National Republican., 1876-11-21

they will be true to it no longer than till
they zee another good chance to throw it
off successfully; that they consider the
overthrow of the Government of the United
States their objective point, and that any
means necessary to be used in reaching 1t
will be justified by the end attained; that
these unrepentant rebels do not include the
last three amendments to the organic law
in their oaths of allegiance that they do
not treat the freedmen as citizens, and
boldly avow their determination not to
allow them to vote that in the recent elec-
tions the returns, as compared with those
of the census, show conclusively that they
either did not vote or voted the Demo
cratic ticket upon compulsion or under in
timidstion, and, strange to say, the North
ern public are Of the opinion that votes
secured to Tilden by such means are not Of
the kind by which intelligent and honest
Republican voters of the North are willing
to have their own voices overridden and
silenced in the choice of President.
The Republicans Of the North see Mr..
'Tilden counting 119 electoral votes from
Southern States, more than one half Of
which were obtsined by these disreputable
means. But these were not enough even
when supplemented by the 55 votes Of New
York, the from New Jersey, the 6 from
Connecticut and the is from Indiana, all
obtained through foreign influence, com
bined with Ignorance, fraud, bigotry and
superstition, to give the ReraId's immacu-
late and unsuspected friend, Tlden the
requisite 1856. He lacks one vote. The
Herald has no suspicion of ex-rebel Demo
Gratis. 1t doubts not the honesty of the
Tammany leaders. 1t has no question of
the purity ofsthe immense and unprece-
dented foreign vote in New York, New
Jersey. Connecticut and Indiana. 1t sus-
poets only the honesty Of those leading
Republicans in the South who have stood
there with their lives in their hands, fight
ing for their rights and for the rights Of all
American citizens, the common rights of
humanity, ever since the war. The Herald
has no sympathy for such men. 1t cannot
conceive Of men periling their lives and
properties for political principle. When
ever spectacle Of this character is pre-
scented to its vision, it Immediately goes in
search of some sordid, selfish and unworthy
motive as lis foundation, aad then charges
this to be the fact.
The Herald will find that the Northern
public will not agree with its premises or
its conclusions 1t will discover ere long.
as it did in 1861, that the Northern public
had keener scent for the anfnass of South
ern Democratic politics than its selfish pro-
clivites would allow it to indulge. And
then 1t will see. as it did in that eyentful
epoch in the history Of the country, that it
has been backing the wrong horse in the
race. 1t will change its tune, and say that
the Democrats cannot afford to accede to
power by the practical nullifcation of the
amendments to the Constitution under
which the lately rebellious States were re-
hsbiIitated and restored into their former
relations with the Federal Government.
1t will soon say that the Democrats cannot
afford to accept the control of the Govern,
ment through gross and avowed frauds
committed by the late rebels for the sole
purpose of breaking down that Govern
ment through the ballot-b box which they
failed to destroy by rebel bullets.