The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-24

dent would, in all probability. pass many of
them and extend widely and dangerously the
Jurisdiction of all the courts and all the officers
who pass upon Southern claims. They would,
| in my Judgment, refund the whole cotton tax.
They would extend to the rebels the right 10
recover for provisions and quartermaster =
| stores now confined to loyal people. No one
can measure the multitude and magnitude of
such claims.
FINANCIAL DANGERS OF RESTORATION.
/ Remember, fellow-ctizens, that the late
slave States have now LOG members OF the
House of Representatives. The Northern
States have but 1856 members. Every member
from the South would be impelled by the local
demand Of his constituents to go to the utmost
verge in reimbursiDg their losses from the
treasury of the United States, although they
brought these losses on themselves by their
rebellion, as well as inflicted upon us
the loss of 100000 lives and many thousands
of millions of dollars. 1t only requires
| forty-one Democratic votes from the North. by
men who will be bound by party ties, influenced
| by party csucuses to saddle upon the North
| the very damages we were compelled to mtilct
upon open enemies, who for four years waged
an unrelenting war against the national life
/ could show you many votes where the Demo-
| cratic members and Senators almost In body
voted for the very pbinciples involved in these
| bills, and in some cases where bills dangerous
in principles were only saved from passage by
| the veto of President Grant. warn you, with
all the sincerity of truth and honest convic-
ton, against this palpable danger that will
come by the restoration of the Democratic
party to power. The Republican party and
Gen. Grant especially have guarded you
thus far. We secured constitutional
amendment to protect you from the assump-
ton by the United States of the debts incurred
in aid of instruction or rebellion against the
United States, and any claim for the loss or
emancipation of any slave. But Congress
aIone and, as I verify believe, the Republican
party alone, can protect you from the untold
multitude and magnitude OF claims for losses
to persons and property in the rebel States sui
fered by the rebels themselves.
BARBARoUS TREATMENT OF FREEDMEN.
And, fellow-citzens, there is another danger
that will come by the restoration OF the Demo-
cratic party to power that does not appeal TO
your pocket, but to higher eense of duty and
obligation, and that is our duty and Obligations
to the freedmen of the South. At least their
position in the midst of large number of our
race who cannot forget that these freedmen
were lately their slaves Is one OF danger. The
whites of the South were, as rule, d-sloyal !;
the blacks, almost without exception, were true
and loyal. They have been emanclpated by
our policy. We have promised them freedom
and citizenship, and all the rights that freedom
and citizenship imply. Even under Republic
can administration, animated with the strong
est desire to protect them, they have been the
subject OF murder, outrage. and wrong. No
language can describe the atrocities to which
they have been subject. The history of the
6 Ku-Klux" and ''White League is an infa-
NOUS chapter in our civilization that cannot be
excelled in cruelty and horror by the worst
barbarism of any nation or age. l had hoped
that the firm suppression of these secret oath
bound conspiracies of hell by Gen. Grant, and
the universal execration they excited every
and influence. But it is not so. The clans
NAV have disbanded, but the spirit that
gave birth to them still exists all over the
South, and every once in while breaks out
into such scenes as those at Clinton, Miss, and
Hamburg, s. G. The murder of the six poor
negroes at Hamburg, after they had surren-
dered to a lawful force, was cruel as the Black
Hole at Calcuttas-as barbarous as the burning
of Crawford by the Indians, and more base and
cowardly than midnight murder and burglary.
We must protect these people from such atroc-
tiles. We must punish such murderers by law,
if we can; but at all events we must punish
them or the torch and the knife will eventually
bring that retaliation which such crimes always
produce. This Southern question has been
and is now the most difficult in the whole range
OF our political problems. 1t is difficult to say
what ought to be done. What we know is that
the blacks have the rights of freemen, and it
is our duty to protect them i'll those rights A
Republican administration, and especially Gen.
Grant, has sought to do this. He has in q
great measure succeeded. He has only failed
BIZ reason of the superior numbers and intelli-
gence of the white Democrats on the ground,
who have committed every atrOcity that has
been committed on the freedmen of the South.
Every one of these whites will vote for the
Democratic ticket. It was their general sup.
port that secured so promptly the nomination
of Tilden. With far different motives than
will influence the Democrats of Ohio they will
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| to hand over these freedmen to the tender mer-
cies of their rebel masters. Who among you
believes that a Democratic admins
tration will ever attempt to pro-
tect them in their POLITICAL rights
Tilden may promise, but, like Buchanan, he
will creep behind his construction OF the con-
stltution. Ii the freedmen quietly relapse into
| their former state, content to live and labor,
this may be granted them for the interest of
| their employers; but if they indulge in the
aspirations of freemen, if they exhibit intelli-
| gence and foresight, if they even become lead
ers of a few ignorant men, or tap tho foun-
! tans of knowledge, this will be the occasion Of
their murder. And this, fellow citizens, will be
| one of the dangers of Democratic restoration.
EDUCATION RATHER THAN ATROCITIES.
| If there is one principle to which the Repub-
lican party has been true it is to the education
of all classes and conditions of men. In every
State and community where our influence has
vanced and improved. We freely vote
millions for their support. Relying upon
the intelligence of our people, we have
sought to convey that intelligence at the foun-
tain-head. And so in this Southern question we
have sought to develop solution by the intro
duction of schools. Give to the whole popula-
ton of the South. white and black, a thorough
system of schools, and the light of intelligence
| will rapidly dawn upon the black race, and the
fierce prejudices of the white race will be lifted
like cloud. It is not the educated whites that
murder negroes and burn down cabins and
school-houses. Such men as Lamar and Glib
son deplore as much as we can the atrocities
they cannot deny. 1t is tho young men,
| ignorant because they have no schools
idle because they think it below caste for a
white man to work cruel from thespectacle of
slavery, which was cruelty intensified narrow
minded because they really think feeble,
State is the center of civilza-
| ton; unpatrictic because they entered life
| when TO fight their country was patriotism