The Pacific appeal., 1875-04-24

They excuse, palliate, shield and
thus encourage it. Many openly
declare that the extension of suf
, fragejto the negro is just cause fol
war, and that as they cannot wage
foSsa ;sar, they are justified in re
s0f:isg TO assassination,
The Northern Democracy look
complacently on, as they did during
the war Except when irritated by
rcbelreverses), and when the blood
Of slaughtered citizens cries from
the ground, they sneer at what they
are pleased to call the outrage
mill" They have found no cause
o1icomplaint against the murderers
but when, occasionally, after long
sufferance, an attempt has beer
made by the exercise of undoubted
constitutional power by the Presi
, tent to aid the State authorities il
restraining violence, their we'll
feigned indignation has filled the
air with hyocritical clamor, and the
,Ipcople of the North have been urged
to restrain the tyrant hand of Fed
eaal usurpation. Ins sboth sections
Ethe Democracy moan over the dan
ger to civil liberty and State rights
1 which must flow out Of the restraints
| put upon the law-breakers of tho
South. The late Gen. George II
}Thomas, in an official report to the
war department, made three years
and half after the war had ended
said:
1.-The controlling cause Of the
condition of affairs in the depart
"ment is, that the greatest efforts
made by the defeated insurgents
since the close Of the war, have
"been to promulgate the idea that
liberty, justice, humanity, equality
"and all the calendar of the virtues
"of freedom, suffered violence and
wrong, when the effort for South
"ern independence failed. This is
of course, intended as a species oil
g political cant, whereby the crime
Of treason might be covered with
a counterfeit yarnish of patriotism
so that the precipitators of the re,
bellion might go down in history
hand in hand with the defenders
"of the Government, thus wiping
"out with their own hands their own
stains; species of selfforgivness
amazing in its effronterv, when it
is considered thatlife and property
Justly forfeited by the laws Of
the country, of war, and of nations
through the magnanimty of the
Government was not exacted from
them"
The wolf assumes a lamp-like
tone at the North, and rebel chiefs
like Generals Gordon and Lamar
are sent among the people in 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 then regain power
in the nation, and 30 the
empire will be peace" such as
reigned on the plantations before
| the war. or else 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 former
will sooner Or later drive the negro
to desperation. and when he shalt
match the barbarity of his enemy, as
he surely can, the South will be a
desolation.
The present administration has
used all the power at its command
to preserve the peace and execute
the laws. Had it been in less faith
full hands, still greater disorder
would have surely ripened into com
plete anu fragrant anarchy and re-
hellion, or the subjection of all who
refused to vote the Democratic ticket
The rebel Democracy of the South
hope to remove the obstacle of ma
tional restraint, by possessing them
selves Of the Presidency. This is
a more imminent danger than loyal
men generally suppose. The ag-
gregate electoral vote of the Union
is 366. Necessary to a choice, 184.
Of these the Southern States have
1873. If violence, fraud and intimi
dation can consolidate for a Dem
ocratic candidate the 1873 Southern
votes, only rs ont of the 228 North
ern votes will be necessary for the
success of the reasonable disunion
faction Of the Democratic party.
The 1873 Southern votes made by the
white leaguers would not 60 over
to the 46, but would absorb them.
Can those who were war Dem
ocrats during the rebellion contem-