National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-25
THE s1.AvE.pNIyEUs WHIP.

THE sLAVE-DRIyERs WHIP.
There are some things that the loyal
people of this Nation will not consent to
and will resist to the bitter end. Prominent
ly among these is anything that aims
blow at the integrity of the Union, or
strikes at the guarantees fthe Constitution.
Then, again, they will not patiently endure
the crack of the slave-drivers whip around
their ears-not that there are any slaves to
drive now in this free country, but, as is
well understood, though slavery has been
abolished, the whip is preserved as me-
meuto of the cflete institution, and the FORM
or slave-owners and drivers delight to use
its lash around those who abhorred slavery
and have aided in the work of wiping IL out
ns an American institution. For many
the echoes of the halls of Congress !;
but the moment that the Democrats
attained power in that body, and the
late rebels had control of the Democratic
party, plantation manners and appliances
were reproduced and brought into exercise.
In the House BLACKBURN seized the old
81 we whip, and its lash came twirling
around the ears of the loyal men in this
wise: 1--WE will not stop until we have
"wiped from the statute book the last ves-
tige of your war measures" The war
measures referred to were the emancipation
of the slave-the clothing him with the
rights of citizenship-the protection Of the
ballot-box from fraud, corruption and out
rage-the preservation of the equal rights OF
all the people of every State in the Union,
and the right on the part of the Govern
ment to use the army of the United States
as posse to enforce its authority when
ever and wherever the laws of the Uni
ted States shall be violated.
! The braggart threat that the late rebels
in arms who have secured seats in Congress
will not stop until all these measures are
rendered nugatory has not been and will
not be brooked by the loyal men of the
Nation. They will not bow before the lin.
gering barbarsms of slavery. They will
not submit peaceably to this wiping-out pol
icy-they will not consent that Republicans
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timidation, violence and murder, out o
their Constitutional rights rs citizens. Th,
relics of the slave-whip cannot be repro
duced now and used upon the American
people by traitors and rebels with impu
nifty. Such insults are to be resented and
punished-not by the sword, unless th'
rebels elect to appeal to the sword again
but by firm and determined resist
ance at the ballot box until Con
gress is purified of these maligr
influences and rebels and traitors are con
signed 10 back seats in the National Gov
ernment. 1t is the crack of the slave-whiI
that has aroused the loyal people to q senst
of the danger that impends in the Nation
and has excited within their bosoms an in
! vincible purpose to rescue the Government
from the hands of barbarism and fror
those who have come to the front wit
} innocent blood OH their hands and clothe
in the rude and insufIerable manners OF tn
plantation. This is the work that the Re
publican party has in hand, and they vii
not stop until the last yestige of power i
the Government is stripped from those VIII
sought to break up the Union and destro
the National life through the agency c
armed rebellion. A halt will not be Gale
until the same States which sent thei
armed representatives to the front to crus
an accursed rebellion are solidifed unde
, the Republican banner, and stand as the
did tllen, in solid phNlanx, in hostility I
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whip.