Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-04
Thu Southern Question.

/ mas written anu puDnsned review oil
The last proceedings in thel legislature
of Louisiana, at New Orleans, in
which he takes the position that the
body from which members were re
moved by the m litary was not leg
islalive nut a revolutionary body; hav.
ing seized upon and obtained posses
zion and control of the house by vio-
lenee, then fraud, in contempt oflaw,
added to its members SO as to become a
majority, that righttully such an assem-
bly, could have no recognition from
nyalegally constituted authority. The
statement made by the democratic
press that Legislature peaceably as.
sembled had been dispersed DIR.
Stoughton declares to be ''utterly
| without foundation" During the ex-
istance of the military governments
at the South when ever man was pro
tected in his right to vote, Georgia
was republican state. Her legi-la
ture numbers nearly two hundred
members; out of that number there
are now elected from II to 20 Repub
licans; and order is now established, il
is said, in Georgia. 1t is fact of un
disputed history that intimidation and
errorism have been the agents by
which the republican majority in
Georgia has been reduced to an insig-
m6cant minority. The order which
now reigns in Georgia is OF the same
character and was produced by the
same means as that which on GER
tain occasion was said to have relgned
in Warsaw. Resist our supremacy
and die, is the argument which south
ern democrats address to republicans,
as he bloody record OF $500 murders
in Louisiana, mostly for political rea-
SONS, committed since 1866, fully at
tests. What is to be the result OF
a supremacy established on such ba-
sis as this? The purpose, it is evi
dent, is to consolidate the southern
vote and make it unit as it was be
tore the war. 1t those people who en-
gagged in the rebellion and have sut-
fered the terrible losses which that
great crime brought upon them, can
by such means succeed in bringing all
the Southern states under the control
of the democratic party and ultimate
y that party should obtain possession
of the national administration, does
any sane man suppose they would
hest cite to tax the nation for the pay
ment OF damages inflicted ly the union
armies, and for the value ofslaves
liberated by the proclamation of
emancipation? The New Y rk Tim s
truly says: If the democratic party
could be depended upon TO approach
the Southern question inth9 same spirit
OF candor aud patriotism which Mr.
Stoughton disp avs, with reference to
tic late diHSOuitics in Louisiana, there
would, for the first time, be a very
fair chance of sett ing it on a peace.
able and lasting foundation within
the lifetime of the present generation"
IL Is no matter of consequence wheth-
er this party or that holds control in
the South, providing such supremacy
tends to consolidate the union and re
store peace and concord between the
two see tons and gives the south an
opportunity to commence the devel-
opment OF her resources. She has
within her limits abundant deposits
of coal and iron, is rich in cotton,
hemp and wool; and yet large por-
lion of her fabrics are brought to her
either a ross the Atlantic or from the
North. But peace is impossible as
long as The people of the south are
supported by the democracy in their
attempts to regain political control by
a course of crime that is infamous, aud
without peace there can be no pro-
gress in the development OF the ma
terial resources of any state. The cry
that the accounts of the frequent muir
ders committed in the South are man
ufactured for political purposes will
no longer answer. The people of the
North have given too mu3h attention
TO these false accusations Of the dem
ocrat press. The proof that the truth
has never been fully told, that the
en1rmity of the offenses committed in
the name of democracy has never been
portrayed is now too conclusive to adj
nit of denial. These men have COM
mitted more murders of republicans
than will ever be brought to light; by
the intimidation thus established they
have assumed to prohibit the collec-
ton of taxes, forbid the holding Of
courts, prevent the puni-hment OF
criminals, and thus hold both the pub
lie authorities and the people in the
state of obedience to an armed patrol
which has preambulated the country
| in every direction with the vowed in
| tent of resorting to any and every
means except making war upon
United States troops, and all this to
promote the interests OF the democrat
ic party. When the officers of our
courts of justice and the inmates of
orr prisons may be made to exchange
places with each other and the good
order of society be promoted thereby,
then can good government be adj
vanced by such means as the demo
cratic party in the South has been
constantly using since the enfranchise-
ment of the negro II destroy republic
can principles. Freedom of speech
and of the press in the rural districts
throughout the Gulf States is visited
with certain death and the demorliza
ton OF society consequent upon the
terrorism established is scarcely diff
ferent from that which existed when
slavery was in the plentitude of its
power. With such state of society
republican government is as impossi-
BILE as il is in Spain.
.E"He may sing with US, but he
can't lead the choir" was the remark
of leading Democrat The other day
in anusion TO General Banks pros
nonts for The Snaakarshin Of tie next