Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-06-06

respectable answer The peace which is
| obtained by stamping a political party oth
! of existence Is not the harbinger Of pros
| perty or happiness. The h pc entertained
/ by some OF dividing the Democratic party
| in the South by surrenderng the Republican
/ is groundlcss, to express it mildly They
care but little about the name Of Democracy,
but everything about the purposes aud
measures which pass under that name The
large body OF white people who engaged in
the rebellion are firmly united in favor Of
several things, and they will stand bv the
party thai fayors them, and oppose to the
bitter end the party that opposes them.
Among these is payment for reoel property
taken or destroyed by our armies. When
Tildcn wrote his letter, Just before the cleo
ton, against these claims, he lost his hold
upon the South, and was made to feel it in
the late struggle in Congress. No Demo-
cratic candidate will repeat his blunder.
In the late House the dividing line between
rebel and loyal claims was ignored, and
with single Democratic Administrations
would be oblitera ed. When this comes 10
pass about claims, the distinction in the law
between rebel and Union soldiers and the
rebel and the loyal debt will be obliterated and
the lost slaves viii be treated as other prop
erty sacrificed by our Government 1t Will
not all be done or avowed at once, but step
by step, already becoming more rapid until
the public mind has become demoralized
the rebellion has ceased to be a crime
scarcely mistake-and the complete resto-
ration of fraternity will demand the aboli-
ton Of all the distinctions in the law between
loyalty and trca on.
The Republican party was never more nee.
essary to the Nation than it is to-day. All
talk about laying down the Republican or
ganlZatlon to take up new one, with new
title, into which the old Confederates may
enter without wounding their susceptible
ties, would be criminal if it were not SUI
premely silly.
We were but realizing what had been yisi-
bly, coming Tor several years. From 1868 it
had been apparent that the Republican party
Of the South would be overthrown by force,
if it could not be done otherwise.
The destruction Of the Republican party
would make the Democratic party supreme,
and fasten upon the country its odious pol
icy aud principles. The men who directed
the bloody crusades in the South for the
last ten years, that have now eliminated in
final victory in South Carolina and Louisi-
ana, are still living and have lost none of
their power
No one prays for Cancellation and fratern-
ty between the North and South more earn
cstly than HIM elf; but colcliation and fra
ternity, to be honorable and durabl,, must be
based upon the concession OF equal civil and
political rights peace and protection to men
of all races md Crecds.
In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Ala bama
Arkansas, part of Missouri and Middle and
Western Tennessee, free suffrage exists
chiefly in name. Georgia, In which there is
not difference of 5000 votes between the
two parties, gave Tilden majority OF 81 900
In six counties not a Republican vote was
polied. Mississippi, wi, "A Republican ma
iority of $4,000 was made 10 return Demo
cratic majority of $1,000. la four counties,
containing 1900 Republican votes, seven Re
publican votes were polled, which were adj
mitted just to show that Republicans could
vote, Alabama, with Il clear Republican ma
jorty of 10000, was made to return "A Dem,
ocratic majority of $1,000. In Tennessee,
Arkansas and Texas approximate results
were produced by like processes. 1t is
folly to allcge that in those States thcre were
liberty, protection and equal rights. The
testimony taken by the Senate
Committees establishes the fact thar the lib
cry enjoyed by 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 conditions, are hollow and
worthless, and are but another form Of the
barter of rights for gold. The quiet was that
of strangulation and paralls and audacious
ialschood a last grows weary in asserting
that such res ults were anything but crimes.
If South Carolina. with IA Republican ma
jority of $500, and Louisiana with a like
maiority,ot $1,000, are to Toe couciiatcd and
pacitcd in the same way, the hope and
promises held out 20 President hayes will
have been broken in every part. If, on the
contrary, Republicans in those States, white
and black, shall Doc protected in person,
property, freedom of speech, action and oc-
cupatlon, the Senator viii be The first To uc-
knowledge The grand result Ii is to this
happy condition that President HAYES as
pircs and all should earnestly pray for the
fun realization of his hopes
The Republican party of the South. with all
its errors, wagcd noble contest for the
right and the courage and Sclf.sacrifce dis
played by lis members are embalmed in
history.
BY the voluntary Withdrawal of the army
the south has been placed upon her good be.
hayior. Following bloody campa gns for
political power, they have been treated with
mugnuumity and should they fail To protect
all classes and races in the enjoyment II
their rights the most conservative Rcpubli-
cans viii see there is no security but to pre-
serve the Government in the hands OF the
Republican party
As the Democracy have acquired Il solid
South by force, the Republicans ould ac-
quire a solid North by vigilance and the eter-
nal Justice OF their cause Northern Rcpub-
Leans are now admonished that they can
endure no division that viii eudangcr their
success. Should the North ny unhappy dis
cord be divided, aud thus fall a prey to
solid Confederate South, the rebellion will
have been suppressed in vain, the fruits OF
the war will be lost. and our last condition
worse than the first
Another Political Murder In Louisiana.
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