National Republican., 1878-11-09

voice Of the people through agencies 30
atrocious that their application would be
discredited but for the fact that the results
expose them and their consequences to the
world in such glaring characters that they
cannot be ignored or explained away by
any fair hypothesis.
The present political condition of the
South has been produced by deliberate
purpose to rob the Republican party in that
section out OF its legitimate rights by sys-
TEN Of tyranny, outlawry, and bloodshed
that Is shame and disgrace to the nine
teenth century. The end that has been
reached is that Of making every State en-
gagged in the late rebellion solid in their
popular vote Tor the Democracy, when an
honest showing of the public sentiment of
that section would have presented Republi-
can majorties in eight Of those States aggre-
eating more than one hundred thousand,
and would have secured Senators and Repre-
sentatives sufficient to change the entire
complexion OF Congress and make 1t nearly
or quite as strongly Republican as 1t was
in is72 before the dcndish outrages by
which Democratic power has been aug
mcnted had been perpetrated. After Gem
eral GRANTS second election, the South,
under the approving sympathies of North
ern Democrats, began to prepare to crush
ont the Republican party in those States
through system of the most atrocious aud
bloody crimes known to the annals Of civil
ization. Stealthily, but steadily, the work
OF bloody persecution was pursued,
until In 1876, when but three OF
the eight or nine Republican States Of
the South were saved to the Republican
cause, and the loss OF either one of these
would have changed the political character
Of the head Of the Government. Pending
that election reign of terror was inaugu .
rated in the South, which brought to light
outrage, arson, assassination, and murder III
almost every conceivable form; thus disarm.
ing Republicans not only OF their rights Of
citizenship by intimidation, but despoiling
them Of their lives by the crime Of murder
openly and dehantly committed.
The canvass just closed only discloses in
too glaring a light the stubborn fact that
the Democratic work of depriving the peo-
pie Of their rights by the adopted agencies
of that party, and Of rendering Solid
South" have been fully accomplished rs
practical facts This is the state OF the
caso in briel--and the fact is presented tc
the people who saved this nation from over
throw by the very States which are now
robbing the Government OF its proper char
acter through the same agencies that were
brought to bear against the integrity OF the
Union during the rebelliOn-that another
rebellion has been inaugurated against the
Constitution, the laws, the authority OF the
Government, and the rights of citizenship
And what is more--the same States that re-
belled are now solidly intrenched upon this
deliberate system of wrong and Outrage.
This seems TO be sufficient to arouse the
North to a sense of the danger without tho
necessity of an attack upon the Govern.
ment at Sumter or elsewhere by the shock
Of war with shotted artillery. The glove
has been cast at the feet of the North by
the South, and it will nssurcdly be lifted
! and the gage OF controversy will be accepted
precisely rs rendered The last election ha
clearly developed the spirit of tho North
though il has not been fully aroused. Thi:
contest has been conducted mainly on the
financial issue. The South has been left t.
dGvelopo It's own spirit in its own way. |
has hesitated at nothing, no matter how
palpably wrong to wrest power from til,
majority OF its citizens, and transfer it t,
81, ,,rtIt Nt.lt had tt
work II has written its own history to b.
pondered and read by the whole world.
=, has defed the laws and despised the au
' thority Of the Government. 1t has violate,
> every principle Of republican form of rule
1t has ruthIcssly and by force and menace
OF bloodshcd, and by even bloodshed itseII
j troddcn under foot the right of sutlrag
A and seized power through violence an,
Y crime.
0 Having advertised its intentions and de
. menstratcd them unmistakably, the Mort
: wouid be craven indeed II she did not &C
V tept the issue-and, for all future time
II until ample reparation was made to
3 wronged and outraged people, stand as ON
5 man between that section and an imperille
7. government, determined to control II
!, powers no matter at what cost. The Sout
e has been permitted to 90 to the end oC 1t
.ether in developing its spirit and purpose
e They are as clearly presented as the sun /
+ the heavens when no cloud obsCures il
/ light. The North would have avoided sue
an issue II It were possible without surrer
y dering everything that is dear to the ioyl
!, heart But that is not possible. The issu
}. must be accepted, the consequences mas
{ be met and the government and the cour
try must be saved from a reign of cruelt!
! terror and crime, not By violence but b
u Northern votes.
l6 PERSONAL.