National Republican., 1876-02-03
ROB rnoMRs ONCE MORE,

" oSh. 1AhAy VI SSOA6iop 10 oSlCihpI'
ing on the floor of the House to win his
way to the Senate or to further political
promotion by pandering to the disloyal and
sectional prejudices of his constituents, his
rival, Robert Toombs. is doing the same on
the stump in that State. OF course, Toombs
has the advantage inithe contest, for he is
untrammeled, and his rhetorical appeals
breathe the spirit of perfect freedom from
restraint. Mr.. Hill. ION the contrary, is
"Cabned, cribhcd, confined, bound In
To saucy doubts and fears"
His mouth is muzZled and his lips are
sealed, for policy's sake. Nevertheless, he
has said enough to expose the ultimate OBJ
jects of the Southern wing Of the Democ.
racy, as well as the hate they entertain for
the Government as it emerged, with altered
constitutional obligations, from the throes
of civil strife. 1t is true that Toombs has
not yet been ''amnestied, and that he is
one of the 80 unreConstructcd rebels upon
whom the ex- Coufedcrates propose to thrust
amnesty unasked. We have already printed
extracts from his late address before the
Democratic Legislature of his State; but
we think the following Is worth repro
ducing by way of comparison with Mr..
Hills somewhat famous amnesty speech:
''We got good many honest fellows into
the Legislature, but will tell you how we got
them there. will tell you the truth. The
newspapers won't tell it to you. We got them
there by carrying the black vote, by intimida-
tion and bribery, aud helped to do it! I
would have scorned the people If they had not
done it And will buy them as long as they
put beasts to go to the ballot-boX No man
should be given the elective franchise who has
not the intelligence to use it properly The
rogue should not have it, for government is
made to punish him; the fool should not have
it, for government is made to take care of him.
Now, these miserable wretches-the Yankees
have injected five millions of sayages into
the stomach of our body-politic, and the man
who says he accepts negro suffrage, l say, ac-
cursed be he! will accept everything; l will
accept Grant and empire, before / will accept
such Democrat! The poor, ignorant negro
talk of him governing you and me 1t takes
the highest order of intellect to govern the
people, and these poor wretches talk of gov
erning us ! Why, they can't perpetuate their
own negro power. In the counties where they
were in the majority they did not preserve
their power and perpetuate their rule. Ny
remedy helped US to break that up. We car
ried them with us by bribery and intimidation.
advised it, and paid my money for it You
all know it, but won't say it. But l will say
it, for fear no man, and am prepared to rem
der an account to none but the great Judge,
before whom must appear in few years, for
my enemies have thought my services to my
country so great that they have done me the
honor to exclude me from again serving my
people. 1 contest the honor with our chief,
Mr.. Davis. 1 am just as good as he is, and he
is no better than l am. l demand that they
shall place me beside him. thank them for
it! 1t is very few things that have to thank
them for, but do thank them for that. l am
entitled to the honor they thus dispensed, and
l shall ask our representatives to demand 1t
for me, for l fought for it, and to bring it
about