The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-02-09
NATIONAL NOTES.

Before you shall have read this
letter, the bill for tie creation of a
National Returning Board will
probably be law of the land. As
boys toss up coppers aud cry out
''heads" or ''tsils," the Nation will
toss MP Supreme Court Judge and
cry "Hayes" or "Tilden." 1t is the
boys play transferred to the arena
OF politics. Cotton was king once (;
chance is king to-day. 1 have too
much faith in the republican idea,
and in the American people, to des-
pair of the Republic, which side So
ever may turn up when the game is
played. We survived the red rule
OF the Slave Power; Pierce and
Buchanan could not destroy US; the
Fugitive Slave law did not disinte-
CRATE nor the cruel war dismember
our nationality aud, even with
Lees officers in the Cabinet, and
the Fenian population represented
In the White House, the United
States will still endure and grow
young and strong again after such q
disaster. We live in an era of re-
action-like the eras that saw the
Stuarts brought back to England,
and the Bourbons return to France.
1t Is an Z" Eclipse OF Faith" But
the sun shines forth after every
eclipse. Eras of compromise come
round like commercial panics in the
history of all races; but, as the
"world does move" in spite of
Spanish Inquisitions, so, too, the
people do rule in spite of American
Conservatism.
TWO RBACTIoNARY POWERS.
III were a democrat 1 should be
proud of my party to-day. 1t has
snatched an equal chance OF victory
from the throat of defeat. What
Roman Catholicism is to religion
the Democratic party is to politics.
1t is the mule with its heels TO the
car of PROCESS, stubbornly refusing
to bulge until it is pushed forward
by resistless force. And, in the
Republican car, the drivers for the
most part are towards, lacking faith
in the cardinal ideas of our creed,
and having constitutional scru-
pies" against the exercise of the
right to drive the mule off the track.
So. they stop the train, and call
tribunal to decide whether the ma
ton for the next four years, sh all
20 forward by steam or dragged
backward by mule power.
The Dem ocrstic leaders, like the
Catholic church, have blind faith
in their ideas. They never offer to
compromise unless the compromise
is likely to gain them q victory or
to save them q defeat. They scru-
pie OF no means to reach their ends.
With beth OF these reactionary for
ces-these powers of darkness-the
end justifies the means.
What has Catholicism ever shrank
from doing in order TO obtain and
maintain its supremacy Wherev-
er 1t has undisputed sway, there is
neither freedom of speech nor of the
press, no public education, no lib
erty of conscience, no rule of the
people by the people for the people.
THE GULF STATES AND CATHOLIC
COUNTIES.
The same facts apply to every
community In the gulf States to day
where alone the Democracy have
uncontrolled and absolute authority.
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, are stronger
Republican States than Ohio, Wis
consin or Illinois. In all of these
States no republican can exercise
his rights as an American citizen,
anywhere except at the peril of his
life. The evidence to establish
these facts is stronger, ampler, more
irresistible than the records that
prove that the thirteen colonies re-
VOTED against George the Third.
1t is accessible in fifty volumes pub
iished by authority of Congress.
The North has shut it's ears; and
1t will not believe il. Well, we
may again have the plague of the
first born sent to open both our
eyes and ears.
think ii quite possible that this
Electoral Bill may be the best solu-
ton that can be made of the stu
alton in the pres ent condition of
public sentiment. So was the Flu
gitive Slave Bill. SO was the Ne
braska Bill. So much the worse for
public sentiment! If Gov. Hayes
is swindled out of his election,
the result will be the same in all
these cases. If we will not learn
by evidence,-if we have lest faith
in our principles-disaste must
then we shall call into public life q
n0bler and more earnest class of lea
,ders. We have too many resplen-
dent pettifoggers, too many legal
2rammarians, toe many men with
" records" to defend, for q party
that should stand ap and stand firm
for progressive ideas.
NO SOUTHERN REPgBLICANIsM UNDER
TILDEN.
If Tilden is tossed In, there will
be no Republican party in the old
Slave STATES left, for generation to
come. When Judge Edmunds said,
that, in q Ger tain result, the Democ-
racy would be put in so bad light
before the people that they would
be defeated st the next election, he
showed that he knows nothing or
cares nothing for the frauds, ostra-
cisms and assassinations that have
carried Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia for Democracy and that
will keep them solid for the reac-
tionary party. Fernando Wood
said the trnIh-it is 20 years since
he told the truth and / have kept
it q precious memory of him-"Sir,
know my party; and If, after ]
got the regular nomination, L should
40 home aud murder my wife and
children, should be elected all the
same"
SOME RESULTS NOT RECKoNED ON.
Some OF the results of the adop-
tion OF the Electoral Bill may be
unexpected. 1t has already shown
that neither party will permit the