Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-01

CTOBER l, 1879.
year. The rebuke of that revolutionary action
by . majority of the people Of this State,
Der next, will be the assurance Of the complete
overthrow OF this new attempt to subvert the
constitution. The Democratic party lacks now
only the executive department TO control the
Government The Congress has already passed to
the absolute rule Of that over mastering South
ern section Of the party which. by more than
two-thirds majority, chosen always for its con-
spicuous fidelity to the Rebellion, dictates the
action Of its Northern followers. 1t is of this
Democratic party am speaking to-day, which,
despite oil debate upon the question Of North
ern or Southern responsibility for the initia-
ton Of any given measure Of Govern
mental policy, can alone control and
effect This ascendency in the House Of Rep
reseaAtives has been gained by clutching the
increase Of representation given by the Four
teenth article Of amendment TO the constitu-
Orin,ss- 80 defraud the ciass kno form SSS Sasss
Of that increase Of the benefit which should 20
crue to them. them and y , thus srrosahns to them
they are entitled, curtailing the Just influence
Of other States In the making Of laws and the
administration Of the Government. In the in
science Of power thus gained the Democratic
party becomes defiant in its denial of the right
Of the Government TO defend itself by regulating
the national elections or by enforcing its
statutes ter for ths protection Sf It's cssns o.
1t denies the Government any participation in
the control Of proceedings which Affect the
common defense" and the general welfare
Anarchy may reign supreme on the day of an
election involving the interests Of the whole
people, but the Government has no power to sub
due it. DENYING with deadly determination, a.
just now at Yazoo, even the right Of candidacy
TO one differing from the dominant majority,
this solid South asserts its right ina carnival OF
rdes, shotgun masks, red shirts, and tissue
ballots to elect its own Congress, which shall
enact the lAws-revenuc, commercial, financial,
and property Of the whole country. Such is
the party which, intrenched In Congress and
solid South, proclaims its purpose to turn back
the finger on the dial and to reverse the legisla-
ton Of the nation for the last eighteen years.
THE DIsHoNoRKD SOUTH.
Who are these demanding that their states
manship and patriotism shall shape and con-
troll the destinies Of this nstiony In the knowl-
edge Of every man Of ordinary intelligence in
Of the United States, making mp in force what
they lack IN numbers; supprossing by fraud
and oppression the vote OF the emancipated
citizens OF the South; standing always across
the pathway Of the progress Of tho masses;
despising the rule Of the majority; educated to
despotism and violence, and impelled By one
controlling purpose born Of their bsrbaric in
stitution-to rule their section in their own way.
They are party led and dominated by those
whose violated constitutional oaths and for
sworn allegiance to the Government are the
only testimonials Of their fidelity to the Union,
and whose contempt for the Government and
law-defying spirit are shown by their neglect,
In their entire domains, to bring to Justice even
one Of the numerous foul assassins Of United
States officers, guilty only of attempting to
discharge their duty In executing the Laws
Of the United 6tates-s party whose leaders
launched the spurious Oonfederacy, with ne
gro slavery - its corner stone, and which was
buried In the abyssmal depths of that out
growth OF treason but which, reeurrected by
the benefcence Of the Government, rewarded
its clemency by resisting 1t every step the work
Of reconstruction, the amendments to the con-
stituti0n, and the legislation necessary to give
them effect Who are those who demand to be
made the sole custodiAns Of the national faithf
A party which, on its dismissal from power in
1881, left the credit Of the Government dishon-
ored; whioh, daring The vez, Aoodad ths South
came g plenty as the drifting leaves Of autumn,
and as worthless - the waste parchment
signed ut Montgomery; which, since the war,
has been engaged In the South In the open work
Of scaling down and repudiating it State and
mum municipal obs:Ons sy the whole.
upon the obligations Of The nation; which,
in National Convention and Congress-
has resisted to the last the great measure Of no
sumpion-the browning achievement Of tho
Republican party, and the first instance In tho
worlds history In which nation has redeemed
it, forced loans on demand, without discount
and in the money Of the world, and under the
influence Of which every PROSTATE industry In
the land 10 throbbing with new life, and the
whole country entering upon . career Of IN
r.ecedented prosperity. This solid South, 10
whom our obligations arc the irritating token
Of their subjugetion to tho national suthor.
With the sole power of regulating, collecting
and disbursing the revenues OF ihe country,
upon which its faith rests, through which
We saved the Government and which,
perverted or abused, would cripple and
destroy IT, =. e %sn1R %ho s
who, to infame the partisan ignorant conjure
up the use Of the army - an instrument to
overawe State authority, and about themselves
hoarse over the phant0mf Il II the party Of
Jefferson Davis, under whose order, o Score
rode down and dispersed the fres-State Hsgis-
lature Of Kansas. Who arc those who prats Of
the freedom Of elections and the sanoity Of The
ballotf 1t IL the party which, by the denial Of
FREQ discussion, by lawlessness, violence and
assassination, ballot-box stufing and the In
vssion Of meetings and polling places BY band:
the ballot. and has made, in the South, the re-
publican form Of Government guaranteed BY
the constitution by-w0rd and ferce.
REPUBLICAN RIGHTS AND DENAND6.
TO these demands the Rspubnoers Of Nsw
York make this answer: We love honorable
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