Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-19
The soathern Question.


in the South are strengthening the republi
can party in the North. They come il
such shape, from such sources, that they
are not doubted or denied except in The
most ultra democratic quarters. The
greater part of the accounts OF southern
outraxes and frauds which we have pub
lished have been copied from the columns o
the organs of the Cancellation policy. Tht
experiment of cancellation has been tried
and the result as we have found it de-
scribed in the Boston Advertiser, Boston
Journal. and other papers which strenu
ously supported the pacifcation policy, is
the Acknowledgement of southern republi-
cans and BY fraud and violence virtually
solid democratic delegation in Congress
from the South. Of course those papers
Iaould have been pleased to have chroni.
elsd different result could they truthful
" have done so. They no doubt desired
and hoped. as President Hayes undoubted-
~ did. that the promises of Wade Hamp
ton and other leading ex-Confederates
would be fulfilled, and that free and fair
elections would be held in the South as
In The North. They have been compelled.
against their wishes and hopes, to pub
iIsh different result. and the circum-
stances under which they do it give added
force to the facts which they publish and
greater strength to the conclusions they
have been obliged to adopt.
There can be no division. or decent
pretext for division, in the republican
rnnks sitter this upon the Southern quos
don. The magnanimity of the South has
been appealed to and the result is a sad
failure. The confidence placed in the
leaders has been betrayed. They have
broken their pledges as those who were
opposed TO trusting them said they would
They have made the most of every OPP
portunity they had to trample under foot
The right of republicans to exercise the
privilege Of voting, or even discussing
political matters. They have murdered.
istimidatsd, broken up by violence re-
publican meetings, driven republicans
out ofthe States where they belonged, and
BY stuiling ballot-boxes elected democrats
10 Congress and other officials where in
an honest vote the republicans had large
majorities. None but the most unscrupu-
lous organs Of the democracy undertake
= sssert that the Southern elections were
fair and free neither can they attribute
violence and fraud to carpet-bag rule, Tor
no, such rule exists now in any Southern
6tats. We repeat, there is not decent
prstsxt for division among republicans in
regard to the Southern question, and con-
sequently the party is uniting and consoli
dating from Maine to California in favor
Of maintaining in the South the amend
msnts to the Constitution and the Laws
made In pursuance thereof.
This will be the great question OF
1880. 1t ID a question that must be met
squarely. No lodging in relation to il is
possible. The. South stands to-day solid
for the exclusion of colored and white re-
publicaus from the exercise Of their just
rights ~ voters. They will persist in that
attitude until they are obliged to relinquisb
Il. They will cast the votes which they
have In Congress and for electors OF Presi-
dent, by their colored population, directly
against the colored people every time, and
in defiance Of every constitutional guar
astee for free and impartial suffrage.
The man must be insane who would say
that , question like this will not arouse
the North. 1t will rekindle the ardor OF
other days when the doom Of Slavery was
n preparation. Every man who cast a
ballot against the Slave Power, or carried
. gun in defense of the Union against the
Democratic rebellion. or gave vote for
the prosecution Of the war until the rebels
surrendered, viii feel that duty calls upon
him 10 stand up again for the Right and
demand that there shall be no settlement
Of the Southern question except upon the
basis OF Justice. We have tried concila-
ton and 1t has failed. The administration
has trusted and been betrayed. There is
no remedy for the wrongs practised by the
democracy Of the Solth except Solid
North arrsyed against them. That we
shall have, and let every man who has a
vote to cast see to il that he gives it in ia
yor of the just cause of the oppressed and
down-trodden people of the South.
We have no doubt where greenback re-
publicans will be found in contest will
the Solid South. They will be true to the
convictions which governed them wher
rebellion threatened the life of the nation
On this question they are in hearty accord
with the republican party. and no sophis
try, or Hattery, or tricks Of the democracy
will be able to carry any number of then
into the ranks of that detested party
Those who think alike upon this ques
ton of all political questions will ac'
together. ..
From the Boston Adve itiser.
Election Frauds.
; NJ the ,,se nf fraudulent ar,;f;cas of 20.