Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-04-24

malaria than ihey had from the ofgahlIed
bandtti which bas been strong enough to
DEFY the law.
White Leagues, Ku Klux Klans, Pale
Faces, and similar secret orders have
huuri,hed, sworn to prevent the holding
of office by their political opponents,
whose lair election by the people was not
not denied.
The ballot box has been forcibly and
openly seized and destroyed when known
to contain more Republican than Demo
craic votes.
Churchps and schOol-houses have been
burned aud clergymen and teachers foul
~ outraged.
Surviving friends found the slaughtered
victims cf the ci>>burg massacre, un
buried, being guided To the place by the
foul blrd Is OF prey that circ.td IN the AR
above them Says one OF the witnesses
" Whe'e we saw the buzzards hover,
there we found the dead men"
Magistrates are poweress or Indifferent,
juries are tainted with the presence upon
them of very outlaws themselves, Wit
ne>se- are intim.dated aud law and justice
are mOckely.
This reign Of terror inaugnratrd aud
maintained for the sole pu p 'S, of secu lng
Democratic a,ccudancy, hts d ne Is " rk
in most OF the SOuthern States ana N ih.m
the haple-s victims o barbarity dunn.
IL the remaining States ,he trdert am
has now and then been extended IN aid OF
the local authorities, IN compliance with
the pain provision Of the Constitution uf
the United States (as originally tHmed),
which provide, for the national protec tiun
Of States against domestic violence.
III the presence ot this long g-continued
>atuuii ia of crime and Blood he'd, not
word OF Democratic tebuke or renlnn-
STRANGE has been heard, North o. South.
Southern Democrat, when placed upon
the iSitue>s stand exhibit their mSrnsl
hility to shame and their iguniahceot the
most common rights ui citizens 0y te-tl-
fving .hat Northern mru n:e never
maltrratrd unr,, they mrdd e with poll
tics" They ape unable tn realize that
any citizen of the United State, may Sc
lect his residence IN any State or Tcri
tory and be "A Il pubIican, a. we'll n an
other may be II Democratic parti,an.
The Southern d mocracy are noe en-
gaged "a, whole il the dead Y work we
have de~cribrd but neither do they in
teriere for It's suppression. They excuse,
p1lliatr aud shield, aud thus encourage
it. Many openly declare that the exteu-
sion ot ,utf age to the negro is II just cause
for war, and that rs they clnnoI wage
open war, they are justified in lesortug
to assassination.
The Northern Democracy look com
placently on, II they dad during the war,
(excppt when irrtatrd by rebel rever,e,)
and when the blDud of slaughtered cIti-
zen> clieS aloud from the ground they
>nper at what they are pleased b. cal the
"uutrage mill" They have found no
cause for complaint against the murder
erS. but when occasionally after long sui
frraucp, an attempt has been made bY the
exercise of und1ubted cor stitutipual pow
or by the President Ia Md the State au
tho'iie- in restrainng viornce, their in
d diguaiipn, well tcigned, He'd the air with
hypocriiical clNmur, and the people of
the Moth have been urged to rp-tlain
the tyrant hand of FrGeral usurpatinn
II both sections the Democracy IN pans
ov"r the danger to civil liberty and State
rights which must result fum the re-
strnlut> pat upon the law breakers at the
South. The late q a. g 20. II. Thum1S
in an otii 'ia report mad lp the Wur De-
pp'tmaut three years after the war had
end d, ,ad
Th, coutro'liug cause Of the unsettled
condition nf affairs in the department. is,
that The gre1le-l 'tfIrIS made 10y the Ce
iehtrd Insurgents since the close eft the
war, have been to prnmulgute the idea
that th" cause Of Iihe tv, Justice. humtni
tv, equality and all the cnlcndar oi tn.
virtue OF tlerdom, suffered violence aud
wrong. when the elio lo Suulhrju indie
p'ndruce iaiied. Tni j., OF cour~e, in
tended n IA .p-cies OF pJ,itlcul cant,
whereby ihe crime of treason might be
covered with u couulprteit vanish ut pa
tripti-m, 50 that he precipiator> Of the
rebellion might go down ia hi.tDiy baud
in hand wth the defenders of the govern
mput, thus wiping ont with their own
hands their own -ttHs;a species of self
forgiveness amnzing in its rftnuirIV,
VIII IN it is considered that lie and proper
ty-ju-tly forfeited by the laws of the
county, Of war and OF nations, through
the magnanimjly of the GoveInnlcnt--
VA. not eXactrd from them"
The wolf assumes lamb like tone at
tn No tn, and rebel chiefs like Generals
Gordon and Lunar, are sent among the
people in the New England villages, to
persuade them tha; r plhlcans alone
are opposed to peace and quiet in the
South.
The end Of these things is to come next
year. Either the rebel Democracy will
regain power in the nation. aud 80 "lhe
empire viii br peace" such rs rpignrd
on the plantations before the war, or else
the party OF law and older will prevail,
and equal lights be enflrced by ruerS
fresh from the people. The latter result
can Il one bring lasting peace. The for
mrr will sooner or later d i've the negro
t. de prraiion, and when he shall match
the hnrbulitV ot his enemy, a. he surely
can, the South will be desnlaion.
The present administration has used
all the power AT it, command to preserve
the peace and execute the laws. Had it
been in less faith at hands, still greater
disorder would have surely ripencd into
complete and ii1grant anaichyand REBEL
ion, ar the Ijrction ot all who refused
20 vote the Democratic ticket.
The rebel Democracy 0f the South,
hope to remove the ob- tacle OF re ~trlint.
by possessing themselves OF the p esl-
drncN. This is a more imminent danger
than loyal men generally suppose. The
aggregate electoral vote of the Z uion is
1866 Necessary to a choice. lS4. Of
these the Southern States have 1873 II
violence, fraud aud iutimidntion, can
cunso date fora Democratic 'andidale the
l3S southern votes, only 46 out of the
Z2S Northern votes will he necr- sary for
the success of the treasonnble dis uripn
faction of the Democratic party. The
l3S Southern votes made by the white
leaguers, would not 90 over TO the 46,
but would absorb them.
Can those who were war d D, ,n,ocratsdur
ing the lehp p'llon, cnntemp ate The near fl
ture with Indifference Can r puh'icnns
afford to waste their strength in senseless
chickering's in view of such IA condition of
affairs
The Union men Of the Democratic par
tv will ever hr ppwerleSs MS against their
Southern iaSkmastcrs within the organi-
zstion. Democratic success in he nation