacl~ry to the
South to let the Republican party be dis
! placed by Democracy. With such ex
pressions as those quoted above, who can
doub that, once in power, this Democratic
/ party would repeal the laws enacted by
4 the Republican party for the protection
of human rights. Ii it does not propose
to do this, how does the Day Book expect
to take the ballot-boX right away from the
negro? We cannot believe that Republi
cans, who are such from principle-men
who trained under its flag, when its boast
was that it was engaged III a battle to
break the shackle. Of enslaved millions
and bring them from bondage out into the
sunlight Of freedom, will, by vote Or act
give encouragement to the idea that the
mission Of the grand old party is ended
when traitors 1T the South talk Of again
I taking up arms. ana when Il leading or
gan taking up party III the North openly
declares that 'thc ballot-box right must
be taken away from the negro Take
this right away and then, indeed, is slave
ry re-established, for freedom without the
4 protection of the ballot-boX is hollow
| sham. The mission OF the Republican
party will be ended when there is no
longer respectable number Of people
in the country who endorse such scnti
ment as quoted above from the Atlanta
Netcs and the New York Uay Booh.-Bar
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