The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-04-18
THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.
[Chicago Tribune

The systematically inscriptions efforts to
make the South "solid" for the Democracy
have not regarded that oppressive accom-
plishment IS an end, but merely as the
means to an end. 1t was but one step in a
series OF ascending advances toward an ul-
innate object-the furnishing Of the North
for whipping the South back into the Union,
and the reimbursement of all the pecuniary
losses sustained by the South in the war.
This theory affords q consistent explanation
Of every act done, and Of every threat made,
with political design, in the South, since the
then, the various schemes which appear to
make up the Democratic programme:
1. The repeal Of the election laws which
secure the ball0t.b0X against the practice of
wholesale frauds, SO that corruption and
force may have understandable scope in the
Presidential contest Of 1850.
2. The choice of Democratic President
ment Of Democratic power in the House of
Representatives and the Senate, giving
every department of the Government into
the hands of the Bourbon Democracy.
3. The notification of the constitutional
amendments, either by decisions of reor-
ganized Supreme Court, or else by recon-
sidering and Withdrawing the action of
three, fourths Of the State legislatures;
now accorded to the colored people in State
constitutions and State laws throughout the
South, and the practical reinstatement of
the race under the operation of degraded
political condition, falsely dignified with the
name Of freedom.
.. The repayment of the cotton tax, with
interest to date, out Of the public treasury,
or by using the National credit to issue
bonds to be applied to the same purpose.
6. The reimbursement of the former own
ers for the loss Of their slaves by emancipa.
ton, for which purpose an accurate and
thorough record of proofs of title has long
been made for preservation against the day
of fruition.
great mass OF Southern claims arising out of
the war.
8. The granting of pension to every Con-
federate soldier, or to his heirs, who would
have been entitled to q pension had he
served, instead, in the Union armies.
8. The assumption Of the rebel war debt,
both State and Confederate, by the General
Government, to be provided for by new
issue Of national bonds, for which purposes
the evidences of the Southern Indebtedness
have been carefully preserved.
10. The reorganization and increase of the
army, SO as to place 1t completely under the
control of Southern officers, with a view to
efficient use in contemplated emergencies.
IL. The appropriation of large sums of
IHOucy lOI luC miSSlSStppl lcteeS, IOI SOutn.
ern harbOrs, and, generally for internal i'm.
prOVements throughout the South, for the
benefit OF that section to the neglect of the
North.
We do not presume to name these pur.
poses in the order of their intended accom-.
plithment; but the circumstances and the
threats Of both past and present, with the
movements in CESSATION, cast an appearance
of much probability upon the programme
we have outlined. Every successive devel-
ment seems to be tending toward the des.
ignated end. The svowal that the South
intended to "get even " with the North has
long been common among the speakers and
writers of the South. Ben Hill has said in
Atlanta that the next rebels would be in the
North. He knew that the finding of "the
lost cause, !" and its rehabilitation under the
9Sis Of the national cOlors, perhaps then
transformed from the "stars and stripes"
into the " stars and bars" would be exceed
iDSly exasperating, and even uncomfortable
by the people of this section. A reorgan.
ized army, under Southern control, would
be handy instrument to employ in quelling
any active spirit of discomfort.
II even a hundredth part Of the above
be in the designs of the South.
ern Democracy, 1t behooves the President
and the Republicans in Congress to reject
all compromises about legislation on the
election laws, and to stand, with Jackson.
ian frmness and patriotism, an unbroken
and unfiinching unit of opposition to con.
cession of any kind. The loyal sentiment of
the country will support with jealous unan-
unity such an attitude of steadfastness on
the part of the public servants. Not the
breadth Of hair should be yielded.