Daily Republican., 1878-12-07
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The Soutl, and Public Opinion

in the Republican party attempting {
faithful enforcement of the laws of tn,
United States which we're designed tt
prevent the success of fraud in the cleo
tion of Representatives and Presiden
tia. electors. This is clearly the bust
ness of the United States and no State
laws should in any way interfere with
it, and in the Southern States United
States Supervisors and other Federal
officers will be called upon to do their
duty faithfully and fearlessly, precisely
the same as they would in any North
ern State where elections have not
been free and fair. 1t is evident how
ever that their task will be a difficult
one while public opinion at the Soutt
sustains or shields violations OF law
which make it very hard to find wit
nesses to testify to facts within theil
knowledge. Perhaps it may be found
difficult to get juries to act fearlessly
and impartially. possibly the fear Of
witnesses being prosecuted under State
laws, may block the wheels of justice
possibly in other cases the officials may
be lukewarin. 1t lras been rendered
very plain in the late elections, in some
of the Southern States where public
opinion stubbornly defend fraud and
shields crime, full judicial exposure
and punishment may Le rendered I'M
possible This no doubt is the case
throughout the most of the South and
being so the question arises "what are
you going to do about it"
When that condition of things is full
ly proved to exist it will be time to con-
slider what other steps the Government
can take. At present it is enough for
the Government to exhaust every rem
edy where this state of things exist un-
til it is fully demonstrated before le.
gal tribunal that the enforcement of
civil laws is rendered impossible. Hap
PLY there remains a tribunal to which
an appeal can be made without very
much delay, indeed to which appeal
has been partially made as the late
elections in the North have shown, and
this is a tribunal which the South con-
stantly disregards, which indeed it
hardly recognizes, because it scarcely
exists in that section. Appeal will be
made to the tribunal OF public opinion.
After all, this is the supreme power of
the nation, and constitutions, laws.
elections, votes in Congress and judicial
proceedings are in the long run subject
to it, in fact they are the regulated and
formal expression of it. To the ballot
box suffer of South Carolina and the
bulldozer of Mississippi and Louisiana
1t may seem that public opinion is i'm
potent and nothing but an amusing
farce and so Tweed and his gang in
New York long thought before
their overthrow. Long familiarity
with the tricks and crimes by which
the expression of public opinion
Is prevented, perverted or falsifrd,
make, men blind to the fact that there
Is any such force behind the election
machinery which they manipulate, but
in the end this public opinion will
triumph. 1t triumphed in the case of
Tweed and sent him to Jail where he
1t impossible for Mr.. Tilden to become
the Presidential candidate for any par
ty. It. has already been 50 aroused that
no Democratic candidate from the South
can be successful in the race for the
Presidential chair, not even MIR. Bay
ard the best Of them. The trial at the
bar of public opinion has already be-
gun, and as last as the South is be-
coming solid the North is becoming uni
ted also. This unity of feeling in the
North means that voters by the hun
dred thousand have decided not to
support party which cOuntenances
corruption, fraud, assassination and
maasacres. The uprising in the North
means tnat a 7roat many voters who
who We're A. posed not Ioug ago, to re
ject the E"p0oiican party for severaD
reasons hav determined to stand by it,
until they have stamped out sue
Democracy which seek to obtain power
by such m,aEs as have prOluC.
ed Solid South. There is no
excitement about this change Of pur-
pose on tllr part Of the north no clap
trap nons"n-" mas produced it. Shal
low and "ihrd tasphoods about the
"perfrct frredom,' and "absoutp uui-
ct" at the Sorth have talrd to conceal
the real purp' srs Of the Southern |, ad.
ers and their abetters in their schem,s,
the northern doughfacps. Evidence Of
the met g" used to trample out enor
mousIy iar~o Republican majoritips
has been 50 slaring as to admit of no
justification. Every day before this
tribunal Of public opinion, is the trial of
this cas-" is going Land every day the
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