National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-12
THE NEW REBELLIoN UNVEILED.

Not long ago the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
startled the credulous North which had be-
fore that placed mistaken confidence in
Southern professions of loyalty, with Il
proposition that the South should be paid
out of the United States Treasury for the
loses incurred in slave property by the eman-
cipaton act That this proposition was
seriously made was demonstrated by the
fact that duly certified lists of the class Of
losses, including enumerative descriptions
of the emancipated slaves, have been made
and filed, to very general extent, among
the county records Of Georgia and other
Southern States. Further proof in this di-
rection has been furnished by Mr.. BLACK
BURNS "wiping out" proposition, as well
as the general tendency of Bourbon legisla-
tion since the Democrats came into power
in Congress. This tendency discloses the
ultimate design of the New Rebellion, rs it
has been appropriately styled, to be the re-
peal OF the reconstruction acts; the restora-
ton of rebels to the pension rolls; the rele-
CATION to the States of the entire control of
the right of suffrage; reorganization of the
Supreme Court by the addition Of new
Judges, for the purpose of procuring judi
cial support of this colossal sedition the
restoration of rebel'deserters to the regular
army, and the payment of Southern claims
generally, as well as OF the claims for slave
property especially
That this is an overdrawn picture or the
unvciling Of the horrors of distorted po-
| litical Imagination is untrue, for the Bour-
bon leaders nre outspoken in their support
of this programme, and have already begun,
| by means of numerous repeal bills, abrOgat-
ing certain sections of the Revised Statutes,
| their efforts to accomplish it. But among
the most striking proofs Of the truth OF
| these assertions is n letter recently written
by Mr. TITIAIAN, of South Carolina, which
outdoes even the Okolona Stdtes in its bla-
tant opposition to your war measures
and from which the following extract Is
made
At the worst hope and believe that our po-
| lilical expressions will cease very shortly after
! tho Inauguration Of the next President. II
| that President he II Democrat it is reasonably
certain that "A majority of both Houses of Con-
|
vatiyes. II so, the reconstruction acts will
speedily be repealed, which would leave suf-
fragc where it constitutionally belongs under
control of the States. Then, admitting the
coerced amendments of the Constitution to be
valid, the States could attach property quail
hcation to suffrage, without violating those
amendments, which would practically destroy
negro suffrage rs disturbing element in the
body polite
Again, after the Democrats get possession OF
the executive and legislative departments, the
present Judges of the Supreme Court, follow
Ing public opinion rs law, in the future as in
the past, and no longer drcading either inn
peachnent or deprivation of salary, may de-
clare the reconstruction acts, as well as tho two
fraudulent amendments unconstitutional
null, and void ;" or if they fail to DO so, the
court can be reOrganized simply by an increase
of judges, even us tho Radicals did on mem
omble occasion, and by making u proper up
pointment of new judges the Constitution oI
the fathers can be restored.