Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-03-20

tention. The second is to circumscribe the
authority OF the President in the employment
Of the srmy-a proposition which signifies the
Confederate untriendliness toward the srmy,
and spitefulness in dealing with the President
and determination to allow no sort OF Nation
al intervention for the protection of the col
oged citizens in the right of suffrage. The
third measure is the repeal of the authorize
tion of the appointment of U. s. Marsbals for
the supervision of the polls ia Congressional
elections.
Each Of these measures is expressive Of
hostility to American Nationality. One
breaihes hatred of the army, for no fault be-
yond its part in restoring the Union and pre-
serving the equal rights Of citizens. The 9TH
er abolishes all Determinations against Con-
fedesates- The third strikes at the last show
of the National power in the preservation of
its own integrity. Concede the demands of
the Democracy as they appear in the amend
ments of the Appropriation Bill, and the New
York repeaters can add three States-New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut-to the
Solid South. The issue is made clear. II is
whether the Southern Confederacy shall,
through violence and fraud, have supreme
control over the United States.
The extra session was systematically
brought about. Ii is the first fruit of the pos
session of both Houses of Congress by the
Democratic party; and the party propose with
this Congress to grasp all the power without
waiting for the slow processes, in accordance
with law and the preservation of order. 1t is
the programme to force the President to sign
the appropriation bills with the Confederate
baggage train on top. He will not do it.
Then be is to be assailed with all the venom
of forty thousand fiends. II they can do the
things already svowed in the outlines of their
policy, there is nothing they can not do.
They can add the Mississippi levee fraud of
fifty millions to the Appropriation Bill; they
can add an order for the issue Of one thousand
million greenbacks to the Appropriation Bill;
they can add to the Appropriation Bill the re-
peal Of the Resumption Act and the distribu
ton of the Treasury Reserve among the
States they can usurp all the functions of the
Executive Department, and if not satisfied
with the Supreme Court, they can add to the
Supreme Court by the addition of ten Su-
preme Judges In . word, the Democratic
policy is to make q majority in the Houses Of
Congress, however small, as competent to
override the President as if the dominant
party had two-thir6s of both Houses; and it
is the determination to proceed upon this
view that has resulted in the extra session,
the blossoming of which we are about to wit
ness.
But people say the Democratic leaders will
be cautious because afraid of losing the Pres
identiai election. The truth is those leaders
are not afraid of anything. In what respect
can public opinion, as it is called. influence the
solidity of the South for the Democracy?
Does that depend upon any code of principles
or measures of public policy? Certainly not
in the least The Southern Confederacy re-
appears as the mud-sill of the Democratic
party. The color line is drawn, and the Con-
stitutional amendments securing the right to
vote to the colored men are nullifed.
This is done through fraud and by murder;
and the rights of the States to do Is they
please with that part of the Constitution
which was the treaty of peace between the
conquering and the conquered States-that is,
the right of the late Confederate States to dis
franchise citizens of the United States, be-
cause they are Republicans boldly pre-
sented and urged as the sacred doctrine. The
prejudice against yellow men in the Pacific
States is being turned to account by the op-
pressors of the black men in the Southern
States, and the Democratic party are in ex-
pectation of being reinforced by the whole
Pacific section, because they can show the
greater sympathy with the Hoodlums, and
the birterest hostility to any practical asser-
ton in this country of the rights of man.
What do they care for so-called public opinion
in this connection
Add to this the Tweed machinery for cast
ing and counting from fifty to sixty thousand
fraudulent votes in the city of New York, and
furnishing repeaters sufficient for the capture
of Connecticut and New Jersey, and we have
a party in possession of the General Govern
ment with no policy beyond that of plunder,
National disintegration and degradation, and
Confederate revenge,-indifferen to conse-
quenccs if their greed is satisfied, independent
of all enlightened public opinion, and inacces-
sible until convulsions come that break up tine
strata Of our political system.-Cin. Com.
THE population of the great cities