The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-10

themselves tne ruling OF Jne interests
the nation. There was no aspiratio
which they had which was not bounde
by the horizon of the Union. If the
were united with the Democratic party
it was not for the purpose Of seCtiona
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, it was not for the pun
pose of reversing the policy of the Gov
ernment, but it was because they hat
observed an instructive and imperative
law of selfpreservation, He proceeded
to argue against the idea that the acces
sion to power of the Democratic part,
would suspend the supervision of tn,
National Government over the ConduC
of affairs in the South, and that such sus
pension would imperil the rights of thu
colored race. He quoted from a speecf
made by Senator Morton, of Indiana, il
1865, against comforting franchise on the
colored race, and in favor of postponing
their political rights for ten, fifteen OF
twenty years, at which time he (Morton)
argued, the Southern States would have
been so completely filed up by immigra.
ton from the North and from Europe
that the negroes would beina permanent
minority. If that distinguished states
man away up in Indiana had such view
of the effect of negro citizenship, what
must have been the appalled, feeling of
Southern society on which that ava
lanche was to be let loose. Was it to be
wondered at that the people of the South
at that time endeavored to save them
selves from that shock He claimed,
however, that after that system became
fastened upon them they had striven
earnestly and honestly to give it a fair
and full development, and that they
might have succeeded in some degree but
for the measures which had been adopt
ed in consequence Of the conflict between
Congress and President johnson, the
worst Of which measures was the estab-
lishment Of the Freedman's Bureau,
which had cut the two races right asun-
der, The inevitable effect of that recon-
struction policy had been to draw one
race to its support and drive the other
race to its opposition. He quoted Glib
bon, the historian, as saying that the
most absurd and oppressive system of
government which could be conceived of
was that which subjected the native of a
country to the domination off slave and
also quoted from John Stuart Mill, tot the
effect that, when government is admin
istered by rulers not responsible to the
people governed, but to some other COM
munity, it was one of the worst of con-
ceivable governments; and he said that
the hideous system established in the
South was a composite of these two Vi
cious systems, The people were sub
jeCted to the domination of their former
slaves, and were ruled over by people
whose constituents were not the people
for whom they should act, but the Fed
eral Government, He quoted from the
report of the Louisiana Investigating
Committee oflast Congress, made by Mr..
Foster, of Ohio, and expressed his aston
ishment at hearing that gentleman claim
credit the other day for having made
report which bore heavily on his party.
Was it condition of Radical success, he
asked, that the country should be told
that there was mulder and intimidation
on the part of the white people of Lou
siana against the blacks when the facts |
we're not? Did it bear hard upon the Re-
publican party to state there was no such |
state of lawlessness and intimidation
lmong the people who were writhing
lnder all of the oppression which cor
upton could invent? He also quoted |
rom the subsequent report made on the
anne subject by the other sub-commit-
ee which went to New Orleans, Messrs.
Ioar, Frye and Wheeler, and from the
Presidents annual message, in which he
acknowledged that the people of the
jouth had had vile and oppressive gov
to live under, and he asked
low it could be expected to find quiet,
rderly, law abiding communities, whose
Governors were lawless felons, whose
were thieves and whose mag
strates were sCoundrels, The race prob
EN- was not incapable of solution. Two
tatesmen, such as Lord Derby and Earl
Russell, would settle it in three days.
The people of the South would be con-
ent to withdraw from participation in
he Presidential election, if they could
10 so, and let the people Of the North
lect a President, but they could not i'm
,ose on themselves stolid inactivity.
III that they wanted in uniting with the
Democratic party was not tc rule cabi-
lets, not to dictate policy, not to control
he interests of the country, but they
wanted representative share of the re-
possibilities and benefits of common
government, according to the measure of
heir population and race. They were