Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03

bHe pUT DlaCKS. All tue details WtlcD
followed deepened the blackness Of the
picture.
Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, said to
US: Il have not had a light in my
house for three years; and that state
ment is true Of every Republican in
Arkansas who has dared to express his
political Statements" Senator Dorsey
went to Arkansas engaged not in poll
tics but in railroad enterprises, and did
vast deal for the development Of the
State. After thus serving the inter-
ests of the community, he had the au-
dacity to be elected a United States
Senator, and Immediately his proscrip.
tion and persecution b"gan. The win
dows, doors and walls are shattered
with bullets from assassins who fired in
the dark, and for this reason, as already
stated, he has not had light In his
home for threee years These are
merely samples Of innumerable facts,
some Of which are far more startling,
and all of which were derived from the
most direct and authentic sources.
Indeed, many of the Democrats here
do not pretend to deny in private this
general and appalling condition of af-
fairs. One Of the Democratic members
of Congress from Alabama did not hes.
itate the other day, as I personally
know, that the Republicans really car
rled that State in the last election.
though a Democratic majority of over
$4,000 was counted up.
And just here is one of the motives
of this rebel crusade. 1t has two pur-
poses, distinctly, and yet blended. The
one is to capture every Southern State
for the Democracy in 1875. and the
other as a sequence, is to nullify the
substance of reconstruction, to bring
forward the most extraordinary rebel
claims and to reduce the blacks to
condition of peonage. Already in sew
eral of the Southern States, in violation
of the spirit if not the letter of the re-
constructed Constitution under which
they were readmisted. the unrepentant
rebels have proposed capitation tax.
What that means is palpable to every
intelligent man. It means the exciu.
sion of all blacks from the ballot-box.
1t puts all the necessary machinery
for this purpose in the hands of their
old masters. If legislation with this
spirit can stand. the substance if not
sne for.a q ,:sve1y may DE restored
Aud it is to accomplish such ends that
the violent ard revolutionary policy of
the unrepentaat rebels has been delib-
erateIy undertaken. They have never
been so bold and hopeful as now. The
general Democratic success of last fall
has filed them with new venom and
disclosed their fangs. They expect to
capture the Southern States, then the
General Government, and then-!
There is 40 Disgusting the fsct-the
country is approaching very grave
crisis The calmest and most unim-
passioned men here are profoundly i'm
pressed with the magnitude OF the
danger They understand the spirit
and purposes of the rebel element as
the country does not, and they know
the success OF tha, party portends peril
to the blacks, peril to ali Union men
in the South and peril 10 the country.
The absolute dom n ton Of that force
ln the Democratic p r'y is even now
perceptlb!e. Eve'y prominent Demo
clat here is already bow ng 70 he
South. When John Young Brown
spit out his rebel venom the other day,
90 Democrat had the courage TO con-
demn him. The South will rule the
caucus and command the party. II
cannot be controlled And when these
facts fully appear, and these displays
are made, as they certainly viii be,
then, if not before, the country will
wake up to the danger before it, and
will stretch forth its hand to rescue
itself.
| have the strongest confdence-so
said to-day one Of the Ieast-excitable
and est-judging statesmen we have,
who has just been through the South
that the Republican party will carry
the election in 1876 His confidence
is based upon the belief that when the
unrepentant rebels show ont their spir-
it, as they are doing now and will do
in still greater degree in the next
Congress, the patriotic sentiment of the
land will be inspired and consolidated
as it was during the war. The Re-
publican party needs to rouse to the !
grand work before it, An object I'M
measurably greater than mere partisan
success appeals to its best energies and
It's noblest efforts The preservation
of the blood bought fruits of the war
and the security of the Union men Of
the South are staked upon it's labcrs
and to this commanding duty it should
address itself with all its couraua Wis