The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-10-26
The Attorney Generals Circular,

tFrom Harpe,'s Weekly, October IL
The order of Attorney-G General Taft
to the United States marshals to pre-
serve order during the elections has
beeli~ violently attacked by the Demo-
Gratis as a pie. against the freedom Of
elections and II measure of fragrant I'M
constitutionality. Those who urge THIS
last charge apparently forget thai the
Constitution has been amended so as to
allow the Government to enforce the
protection of national rights in the
States, and that the argument against
such legislation is II relic of the old and
exploded and fatal folly of State sover-
eighty. No mi will have the hardi-
hood to deny hat the Encouragement
has acted strictly under the law, and
has so carefully drawn his instructions
to the marshals thatthey car not easily
be perverted -
1.-THE present instructions are intended only
to connteract that partial malice. wrong headed
ness, or reconsideration which sometimes tri-
umphs at critical moments over the CONVERSE
tive and in general prevailing forces Of society,
and to which the pre- sent and passing condition
OF the country gives more than ordinary
strength, and therefore requires the Government,
to particularly observe and provide against"
The Indignation with simple and OBJ
vious precautions to secure the equal
electoral rights of all citizens is very
suspicious. 1t is the more suspicious
that il proceeds from those who alone
are likely to try to prevent the exercise
of those rights.
The Democratic fury upon this sub
l tant Is xnr- ,ntnIttutIIa Eos ~,,N - "a
whose right is likely to be denied, and
where is the trouble likely to occur9 /,
it the white or the black voter who is II
dangerP Which has cocfced the othe
hitherto? Have the black voters sur.
rounded the polls and intimidated the
whites? Have thcy declared that they
would not employ any white who vot ed
the Democratic ticketp Has water rul
up hill? Or is it the lamb below tina
troubles the strcamp Leading Southern
papers do not hesitate to say that thu
negro must be driven out of politics
nor a any intelligent man doubt tina
If the national power and sympath,
were withdrawn, h. practically woul'
be driven out. 1t is to be expected
therefore, that we should hear the oil
cry Let US alone" And rs it mean
In the mouth OF jefferson Davis, Leav,
US free to destroy the Union, il nov
means in the mouth Of the Democratic
party, Leave US free to DESTROY negr'
suffrage. The Mobile Register plainl
declares this policy and when the Uni
ted States dispassionately provides 10
the equal protection OF all citizens q
the polls, the Baltimore Gazette recom
! mends armed resistance. 1t is needles
to add that the Register and the Gazett
are loud for "Tildeu and reform.
There are, indeed, some papers in tn
|, Southern States which see and expos
the folly of this expectation and pun
y pose. But so there were Democrats
: South Carolina who earnestly oppos
: the nomination of MIR. Wade Hampton
> but their protest vas OF no avail. II W
Q may judge from the Southern Dem,
cratic press and political action, Il
$ tone OF the Mobile Register and OF Il
r Convention that nominated MIR. Ham
ton is the controlling tone OF the part.
= The circular of the attorney genera
careful, considerable. bipartisan, OIL
strictly within the law, provides on
q for maintaining order, whether threa
ened or broken by blacks or white
Il and for securing an honest election.
that is what the Democratic party d,
l. sires, there will be no trouble. If the
d be trouble from any quarter or caus
it will be corrected under n constit
tional law.