Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-05-29

nesses are intimidated and law and Justice
are mockery.
This reign of terror inaugurated and
maintained for the sole purpose of securing
Democratic ascendancy, has done its work
IN most OF the Southern States and in them
the hapless victims OF barbarity are dumb.
In the remaining States the Federal arm
has now and then been extended in aid of
| the local authorities, in compliance with
the plain provision Of the Constitution Of
! the United States las originally fraincdI,
which provides for the national protection
of States against domestic violence.
In the presence of this long continued
saturnalia of crime and blood she'd, not
word of Democratic rebuke or remon-
STRANGE has been heard, North or South.
Southern Democrats when placed upon
the witness stand, exhibit their insensi-
bility to shame and their ignorance of the
most common rights of citizens oy testl-
flying that " \ Orthern men are never
maltreated unless they NEEDLE with poll
tics" They are unable to realize that
any citizen of the United States may Sc
ect his residence in any State or Terri
tory and be Il Republican, as we'll as an
other may be Democratic partisan.
The Southern Democracy are not en-
gagged as a whole in the deadly work we
have described but neither do they in
terfere for its suppression. They excuse,
paIliate and shield, and thus encourage
it. Many openly declare that the extern
sion of suffrage to the negro is II just cause
for war, and that as they cannot wage
open war, they are justified in resorting
to assassination.
The Northern Democracy look COM
| a., "a H., . bo
Except when irritated by rebel reverses)
and when the blood of slaughtered citi-
zens cries aloud from the ground they
s1eer at what they are pleased to cal the
Outrage MILL" They have found no
cause for complaint against the murder
ers, but when occasionally after long suf-
ferance, an attempt has been made by the
exercise of undoubted constitutional pow
er by the President to aid the State au-
thorities in restraining violence, their in
dignaton, we'll feigned, filled the air with
hypocritcal clamor, and the people of
the North have been urged to restrain
the tyrant hand of Federal usurpation.
In both sections the Democracy means
over the danger to civil liberty and State
, rights which must result from the re-
straints put upon the law breakers of the
South. The late Gen. Geo. Ii. Thomas
|
partment three years after the war had
ended, said:
THE controlling cause Of the unsettled
condition of affairs in the department is,
that the greatest efforts made by the &c
teated insurgents since the close of the
war, have been to promulgate the idea
that the cause of liberty, justice, humani-
ty, equality and all the calendar Of the
virtues of freedom, suffered violence and
wrong, when the effort for Southern indie
pendence failed. This is, OF course, in
tended as Il species of political cant
whereby the crime of treason might be
. covered with counterfeit varnish of pa
l triotsm, so that the preci pitators of tbs
r rebellion might go down in history hand
in hand with the defenders Of the govern.
ment, thus wiping out with their own
, hands their own stains; a species of sell
forgiveness amazing in its etfrontery,
when it is considered that life and proper
, ty-justly forfeited by the laws of the
country, of war and of nations, through
the magnanmity of the Government
was not exacted from them"
The wolf ASSUMES lamb-like tone at
the North, and rebel chiefs like Generals
Gordon and Lamar, are sent among the
! people in the New England villages, t,
persuade them tina: Republicans alone
are opposed to peace and quiet in the
South.
The end Of these things is to come mex
t year. Either the rebel Democracy vii
. regain power in the nation, ard so "tht
r empire will be pence" such as reigncC
c on the plantations before the war, or elsC
d. the party OF law and order will prevail
5 and equal rights be enforced by rulers
, fresh from the people. The latter result
s can alone bring lasting peace. The for
mer will sooner or later drive the negro
to desperation, and when he shall mattel
, the barbarity of his enemy, as he surely
f can, the South will be desoation.
! The present administration has used
; all the power at its command to preserve
t the peace and execute the laws. Had il
been in less faithful hands, still greater
disorder would have surely ripened into
' complete and fragrant anarchy and REBEL
e ion, or the subsection OF all who refused
9 to vote the Democratic ticket.
The rebel Democracy of the South
hope to remove the obstacle Of restraint
l by possessing themselves of the Presi
s dency. This is a more imminent danger
t than loyal men generally suppose. The
aggregate electoral vote Of the Union is
' $3.50. Necessary to n choice; 1874. O
these the Southern States have 13S. Ii
violence, fraud and intimidation, can
: consolidate fora Democratic candidate the
l3S Southern votes, only 46 out of the
Dds Northern votes will be necessary for
the success of the reasonable dis-union
faction of the Democratic party. The
l3S Southern votes made by the white
leaguers, would not go over 10 the 46
, but would bsorb them.
Can tbosa mb n u,aro ,io /, u, L., =,
ing the rebellion, contemplate the near fl.
ture with indifference Can Republicans
| afford to waste their strength in senseles:
, chickering's in view of such condition oil
, affairs ?
The Union men Of the Democratic par
: ty will ever be powerless as against their
Southern taskmasters within the organi-
cation. Democratic success in the nation
means Southern ascendency, and a resto-
ration ot the old order OF things il
means revenge on the patriotism of the
nation, wholesale plundering of the ma
tonal treasury for southern claimants,
and dishonesty towards national creditors
= If such disaster cannot be averted, the
nation will not long outlive such complete
humiliation and disgrace. The premium
thus set upon treason and rebellion, would
soon do the work of final destruction.
To avert those calamitles the danger
needs only to be realized. California,
Ohio and Maine are to hold elections this
year. Letus do our share towards stay
ing the reaction which has already placed
81 ex confederate soldiers in the next
House of Representatives. Let us meet
the cry OF federal interference, with n
stern demand that organized assassination
and fortunes shall cease, and lazy and or.
der be respected throughout the land.
Putting forward our best men, let us
show our opponents that the Republican
pnrty can govern the State we'll without