The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-08-18

we're denounced Dy the Democracy
North and South as void, not having
been legally ratified, and have not
been recognized yet, except in the
slightest and most indirect manner,
and if the Democrats had control OF
the national government would, in the
Southern States, be ignored and run
over.
TRUE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
The condition of the South, doubt
know it is rapidly in material wealth
and prosperity; but this political i'm
provement is slow, and has not made
such progress as to change the action
or the purpose of the Democratic
masses of the South, should the
Democratic party come into posses
sion of the national government.
While the white people are becom-
ing somewhat accustomed to the ex-
ercise by the colored people of civil
and political rights, and the tendency
to violence on that account has to
some extent abated, yet it would be a
great and fatal mistake to suppose
that they are reconciled to their new
relations to the colored race. or have,
in the language of the day. accepted
the situation. Although it is often
said by Southern politicians they
would not restore slavery if they
could, yet do not believe it is true
in regard to the great mass of former
shareholders, while do believe that
they look upon such restoration az
impossible under the circumstances,
and hence do not live in hope of it.
But there is no doubt that the men,
bers of the Democratic rarty in the
South. with few exceptions, look upou
the colored people as race that ought
to be enslaved, who were made free
wrongfully by the accident Of war,
and deeply resent their elevation to
civil and political rights and equality.
And while they do not live in the
hope of the restoration of slavery in
it's old form, they are full Of hope and
faith that the time will soon come
when the colored race in their midst
will, by legislation and the show of
force, be deprived Of their political
and civil rights and reduced to legal
inferiority and position, midway be-
tween slavery and that political
equality to which they are justly en-
titled by the Constitution and the
natural rights Of man.
THE WHITE MANS BAsIs-THE COLOR
LINE.
Their policy may be summed up in
single sentence-"The reconstruc-
ton of the South upon the white
mans basis" This they cannot hope
to do while the National Government
remains under control of the Repub-
lican party; but when they have
secured the possession of that, then
in the Southern States, in which they
have the power, they will proceed
without fear of molestation or him
drance to work out their policy of
subjugatiou, and to acquire the power
in other States by that fatal machinery
of violence and terror that have been
already SO successfully employed. To
acquire the possession of the National
Government is the first great step in
the accomplishment OF their policy,
and to this end they will mask their
purposes as far as possible, and do
everything in their power to lull the
apprehensions of the people of the
North. To this end they will sup
press, as far as possible, the violent
utterances of their politicians and
conventions, and talk in general
phrase of reconciliation and fraternity.
To this end they will boast and Aatter
the correspondents of Northern news
papers. lavish upon them social atten-
ton, treat them with ostentatious
hospitality, fill their ears with pro-
fessions of peace and good will TO
the colored race. and weave round
them net and maze of false appear
ances until they have them to write
those deceitful and pleasing accounts
which they would have the people of
the North believe.
But whatever facilc correspondents
may say, the great fact remains that
an overwhelming majority of all who
were engaged in the rebellion are to-
day bitterly hostile to the emancipa-
| tiop of the slaves and their elevation
to civil and political rights, and are
watching with intense eaeerness for
the hour aud opportunity when they
can cast them headlong down preci-
pice They believe these will be
found in the success of the Democrat
| ic party.
THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
IF you would be fully instructed,
| inquire who to-day are the leaders OF
the Democratic party. Not one who
took part in the suppression of the
rebeilion-not one. Their motto is,
let no such man be trusted. Ii any
soldier who fought for the Union
imagines that he has obtained, or can
possibly obtain, the confidence OF the
Democratic party, let him be unde-
ceived. They may for purposes OF
policy in doubtful localities or States
where they are weak give him a sub
| ordinate Office, but even that no longer
than the necessity lasts, and never by
any chance will he be placed in a com
manding position. Look at the lead.
ers of the Democratic party in Indi.
ana, Ohio, New York, Kentucky, cv-
erywhere-they are Bourbons all, un-
tainted by a single patriotic resolve or
action for the suppression of the re-
bellion. They are your Thurmans,
Hendricks, Tildens, Bayards, Sey-
mours, Kernans, Eatons, Pendletons.
ct id omne genus, gentlemen of abili-
t., each and every one Of whom has
been the unrclenting antagonist of the
government from the day our flag was
hauled down in blood from the sum-
init of Fort Sumter. They have de-
MED the power Of Congress to coerce
a state to remain in the Union. They
have asserted the unconstitutionality
of every great measure to prosecute
the war. They cast the whole weight
of their influence against the govern
lnent throughout the struggle. They
proclaimed the Presidents proclama-
ton of emancipation to be fagrant
violation OF the Constitution. They
went to Chicago in 1864, in the midst
of the last great campaign, and pub
lished to the world that the war was
failure and should be abandoned.
They fought to the bitter end the