Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-12

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is convulsed with sudden and universal
sorrow. Happy is the monarch whom
the people delight to honor"
The Southern Democratic Address.
The late address ITO the People of
the Southern States" by the Democratic
Senators and Representative in Con-
gress from those States is an exceeding
ly skillful paper drawn by very sagacious
politicians. They are gentlemen whose
! residence in Washington and whose close
observation OF the sentiment of the Coun-
try have shown them the feeling and the
policy which are approved by the great
mass of intelligent people. The advice
of the address, therefore, is conformed
to that sentiment, and its signers, as rep.
resentative Democrats, present them
selves as councillors of moderation,
respect for equal rights and pa
tient obedience to law The address
charges some of the Republican leaders
with endeavoring to revive the
animosities of the war, but it de-
clares confidence in the independent press
aud in the judgment of good citizens foI
vindication of the truth, and hopes for
friendly reunion, because the real inter
! ests Of every part of the country demand
patriotic fraternity. 1t begs brave
people" therefore, to endure everything,
to welcome and protect every man oi
every opinion who comes to settle in the
Southern States and to share their for.
tune, and, above all, to guard every right
of the colored man, to prove to him that
the interest of white and black is the
same, and to respect and protect MIN il
every way. And in the event of the
most oppressive and unconstitutiona
measures against them, the address prays
the white people of the Southern States
to be calm, and to rely for relief upor
the virtue and sense of justice of the
American people.
The address il brief, well written and
enjoins feeling and conduct which
would instantly cement the union more
closely than ever. If the whites of the
Southern States would respect the equal
rights of the blacks, secure fair elections
and appeal to the courts, and not to the
Ku-Klux, White League and revolution
to remedy evils, there would be no ques'
tion of Force bills or of any kind Of
trouble. And if it were believed, if
facts and precedents and reason and com
nonsense justified the belief, that this
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| success, that success would be assured
But the first and strongest impression the
address produces is its sharp contrast
with the actual conduct of affairs and
condition of opinion among the Southern
| Democrats. Reading the ghastly history
of color legislation and of political
crimes in the Southern States, it is not
possible to resist the conviction that the
advice of the address is proffered tC
those who can neither comprehend it mol
would practice it. Perhaps some of the
gentlemen who sign it wish that this
could be the feeling and conduct of theil
party constituents, but they cannot ex
pect that it will be.
Yet they may be very sure that the
whole country will rejoice when it sees
that this advice has been needed. Wher
White Leagues are disbanded; wher
Democratic Conventions cease to cal
themselves the white mans party; wher
they insist on dealing with the coloreC
citizen honestly and fairly" instead Of
denouncIng the tyranny" of "tht
usurper" at Washington; when white
Republicans are no longer derided anC
treated as "white niggers;" when revo
lutionary methods are abandoned; wher
the newspapers cease to excite every hate
full passion; when it is palmer than nov
that the feeling of the active and con
trolling leaders of public opinion and &C
tion is due to the scalawaggeries" an,
frauds and local misrule, rather than t,
race and partisan hate, as in part it I'm
doubtedly is; when the local whit,
Democratic authorities are prompt ant
earnest in the prosecution and punish
ment of ohenses against the negroes
we shall believe that the good advice O
the Democratic address has begun +
bear fruit.
In the meanwhile it stands only for
wish, and tie success of the Democrat
party, which the address is intended 4
promote, would unquestionably tend I
prevent the fulfillment of the wish. TIL
remedy for the evils of the situation is
friendly and wise Republican rule whic
recognizes the extreme difficulty in tn
Southern States of reconciling the oil
and the new order; which makes ever
allowance for conditions springing froI
the past; which does not expect in Louis
lana the harmonious order of MassachI
setts which, now that slavery, the root G
, bitterness, is extirpated, trusts much
the American principle of local rule
and takes many risks indispensable
the existence of free institutions; which
represented in the Southern as in all tn
, States by Federal officers honest, capable
and more patriotic than partisan; an
which avoids the least sign of complicit
with political fraud for any purpos
whatever. This policy is possible for
Republican but not tor a Democrat
J Administration, which would be az
7 cepted as carte blanche for the very mi
/ chiefs against which the address advise
Among the signatures to the addrei
= there is one which is an exquisite satil
5 upon its purport; for among those wh
[ exhort their friends to patience and mo,
Z Grafton and good temper and conciliatio
a is John Young Brown, of Kentucky, WI
E so conspicuously exhibited his own
a the House of ntatives.--Harpey
' Weekly.