Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-26

nance depend, upon public Judgment not
then taken,
Ami tr-t. aiiitmatiy,lv. our only hope is
in the organized action If the Republican
party Nothing can be expected of the Dem
ocrstic party. lis strength il in the South.
The Democratic party of the South is under
the control of the military organizations that
are engaged in the crimes against the negro
and against the country of which we now
complain.
Secondly Every declaration of purposes
made by the Republican party should be clear
and distinct to the point that if again entrust-
ed with the administration Of affairs every
constitutional power shall be applied and cx-
haustcd for the protection of citizens in all
their rights in every State of the Union.
Next. Confidence can he safely rcposed on
~ in men whose lives and services give full
assurance of their fidelity to the principles at
issue in this contest.
The REMEDIES
With power in the hands of men who are
determined to redress these wrongs, there are
two efficient constitutional remedies at our
command.
First. No man should be admitted to
seat in either House of Congress, or allowed
compensation in contest for II seat, whose
election j. cloudel nv any informalitv or
wrong doing designed to obstruct or to defeat
the fall anG free expression Of the will of the
people.
The persistent, continued exclusion from
Congress of mcr elected by intimidation ard
fraud would soon give us honest elections. or
end in Che non representation of the districts
and States in which intimidation ana fraud
have gained the mastery.
But if these means Should fail which in
deed do not anticipate. we have only to call
into action 4 power that has been resting in
the Constitution from the first, power alto
gethcr adequate to this and every similar
emergency
BY the eth section of the 4th article, it is
provided that the United States shall guar
antee to every State in this Union Rcpubi
can form of government
When secret. organized and armed bands
Of men take absolute possession of State,
and dispossCss the majority of all their
rights as citizens Of the State and Of the Uni
ted States. there can be no pretence that that
State i. in the enjoyment of Republican
form of government. And then. unqucstion-
ably. the time has come when it is the duty
of the United States to redeem its guaranty.
This is n harsh and unwelcome remedy,
but ii is the remedy which the Constitution
has provided for the gravest eXigoncy in
which a free people can be placed. and as
constitutional remedy we should not shrink
from its use when the eXigcncy demands it.
Ii the great State of New York should es-
tablish an hereditary government and give
the leadership thereof to one of its most dis
tinguished sons and to his descendants forev-
or. no one would doubt the power of the Uni
ted States or question its duty, to interpose
and save even the smallest minority Of the
people from the burden of monarchical or
aIistocratic rule.
| take pleasure in asserting publicly and
for the second time the existence of this great
power, for fnresee that in the affairs of the
country its exercise may be needed and when
that time arrives, an opinion, however insig-
niticant as an authority. may be welcomed by
those who shall invoke the Constitution of the
United States as a means of saving State
from anarchy on the one hand and hereditary
rule on the other.
My friends, you are summoned now to
work of charity,-present, urgent need de-
mands your aid. What your means are, and
what your duty is, YOU can best judge. My
words, finally, arc,--The helpless men.
women and children who implore your chart
ity. are the victims of n great crime.
1t is not enough that you aid the victims,
you must rebuke the criminals and render a
repetition of the crimes impossible.
Mr.. Blaine might be defined as the Senate
rial Gattling gun. When he got through a
half-hour debate yesterday, there were eight
democratic corpses on the Senate floor
V,.iIuus 9th