National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-06-16
THE GRoWrn or THE NORTHWEST.
The Census and the Republican Party.


The reapportionment of Congressional repre-.
sentation, based upon the results of the ninth
census aud the three amendments to the Con.
stituton which made a freeman of tho slave.
q citizen of the chattel aud "a whole man Of
three.ffths, gave TO the Southern States OF the
Union twenty-one more votes in the House
of Representative and Electoral College than
they had before-an increase OF political power
which it was hoped would inure to national
benefit and to the personal and political pro.
lection of the ly-entranchised aud loyal
citizens of the South. The Bourbon element
of the South was quick to see and to seize its
advantage. The million of black voters should
still swell their representation, but their votes
should elect no one. With boldness defying
opposition, and even eXtorting q certain kind
of admiration from Northern sycophants war
of political determination was entered upon
and vigorously waged against the Republican
party of the South. And, by st. Paul. the work
went bravely on Iu district after district, aud
State after State, the rifle and shotgun, mid
night assassination and outrage, and daily in
suit and opprobrium did its work.
If Northern men ventured to protest they
were told that the carpet-baggers were vii.
lains and scoundrels, who corruptly seduced
the negroes from their natural allegiance to
their old masters and used them to oppress
the innocent long-suiiering, native white race
of the South. The North believed it and stood
aside. To the Southern Republican we virtu'
ally said 81 cannot help you, for you are
corrupt and despotic. You must snot resist,
for that not only means war, but n war of races.
If you cannot sustain yourself you deserve to
fall"
Betrayed by its Northern friends, the Re-
publican party of the South went down in
hinn1 and ne is pnVarpi hy "a winding
sheet of tissure ballots. The records of Con.
gressional investigating committees, which fill
dozens of ponderous unread volumes, make up
a horrible history of such enOrmity that the
Eastern outrages and lnquisition barbarites
sink into lnsignihCance. 1t is strictly within
the limits of truth to say that moro men have
died by violence in the Southern States since
April, 1865, than in France during the great
revolution of the last century.
At last the South is solid aud order reigns
in Warsaw. Tho races are recOnciled and the
lion and the lamb lie down together. Repub-
liCan South Carolina sends n solid Confederate
delegation to the House of Representatives
and to the Senate the heroes Of Hamburg and
Columbia, while the black "shoestring" dis
triCt of Mississippi returns Forests lieutenant
of Fort Pillow fame, and the blacks of Ala.
bama reject their old lGvOrite, HARRISON, for
another Confederate general The bloody
chasm is closed, but it has closed ON the CORY
cOrpses of thousands Of Southern Republicans
whose distinction of color is lost In the COM
mon red.
Not less than twelve Democratic Senators and
thirty-fye Democratic members Of the House
of Representatives hold their seats as the re-
suit of widespread murder, violence, intimida'
tion, and fraud. This language is not fgura
tive; it is not hyperbole; it is not even eXag'
goration. 1t is simply, strictly, literally true
and by virtue Of this political power granted
Vl.lt nj ~ ttFtss
and stolen with robber clutch from the lawful
owners, the old Confederate leaders sit supreme
in both Houses of Congress and attempt to die
tate terms TO tho Executive AS the price of the
nations life. They are within one Of unre
stricted power. The higl-wator mark of THEN
prosperity is reached, and every hour marks
the reccding tide by tho driftwoOd along the
strand. Blackburn's voice may cry from the
crested wave, "He who dalies Is bastard, and
he who doubts is damned I" But still the wave
will break harmlCssly on the shore and the
| renuent tide bear back its undistnguishablt
fragments into the oblivion of the future
For tho philosophy of nature is more potent
than the vaporings of braggart Monsters,
| said Trstram Burges, cannot pcrpetuate thell
! Species" aud the remark has u moral and po
| litcal rs we'll as physical significance. The
| methods of the South have been destructive
| not progressive They have crushed prosper
| ity within and immigration and repealed capita
from without. The weapons used to unlawful
| ly seize the political power IL has abused vii
| return like tho boomerang, with fatal force
! The tenth census of the United States will
mark such great advance ofthe North mum
bers aud prosperity as TO leave the Solid Soutl
| in q hopeless minority until she too learn
TO win prosperity and power by perfect liberty
and tolerance Joined with equal rights aht
! universal education,
Stoadily the centre of population marche'
westward and keeps north OF the Ohio. II