National Republican., 1878-07-27

Government at all points against these inn
pending dangers will involve criminal
neglect of duty from which we may de-
serve the wrong and suffering that must in
evitably follow.
The Southern States, published at Oko-
Iona, Miss, is product Of the average
Democratic mind of that section Of this
country. Its issue of the 10Th instant comes
to us freighted with information of the
plans and purposes of the Democrats Of the
South, provided Providence shall scourge
the nation by admitting them TO power. 1t
tells us what the Democrats will do" pro-
vided they have the opportunity. And what
it says Is based upon u gathering assurance
that " in all hpman likelihood, a Democrat
"1W Tdik up he Waite House steps in 1881
and take his scat in The Presidential chair"
Then it assures us "he will send his first
message TO Democratic Senate and
House, and then q quiet but irresistible
revolution will set ina revolution that
will slcecp from the Consultation aud statute
books the last stain and blemish of New
England ideas"
In other words, the fruits Of the war TO
crush rebellion-the amendments to the
Constitution, which declare all men TO be
free and all to be citizens Of the United
States, without distinction Of class or COM
plexon the laws Of reconstruction the
guarantee of equal rights to all men before
the law, and, for that matter, all marks Of
free civilization, all New England ideas of
right and justice that have been impressed
upon the subjugatcd States by tho hand Of
war and the power of the General Govern
ment-are to be swept away by that hand
which solght, but failed, to destroy all this
through the agency of rebellion.
This is the grand count presented in the
Southern bill Of indictment, which is fol-
lowed by these specifications, clearly and
distinctly set forth
/. The Republic will be divcsted of the
powers that 1t has usurped from the States
since 1861. The reserved rights of the several
Commonwealths of the Federal Union will be
recognized in their widest scope and range.
In q word the Calhoun theory will be put in
practice, while HamiltOnism will be torn up,
root and branch aud destroyed forever
Which, fairly interpreted, means that
State rights and notification are to over
ride the Constitution and the laws of the
land, and the State power Of notification is
to be held above the Federal power of the
nation, thus substituting peaccably what
it was not possible to accomplish by the
force Of arms. There is no mstaking the
meaning and tendency Of this declaration.
1t is that If there is to be a Union of States,
each individual State is to be superior to the
Federal power, and hence the Union is a
mere sham aud the Constitution a by-word.
1t is practical secession clothed in theoreti-
cal Cnon-a burial Of all that makes this
country great, prosperous, and happy, under
the principle of unity.
! ii. The unconstitutional amendments will
1 be repealed, and the Constitution will thus be
restored to Its primitive vigor, the ballot box
purified, and politics redeemed in an unlimited
= measure from the demoralzing influence o.
y ignorant, vicious. aud mercenary suffrage.
: Here is foreshadowed purpose to restore
$ slavery to fresh existence, to wipe out al
i the constitutional amendments that give
V freedom and citizenship to the emancipatet
e slave, all the guarantees Of protection fol
c the newborn citizen in his inalicnabl,
II rights; in fine, 1t proposes to put everything
:, back where it was before the rebellion
:, except to return the hundreds of thou
r sands of men to life who became vic
If tins to o war to destroy the Union ant
I. PROSTATE the Republic. This proposition
y with all its promise of revolution, is sweet
l. ened by glimpse at q promised pOlitica
II millennium, when the ballJt-bOx will b,
e purified and politics redeemed from tn,
It click of the murderous rifle, the knottet
o thong, the tree Of summary execution, ant
C the assassin kniie-nll for the reason tha
It there are no more Republicans, white o
c black, to be shot, lashed, hung, or stable,
L to the heart by White Leaguers, bull-dozers
Ku-Klux, or rifle clubs. Then the political
millennium will cOmc-the carnival of in
timidation aud death will be over and tn,
" Democrats will bear undisputed sway u
' the ballot-box in the profoundest peace, 70
" there will be no division of sentiment, dealt
" and ostracism having accomplished tina
" long sought end.
ii Ill The national" banks will be levele
d with the dust, the United States bonds will b.
j. taxed. and the grcenback will be made lega
tender for every dollar of public Indebtedness
This proposition wears no terrors, and i
: il was severed from the other deformities c
' the Southern declaration of purpose
~ might meet with conditional favor. 1t
" better than notification and reputation
- But this is not all
4 thousand aud one other reforms, necess
III tatcd by Radical treason and misruc, will h
ii made; hut those we have particularly spec
n fled are the most urgent and vital, and wi
prove more speedily beneficial to our cOmmo
!" country.
III Thus is presented in unmistakcable chal
acters the advertisement of what the Sout
Z proposes to do so soon rs it has the pOwe
&c and we can tell the people OF New Eul
Us land the North and the West that this
y not mere vapor. 1t is founded in deel
Is seated purpose, not only to accomplish a
III that il nominated in the declaration bl
n much more than is not named therein. "
4 admire IL more for its boldness than for i
e. loyalty to the Union, the Constitution, IN
le the laws. 1t is secession, treason, and r.
III bellon coated with the sophistry Of Sta
W rights, and presented in the spirit of swe
III defiance that has put up its pistol and dai