Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE OH 10.
THURSDAY MORNING. Oct. /, 1874,
The Southern Rebellion Hts EX-
tent and Consequences.

The Southern Rebellion Its Ex-
tent and Consequences.
The following is from the Daily
News of September 10th, a Democratic
paper published at Atlanta, Georgia:
against the fate that confrontS US
what have the Southern people? Is it
| that prudence which such papers as
the Louisville Courier-Journal advO-
Gates, but which men less gifted than
the editor of that paper call da5tardly
submission? No! Our only hope Is in
stern, resolute resistance-a resistance
to the death, if necessary, with arms in
our hands. Let there be w hite
Leagues formed in every tow n, village
and hamlet of the South, and let Us or
ganize for the great struggle which
seems to be inevitable. Ii the October
elections which are to be held at the
Nurth are favorable to the Radicals the
time will have arrived for Us tn prepare
ior the very worst. The radic,!ism of
the Republican party must be met by
the radicalism of white men. We have
no war to make against the U. States
Government, but against the Republi-
can party our hate must be unquench-
able, our W ar interminabIe and merci-
less. Fast fieeting away is the day for
wordy protests and idle appeals to the
magnanimity of the Republican party.
"By brute force they are endeavor-
ing to force us into acquiescence to their
hideous programme. We have sub
mitted long enough to indigDities, and
it is time to meet brute force with brute
force. Every Southern State should
swarm with White Leagues, and we
should stand ready 10 act the moment
Grant signs the civil rights bill. 1t
will not do to wait until Radicalism
has fettered US to the car of social equal
ity before we make an effort to resist it.
The signing of the bill will be declar-
alton of war against the Southern
whites. 1t is our duty to ourselves, it
is our duty to ourselves, it is our duty
to our children, it is our duty to the
white race whose prowesS subdued the
wilderness of this continent, whose CIV
illZation filled it with cities, and towns,
and villages; whose mind gave it power
and grandeur, and " hose labor iInpart-
ed to it prosperity, and whose love
made peace and happiness dwell with
in It's homes, to take up the gage OF bat
tie the moment it is thrown dhWn.
at the white Democrats of the North
are men they will not stand idly by and
see us borne down by NOrtht IN RadI-
calls and bali barbarouS negroes. But
no matter what they may do, 1t Is time
for us to organize. We have been tenn
porizing long enough. Let Northern
Radicals understand that military su-
pervisiOn of Southern elections and the
civil rights Dill mean war, that war
means blOodshed, and that we are ter
ribly in earnest, and even they, fanatI-
cal as they are, may retrace their steps
before it is too late"
The question naturally arises wheth-
er such sentiments as are expressed by
editor of the News are shared by his
Democratic fellow-citizens in the South.
AS his paper is sustained in that section
i; is fair to presume that he has fol-
lowing, and that his sentiments are
such as fipd ready market in the COM
munity in which they are so shame
lessly avowsd. If there are Democrat, !
in the South who do not support these
lawless threats the time has arrived
when their opposition should be an
nounced.
When leading organ openly pro-
claims the determination of its supper
tiers to make desperate and relentless
and bloody war upon the majority OF
the American people for no other rea-
son than that they favor the enforce
ment of law and the preservation of
life, liberty, and property; and when
the suggestions OF such organs are dali
ly. eliminating in assassination and
revolution, it Is ii &c that good citizens
take warn .Dg, no matter to what politi-
cal party they may belong. These
same men in not dissimilar strains de-
clared war upon the Republican party
in 1861, and it is unnecessary to remind
them of the consequences. They may
rs well take note now as hereafter that
a war of determination or subsection,
such as they propose, will not be SUBJ
mitted to by the American people with
out resistance. They may as well
learn now as hereafter that citizenship
involves protection wherever it may
exist, and that the people of the United
States will not consent to be excluded
from any portion of their territory, nor
will they permit unlawful or disloyal
to deprive them of any
Of the rights of citizenship anywhere
that the flag floats or that the national
can penetrate. No effort OF
White Leagues or other unlawful, MUIR
1erOus, or revolutionary combination
will be able to drag this controversy
into the gutter OF partisan warfare. 1t
IS above and beyond that. 1t involves
he very existence of civil liberty and
government. 1t is not
one moment too early for the people OF
the United States to look the whole
question in the face from this stand
point.
The disclaimer which the News eau
tsously puts forth that We hare no a0ar
against the United States Government"
will not be available. 1t is a war upon
I'LL constituted government. 1t is an
archy. 1t is as much a revolution and
as intOlerant in spirit and as destruc-
tive of order and as dangerous to life
and property as was the rebellion of
1861. The feeling which inspires this
spirit is not born of race prejudice alone,
but lies deeper, and extends back to the
period when slavery predominated to
the exclusion of both loyalty and hui
manity. The contest is now renewed
for the purpose of reinstating in power
the spirit of the Lost Cause, first in the
States, and finally over the nation