St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-03-31

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nominating Mr.. TiIden and Mr.. Kerr
they can carry New York aud Indiana
New York with its b and Indiana
with Its ID votes-they will triumph by
a majority of three.
BY the same process of ''intimidatiOn
and bribery" which has not overawed
only, but captured the black vote of
Georgia and Mississippi, they hope to
eXtlnguish Republican suffrage in South
Carolina and in all the Gulf States
Ihey will thus be politically benefited
oy negro suffrage; for, instead of rep
resentlng three-iifths of the blacks, ls
they did 10y constitutional proviso he
fore the war, they will have all the ben
etits of full enumeration of these
votes; which, by being suppressed at
the ballot-boX, but expressed in appor-
tlonment, adds the other two-thirds of
the col"red adult male population to
the strength of the Confederate party.
More than year ago one of the
most conspicuous men in the South
b"asted i'll private conversation that
1.-The animals" as he called the negroes.
would never he distranchised. because
by compelling them to vote as the
: mites decreed they would help to
coumterbalance the Northern abolition
ISIS. What was brag then is fact now.
But the Democrats are not quite sure
-siHce Mr.. Hill and Gen. ToombS spoke
Us the South shot that their treasona-
bic plan of DISTINGUISHING the loyal vote
can be completely carried out. They
fear, also, that the investigation into
the outrages of Mississippi, hy which
Lamar was elected senator, NAV com.
| pletely unmaSk their movements and
expose the diabolical nature of it. Mr..
MephistopheleS editing an ..indepem-
dent or Democratic journal, may re-
gard 1t as proof of Il lofty nature to
sHeer at Il "bloody shirt but when
the North know that black men and
! white men i'll the South. for no OtfenSe
save loyalty. have been and are mur-
dered III cold blood 10y the same mis-
creantS who brought on lis the plague
of the tilSt- born, we do not think that
his claim To superior wisdom or human
! itN will be allowed. For, after all.
there Is nothing humorous in ;is>asSina-
ton; and. after all. it is more impor-
tant To save lives than dollars.
| Failing to carry South Carolina. Florida
and Louisiana ~ votes thcConfclcr-
them 10y Connecticut and New Jersey.
should they carry all the southern States
except South Carolina and succeed in
New York. Indiana and Connecticut.
even then they will succeed Mis>is>ip-
pl they are bound to secure at all haz-
ards, in order to save Lamar his
seat in the Senate only. but as their ell
"quent Joseph Surface, to talk "heau-
I - Il a.
mheautitul Vaccinations.
These figures will show the impor-
tancc of vigilance in every state in the
coming contest. The nation cannot af-
ford to surrender its government into
the hands of the men who waIred
against it. In Congress and out of it
that they have shown they come
back ''hngging the Constitution
To their hoSouIs." as Mr.. Hill en-
pressed it. brt with the same bear
like "hnggiEg that nearly killed it
once: that they believe they did no
wrong i'll that rebellion that the nation
had no right ta force their states back
int" the Union that We were the in
vadcrs and they the 'martyr> :" and
that the principles of Calhoun are the
proper theories of government. Davis.
Io"mh>. Hunter. Lamar. Hill and
fucker have each and all of them re-
ncwcd their advocacy of the theory of
state sovereignty during the present
ycaI. None of the Southern leaders.
nor of their Northern Democratic allies.
rcpudiatc that doctrine which led them
To seek the destruction of the nation.
They each and all repcl the theory of
national sovereignty.
Let it not he said that this is an ..ah-
Stractinn.' 1t rds Il ''p"litical abstr;Ic-
ton but il led to secession and blood
shed. 1t is Il "political abstraction :"
but ii leads to o>tlaciSm and a>S;lSSina-
tion. 1t teaches the Young Southcrncr
To look To his state. and not To the ma
tinn. aS entitled to his love and allcg-
lance: it causes him to regard the
Northern man not aS Il fellow -citiZcn.
but a> Il semi foreigner. Il Yankee: it
keeps alive that spirit of sectional hatred
which clothed rebellion in the robes of
patriotism. In fighting il We are doing
battle not against the South. but for it.
| Until il is destroyed aS thoroughly as
the Southern armies were DESTROYED
| there is no wisdom in CRYING Peace
Peace ter there is and there can bc no
peace that will endure until il is settled.
once and forever. whether we are one
penplc-a nation-or only big bunch
of parishes. Il heggarly handful of states.
each ''s"Vcrcign." except for exception
al functions. If we assert 10y an over
whelming victory for the Republican
| party at the next election that We do
| believe in the national sovereignty, the
Young men of the South chatting under
the bit and curb of their desperate
leaders, whom neither time nor disaster
can teach-will come ont and depoSe
them ard join us and then for the first
time in our history we shall have a
party national in fact. as well us in
creed, depressing no man, oStracising
no man, but protecting all men. of what
ever color or creed and then for the
first time, casting off the swaddling-
clothes of state allegiance. we shall
know neither Mouth nor South. East
nor West, black man nor white, but
only America and Americans.
But until then we must keep watch
and ward
HE COURSE OF TRUE LOvE.-Thc
Rev. DIR. Wightman, one night, sitting
later than usual sunk in the profundi-
ties of great folio tome, imagined he
heard Il sound in the kitchen. inconSis-
tent, with the quietudc and security of
! Il house. and 50 t1kinu his ,Duul. bn