Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-04-06

cratic party in the way Of obtaining control
Of the national government. Such a re-
suit would be the beginning Of policy of
reaction OF which no man could see
the end-a policy 80 violent that under the impe-
tus acquired from victory and the confidence
growing out Of power it would rush probably to
the wildness of counter-reyolution, overturn-
ing or setting aside, or at least unsetting many
Of the now accepted and most important points
of public policy.
The aim Of the democratic party now is to con.
solidate the South, and then secure as much
northern support as may possibly be obtained.
And it ia q most startling fact that with the
electoral votes Of the former slave States. they
need but fraction OF the northern vote to give
them the government. Look at the figures
With Colorado admitted. the total
electoral vote will be 369-of
which 1876 constitute majority. The southern
States united can give 1888 votes, leaving only AZ
to be obtained out of the 23l that belong to the
North The three States of New York, Connec-
tcut and California can give these AZ votes, and
your own prosperous State s one that is found
on the list of those who wish to control the gov
ernment by this combination. And If this de-
sign could succeed it would only be history re-
peating itself. Against an overwhelming ma
jority OF the free States in 1856, small
fraction of them united with the South, and
were enabled to fasten the Buchanan dynasty
upon the country, with all the unnum-
bered evils that followed. Are you in Connecti-
as democrats,-but are you as Connecticut men
ready and willing to have the political strength
Of your State used in an ''unholy alliance by
which the government il to be taken from the
men who fought for the Union and ham ed over
to the control of those who fought to destroy
the Union? For to this complexion will the i'm
pending issue come.
Mr. Blaine said he reposed no faith in any
special form OF additional coerclve Legislation by
Congress, nor would he advise or consent to any
i,,tnr ya,,na vrit ayt
except under the express terms of the Constitu-
ton and under an exigency 80 pressing as to ill.,
vove the public safety. What is wauted is not
more law, but better public opinion, and the
only way to bring that about is for the northern
States to hold the political power Of the country
tenaciously and tiiwayeringly IN the hands OF
those who held the country together iii its hour
OF EXTREMIST peril. 1t is the belief of the South
that small section of the North can be detached
and this tends continually to consolidate
the South OH the issue of caste and
color. Let northern firmness be as
conspicuous and enduring in peace as it was
in war. and the South will weary of the contest
and divide on other issues. make this appeal
to the North, said Mr. Blaine, not from unkind'
ness or prejudice to the South. God knows have
neither toward that people | would do all in
my power to restore kindly feeling, to recall
prosperity to build up her waste places, and to
make every acre from the Potomac to the Rio
| Grande fertile and productive and profitable.
Il
| would have every man in the North, feel that
| the Union was formed, the Constitution de-
clares, to establish justice insure domes tct ran
| guilty, provide for the common defence. pro-
| mote the general welfare and secure the bles-
sings of liberty to ourselves and our posterty,
| and would have every voter realize that it is
/ impossible to exaggerate the extent and mpor-
| tance of his responsibility. When the name and
| authority of the Union shall be everywhere res
| pected; when the ma jesty OF the law is every
| where recognized; when the rights of the hum
| blest are everywhere conceded; when freedom
| of speech is nowhere denied; when Wendell
Phillips and Oliver p. Morton can speak as free
ly in Georgia as Gordon and Lamar eau in New
| Hampshire, aud when every man entitled Il
suffrage shall be freely accorded the privilege
of voting, the necessity for further appeals to
the loyalty of the nation will have passed away
The great mass of tho people of this country
of all parties desire peace, cordiality and kind
feeling between the North aud the South, and
all wise statesmanslip should look to that end
The Democratic leaders, anxious to prove thu
reconstruction policy Of the Republicans a fail
ure, have not lent their aid to bring about har
mony'; but on the contrary the southern leader
Of that party have suenly refused their co-ope
ration and the northern leaders with ill
concealed delight have really made this refusa
the basis of an arraignment and denun
citation Of the Republican policy. 1t i
to-day the evident interest aud desire OF the re
publican party to have peace-and it is quite Ger
tain that the democrats think that disorde
leads to their advantage. Moreover. the peac
which the republicans desire is based on righ
and Justice and patriotism, and will necesssrl
be permanent. while tue policy of the democrat
is one of reaction, If not of revolution, leadn
inevitably to fresh troubles, of which no ma
| can see the end. Can the people OF Connect
cut, can the people Of the nation hesitate be
tween the issues thus presented