Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-05-01

nuurlShed, Sw9rn To prevent the hotdlug
of office by their political opponents,
whose fair election by the people WAS not
not denied.
The ballot box has been foroibly and
openly seized and destroyed when known
to contain more Republican than Demo
cralic votes.
Charches and scheol-houses have been
burned and clergymen and teachers foul
y outraged.
Surviving friends found the slaughtered |
victims Of the Ficksburg massacre, TN /
buried, being guided To the place by the /
foul birds OF prey that circled in the air !
above them. Says one OF the witnesses |
" Where we saw the buzzards hover, |
there we found the doad men,"
Magistrates are poweress or Indifferent, |
juries are tainted with the presence up0p |
them of very outlaws themselves, wit |
nesses are intmidated aud law and justice |
are u mockery.
This reign of terror inaugurated and |
maintained for the sole purposC~ot securing |
Democratic ascendancy, has done its work |
in most of the Southern States and in them /
the hapless victims OF barbarlty are dumb. |
In the remaining States the Federal arm |
has now and then been extended in aid ot |
the local authorities, in compliance with |
the plain provision of the Constitution OF |
the United States las originally frHmed), |
which provides for the national protection |
OF States against domestic violence.
In tho presence of this long-contnued |
saturnalia of crime and blood shed, nota |
word of Democratic rebule or remon- |
STRANGE 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 testl |
! flying shat Northern men are never
maltreated unless they meddle with poll
ties" They are unable to realize that
any citizen of the United States may So
lect his residence in any State or Teui-
tory and be Republican, rs we'll rs AN
other may be n Democratic partisan.
The Southern Democracy are not en-
gagged as whole in the deadly work we
have described F.; but neither do they in
tertcre for its suppression. They excuse,
palliate and shield, and thus encourage
it. Many openly declare that the cxten-
sion of suffrage to the negro is n Just cause
for war, aud that as they cannot wage
open war, they are justified in rcsorting
to assassination.
Tho Northern Democracy look COM
pacently on, as they did during the war,
Except when irritated by rebel revcrses) |
and when the blood Of slaughtered citi- [
zens cries aloud from the ground they |
snecr ut what they are pleased to call the |
"outage mill" They have found no
cause for complaint against the murder |
ers, but when occasionally after long suf- !
! ferancc, au attempt has been made hy the |
/ exercise of undoubted constitutional pow
er by the President to aid the State au-
| thortics in restraining violence, their in
dignation, well feigned, filed the mir with
| hypocritical clamor, aud the people of
the North have been urged to restrain
the tyrant hand of Federal usurpation
In both sections the Democracy moans
over the danger to civil liberty and State
rights which must result from the re-
straints put upon tho law breakers of the
South. The late Gen. Geo. Ii. Thomas
in an official report made to the War De
partmcnt three years after the war had
ended, said
" The controlling cause of theunsettcd
condition Of affairs in the department is,
that the greatest efforts made by the 90
teated insurgents since the close of the
war, have been to promulgate the idea
that the cause Of liberty, justice, humani-
ty, equality and all the calendar OF the
virtues of freedom, suffered violence and
wrong, when the effort for Southern indc-
pcndence failed. This Is, of course, in
tended as species OF political cant,
| whereby the crime of treason might be
covered with counterfeit varnish of pa
triotism, so that the prccipitators Of the
rebellion might 90 down in history hand
in hand with the defenders of tho govern
ment thus wiping out with their own
hands their own stains; species Of self
/ forgiveness amazing in its cilfoutcry,
| when it is considered that lito and proper
/ ty-justly forfeited by the laws of the
country, of war aud of nations, through
the magnanimity Of the Government
was not eXacted from them"
| The wolf assumes lamb like tone Mt
( the North, and rebel chiefs like Generals
Gordon and Lamar, are sent among the
people in the New England villages, to
persuade them thai Republicans alone
are opposed to peace and quiet in tho
| South
The end of these things is to come next
year. Either tho rebel Democracy will
regain power in the nation, and so "the
empire will be peace" such rs reigncd
on the plantations before the war, or else
!
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 barbnrity OF his enemy, rs he surely
can, the South will be dcsolation.
The present administration has used
all the power at its command to preserve
hn ba latu
been in less faithful hands, still greater
disorder would have surely ripenod into
complete and fagrant anarchy and rebell-
ion, or the subjoction OF all who refused
TO vote the Democratic ticket.
The rebel Democracy Of the South,
hope to remove the obstacle Of restraint,
by possessing themselves Of the Prcsi-
dency. This is II more imminent danger
than loyal men generally suppose. The
aggregate electoral vote OF the Union is
3GG. Necessary to choice, lSi. OF
these the Southern States have 1873. If
violence, fraud and intimidation, can
consolidate fora Democratic candidate the
! 1873 southern votes, only 4G ont Of the
22S Northern votes will be necessary for
| the success of the reasonable dis-union
| faction of the Democratic party. The
1873 Southern votes made by the white
leaguers, would not go over 10 the 40,
but would absorb them.
Can those who were war Democrats dur
ing the rebellion, contemplate the near fu-
ture with Indifference? =? Can Republicans
afford 10 waste their strength In senseess
chickering's in view of such condition Of
affar ?
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 resto-
ration OF the old order OF things it
means revenge on the patriotism Of the
nation, wholesale plundering of the ma
tional treasury for southern claimants,
| 4 FL.