The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-06
NUMBER 35
CONKLING V4TING TIE BLOODY sHTRT.

AZ tue hepuU!lcan convention, helu IN sara
car, N. Y, during the last week in Septem ber,
Senator ConklinS delivered the speech of the
day, from which We take this extract:
When tho sea is calm all boats alike show mastershp
Let us see whether the Republican shin can
ontride the tdry OF a storm not more angry
than it may be brief Lamartine said III
place my bark the highest promontory of
the beech. and wait for the rising of the tide
to make it noat" Let the Republican party
be now and always the champion of right and
courage-never the victim of nnd fear.
Credit, currency and business are not the only
elements in the electionB 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 hatched
| and nursed and perfected against the time
| when they can compel attention. When will
that time be : When full sway in Congress is
given to the party and the sentiment which
| now rule q "solid South"-a South made solid
not by honest mBjOrities and free honest
voting, but by miuorities dominating through
| crimes against God and man. That solid South
| again, as OF old, sends up majority Of ell the
| Democratic votes in Congress. 1t rules the
Democratic caucus, and must decide the party
| action whenever it insists. In the House of
| and already the chairmen of twenty three of
| them are ex. .Confederates from the South.
After next March the South will control the
| committees OF the Senate also. You need not
| be reminded that committees are all powerful
| in legisation-more than ever now, because Of
| the erwhelming pressure of business which
|
| the House, impossible. You need not ke re-
minded either that about one-thrd Of all na-
| tional revenue and expenditures comes from
| the State Of New York. ask whether they
| who are to pay one dollar of every three taken
| from the Treasury have not need, before we
drift much further, to enquire, Watchman,
what Of the night ~ i am for coDoliatiop and
| reconc iliation and concord and peace all
| around, bat my belief is that the men and the
communities who stood by the flag and prayed
for it aid fought for it. II they behave them
al inat ho 6ra chad
the land with blood and covered it with mourn
ing, debt and taxes. believe, too that these
who stEove 10 save the country are as safe
legislators and chairmen of committees as those
who strove to destroy II. MagnSnimity, gen
erosity and forgiveness unparalleled in human
annals have been the policy Of the nation
This is grand sjestic, Carstian ;but 10 may
be carried too far. II is not wise for the North,
nor for the South itself TO hand the Govern
mept over bodily - those who were lately in
arms against it, and who in many instances
now hold seats in Congress gained by
sitting elections by terrorism and blood
human nature. It 10 not safe for the babta-
tions of the North or Of the South.
When pestilen oe smites Southern homes let the
North pour ont. as che now does, money and
sympathy, never holding back fsIthing be-
cause it Is Southern and not Northern WOO.
This s right. Bot when taking political
action let be juat to al!-not only to our-
selves, bot to those, whether black or white,
10 whose protection we are bound by ties
which would not be forgotten by an AlRerine
pirate or Bar barry corsHIr. Look ut the school
laws in Southern States. Look at counties in
which Republicans, white and black, are in
great ajorties, and in which voting-placOs
have been reduced in number til those near
est each other are lsometimes % miles apart
making it impossib BILE for the poor to reach the
ballot.box Look at Democratic counties
where the voting places have been ipcreaeed
to thirty, with an area not greater than Re-
pu bIcan cou ties in which by the same act OF
legislation the polling places have been re-
duced to nine. In the county In which Char
lesion, s. c., is, there is Republican mSJor'
ity of 5 coo, yet at an election not long ago
for members Of the Leg stature no Republican
candidates were nominated-uo Republican
votes were cast The fact tells Its own story.
Look st Mississippi, with great and con-
'es sed Republican maj ority, rnled by Demo-
,rat ts, the Repu blicau organizations compelled
% dsband aud the last Republican newspaper
given up. Assess nation strikes down blame
ess men aud helpless women-familieS perish
y violence one iS punished, and the d
ials who counive a. murder are eelected and
ewsrded for being accomPlices in shedding
nnocent blood. The tragic death Of one
ma iden reused pagan Rome to vengeance 6ut
.uericans are very patient VIII en- the blood CT
be Chisolms and others sickens humanity and
1stice lays no hand on such friRbttul butoh-
ry. The officials Of the United States arc
hot down and Imprisoned for performing
heir duty and the whole power OF the patton
openly dsfed In the Gnif states MAJ Jorities
xtiuct and they rrampled under foot by the
len they faced IN battle As in slave days,
ae colored people are counted 70 swell TIE
umber of Southern Repre- ssptatiyes in Con-
ress bat for Bpy ctler purpose they hardly
ppesr now in the political account. Torn
rom this picture 10 the three free amendments
Z the Conf tution. Tnsre they stand, and
hey declare thA sueh wrongs shall never be.
ct this 10 the great republio-the men thus
eRrSded aud desPoiled are lite oiti7sns-they
d for lie sake-and this 10 the last quarter Of
ae nineteenth centuryt