Daily Republican., 1879-04-17
The National Peril.

ira session of Congress, which wa
unlocked for and which was rot needed
Conservative and reasonable men at th
north had hoped that the Confederat
leaders would have been restrainsd b,
their northern allies, from any violen
or unusual projects which might impai
the financial interests and prosperit.
and peace Of the country. This expec
tation has been vainly harbored, tn
Southern leaders with their Northerl
allies having thrown tho country agail
into turmoil Of excitement and polit
ical agitation Of which the end may b
far distant. The utter frivolity an.
worthlessness Of the pretext for calling
an extra session is ono of the mos
striking'traits OF the times. Eugene
Lawrence, one of the keenest politics
writers Of the day, in an article to Hsr
per's Weekly" Gays that had Con
gress been summoned to provide some
new facilities for trade to aid honest
business men, discuss questions in agri
culture, provide national education.
cultivate commerce, or even establish 9
quarantine against the Southern pesti
lence, there would at least have beer
something practical in its aims it would
not have been altogether absurd and
barbarous. These aims would have
been tolerated, upheld and appreciated
by the people, but instead of these ber
iicent aims being the cause Of the tll-
ing Of the extra session, q rglitical
question is made the cause of ne agita-
tion of the nation. The Sou .hern mem
bers in their arrogance demand that
the nation shall no lcager see that its
elections are carried on with fairness
and good order, and that the national
inspectors shall be driven from the
polls. The hot season is fast approach
ing when there will be danger of a
return OF tlat Southern scourge, the
yellow feTsr, and yet the Southern poll
tician has no thought of anything ex,
nept that every law providing for fr'e
and fair ballot shall be repealed. The
Southern cities AMI towns are left un-
severed and open to pestilence high
ways and railroads are neglected; thu
Mississippi river flows over broker
levees and deserted planta ions, and
law Is poweress to protect life anC
property. South Carolina. Georgia
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
TEEN with acts of violence, and the
perpetrators, il they b., white men, ar,
al 'ys a''2~et to escape the punish
mot which the laws provide but ia
never enforced. immigration turns
away from the rich rice plantations o.
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and
amidst land Of unexampled fertility
and richness, the blight Of poverty casts
its saddeniEs sombre pail. These
states might easily be converted into
hives Of industry if the South had wis'
humane men for its rulers instead 0
bulldozers; but the Southern peliti
clan seems to forget that there is some
thing beside the coosummation # hi
own selfish purposes that should con
troll his actions. Hs sees nothing il
the future but the advancement of hi
own political aims and to attain tina
he plunges the nation in.o an era
of excitement which ends in max in,
fraud and dishonesty easy 10 be prac
ticed at the polls. This plan he think
will elect him to congress or some 9th
er positiol Of imaginary honor, and h
cares for nothing else. Through thes
means the South is to ha made an,
kept perpetualIy solid for the Delnocra
cy, and handful of Democrat, north
ern Congressman doughfac' like Civ
their sanction t. the plan.
1t is high time for the people to se
that they arr in r-al peril. The South
ern po tican IS secretiye AMI has
definite aim regardless ef coust ouentes
The men WHO have carried South Caro-
lima by frau want to reIeal the Fe1er
al Election laws, that Ne~ York ma
be carried in the some manner
The bulldoztr who destr Us tn right
and liberties Of the Pc pie in his ow
section has no respect for the rights {
the people anywh 're. lI- il u tige
unclaimed ia tue community, tha
needs to ~ muzzIei and the ionger tha
process is put of the more diffcul
must prove the execution. No!hin
but general Union Of the people {
the north, will have any effect upo
these un'crupulou, agitators, ard oui
in closely united party Of Republi
cans and Union sts, can tn" liberties G.
the people e savei ana this second r.
belliOn be checked. The people in tn
North having forgotten politics hay
retired to their railroad Improvements
their factories and their farms, an
havins eglected their duty as citizen
the enemy has stolen march upo,
them and Low he Confederate Congress