National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-14

sponsible piece of mendacity, but in no
other degree can it hold candle to the
original which it attempts TO counterfeit in
its treatment of the Southern question. 1t
complains for the reason that the Govern
ment, when rebellion was crushed, proceeded
to reconstruct itself in its own
way without allowing those who
had just attempted TO pull it down, to
shape the national future under the new
" departure" 1t charges that those who
had always been true TO the Union passed
" the most odious reconstruction laws" en-
" iranchsed the negroes" and DISTINGUISHED
rebels. 1t presents the Republicans for in
Producing Loyal Leagues" among the ne
groes and having taught them TO regard
Democrats rs their worst enemies. 1t then
essays TO reason in feeble, sicSly way, un-
der hypothetical question, "if an inferior
race had existed at the North and predom-
mated, and the Democrats had sworn them
ITO eternal hostility to their employers
the owners of the soil, would there not
"have been trouble? Would the white la
"borers of that section, who have frequently
eyinced violent hostility to negro labor,
and resisted all efforts TO bring negroes
Into competition with themselves have
submitted patiently to such policy?"
| In this the TirgiaidR fabricates case
which has no existence and can have none
anywhere else in this country except where
slavery existed when the rebellion to per-
petuate it ensued, and hence its question is
as silly as its conclusions are groundless.
| The VTqinidn in substance contends that
the minority should rule where the negroes
are in majority though that minority are
known TO be traitors and rebels to the
Union, and the colored citizen who helps to
form the majority has ever been loyal to It,
1t lorliies its weak position by asserting
that, because few Radical negroes were
dsorderly at the first election held at
Lynchburg after the rebellion surrendered,
" the Radical party is justly chargeab!e
4 with all the trouble that has existed be-
tween the races in the South since the
& war, because, to subscrve their own selfish
q ends, they originated the whole train of
causes that produced the collisions be-
tween the races 1t is all their internal
work."
1t is evident that if there had been no
Radicals before and during the war the re-
bellion would have triumphed and the
Union would have been torn in tatters.
Hence, under the wise reasoning of the Vir-
ginidn all the ills of the South that have
followed in the train Of that result are
chargable as their internal work" They
are responsible for saving the Union and
conserving the Republic They are re-
sponsble for the freedom of the slave. They
are responsible for clothing him with the
rights of citizenship. They are responsible
for all " the internal work involved in ac-
complishing these noble ends, and now they
propose to stand by the Union, the freedman
and the newborn citizen until all these are
permanently secured under the Union, the
Constitution, and the flag rs they now
exist, without title Of change Mt the be-
hests of those who have been foiled "in
their internal work of tearing down the
Union and overthrowing the Government
= The issue is raised afresh now by the rebels
y and traitors who are again encouraged to re
peat their former assaults upon the Consti
tuition and laws, and to subvert this Govern
ment. That issue will be met at the thresh
old. The men who saved the Union vii
:, never consent to its peaceful surrender t'
- its sworn enemies, and should history re
" peat itself under the inspiration Of treason
!. the reckoning will be q fearful one to rebel
: and traitors There will be no amnesty T.
such at the close of another struggle.
" POWDER AND SHOT or TREASON.
Il The OkolOna Southern States of last weel
n comes to us reeking with the perspiration o
treason and rebellion, and red-hot in it
o fire eating proclivities toward the Govern
% ment and the Union and those who save
" them from overthrow during the iorme
v rebellion. II furnishes the following:
# POWDER AND SHOT,
i, The Lost Cause is found.
When Congress repcals the election law
> what will your amendments be worth?
& The North never could have captured on
r. capita at Richmond -on the-James if 1t hadn
10 been for the help of the Old World Hcssau
!, who rallied to her flag, aud she knows it.
Messrs. Soft-shells have you read the speec
of Representative Blackburn yet? He say
at and We say. that the last vestige of the wa
q | measures Sntll NC Wlpcu Oul'
The Confederate brigadiers of 1879 hate whatev,
CT was hated by the rebels of lsGl.-thedgO Tribune
III Prccisely-pr -precisely-PREcIsELY Hurrah
Of The idea that traitors should talk of pardon
~ ing patriot The idea that the Radical part,
stepped to its eyebrows in treason, should cha
J" ter of pardoning JEFFERSON DAVIS! 1t
r. enough and more than enough to make I'll
ht bones of WAsIIINGrON and the other secession
II, lists of &c rattle with wrath in their collins.
Va For the first time in eighteen years the Demo
racy Is back in power in both branches Of CongrcS
, we propose to celebrate her return to power
IL wpng from the statute book these degrading res
o. lutions on freemen and by striking away Il
shackes which partisan legislation has impose
IN We do not intend to stop until We have strickC
ho the last vestigc Of your war measures from u
NC statute book.-COngressmd Blackburn, IL TIC HOG
ly on the 3d.
or Yes, Messrs. Radicals-tho last vestige
your war measures will be wiped out, just
NC Representative BLACKBURN predicts, and in
nc as the States has told you, time and time, ~
q time again.
ed CONGRESSMIN GOZZLE.
III Honorable Bum. Relates His Further Exp