The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-06-05

gle, there will be no inducement 10
shoot men because OF their politics.
There will be peace when there ~ ALB
ject submissions, Let the recent mas
sacre in Mississippi, which has made
tho Modoc comparatively respectable,
answer. The peace which is obtained
by stamping.a political party out Of ex-
istence IA not the harbinger OF prosper
ity or happiness. The hope entertain
ed by some OF dividing the Democratic
party in the South by surrendering the
Repnblican party, is groundless, TO OK
press IL mildly. The only way TO di.
vide the Southern Democracy ia TO adj
vocate their measures. They care but
little about the name OF Democracy.
out everything about the purposes and
measures which pass under that name.
The largo body OF white people who
engaged In the Rebellion are firmly
united In favor of several things, and
they will stand by the party that favors
them, and oppose to the bitter end the
party that opposes them. Among
these is
PAYMENT FOE REBEL PROPERTY TAKEN Oh
DESTROYED by OUR ARAIIEs.
When Tilden wrote his letter. just be-
fore the election, against these claims.
he logt his hold upon the South, and
was made To feel II IN the late struggle
In Congress. No Democratic candi-
date will repair bis blunder.
Although Southern Democrats voted
for him after he wrote the letter, il
froze the current of their sympathies,
and had more TO do in restraining them
from filibustering to prevent the count
ing OF tine vote than any other cause.
1t greatly reconciied them TO the loss
OF Tilden.
= In the late House, the dividing line
between Rebel and Loyal claims was
ignored, aud. with a single Democratic
Administration. would be obliterated.
When this comes 10 pass about claims,
the distinction in the law between
Rebel and Union debt, will be obliter.
ated, and the lost slaves viii be treat
ed as other property sacrificed by our
Government. II will not all be done
or avoyed at once; but step by step,
already becoming more rapid, until the
public mind has become demoralized,
| the Rebellion has ceased 10 be crime
scarcely a mistake, and the COM
plete restoration OF fraternity will de-
mand the abolition of oil the distinc-
tions in the law between Loyalty md
Treason. The Republican party was
| never more necessary 10 the nation
thau it ia to-day. All talk abont lay
| ing down the Republican organization
TO take mp new one, with new title,
| into which the old Confederstes may
enter without wounding their suscep-
tibilities,
WOULD BE CRIMINAL II II WERE NOT
suPRKMELY SILLY.
The proposition that the party which
saved the Nation, and which embodies
In its creed the immortal principles mp
on which il must live, il live il does,
and which has record the most Rlor-
ious in the annals of human organiza-
tions, shall commit suicide as IN act OF
Cancellation to the late enemies OF the
Republic, silences comment by its
audacity.
We are but realizing what has been
yisibly coming for several years. From
1863 il has been apparent that the Re-
ipublican party OF the South would be
overthrown by force IL ii could not be
done otherwise. The opening scene o:
carnage in that year, IN which 1000
Republicans were killed aud wounded
in louisiana alone, were but the pre-
lude to the campaign OF violence which
eliminated in the bloody field OF last
year.
Tho destruction Of the Republican
party would make tho Democratic par
ty supreme, and fasten upon the ooun-
try its odious policy and principles.
The men who directed the bloody cru
sades in tho South for the last ten
years. that have now eliminated il
final victory In South Carolina aud
Louisiana, are still living, and have
lost none Of their power. The men
within seven years have welded tho
Democratic party in solid column,
North and South, against the Fifteenth
Amendment, are still in the ascendant.
Il any man weak enough 10 believe
that they, or a majority Of them, have
been soundly converted and hsnest al
vocates Of the equal rights Of men? i
, il my opinion that tho body of the
, Southern Democracy have not changed
in regard 10 the civil and politica
, rights Of the negro, and that, II TiideI
had been elected President, within hi;
torn of four years the Fourteenth anC
Fifteenth Amendments
WOULD HAVE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY OVER
Thrown
, in most OF the Southern States. Thi
. would have been accomplished b.
4 methods recently illustrated in Missis
!. sippi aud other States and Is altogcth
, er possible to that exquisite politics
genius which can extract Dem 0crati
I majority OF 60. 600 from Rspublica
majority Of 80, 900.
No one prays for Cancellation an
fraternity between the North and Sout
moro earnestly than myself; but cor
citation and fraternity. 10 be honorabl
8 and dunble, must be based upon TIA
: concession of eqnal civil and politics
!. rights, peace and protection 10 men Q
: all races and cfeeds. If the scn VIII
j held the colored people in bondage
= aud who at every step since the War
y and, until yesterday, fought agains
: cqnal rights and the Constitutions
3 Amendments, are to-day regenerated
e and will now administer the grea
I principles asserted by the Republics
! party and placed by !. in the Constitr
a iion and laws, il is contamination ds
J. youtly 10 no wished. Such frame c
Y mind on the part OF the Southern pee
& pic should regard as the most impo
u tant aud desirable Of al Political col
ditions,
!. THE GRAND RESULT WHICH EVERY PArme
y has AT HEART.
!. Bnt. il I do not believe in this sudde
n conversion, ought not 20 be conside
: cd incrednlous and prejudiced. An
Il il about this / am wrong, and il u
Republican party have by their effor
n and discipline subdued the very hear
., Of the Democracy Of the South, he
can we sufficiently comprehend al
magnify the achievement
is In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, al
n. bama, Arkansas. palt Of Missouri, nj
al Middle aud Western tennessee fr
r suffrage exists chiefly in name. Geo
ii gia, in which thoro IS not n diferen
I'd of 5000 votes between the two partie
o. gave Tilien a majority Of $1,000.
g, six counties not Republican vote "
o polled. Mississippi, with q Repnbl
in can majority Of $4,000, was mnde 70
turn a Democratic majority OF 60. .pt
Ell In four counties, containR 1000 II
es pnblican votes, seven Republican yot
th were polled, which were admitted iu
n 20 show that Republicans could vo'
vi Alabama, with a clear Republican N
he iority of 10000. was made 70 return
u. Democratic majority Of 5000.