The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-14
The Objective Points ofthc South.

am amazed that wise papers like Tho
Congregationalist, and vast numbers o
prominent, well meaning people of Tn,
North, should be so utterly deceived re
garding the purposes of the ruling elias!
ut the South. An occasional voice O
Cancellation and loyalty comes up from
the old slave-holding regions, but thos,
who utter IL are few and feeble, ant
will continue to be powerlcss while thii
generation of men live.
] have before me five huge volume.
of reports, made by congressional com
mittces, of evidence taken from thou
sands of witnesses, though most of the
old slavc-holding states, showing tha
there was powerful, cruel and mur
derous organization, extending through
these states, committing bloody acts
atrocities and outrages for many years
for the purpose of destroying the Re
publican party South. The disclosures
of their revolving crimes are too horri
BILE for publication.
This organization was ofllccred anf
controlled by active and prominent
Southern Democrats. When raids were
made and victims captured in the night
the alternative was generally offered OF
either promising to repudiate Rcpubli
canism, and become a Democrat, or tc
be shot, beaten with terrible castings
or subjected to namelcss mutilations
To the credit of their heroic and martyr
spirits be it said, that in hundreds of in
stances they were faithful unto death
Their wives and daughters were out
ragged before their eyes, their sons shot
themselves left bleeding and wounded
by the very men now in control of the
state governments of the South, and be-
ing appointed to high positions in the
Federal Government! If any one
doubts this statement, let him send TO
Washington for these reports. lie car
secnre them for nothing, and read fol
himself. Does such people change theii
character in a day?
These Bashi-Bazouks continued this
warfare for many years, till they had
recovered entire control of all but three
states, and these state governments
President Hayes repudated after he had
received the benefit and fruit of martyr.
ed men who elected them. OH the same
ticket which he claimed elected him.
Wherefore this second warfare? Dur.
ing all these years complete registry
of the manumitted slaves has been made
and records of evidence of ownership in
every instance. Wade Hampton added
a plank to the Democratic platform al
the convention which nominated Sey-
mour, declaring that the constitutional
amendment which prohibited the South
from being paid by the general govern.
ment for their slaves, was null and void
This resolution was adopted with great
enthusiasm, and stands to-day as an
avowed doctrine of the national Demo-
cratic party.
We have put the South in position
to vote themselves two thousand mil
lions of dollars for their slaves, and they
are going to do it. They were cmanci-
patcd as war measure. The war-claims
of the North have been paid, and they
will vote themselves pay for their war
claims.
These enormous claims will bring
into every congressional dis
trict in the South, thereby making theil
delegations united to a man. They start
with thirty more members of the House
than they had before emancipation, also
two new senators from West Virginia
Very soon they will control the United
States Senate. They are positively sure
of the next presidential election. The
precedent of an electoral commission
will give them that. With congress
and every executive department of gov
crnmcnt in their hands, they will do as
they please. The Supreme Court, with
its proposed new Southern member
will surely annul the aforesaid amend
ment, if the coming rulers require it.
With every department of govern.
mcnt, including the army and navy, in
the hands of a Democratic administra
ton, intensely Southern, as il surcl,
will be. look out for measures that lool
like retaliation. If we protest tha
these measures are revolutionary. ant
attempt to avert their imposition, thcr
we are the rebels in sight of our owl
government and other nations. Thel
we shall find the Northern wing of Tho
Democratic party in full accord will
the South, and able to crush us. Re
member the gratuitous aid and comfor
given by the Northern Democrats t.
the South during the war. VIII they
not be more Jealous when stimulated
thereto by power and plunder?
The plans | have mentioned hav,
been discussed in detail for years b,
leading Southern men; they have bcci
agreed to, and pcrsistently worked
upon from month to month and year tC
year, till now their accomplishment i
certain. The whole scheme was talked
over in st. Louis hotel at the Demo
cratic National Convention, and South
ern political general was heard to re
mark, with a chuckle: "Wouldn't i
be glorious TO have the North kick at il
We could then ride into Boston at tn,
head of our troops and put down tn,
rebels.'
In the late number of the Youth
Companion, Mrs. Leonowens gives
graphic description of an immense ser
pont, lying across the way which lie,
through jungle in India. She says tn,
monster had his eye riycted upon an oh
ject near tree. She heard a piteou
cry, and looking toward its source, dis
covered monkey ambling along at od,
jumps and an irregular gait, now stop
ping and wriggling, then advancing to
wards the serpent; then gesticulatin!
and talking, then drawing nearer, til
close to the monsters mouth, when tn
huge reptile opened his jaws and tn
monkey jumped in; the mouth close'
and the ape was swallowed forever
Perhaps that interesting woman record
ed the story, at this time, expressly {,
symbolic Mr.. Hayes and the Democrat
ic party.
The bias of the writer may be infer
red from the statement that he is Re
publican oftwenty-three years standing
was Union officer in the late war, an
has been a subscriber to this paper fo
ten years.-[In Congregationalist.