National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-29

| Carolina to-day, where the Tax Unions
abound-another, and, if possible, more re-
| spectacle name for the Ku-Klux-the pres
e1ce of United States forces is sufficient to
prevent the general outbreak which every
intelligent man will acknowledge as certain
| to occur under other circumstances. But
| the truth is that this respect to Federal"
authority is strictly confined to circum-
stances IN which the military power is
recognized as supreme. The civil author
ity is deied day after day. United States
marshals and their deputies, who are called
upon in the performance of their duties to
serve warrants for the arrest of citizens, or
processes issued by United States courts,
are INSTRUCTED in their execution, have
been intimidated, and not infrequently
murdered How many times has the tele-
graph reported to US in the last six
months the assassination of officers
of this clasSH And, further, as in
Alabama, mail agents and officials of COM
paratively insignificant importance have
suffered the same fate. This is so true that
efficient officers, men in whom the several
Executive Departments of the Government
repose confidence, now refuse to accept the
most remunerative service in the South, be-
cause they know that such service will GER
tainly be attended by danger to their lives.
We defy contradiction Of these ssser-
tons. We court the most searching in
vestigation into the facts pertaining to
them. And we reiterate our belief that it
is the military power, and the military
power alone, of the General Government
to which the turbulent element of the South
yields any respect. Werepeat thatthe civil
authority of the Government if it is not con-
stantly defied, is danger of constant de-
fiance. No truthful man, be he Democrat
Conservative, Republican or Radical, can
gainsay these facts.
There can be but one deduction from all
this. Dire and extreme as it is, it con-
fronts US at every step. 1t is that no peace
can prevail in the South, subject to estab-
lished laws, unless it is enforced by other
power than the civil authority. We are
10th to believe that the intelligent people
of that section are willing to submit to this
condition of affairs any longer. They have
been the victims of its tyranny ever since
the close of the war. They have lost IN
told millions of money through its effects;
their lands lie idle to-day for want of emf
grafton; the boundless resources of the
region they profess to love remains unde-
veloped. and, although they have made mi
raculous progress in recovering from the de-
preston and poverty Of the war, they still
suffer from the stigma put upon them as
sectional men by the crimes Of their
fellow citizens. 1t is useless to say that
there is no remedy for all this, because
thoughtful men have long ago reached
solution Of the problem. And we admon-
ish those Southern people who honestly
and earnestly seek rehabilitation and re-
construction under the constitutional
amendments, under the natural results of
the war, and under the consequences of
the surrender or parole of the rebel armies,
that but one alternative remains. They
must either exert themselves to restore
good government and guarantee the unre-
stricted exercise of the rights of citizenship,
or they must expect that those results will
be enforced by the stern authority,
which, as we have proven, is alone
powerful. Let them study closely the
advice offered to them by such North
ern statesmen as Gen. Butler and Speaker
Blaine, both of whom have characterized
the recent disturbances in Louisiana and
other Southern States as new rebellion"
and let them understand that under the
teaching and leadership of such men as
these the loyal people Of the Uuited States
will rise, as one man, to declare, as Gen.
Butler did, that the Government would
prove recreant to its trust if it did not eK-
haust its every resource to protect the
rights of its humblest citizen. 1t was not
necessary that the Essex statesman should
taunt us with the example of Great Britain
in this regard. The people are aroused
sufficiently, now that the outbreak has be-
gun, to sustain the most extreme measures
for the restoration of peace. And so long
as these miscreants are ''afraid to strike"
against the military authority, or refuse to
submit to milder power, so long will the
necessities OF the situation compel the Gov
eminent to overawe them with armed
menace