Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-05-15

nesses are inundated ana law and justice !
are mOckery.
This reign Of terror inaugurated and
maintained for the sole purpose * 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 (as originally framed),
which provides for the national protection
Of States against domestic violence
In the presence of this long
saturnaia of crime and blood shed, not
word Of Democratic rebuke or remon-
strance 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 testi
flying :hat "Northern men are never
maltreated unless they meddle with poll
tics" They are unable to realize that
any citizen of the United States may Sc
lect his residence in any State or Terri
tory and be Republican, as well as an
other may be Democratic partisan.
The Southern Democracy are not en-
gagged rs "a whole in the deadly work we
have described but neither do they in
.erfcre Ioi its suppression. They excuse,
palliate 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
placently on, a they did during the war,
Except when irritated by rebel reverses)
and when the blood Of slaughtered citi-
zens cries aloud from the ground they
sneer at what they are pleased TO call 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
dignation, well feigned, filled the air with
hypocritical 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
in an official report made to the War De-
partmcDt 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 ce
feated insurgents since the close of the
war, have been to promulgate the idea
that the cause Of liberty, justice, humanl-
| ty, equality and all the calendar OF the
virtues of freedom, suffered violence and
wrong. when the efiolt for Southern inde-
pendence failed. This is. of course, in
tended MS a species Of political cant,
whereby the crime Of treason might be
covered with n counterfeit varnlsh of pa
triotsm, so that the precipitators of the
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; n species of self
forgiveness amazing in its effrontery,
when it is considered that life and proper
ty-justly forfeited by the laws Of the
country, of war and Of nations, through
the magnanimity Of the Government
was not eXacted from them"
The wolf assumes a lamb-like tone at
the North, and rebel chiefs like Generals
Gordon and Lamar, are sent among the
people in the New England villages, to
persuade them that Republicans 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, and SO "the
empire will be peace" such as reigncd
the party OF law and order will prevail,
and equal rights be enforced by rulers
fresh from the people. The latter result
can alone bring lasting peace. The for
mer will sooner or later drive the negro
to desperation, and when he shall match
the barbarity OF his enemy, as he surely
can, the South will be desoation.
The present administration has used
all the power at its command to preserve
the peace and execute the laws. Had it
been in less faithful hands, still greater
disorder would have surely ripened into
complete and Migrant anarchy rebcll-
ion, or the snbiection OF all who refused
10 vote the Democratic ticket.
The rebel Democracy Of the South
hope to remove the obstacle of restraint,
by possessing themselves of the Ptesi-
dency. This is a more imminent danger
than loyal men generally suppose. The
aggregate electoral vote Of the Union is
366. Necessary to choice, lSl. OF
these the Southern States have 1873. If
violence, fraud and intmda ton, can
consolidate fora Democratic candidate the
1873 Southern votes, only AS out of the
DDS Northern votes will be necessary for
the success of the reasonable dis-uui0n
faction of the Democratic party. The
1873 Southern votes made by the white
leaguers, would not go over TO the 46,
but would absorb them.
Can those who were war Democrats dur
ing the rebellion, contemplate the near ftl-
ture with Indifference Can Republicans
afford to waste, their strength in senseless
chickering's in view Of such condition OF
affairs?
The Union men of the Democratic par
ty will ever be powerless as against their
Southern taskmasters within the organi-
zation. Democratic success in the nation
means Southern ascendency, and II resto-
ration of the old order OF things it
means revenge on the patriotism of the
nation, a wholesale plundering of the ma
tional treasury for southern claimants,
and dishonesty towards national creditors.
1 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, wou i'd
soon do the work of final destruction.
To avert these calamtles the danger
needs only to be realized. California,
Ohio and Maine are to hold elections this
year. Let us do our share towards stay
ing the reaction which has already placed
81 exconfederate soldiers in the next
House of Representatives. Let us meet
the cry OF federal Interference, with a
stern demand that organized assassination
and tortures shaA cease, and law and or
der be respected throughout the land.
Putting forward our best men, let us