Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-29


pairing schemes for future secession bat are with
intense earnestness revolving plans for recovering
from their great losses. For this purpose they
will support the democratic party North 30 long
as 1t is subservient to their policy, notwithstand-
ing their ill-suppTess ed resentment for its iniu-
in getting them into a rebellion and its sneak
ing and cowardly course while it lasted. We are
told that they are quiet in those States where the
democratic rule - established very likely. When
tAey have gained the comuete power and the re-
publican party has ceased to struggle there wall
be no lnducement to shoot men because Of their
politics. There Will he peace when there Is alb
ject subm issi0n 1t the recent massacre in Mis-
sissippi, which he made The Nodoc comparative
ly respectable, auswe:. Peace which is obtained
by standing political party out Of existence is
net the harDinger of prosperity and happiness.
The large body Ct the white people who engaged
in the rebellion are hgmly united in favor OF sew
eral things, and they Will stand by the patty that
iavors them, and oppose to the bitter emf the par
ty taat opposes them. Among these is the pay
mCni for rebel properly taken or destroyed by our
armies. When Mr.. Tilden wrote his letter, just
before the election, against these claims, he lost
his hold upon the South, and WAS made to feel i
in the late Struggle in Congress No democratic
candidate will repeat his blu uder Although
Southern democrats voted for him after he wrote
the letter, it froze the current of then sympsthes
and had more to do in restraining them from fill
clustering to prevent the counting Of the vote than
any other cause. II greatly reconcied them to
the loss of Tiloen. In the last House the dlvd-
ing line between rebel aud loyal claims was ig-
nored, and in a single democratic Administration
would be oblterated. When this comes to pass
about claims the distinction in rebel and Union
debt viii ne obneTated and lost. Slaves will be
treated as other property sacrificed by our gov
eminent. 1t will not all DE done or avowed al
once, but step by step, always more rapid until
the public mind has become demorahzed. The
rebellion has ceased to be crime scarcely a mis-
take. Inc complete restoration of the fraternity
will demand the abolition of all distinctions in
law between loyalty and treason.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MORE NEEDED THAN
EVER.
The Republican party was never more neces-
sary to the nation than it is to-day. All talk about
laying down the Republican organization TO take
up new one with new title, INTO which old Con
fedetates may enter without wounding their sus-
capabilities, would be criminal IL it were not
supremely silly. The proposition that the party
which saved the nation, and which embodies in its
creed the mortal principles on which it must live
Cf live it does, and which has record the most
glorious in the annals of human organizations,
shall commit suicide as an act OF conclauon to
the late enemies OF the Republic, slences COM
ment by its audacily. We are but relzlng what has
been vislbly coming for several years-irom 1868.
1t has been apparent that the Republican party of
the South should be overthrown by force if it
could not be do &C otherwise. The opening scenes
of carnage IN that year, in which more than 1900
Republicans were killed IN Louisiana alone, were
but a prelude to the campaign of violence which
ended IN the bloody field of last year. The de
structon of the Republican party would make the
Democratic Party supreme, and iasten upon its
country Its odious policy and principles. The
men who directed the bloody crusades in the
South for the last ten years that have now culmi-
mated in final victory in South Carolina and
Louisiana, are still living, and have lost none of
their power. The men who within several wears
have welded the Democratic Party in solid column
North aud South, against the fifteenth amend
ment, are still in the ascendant. Is any man weak
enough to believe that they, or a majority of them
have been sounoly converted aud are honest advo-
Gates of the equal rights of men 1t is my
opinion that the body oil the Southern Democracy
have not changed in regard TO the civil and potl-
cal rights of the negro, and If Iilden had been
elected President. within his term of four years
the fourteen and fifteen amendments would have
been substantially overthrown. In most of the
Southern States this would have been accompanied
by the methods recently illustrated in Mississippi
aud other States, and is altogether possible for
that exquisite potential genius which can extract Il
Democratic majority OF $4,000 from Republican
majority Of 3d. 900. No one prays for coBciliation
and ira eruity between North aud South more
earnestly than myself, but cancellation and frater
nifty 10 be honorable and durable must be based
upon concession of equal civil and political rig hts
peace and protection TO men OF all races and
creeds. If tue men who held the colored people
in bondage. and who at every step since the war,
and til yesterday, fought against equal rights
and the constitutional amendments are to-day re-
generated and Will now administer the great prin
cpes as,ested by the Republican Party, and is
placed by 1t III the Constitution and laws, II is a
consum nation devoully to be wished. Such a
frame of IL ind on the part of the Southern pco-
pie should regard as the most important and de-
slrable OF all political condIons-the granG result
which every patriot has at heart; but if 1 do not
believe IN this sudden conversion, ought not to
be considered ncredulIus or prejudiced and il
about this | AN wrong, and If the Republican
Party have, by their efforts and discipline, sub
dued the very hearts of the Democracy of the
South, how can we sufficiently comprehend and
magnify the achievement!
THE GREAT CHANGE OF OPINION IN THE SOUTH
In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, a
part of Missouri, and Middle and Western Tennes
see, free suffrage exists hefiy in name. Geor. ia
in which there is not difference of 5000 votes
between the parties, gave Tilden majority of
$1,000. In six counties not Republican vote
was polled. Mississippi, with Republican ma
lity of 80 GOO, was made to return a Democratic
ma lrty of 60 900. Ia four csunlies containing
$4,000 Republican votes, Republican votes were
poed, which were admitted Just to show that
Republicans could vote. Asbama with a clear
Republican majority of 10000, was made to return
a Democratic majority OF $500 In Tennessee
Arkansas, and Texas, approximate results were
produced by like processes. 1t is folly to allege
that in these States there liberty, protection
and Equal rights. The volumnous testimony
taken by the Senate committees establishes the
fact thai the liberty enjoyed by the Republicans
both white and black, was but nomia. 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 conditions are hollow and worth
less, and are but another form OF barter of rights
for gold. The quiet was that Of strangulation and
paralysis, and audaeious falsehood at last grows
weary that such results were anything but crimes
If South Carolina. with Republican majority of
$4,000 and Louisiana with a like majority of Is 900
are to be conclated and pacifed in the same way,
the hopes and promises held out to President HAYES
will have been broken in every part. if, on the
contrary, the Republicans in those States, white
and black, shall be protected in person, property
aud freedom of speech, action and occupation
shall be first TO acknowledge the grand result.
will ignore the past, let bygones be bygones, 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 earnestly pray for the full realiza-
ton of his hopes. The Republican Party South
with all its errors waged a noble contest for rig ht
and the courage and sef-sacrifice displayed by its
members are cuban in history. The warmest
sympathles of the Republicans of the North attend
those of the South in their desolate and undone
condition, with the earnest hope that the dark
overhanging cloud may have a silver lining and
that there may be day of speedy resurrection
By the voluntary withdrawal of the army tho