The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-10-28
WHAT THEr ARE Aru1Ss AT.

| For few years after the suppression of
She rebellion the defeated enemies Of the
Union and Of human rights felt humbled and
subdued, and accepted with apparept graft
tude the magnanimous terms granted BY the
generous North. They professed to fully and
cordially acquiesce in the elevation Of the
negroes to equal civil and political rights with
themselves as the legitimate results Of their
crime, the inevitable logic Of the situation
They protested all the more ardent and sin
cere acquiescence whenthe generous conqueror
accompanied these just conditions with Uni
versal Amnesty. But they soon recovered
from this patriotic and modest frame of mind.
They discovered that equsl suffrage placed the
rebel element in position of subordinaton /;
that it lost them the control Of the State gov
ernments of the South that they were an
impotent and hopeless minority that they
were completely shorn of their long exercised
power and supremacy /; that the negro vote
was directed by an intelligence and firm
patriotism, beyond their power to intimidate
or cajole; that the Republican party became
the predominant power throughout the South
They look upon these results of negro suffrage,
and, like Pharaoh, harden their hearts against
it, and conclude that it is repulsive and in
tolerable thing that must be overcome. No
man who has intelligently watched the course
OF the ex-rebels of the South can have failed
to see that this is what they arc now direct
iag all their energies to accomplish. Finding
| that the negroes cannot be corrupted or per-
suaded into supporting the Democratic party,
and that their political power is as hopelessly
destroyed by negro suffrage as their military
power was by the Union army, they have re-
solved to establish their supremacy by ter
rorism and fraud. As for remaining in the
minority, and submitting to Republican and
negro control, this their naughty stomachs
cannot and will not tolerate. They aoiU secure
control The negro and the Republican party
shaI not rule their ancient heritage of the
South, where they reigned so long in feudal
supremacy, and exercised all the autocratic
and barbarous power of slave owners and
political despots. Every sensible and we'll in
formed man in the country knows that this is
what they are aiming at, ard they will hest.
wv ~ Nv oSSlOthtt " tltclf
purpose.
1t is this determination that inspires such
action as the following
Shreveport, Louisiana, Oct 2f.--Sixty
merchants publish an agreement refusing to
employ persons supporting the Republican
ticket, and agreeing not to give credit or sup
plies to any planter renting lands or giving
employment to Republicans.
tits this purpose which inspires tho forma-
ton of White Leagues, the numerous muir
ders and outrages in various parts of the
South, and the widespread system of terrorism
which keeps the negro in trembling fear of
his life,a and frightens him from the exercise Of
his political rights. Should the Democratic
party obtain control the country will see the
speedy contamination of this purpose, and the
practical loss of one of the justest and most
progressive achievements of the war.-State
| Gazette.