The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-10-09

plete SupIugaIlOl- Ile North has been
steadily deiuded by the fiction of nation
aIity put forward by a partizan oligarehy
intensely proseriptive, sectional and des-
potic. There has been no freedom, in
rha broad, republican sense, since the
war at the south There has beenmere-
lythe pretense Of II. Between the negro
and the Democratic party, the scheme
of q peaceful and equitable reeOnstrue-
ton of society has fallen to the ground.
The North has been misled by the ne
Gro. The South has been miSled by the
Democratic party. The result is a pas
sa-e of arms in which we find the great
city of New Orleans arrayed against the
Federal Government, the whole South,
and half the North, ardently sympathiz-
ing with the revOlutiOnists, the army and
navy, commanded by dominant pOliti-
cal faction, siding with usurpGtiOn and
corruption, and organized to suppress
an honest, conservative, commercial
metropolis.
Tie end. rs far as the passage at arms
IS CONCERNED, can not be doubted. 1t Is
settled ia advance, by the simple law of
force against force. The power which
put down fifteen States will not balk
before one: the letter of the law is plain;
the Radical party not merely has legal
protest, but it has q malignant inelipa-
ton, and q partizan interest in measures
the most vigorous, no matter how AFRO
CANT, destructive and unjust.
II Governor Penn and his advisers and
followers proceeded under the idea that
the full power of the Federal Govern
ment would not be put forth to crush
the revolt in which the people of LOuisi-
ana are engaged, they made a woeiul
mistake. If they understand this, the
logical consequence OF their movement
must be a bold and TesOlute resistance,
by which, if they hold out long enough,
they can force the addition of at least
fifty millions to the national debt, and
may, in the end, pTeeipitate a general
civil war. They have nothing to lose,
and everything to gain, by carrying out
the measure of revolution they have be
gun. If they do not, they are mere riot
ers, exposed to vinficative prosecutions
for murder In the mean time, the
honest men Of both parties know that
Penn. as the representative of LOuisi-
ana. is right. and that the Kellogg usur-
patton is worse than any Of the william
Ireland, Poland, Hungary, or Venice
within the last fifteen years.
II Governor Penn backs down, and
his followers disperse in response to
proclamation, which was a certainty, in
advance of their movement, and which,
If they have any fitness for their work,
they must have considered beforehand,
what will it imply: 1t viii imply that
all future resorts to violence are not to
be eOuntenanceG, and the South must
cOnifde in legal remedies, ,eonsoling itself
with patience and forbearanee. The
latter policy We have steadily advised.
We prefer to advise it now. But, if we
are to act on different line, let us act
together. forcing the North to reconquer
us and give us a military government, or
else to do us Justice. The government
we have is a farce. The whole South
prefers an empire, a king; therefore, let
us, il we are not going to be governed
by peaceful suggestions, compel the
North, by n state OF war, which its whole
energies will be required to suppress, TO
change its form OF government; to hold
the South as a yanqUished province; to
raiinCuish the revenues drawn from our
prosperity and to turn us over to the
negroes, bag and baggage, body and
breeches. Let us crush out the misera-
bic lie which Ra1icalism Keeps before the
country and the world-that this is
free country Else. let the marplots
and the theorists, vino will do nOJhing
but t.Iaart tEe Efforts Of those who seek
a dilertH. and peaceful avenue of es-
cape tIroi- -u nationality and reeOncilia-
tiOn, forever hold their peace Let us
do one thing or the other, fight out of the
frying pan INTO the fire, or quench the
fires Of civil war by the process eOnsis-
tently advocated il these columns, the
process OF making friends abroad and of
keeping the peace at home, of dividing
the Radicals and uniting conversation
OF tine country upon a sound, national
and rational Daeiss Of paciiicatiOn and
reunion.
TO Northern bigotry OF the subiuga-
ting sort yge have to say this: ''YOu
have rs in your power undoubtedly. II
you think, however, that you can perse-
cute US 10 death, without entailing upon
yourselves some of the consequences of
vour maIignance and your folly, do your
work Ike skiilful executiOners, quickly
and thoroughly. We hate you, certainly;
hate you with justified and cordial hate.
You are not merely a set of licentiOus
hypOcrites and liars, but base and COW
ardly gang Of political cut-thrOats, who,
If YOU lived in the South, would be tor
turing inO!fensive negro women and chill
dren-burniug the cabins of poor peo-
atrOcity TO violence, and
teaching the ku-hiuX lessons of cruelty
only conceivable in the theology of
Plymouth Church, in the journalism of
the Cincinnati Gazette, in the nastinass
Of the c1l-de-sGc from which the Inter
Oce0H is issued.
We are not writing under excitement.
Every word that We put down has been
sOOiiy revised, and expresses exactly and
precisely the sentiment Of the least i'm
Iulsive section Of Southern society.
Matters have come 90 this, people of the
North, you have got 10 DO US justice, or
We Wiz force you 70 aeceps third term
lud a military despOtism, in order 20
secure the conquest
This is as much our country as yours.
We love il as much as you DO. We are
'eady 70 unite with you on equal terms
p restoring perfect union and "A splen-
lid repuDiicauisiu But, IL You won't
h this, you viii have 90 expose the eio-
zen foot Of despOtisIn you have con-
.eaiei for the last ten year., and If it
5resses upon our neck, yours, too, must
-Hd shall feel the pTJut Of it.
Il Governor Penn does not want to
lang as an assassin. lie must bear him
ELF ike a hero, and. II another rebel
ion and civil war is the consequence,
N them come The worst that can
appen Is % make Grant an emperor,
nd the South Is ready 10 do that now.
'ae Democratic party Of the North Is
-Oue; swept out Of existence by these
~-s, as 10 was swept out Of existence in
sjl By secession If the men Of the
Outh who iiave refused our advice. and
ngaged IN this business ia spite Of u,
~ sinc-re-if tL-y mean business -
Ow is their time. Iuey viii never get
better time. II they do not, let them
-awl away, eoniessing that all their as
iUits upon as have been mere windy
ravadO. sound and fury signifying
otLilg."
IN short. and 20 fine, what we mean is
lis. There Il no use trying peaceful
geucies as long a. the marplots are en-
aged in stirring up strife; the marplOts
ave now pretty quarrel a. il stands let
ieIn ii-.lt IL Odt or abandon the sense
ss and reckless policy If il is a fight.
z are with them, II il is not, we want
) know it. The South is tired OF use
ss sacrifices. -LDuisrHle C0urisr-JouT-
H.
LiELT- COL FREDERICK DEST GRANT
u be married. on tine 10Th of October.
, the daughter Of lIr. II. H. HOnore, a
hicacO millionaire. The welding taxes
lace q little too late 70 be used as a text
2 the raoid reforIBers IN the Ocooer