Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-26

other. A growing Soath under the old
conditions WAS absolutely lovely when
the growth was from multiplication OK
the blacks Growth Of the free States,
however. was source Of fear, from an
instructive monitor that said white free
men who were cultured and enterprising
could have no sympathy with slavery or
its cause. And the monitor spoke truly.
This determination to live in the past,
to drag back the present until it shall
touch something that has groveled before
the slave power, its aims and its exercise,
and ignore the future, is sign of the
times with the Confederate and Bourbon
Democracy, To the Confederate side of
the House, entertaining such sentiments,
the Centennial year must be productive Of
misery. They cannot obliierate the prog
ress which bridges time from 1916 10 1876,
and they cannot quench the spirit which
outside of tile South is still pushing on
ward and will carry the remainder of the
country with it, and progress always de-
velops higher views OF duty and truer
regard for the rights and wants of man.
They can, therefore, only quote the Cen
tennia year as having a blank Of fifteen
other years behind it, in which terrible
crime was committed they want you 10
forget and never refer 10, while they Can
refer to nothing else, and make you re-
member the crime OF their rebellion by
the crimes Of to-day, which come ringing
up 10 the ears of the people from the
States of the South under Democratic
control, in obstructing white and colored
Republicans in the exercise OF their rights
| a. citizens 10y intimidation and death
a.. /. a. 1.
cation which has followed the assumption
of power By Southern Democrats we have
only 10 cite the State blessed with that
luminary of political darkness, Mr.. John
Forsyth, of the Mobile Register. Not a
twentieth part of the crime committed has
ever been reported. A gentleman of re-
pute-a white Repuhlican--of Southern
Alabama said, in conversation the other
day: ." We have 10 take the insults of the
Confederate Democracy, as they defy the
Federal Government and defeat the Con
stituiion by bribing and iniimidatipg and
numbering colored citizens. | have seen
a dozen colorcd Republicans shot down
by ex-Coniederates as they went TO the
polls TO vote And | have seen colored
Republicans marched up TO the polls he
tween two files Of armed men and made
10 vote the Democratic ticket. judges,
shcriils, ministers, business men, police
men and others are all criminaily guilty
in this respect and have never been pun
ished for their deeds. The bloody shirt
is as rampant as ever, bat you know moth
ing OF the infamous reality"
The rebellion is responsible for this, and
until its spirit is subdued there can be no
restoration OF traterna feeling, If ever the
South was in fraternity with the old free
States. Republicans especially are called
upon TO watch the attitude of the Southern
Democracy assisted by their Northern
sympathizers. The rebellion must be
borne in mind until the effects of it have
ceased, and the pardoned Confederates
must understand that they will not be per
mltted 10 grow rich through the operation
of the measures OF reconstruction, and
turn their wealth To the support and pro-
lection of disloyalty, and to perpelrating
the barbarous practices OF slavery. For
get the rcbellion Never, until the South
ern Democracy learn TO become good citi-
zens and obedient to the law. -Repu6lic
MagIzase