, 1876-07-19

TIE DEMOCRATIC LAW OF MURDER.
Tho thinking reader, by comparison Of
Democratic history md Democratic doctrine,
will hnvo no difficulty in discovering thnt
the recent sacrifice Of human lifo at Ham,
burg, s. G., was but tho premature exercise
of q power and right which waits only to
be generally established throughout the South
upon T11DEN's election.
The Democratic party has boen for moro
than half century insisting that this is a con-
federation Of Independent States, and in no
sense q nation; that thero Is no National
Union, but nero compact; that the sov-
eroignty abides not in the nation, nor in the
pooplo, but III tho sav1ral States, and the So
called Government at Washington is a nero
agency Of tho States exercising certain fuuc-
tons under writton instructions, and limited
in it's authority by tho letter Of those in
structions. The opposing doctrine that tho
United States are = nation, having National
Government, exercising all the powers inher-
ent and osaentin1 to sovereign mud supreme
authority, is now aud has always been de-
nouncsd by the Democratic party aa cen-
tEnlization. The reader Of tho history of
tho Democrtio party will find that this
anti-nntionalism was invented ss q special
protection to Slavery, and has always been
invoked to maintain Slavery, aud, since tho
Wnr, to maintain the authority OF tho whito
race to dictate conditions to tho emancipatod
slavo people.
The recent Wholesale murder-tta cowardly
and mem slaughter in cold blood-ot helpless
prisoners Is on nparallel with what aro styled
tho hendish ntrocities OF the savages OF the
plains. Tho Spanish Americans in thoir civil
wars, tho unoivilized Indians, and tho white
Democrats Of the Southern States, enjoy
and divide between them tie glory Of mur-
dcripg prisoners. The rude savage knows
no higher STANDARD than that which is com.
mon among hiH race; tie degenerate Span
iaras obey tho natural impulse of cowarls,
but the Southern Democrats discriminate
between those whose murder might bo
avenged, and those who aro weak, power
less, unarmed, and friendlcss. The latter,
being defonseloss, are, Of course, brutally
murdered by tho towards into wlloso hands
they fall During the last eleven yearB tho
National Government has interposcd its
authority and its force to prevent these mur-
ters; It has stationed troops at points where
they might DO available not only to protect
tho unfortunate Negroes, but to arrest md
punish tho murdarors, In the presence of
troops these men were silent, single COM
pauy Of calyalry being sufficient to "subduo :"
diatrict twenty milos square, Tho Demo-
CRITIC party'h has perslstontly denounced this
Interference by tho Government "a tho excr-
CLIO OF tho powers Of centralization by o
centralized" Government. and have d.
minded the restoration Of tho old Democratic
doctrine, clothing the States with " "constitu-
tionRl ru1o."
In tho T1lnxN platform ut St. Louls this
demand ia ropoatod In the name Of reform.
Hcra ia tho demand;
Reform Il necessary to rebuild and establish In
the hearts OF the whole people the Union eleYen
Year, ago happily rescued from the danger Of 10.
cession Of States. but now 10 be saycd from cor.
fupt esnfratIstai
"Contrallsm is the term used to describe
the Governmental interference to prevent
and punish tho atsocities-the cowardly mur.
dcrs-auch as were committed at Hamburg,
8. @. Srrr1sa Butt has not yet caugAt tho
phrase, but he too will say that be elaugh-
tered CUSTER and his 800 mon, who wera the
sgents Of corrupt Gcntralism. Tho mean
ing OF this domand In the st. Louis platform
is, however, lucidly explained by Demo-
crstio authority writing on ths spot. The
Charleston Nttes and Courier thus e1plains |;
Tho Northern newspapers. even those mpst
friendly to tho South, arc loud In thes denuncta.
tion Of tho Hanburg slaughter. They regard It a.
doing good work for HAWKS and WHEELsn and
predict that few more outbreaks Of tho samo aost
vii! inauso tho defeat Of TILDzN. Ia Il not hosrl
bio that band Of regulators should have tho pow.
er 10 destroy, BY thelF !ncxcusab!e violence, tas
prospsets Of the party 4rhtch " saecss&}ul, tpiii
rtstors consstsRslonat Fuls to ths tshoit psopssy
Notice tho lament that this gang Of white
wretehes should lave, by their premature
action, destroyed tho prospects OF tho Demo-
cratic party, which, II successful, will restore
"eonssttusioaal rule" not only at Hamburg,
but to tho Whole white people Of the South /
Tho impFudence aud haaty action Of these
towards At Hamburg Ia pronounced "horri.
bio, because 1t isliksly to defeat T11Dxx and
tho Democracy; whsreas, II TnpkS and ths
Democracy b. succesxtul, thon the Hamburg
affair would bocomo the rule, 50 loug as any
negro claimed the right to be freeman.
The constitutional rule" which this
Democratic paper says will ba the result oi
Tllnras election, is tho rulo Of absoluta
non-interfcsenes bY tho Government 70 pro.