Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-09-11

TIE Next Coneress.

Thcrclis pressing need that the
Repub) icans Of the various Congress
sional districts of the country should
wSke up to the duty before them.
/ The breaking out of the troubles in
The South has once more made it OF
the utmost importance THAT none but
knO,cn and trusty men should be
Put on guard. The next Congress
ought to settle this Southern BUSH
ness for good. The country has
been annoyed and disgraced, and the
whole world shocked by those inl,l-
manitics until it would bcsa crime to
neglect their cffectual suppression by
the employment of any and every
means necessary to put a stop to
them forever. We know from cxpe-
rience just whom to trust for such
legislation. Men who arc wholly Or
partially in: sympathy with these Of,
tenders will not do. Men who are
heightened. ats the skeleton of snigger
equality" will not do. It may just as
veil be settled first as last that there
Il not : political right which white
men enjoy IN this country that the
colorcd man is not also entitled to,
and, being entitled to it, the men
who propose to overturn the will Of
the people, and defeat a sacred pro.
vision Of the Constitution must be
put down. Those who belong to
white leaancs and indulge in secret
assassin ms, may better know now
than at my later period that the
whole power of the nation, il neces-
sary, will be employed to defeat their
purpose, and to punish-sevcrely and
surely-the perpetrators of, these
wrongs.
Its the duty Of the people of the
North, who have been Mortified by
the murders and outrages, accounts
Of which have appeared in the public
prints for the last few months, to
look to it that such men are returned
TO Congress this fall as will promptly
provide relief against such atrocities.
'Ihe present apathy regarding the
coming elections should be thrown
on, and an earnest and sincere effort
made to return Replblicans-known
tried, true and only such as will in
dictate Enthusiastically: their determine
ton to put stop to- this business.
The civil rights bill was defeated
last winter because. of the ill-advised
tenderness, not to say unfaithfulness,
of some of.the Republican members
of the House. 70 that defeat we
believe these alarming troubles in
the South to-day can be partially
traced. 1t encouraged these silly
men to believe that the North had
forgotten justice, had turned its back
upon ss.he wards Of the nation," and
would look calmly onwhilc the col
ored people were stripped Of every
right and once more remanded to
virtual slavery. They are just now
discovering their mistake, and are, of
course, much surprised thereat. We
do not know but these crimes hayc
been necessary to recall the people
Of the North to their senses. They
have shown us the absolute impossi-
bility os permitting these late rebels
orthese sympathizers to succeed to
power in the government without
greater danger to liberty and free
Speech than existed before the war.
Il is perfectly apparent that with the
political friends Of these men con-
trolling the government, no white
man not in sympathy with the pur-
poses Of the White League would be
permitted to five in the South, while
the colorcd men there would be re-
manded to servitude or exterminated.
tmay be providential that the spirit
and designs Of the'people there have
been thus exposed, and the country
saved from such suicidal confidence.
Unless we are mad; we shall see that
until there is complete and radical
change of sentimentin the Southern
States, the political power of the ma
ton must remain in the hands of
the Republican party. This change
We cannot hope for until the majority
of those who went into the rebellion
have passed from the stage of action.
litter Ocean. 49,