Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-06-15
Nuggets From Sena.Or MOrtOn's Re
cent Letter.
REREL WAR CLANS.


The large 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 op-
poses them. Among them Is the
payment for rebel property taken or
destroyed by our armies. w hen
Mr.. Tilden wrote his letter, Just be-
fore the election, against these
claims he lost his hold upon the
South and was made to feel 1t IN the
late struggle in Congress. No Dem
ocratic candidate will repeat his
Tnnder. Although Southern Dem
ocrats voted for him after he wrote
tbe letter it froze the current OF
tbeir svmpathies and had more to
40 in retaining them from fillibuster-
;ng to prevent the counting of the
vote than any other cause; it greatly
reconciled them to the loss of Til
den. In the late House the dividing
line between rebel and loyal claims
was ignored, and in a single Demo-
cratic administration would be OBJ
liberated. When this comes to pass
about claims the distinction in rebel
and Union debt will be obliterated
and lost. Slaves will be treated as
ether property sacrificed by our gov
ernment. 1t will not all be done or
avowed at once, but step by step, al
ready more rapid, until the public
mind has become more demorallzed.
The rebellion has ceased to be
crime, scarcely to be mistake.
The complete restoration OF the fra
ternity will demand the abolition OF
ali distinctions in law between 10y
atty and treason.
EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH.
In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi,
Alabama, Arkansas, a part of Mis-
souri, and middle and western Ten
nessee, free suffrage exists chiefly in
name. Georgia, in which there is
not a difference of 5000 votes be-
tween the parties, gave Tilden a ma
jority Of $1,000. In six counties not
a Republican vote was polled. Mis-
sissippi, with a Republican majority
of 10000, was made to return Dem
ocratic majority of 10000. In four
counties, containing $4,000 Republi-
can votes, seven Republican votes
were polled, which were admitted
Just to show that Republicans could
vote. Alabama, with a clear Repub-
lican majority of 10000, was made
to return Democratic majority of
$500. In Tennessee, Arkansas, and
Texas approximate results are pro
duced by like processes. It is folly
to allege that in these States there
were liberty, protection and equal
rights. The voluminOus testimony
taken by the Senate committee es-
tablishes the fact that the liberty
enioyed by the Republicans, both
white and black, was but nominal.
They were outcasts from society,
oppressed in business, hunted like
criminals and denied the protection
of the laws. Peace and commercial
prosperity based upon such condi
tions are hollow and worthless, and
are but another form of barter of
rights for gold. The quiet was that
of strangulation and paralysis, and
audacious falsehood at last grew
weary that such results were any
thing but crimes. If South Carroll
ma, with a Republican majority of
$4,000, and Louisiana, with like
majority of $4,000, are to be concili-
ated and pacifed in the same way,
the hope and promises held out to
President Hayes will have been
broken in every part. If, on the
contrary, Republicans in those States
and black-shall be pro-
tected in person, property and free
dom of speech, action and occupa-
ton, I shall be the first to acknowl-
edge the grand result. will ignore
the past; let by-gones be by-gOnes,
accept the new conditions with Joy,
and believe that the rebellion was
not suppressed in vain. 1t is to this
happy condition that President |
Hayes aspires, and all should earn
astly pray for the full realization of |
his hopes.