Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-08

| must tApcCts dASo. " oe bl-NtEu anu
kissing, if not able to protect their ibertie
by sustaining the purity of the callot.
It may be asked, by what process tn
count can be made fair. 1t matters but lit
tie how, so the thing is done. A way mus
be found to put stop, in its ineipiency, t,
any such wicked and impudent design a
the seizing the reins of the general govern
ment by systematic fraud. The effort mus
be regarded as revolutionary, and the orig
inators, aiders and abettors must be treat
ed as criminals. Already matters of thi.
kind have gone too far in many State 10
calities; but when the wicked principle is
to be applied to the nation at large, it mus
be met and resolutely put down by an
aroused public sentiment.
The difficulty which we may possibly en-
counter is not having enough attention
given it. We are floating along with the
hope that, Micawber like, something fOrtu-
nate may turn up. After the smoke clears
away in November, suppose we find that
Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama
and South Carolina have held elections in
which the whites only have voted-that, in
reality, one-half or more of the voting pop
ulation have been terrorized away from
the polls-and suppose, also, that the
counting of such electoral votes as may be
presented, turns the scale, what then? Are
we of the North to submit to this state Of
affairs, designed and executed by the very
men who lately were in rebellion, and who
now have no love for their country's flag?
We shall have lost our manhood if we do.
1--WE accept the situation, shouts La
mar, Blackburn and their followers, but
the echo from the Southland, " in the voice
of Gen. Young, at Centreville, Ca, sounds
thusly: ''It is an act of great forbearanee
to permit Republican to live in the
South" A gentleman residing forty miles
from here in Virginia, has been ne
cessitated to move into this city, because
his neighbors were not prepared for such an
act of s.forbearance." He was forced to
move! They would not tolerate, to use
their own language, black Republican
among them. A correspondent of the Har
per- writing from Texas, says: 81 solemn
ly warn my fellow-citlzens of the North
and East that the spirit of 1861 is flame
smothered but not extinguished. In the
name of justice and reform they would
grasp without shame and pocket without
remorse, the Treasury of this nation. They
are constantly seeking to deprive the ne
groes of the right of franchise under cover
of educational and property qualification
acts of their State Legislatures. They boast
that they will use the Northern Democracy
as stepping-stone to power. They pro-
tect themselves by packed juries from pun
ishment of murder committed on Republi-
cans. Is it possible, in view of all these
facts. that the Northern Democrats will
assist these men to power?" And We can
truthfully add, from daily intercourse with
the men right here in this District of Co
lumbia, ''under the shadow of the Capitol,
that the spirit of 1861 is flame smother
ed, but not extinguished. Daily, old, gray
headed Democrats, who have been living
here since the war, fattening upon Repub-
hcan gullibility, lobbying, and pushing
claims to collection in the Departments, are
folding their tents and stealing away to
Southern and border States, laden with
Tilden currency and pabulum for the edi-
fcation of the reconstructed" who have
been ambushing and numbering Republican
representatives and United States officials,
or the more profitable occupation of distill-
ing. Judge Moore, formerly of the Con-
federate Congress, has gone to enlighten
West Virginia, and horde of others are
already on the stump Grating for the apos-
tie of reform, and the author of the meth
cd of how to avoid the income tax. No
wonder his followers shout: ''We accept the
situation
After all the columns of twaddle that the
Democratic press have wasted upon the
''unrighteousness" of the Republican lead
ers in asking contributions from their
friends, and the demagogical action of the
Confederate House in making the solici-
tation or acceptance of funds for party
purposes an indictable offense, it is deeid-
edly refreshing to read in the Baltimore
Sae1, the mouth-piece of the Oonfederates
in Maryland during the rebellion, and the
organ of the Marshall Kane faction that
rioted the Massachusetts, troops in 1851, in
the streets Of that city, it is refreshing, we
repeat, to read in its columns; F'The city
officials have been notified that they will be
assessed two per centum of their annual
salaries for Democratic campaign purposes.
An official whose salary is 81, 500, is assess
ed $780," To which we beg leave to add
that the employees of this reform House Of
Representatives have been assessed at two
per cent. of their salaries. One Of them in
forms US that he knew of 81, 900 salary
that was assessed 800! And yet we are
called upon to vote for the candidate of this
body who pass penal laws, and leave behind
some Of its own members with instructions
to break them. LIFE.
Washington, Sept. 4, 1876,