The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-06-15
The lnya! North and Rrbe! Sou!!
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:hr '.HIa! s"rth and Krbe: South.
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The New York San, ct tie tI,;t
trrnth instant, contains a double
loaded editorial. entitled 1.-The Next
Presidential Election Not Yet Decid-
e".' the ma'i.nancy or idiory of which
We do MT Know which most to won
der at The Union. as it was III 1860.
has been rr.cStahIi>tcd slavery has
been abolished, and there is not all
armed rebel in the field. Yet one ~
acquainted with these facts might
judge, t,om the violence and bitter
! ness OF the SIMS attacked upon the
Southern States. that Mr.. Davis was
now occupying the presidential chair
Of the Con!tdcracy in Richmond, aud
that all our armies, headed hy Lee,
johnson aud jackson, were movcing
in force upon Washington. The Sun
has evidently become the scrvile tool
of Conklins, and is doing all in its
power TO organize solid North
against the South. Could a great
public journal pursue policy more
contemplate. cowardIy and disgrace
ful ? We have thrice read the double
loaded editorial Of tho Snn, seeking
most diligently to discover some rra-
son for its yirulcnce: but in vain.
The editorial seems to be the prompt
ing of a blind sectional hate, or the
malicious diatlibe of base and
malevolcnt hreling. We have seen,
in all our experience, nothing in Jour
nalism so mean and disgracefuI.
The sun and substance of the SIM s
diat,ibe is, that tho Democratic can
didate for the Presidency twas sold
out by the Southern rebels because
he was pledged against the payment
of rebel war claims.' Upon this
tlimsy and utterly untrue charge it
hurls its fierce broadside of senseless
vindictive sentences at the Southern
representatives, III Congress aud the
Southern people generally. We are
denounced as traitors, rebels and heav-
en- knows what else. All the epithets
that could De moulded or forged in the
heated fires Of sectional hate are
launched at our heads, because as the
Sun alleges, we made terms with
Hayes in 1876.
Aud let us see what right this viru-
lent sheet has to accuse the Southern
Democracy Of treason to the result
of the election of 1876. Mr.. Tildpp
was entitled by that result to 1876
electoral votes ont of 1863, or a clear
majority of %. Of cheese 1876 votes
the Southern States gave him l3l,
aud the Northern States only s.. In
other words, every Southern States
voted for the Democratic candidate
and the supremacy of the constitu-
lon, while in the East only Conncc-
ticut, New York and New Jersey, and
in the West, Indiana, by their votes
protested against the iniquitous policy
of the Grant administration.
During the canvass of 1876 no pa
per ia the United States more ably
and pels'stently than the San de-
bounced the corrupti0ns and usurpa
tons of Grantism no paper more
furiously asserted that the good of the
country and the preservation of the
principles Of the constitution required
the defeat of the Republican party.
The Republican party was defeated,
as the 81" declared it should he.
Bnt if we are to resolve the vote of
1876 into its sectional elements, who
won the victory for the constitution ?
Certainly not the loyal North; not
the States which crushed the rebel.
lion, abolished slavery aud conquered
and rluudercd the seeding States.
The victory the S"n so vehemently
affirmed was essential to the pIeser-
walton of civil liberty and the re-es-
adjustment Of the constitution ,ras
ron by the rebel Southern States,
which gave MIR. Tildcn l3l of his 1876
electoral votes. The South realized
leeply and keeuly the necessity for
he defeat of the Republican party.
The States of this section under the
'ule Of that party had been crushed
n the very dust of poverty and hn~
initiation. They had no rights which
lie Union armies quartered upon
hem ard the carpet.bag thieves
ninions Of the conquerors-- were
Wiling or required to observe.
The South was, therefore, q unit
gsinst the Republican party, aud it
made the whole fight for Tilden and
he constitution. The North, on the
ther hand, like a beast of prey, lick
ng its blood stained jaws, switching
IS tail and growing, clay with its
Jaw upon our necks, willing rather
hat every vestige Of constitutional
liberty should be destroyed than that
to beaten, ruined and PROSTATE VIC
i'm should escape it's prosecutors.
'hus we find that in the mighty
trugg|e of 1876 for tho rescue of the
constitution, the loyal North and w est
ave the cause but IS votes. That
'as all the loyal East and the loyal
Vest-the one represented by the
for the Presidency and the
ther by the candidate for the Vice
'resideDcy-could do for the coDsti-
ntion and against fraud, usurpatiou
nd Capitalization, after one Of the
reatest campaigns of political histo-
y. If what the SIN said Of Grant
nd the Republican party in 1876,
I'D what it is saying now be, true,
ow shameful, how contemplate,
ow cowafdly a record does the
,nrfl and Mast whicI crushad IIfhal