The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-04-04
NOW TmE aesHs. SOUTH onTAsS
> CONra0l.

i cONraoL.
That the sectional spirit which pro-
duced our civil war in the interests Of
slavery and Democracy is not dead,
but that il exists in other more danger
Gus forms, because more insiduous,
has been made evident from the con-
duct OF the Democratic majority in the
present House OF Representatives.
IL 10 n noteworthy, rs well as alarm.
ing fact, to observe that since the ex-
rebel States have been readmitted 10
representation in Congress but two
men have been elected thereto by South.
ern Democratic votes, who were in any
way identified with the Union cause
These are Andrew Johnson, elected 10
the United States Senate by Demo
cratic Legislature, though in the main
opposed by its ex.rebel members, aud
Representative Jsln Hancock. Of Tex
as, who held a Brigadier's commission
in the Union service.
The manner, too, in which the Con-
federate Democracy have almost wholly
obtained contrel OF all the Southern
States is in keeping with the spirit
which inauRurated the shareholders
rebellion. The ex.rebel States return
ed fifty-six Democrats and seventeen
Republicans to the present House
while in the Senate they are now repre-
sented by eleven Democrats and ten
Republicans, Zone seat being vacant.
OF the Democratic Senators, six (6)
were rebel army officers, one n judicial
officer. and one other (CapeIton, OF
West Virginia.) was q senator in the
Confederate Congress-. One Republi-
can Senator (Alcorn) was in the rebel
State service, sand another (Robertson)
resided South during the progress of
the civil war. In the House, of the
fifty-six (56) Democrats, forty-one (4I
held prominent positions in the Con-
federacy; thirty.three being military
officers, seven being in the Confederate
Congress. one being its Vice President,
and another q member OF the rebel
Cabinet. Others occupied State posi-
tions OF importance. The remaining
are from Missouri aud
Kentucky.
The manner in which the South has
been possessed by the counter-rebellion
ought tn be we'll understood by this
time Yet there are those who dispute
tho truth Of history. OF the sixty
three representatives now in Congress
from the States that rebelled, at least
twenty-five (22) of them hold such
seats in consequence of organized So
cial ostracisni, violence, and murder.
The malfeasance OF Mr.. Belkuap is a
crime committed by one man. for which
when proven severe punishment -
Justly due. and will bs surely metcd
out To the offender. But how much
p.N o.. 49, 49, s'----os- s.t.'~t.
men, three Mt least, hold seats from the
State OF Mississippi in the Natiousl
House OF Representatives 10y reason uf
an organized system of intimidation,
outrage, and assassination. general aud
personal, set In motion for political
purposes, aud carried ont rs party
measure by the obedieDt and willing
members OF the Southern Democracy.
Belknap's act was personal aud not
partisan. That system OF organized
assassination by which tho Confeder-
ate Democrats obtain seats in Congress.
and in so doing destroy the rights OF
citizens, il a national outrage and afro
cious crime against liberty. The twen.
ty-two seats now fraudulentiy occupied
Offset the honest representation from
the States Of Connecticut, (G), Rhode
Island, (2). New Hampshire. (9), Mas
sachusetts, (ll); in all. twenty-five
members. The processes Ivy which
this has been accomplished were re-
Gently reviewed 10y Senator Norton
Every statement made by that Senator
is under, not overdrawn. On the au-
thority Of General Sheridan, IL has
been stated that in Louisiana alone
there were OF persons killed and woun-
ded for political reasons, since 1866,
and up to February 8, 1875, not less
than 4, ,256, OF whom 2, III were killed.
This statement is to he found in the
report made TO the Forty-third Con-
gress by committee Of which the
Hon. q. L. Hoar, of Massachusetts,,
was chairman. Another committee re-
ported from Alabama list OF several
hundred similar outrages. The Joint
Committee on the ku-klux. in 1870,
returned sickening list OF such crimes.
lengthenipg into the thousands. Un-
der the enforcement act Of 1871, $50
persons were indicted in Mississippi
in North Carolina, 1,8i9 in South
Carolina, l.lS6; in Florida, "a; in
Alabama, $50; in Georgia, 235; in
Tennessee. l3; and in Kentucky, 80 (;
in all, 1896. A large number were
convicted but unsentenced several
score were sent to the psniteutiary; all
have since been pardoned, the object
being to break up shameful and wick
ed conspiracy, for which considera-
BILE proportion of the Southern COM
munity, rather than individuals. we're
mainly responsible. II was, and is re-
garded as social and political, rather
than as an individual offense.
Yet by this system OF terrorism
Southern Republican States have been
oyerthrown, their governments aud ma
tional representation seized, and the
rights OF the majority put in peril. IL
is by this system that the Shareholders
Confederaey onco supposed to be lie
stroyed, has revived. and is now en-
camped within the National Capitol.
They occupy its southern wing let US
see to it that the loyal men. North and
South, vote n they shot, aud rising in
their might drive them ont at the bal
lot-box next November I Republic.