National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-27

the truth should bo spread before the people of
the North touching the situation of affairs in
the South than it is at present.
But for the cowardice and duplcty of the
Northern Democrats in 1851 there never would
have been any attempt ut secession, rs the
leaders of that most ill-advised movement
relied on Northern Democrats to prevent any
cocrcive measures on the part of the United
States being adopted against them. Something
of the same sort of thing is mt present going
on. Fraud and intimidation would disappear
from the South but for the fact that Northern
Democrats, instigatcd by a discredtablc thirst
for Office, defend and apologize for their South
orn brethren. They even deny that there Is
any fraud and intimidation, although they
enjoy no opportunities OF knowing what trans.
pires in the South at elections. Senator Thur
man is so exceedingly anxious 10 obtain the
Presidential nomination in 1850 that he would
not scruplc to say anything that was likely to
conciiate the South, as he clearly demon
stracd in his recent speech in the Senate.
This subsorviency to party and personal am
bition has inflicted vast injury on the South.
do not hesitate to assert that the Northern
Democrats are responsible for half the disor.
der and lawlessness that have prevailed in the
South. and that these disorders will continue
Just us long as Northern Democrats deny their
existence and oppose all investigations into
them. The law puts the receiver of stolen
goods on the same footing with the thief, and
Northern Democrats who defend fraud and
intimidation in the South make themselves the
accomplices of the perpetrators of such law
less deeds.
When the war closed in 1865 your party, sir,
laid aside the bayonet and the sword only to
begin the war with the pen and the tongue
Your party Immediately seized on President
johnson and caused him TO believe there were
no loyal men of respectable abilities or char
la, ib. nd tI,nt lao 1n,
necessity ofappointing Secessonists to all Fed
eral offices. He pursued this course aud
eventually persuaded your party to reject the
constitutional amendments with disdain and
defiance. Hero was the seed germ of all the
subsequent disorders and troubles of the South.
j deny that the reconstruction measures
united and soldifed the South, and state 1t rs
an historical fact, susceptible of complete proof
by reference to the newspapers of that date
that the Secession party was rs solid in 1865
as it Is now. No matter what line of policy
had been pursued by the United States the
SeCcssionists would have vehemcntly de-
nounced and opposed it from old feelings of
antagonism and evaporation as well rs from
the rcliinded desire of attaining to control of
the National Government through the help of
the Northern Democracy. 1t Is not true that
the measures Of the Federal Government after
the war produced the opposition in the South,
since that opposition existed previously and
was inevitable. No measures pursued by
III. i"Se uieu iine op'
posit'oii% % ol tne caNaIeIa, nor coulo any meas
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oa.loha Vi i,,, ynH hou,iuhTaus, nor couiu any
the Tories and Jacobitcs, The Democrats OF
the South are but the Secessonists of 1861, and
they had been antagonzcd TO the Republicans
for many years prior 20 the war This antag-
onism was intensified and ucerated by the de-
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