National Republican., 1878-07-12
SOUTHERN BULL-DOzINa.

rights. Like the constitutional amendments
and all the reconstruction legislation passed
by Congress when the Republican party
was in complete power, it has become q
thing TO be laughed at derided, and dis
obeyed in the section where it was intended
to be directly effective. In North Carolina,
for example, the election laws, as we have
explained before, permit voter to be chal-
lcnged, and, being challenged, he is treated
us guilty of anything and everything until
he proves his innocence-admittedly Diff
cult thing to do in time for him TO
cast his ballot. In South Carolina the
election officers, as in Summerville,
refuse to issue certificates of cleo
tion to duly elected Republican officials
and the judicial authorities are threatened
with the vengeance of the bull-dozing rife
clubs II they attempt to interfere. In Ar
kansas, in the Pine Bluff region, at DEM
ocratic meeting, Major WHITE, one Of the
prominent orators of the occasion, boldly
and bluntly said:
Wo como not now TO lead but 10 drive Eve
come not TO persuade but to intimidate;" the
coored men may outnumbcr US, but they can
not outvote u.s. We caro- not for Congress- we
care not for HAYES
Major WHITE WAS followed In this elo-
quent and forcible, If not patriotic nor gen.
erous remark, by Mr. I. b. MARTIN, who
said:
The Radicals have the numbers, but We have
tho means. They may outvote us, but We can
outoount them. In short, though the heavens
fall though the whole of Now England shed
tears over tho Radical defeat, though every
Black Republican sheet in the land becomes
blaze OF double-leaded, high headed columns,
over what they may see proper TO torn an out
rage, yet will we not falter.
These facts which no one will truthfully
deny, are Of piece with the occurrences of
l57l-76. But the class of journals and pub
lie men who, during those five years, had
of the Southern situation, were hooted at
and scofied us bloody-shirt organs and in
cendiary sectionalsts. This hooting and
scofllng had its effect upon the Northern
mind, and particularly upon the policy of
the New England Republicans, who had
been prominent as the Ablotionist founders
of the Republican party and whose
especial duty IL seemed to he TO take care of
the cnfranchised blacks whom they had
liberated from slavery. In short, the hoot-
ing and scotllng was kcrt up until the Deni-
ocrats were allowed, by the grace of North
crn Republican apathy, sycophancy, and
treachcry, to regain control of tho
South. Now, when it is too late,
the truth begins to dawn upon
the minds of Northern Republicans,
and they find that instead of their legisla-
tion by Congress being a benefit to them
and the party whose principles they sup
port it is positive and lasting damage
They find this damage in the fact that the
constitutional counting Of the blacks, but
few of whom are allowed to vote anything
but the Democratic ticket, in the basis of
representation in Congress and the Electoral
College gives to the Southern Democrats an
increase amounting to dangerous control of
those two bodies. It is true that professions
of peace and good will are still made by
such Southern Democratic leaders as Cor
DON, HILL, and LAMAR; but such profess
sions do not obliterate or compensate for
tlic int tiht lktpubiittn EDttttS nht NllSSlS-
sippi Georgia, Alabama, and the Caro-
linas are bull-dozed and manipulated
into sending almost solid delegations of
Democrats to take part in all the rep
resentatiye features of our governmental
system. And here We are, having practically
given to our enemies additional power,
cropping along in the faint hope of retrieving
our fallen fortunes by renewed concentra-
ton ofstrength in the North, 80 as to present
n solid North against solid South. The
idea of dividing the South by concessions
has been abandoned, because those conces-
sions have been taken advantage of to SOL
idify instead of separating the Democratic
vote in that section. In truth, instead of
dividing the South, the result has been to
divide the North. But we are not without
remedy in tho future. If We can regain
complete power In the Government, it will
not be impossible to enforce the cvil-rights
law and make it something more than q
dead letter. Its faithful and unprejudiced
execution might fill the prisons of the coun-
try with such men rs Major WHITE and Mr..
T. b. MARTIN from whose bull-dozng
speeches we have quoted, but it would
empty Congress and the Electoral College of
the representatives Of the bull-dozers. This
kind of an execution of the provisions of q
law that, rs we have said, is a dead letter
on the statute-books requires honesty and
integrity in the National Administration.
President HAYES might at least attempt it,
| COOPERATIVE stores seem to be great success In
| England, They are especially tO bu tOund among
| the towns of the north, even among the working
classes The business OF the "Ciyil supply AssO.
! Citations" amounts IN u year 10 twenty millions
sterling. They are said To effect saving OF from
Il to ~ per cent II by no means hurts co.Opera.
ton that It fnds all enthusiastic advocate IN such
| u man u the author Of Tom Brown" who thinks
that cooperation Is to play an Important part In
| solving tie labor qlcStOn.-ChurchhldH
The ChmchmdH Is one of the leading New
York religious papers, of the Episcopal Church,
aud sounds note that should be heard through.
out the land. What we need in this country
is a method to obtain the blessings We now
enjoy at lower rates. The attention of our
readers Is called to a notice in another column,
In which We are told an association has been
formed, with large membership, by which 1t
Is expected to reach success similar to that
reached in England. We predict for 1t MEM
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