Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-06

he was pointed to expressions OF democratic ac.
quescence in these results, he must receive them
with caution, because the condition of the South
did not correspond TO these assurances of acQues
cence. In this remark he was not specially refer
ring 10 personal outrages elegantly termed the
"bloody shirt issue by the democracy, but to that
general condition of inequality and oppression I'M
der the law which prevailed in SO many of the
Southern States. Nor had he confidence in the
efforts or intention of the democratic party to pac-
ify and harmonic the South on the basis of sub
mission to law and order. Look at the course Of
the democratic members Of the House of Repre-
sentaives in the settlement of the Louisiana ques
| ton. The final recommendation Of the Louisiana
committeeman ii was certainly very able com
mttee, not rash or partisan, or prejudced-was to
do two things, VIZ, correct the errors OF the re-
publican Enrolling Board and give the Leglsa-
ture in its popular branch to the democrats Sec
ond to recognize Gov. Kellogg as the de fdcto EN-
ecutive CT the State, President Grant had WISE
ly and necessarily done. This seemed 10 DC NOT
only fair adjustment, but it was really the only
adjustment practicable; any other would have IN
vowed wrong on the one hand or anarchy on the
other. And yet every democrat IN the House,
| save alone Mr. Stephens, of Georgia. voted against
permitting the subject to be even introduced, voted
| against allowing the committee to report the ad-
justment, voted against even giving Congress an
opportunity to bring peace to that distracted State,
voted to continue disorder, voted to invite repe
| ttion of the audacious revolution of Sept. Ii,
voted that dscord might hold high carnival in that
rotridden State, if only thereby the prospect of
democratic victory could be enhanced. And If to-
day law and order have supremacy in Louisiana;
| il to-day revolution and anarchy are kept out you
owe the result wholly to the fact that the republ
cans were enabled to outvote the democrats in the
| House of Representatives.
| Mr.. Blaine said he had never sought to play the
part of an alarmist, and had no possible desire to
appear sensational, but he ventured to say to the
people Of Connecticut that it was safe thing for
this country not to put the democratic party in the
way of obtaining control Of the National Govern
ncnt. Such result would be the beginning OF
policy of reaction, of which no man could see the
cnd-a policy so violent that, under the impetus
| acquired from victory and the confidence growing
out of power, it would rush probably to the wild
ness of acounterrevoiuton, overtu.ning or setting
aside, at least unsettling, many of the now &C
copied and most important points of public policy
The aim of the democratic party now isto consol-
idatc the South, and then secure as much North
err support may possibly be obtained. And 1t
is most startling fact that with the united cleo
toral votes of the former slave States, they need
but a fraction of the Northern vote to give them
| the Government. Look at the figures: With
Colorado admitted, the total electoral vote will be
1863, Of which 1856 constitute majority. The
Southern States united can give l3o votes, leaving
only forty to be obtained out of the 23l that
belong to toe North. The three States Of New
York, Connecticut, and California can give these
| forty-seven votes, and your own prosperous State
is that is always found on the list Of those who
wish to control the Government by this combina-
ton. And if this design could succeed it would
only be history repeating ITSELF Against an over
whelming majority of the free States, in 1856, Q
small fraction of them united with the South and
| were enabled to fasten the Buchanan dynasty up
on the country with all the unnumbered evils that
followed. Are you in Connecticut speak to
you not as republicans, and not as democrats, but
are you Connecticut men ready and willing to
have the political strength of your State used in
an "unholy alliance" by which the Government is
to be taken from the men who fought for the
Union and handed over to the control OF those who
fought to destroy the Union For to this COM
plexion will the impending issue come.
| Mr.. Blaine said he reposed no faith in any
special form of additional coercive legislation by
Congress, nor would he advise consent to any
interference with an existing State Government,
except under the express terms of the Constitution
the public safety. What is wanted is not more
law, but better public opinion, and the only way
to bring that about is for the Northern States to
hold the political power of the country tenaciously
and unwaveringly in the hands OF those who held
the country together in its hour of EXTREMIST per-
il. 1t is the belief of the South that small sec
ton of the North can be detached, and this tends
continually to consolidate the South on the issue
of caste and color. Let Northern tirmness be as
conspicuous and as enduring in peace it was in
, war, and the South will weary of the contest and
divide On other issues. make this appeal to the
} North said Mr.. Blaine, not from any unkindness
Or prejudice towards the South. God knows
have neither toward that people. l would do all
prosperity, to build up her waste places, and to
make every acre, from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, fertile and productive and profitable
would have every man in the North feel that the
Union was formed as the Constitution declares 'to
establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, pro-
vide for the common defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to
selves and our posterity," and would have every
voter realize that it is impossible to exaggerate the
extent and importance of his responsibility. When
everywhere respected, when the majesty of the
law is everywhere recognized, when the rights Of
the humblest are everywhere conceded, when
5 freedom of speech is nowhere denied, when Wen
dell Phillips and Gen. Logan can speak as freely
in Georgia as Gordon and Lamar can in New
} Hampshire, and when every man entitled to suf
frage shall be freely accorded the privilege Of vot
ing the necessity for further appeals to the loyal
ty Of the nation will have passed away. The great
mass of the people in this country, of all parties
desire peace, cordially, and kind feeling between
the North and the South, and all wise statesman
ship should look to that cnd The democratic
leaders, anxious to prove the reconstruction poll
cy of the republicans failure, have not lent their
aid to bring about harmony, but, on the contrary,
the Southern leaders of that party have sullenly
refused their cooperation, and the Northern lead
ers, with -concealed delight, have made this re-
fusal the basis of an arraignment and denuncia-
ton Of republican policy. 1t is to-day the evident
interest and desire of the republican party to have
peace, and it is quite certain that the democrats
think that disorder leads to their advantage.
Moreover, the peace which the republicans desire
Is based on right and justice and patriotism,
and will necessarily be permanent, while the poll
cy of the democrats is one of reaction, if not of
revolution, leading inevitably to fresh troubles of
which no man can see the end or measure the ex-
tent Can the people of Connecticut, can the peo-
pie of the Nation Hesitate between the issues thus
presented
| BEECXERS TESTIMONY,