New-York tribune., 1878-09-27

settle values w0uld initiate and debase the currency
would cheat labor of its Just wages would breed cor
ruption and gambling speculation, would battle all
calculations of business and make trade worse than
a raffe-a rattle in which honest industry, not
shrewd capital would be the heaviest, sOrriest suf-
feTer. 1t would defeat every object in view and put
back business recovery. 1t would alarm the holders
and handlers of money just at the time when our
greatest need the confidence and certainty which
Will induce capital TO come forth and set labor at
work. Ii would be like a man recovering from
a long sickness, throwing himself back into re-
lapse.
The Republican party is against II. and one of its
missions Is to manage to final success and reef the
ugly financial legacy of war which it did not make
"a war in which every Republican IL every State
and on every spot was on his cOuntry's side. When
every obligation has been sacredly performed;
when every promise to pay money has been made
and kept as good as com when every tax which
can be spared is gone; when every burden winch
can be lifted from labor has disappeared when
honest lasting prosperity has been rooted too deep
to be torn up By folly faction then, and not till
then, will the financial mission of the Republican
party be ended. 1t is not vet like an army whose
term of enlistment has expired" Look over the
country, East West and South, and see the position
of the Democratic party. Its last National COnven-
tOn demanded the repeal of the act TO resume specie
payments next January. Then the assertion was
that our paper could not soon be brought to par.
Now when gold and paper have come together
months beforehand, Senators Thurman and Pcndle-
ton, In Ohio, Senator voorhees, and Governor Hen
bricks, in Indiana, General Johnston, in Virginia.
the Western and Southern leaders of the Democracy
generally, and Democratic Conventions even IN
New-England cal! aloud for huge schemes OF more
paper money. In the West the Democratic party
has become the party of imitation. In New-Jersey
and other States fusOns of Democrats and lntla-
tlOniss are progressing In Name a large portion
of the Democracy voted the aVOwed expansion
ticket, and the Democratic press eXults over the
result Massachusetts OutdOes herself, and General
Batter ad vances as Caesar, with the Democracy at
his heels Neither In Congress nor In the country WILL
or can opponents the rising tide otlntatl0n
The DemOcIatic party has many patriotic men OF
good sense, and even to them we may earnestly ana
safely put the question whether, as matters stand
thar dc IN fNa RpYlu naI
banded OF mustered out just now
When che Is calm, all boats alike show mastershp
IN floating"
Let us see whether the Republican ship can out
ride the fury of a storm not more angry than 1t may
be brief. Lamartine sad: place my bark on the
highest prOmOntOry of the beach and wait for the
rising of the tiGe to make II float. Let the Repnb-
licau party be now aud always the champion of
right and cOnrage-neyer the victim OF error ana
fear.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS AND NORTHERN MAGNANImITY.
Credit, currency and business are not the only ee-
ments in the elections this year. Schemes TO take
money from the Treasury in staggering totals for
claims and grievances and projects which no man
can number are being Matched and nursed and per
fected against the time when they can compel At
tention When will that time be ! When full sway
IN Congress Is gwen 70 the party and the sentiment
which now rules a " solid South IA South made
solid, not by honest majOrites and free, honest
voting, but by minOrltles dominating through
crimes against God and man. Inat sOlld Soulh,
again, OF old, sends up maJoTJS OF an the
Democratic votes ia Congress; II rules the Demo
cratic caucus, and must decide the party aCtlOu
whenever 1t insists.
In the House of Representatives there are forty
committees, and already the chan men OF twenty
three of them are ex-C Confederaes from the South.
After next March the south will control the com
mttees of the Senate also. You need not not be re-
minded that committees all-pOwertu IN leglsla-
tiOn-more than ever now, because OF the over,
whelmng pressure of business which makes 1uil ana
open discussion, especially ~ the House lnpos-
sIble. You need not be reminded either that about
one-thlrd OF ell National revenue ana expenditure
comes from the state of New-Nork. ask whether
they who are to pay 81 Of every - taken from the
Treasury have not need, before we DRIFT much fur
ther, to inquire, Waterman, what Of the night y
/ am for cOuCiliatiOn and reconciliation, ana con
cord and peace all around, but my belief Is that the
men and the communities who stood by the flag, ana
prayed tor II and fought for IL, If they behave
themselves. just as good as those who drenched
the Iand with blood, and covered It with mourn
ing debt aud taxes. believe, too, that those VINO
strOye TO save the country AS safe legislators
and chairnen of committees as those who stTOYe 10
destroy IT, MagnanImity, generosity and forgive
ness unparalleled IN human annals have been the
policy OF the Nation toward those who sought It's
overthrow. This Is grand majestic, Christian but
it may be carried too far IL rs not wise for the
North for the South itself, 10 hand the Govern
ment over bodily TO those who wcce lately IN arms
against it, and who IN many instances now h9ia
seats Ia Congress, gained by stihing elect0Ds oy
terrorism and blOOdshed lt Is not wise or just thus
to tempt human nature. IL IS not safe for the hdDl-
tatiOns of the North OF Of the South.
When pcsuieuce smltes Southern homes let the
North pour out as sue now does, money and SYM
pathy. holding back taTthing because II Is
Southern and not Northern woe. This Is night.
But when taking political action, let us be Just 10
all not ouly 10 ourselves. but TO those, whether
black or White, to whose protection we are bound
by ties which would not be forgotten 10y an Algeune
pirate OF a Barbary corsair
SOUTHERN TERRORISM.
Look at the school laws IN southern states. LOOK
at counties m which Republicans, Wnlte and black,
are in great majOrties, and IN which voting places
have been reduced in number till those nearest
each other sometimes twenty-five miles apart
making IL impossible for the poor 10 reach the
ballot-box Look at Democratic counties where
the voting places have been increased TO thirty,
with area not greater than kepubl-
can counties III which by the same act OF
legislation the polling places have been reduced to
nine Ia the county IN which Charleston, = u, Is,
there Is a Republican majority Of 5000, yet at an
election not long ago for members OF the Ieglsla-
ture no Republican candidates were nominated, no
Republican votes were cast. The fact tells JIs own
story.
Look at Mississippi with a great and confessed
Republican majority, ruled by Democrats. the he-
publican organizations compelled To dlaDahu. ana
the last RepuDhean newspaper gwen up; iI hs,issi
nation strikes down blameless men and helpless
womeI-families perish by violence; no Que IS
punished and the officials who connye az murder
are reelected and rewarded Tor being accQmphces
m shedding innocent blood. The tragic death OF
one maiden reused pagan Rome 70 vengeance. bat
Americans very patient when Jbe biOOd OF Ihe
ChIshOlms and Others slckens humanity, ana JusDce
laws no hand on such iuEhttul DutChery. lbo
officials of the United states are shot down
and imprisoned for performing their duty. ana
the whole power of the Nation Is openly dehed.
In the Cult States majOrities are pOwerless anu
DrOstrate their committees extinct, and they tram
oled under foot by the men they faced IA battle.
As IN slave days. the cOlored people are counted to
swell the number Of Southern representatives, IN
Congress but for any other purpose they hardly ap-
pear now in the political account.
Turn from this picture TO the three free amend
mepts of the Constitution. There they stand, ana
they declare that such wrongs shall never be.
Vet tins is the great Repubhc-the men thus de-
graded and despOled are its ctIzens-they stood by
IL and fought tor II. ana are perseented lOr ne sake
and this Is the last quarter Ot the nineteenth CEN
tury
MISSION or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The mission of the Republican party Is not ended.
II las done much. Ii hus put down vast rebel
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