New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-05
.0yERAWED AND INTIuIDATED"


"OVERAWED 1ND INTINIDATED."
Verify the Democracy are having hard
time of it. The latest complaint is that OF Mr.
Blackburn, Of Kentucky, who, in his speech
on Thursday, charged that Secretary Eyarts
had come into the House on the preyi-
Gus Saturday to listen to Mr.. GariielFs
speech, and, "by bis presence and
approval, mtimidatc, Overawc, and brow
beat the American Congress" 1t was in
this speech that the eloquent Kentucky orator
proposed to celebrate the return of the Demo-
cratic party to power by "wiping from the stat
"utc-book the degrading restrictions upon free
"mcn," placed there by Republicans. We
d" do not intend" he says, " to stop until We
have stricken the last yestge Of your war
"mcasures from the Statutc-books." There
could he no surrender, he sad except
nv Their "giyiug proof to the world thai
"tIrv are cravens and towards, and lack
"thc courage of their own conyctions.'
He also delivered the gage Of battlc,' and
told his opponents they could take il mp when
ihey pleased. In conclusion be said he could
not be cocrccd by threats or inundated by
,he party in power, ana closed with quota
ton that has MOI been heard IN Congress
since some similarly gifted Southern states
man-the late Mr.. KCltt, Of South Carolina,
we believc-thrcw down the gage of battle
and went ont remarkiug, He who dallies is
"a bastard; he who doubt3 is damned
1t seems to be fayoute quotation,
and illustrates a fayOlte liue Of ar
eument. The speech, taken as a whole, is
what may bc called warm. 1t is full of cages
of battle and carries a smell Of sulphur.
And we confess that the complaint, in
the midst of all this blood and tlun-
der. that Secretary Eyarts had iutmi-
dated and oyerawcd and hr0wbeaten these
men who were ainglng down cages Of battle
and calling everybody who daicd bastard.
while they damned everybody who doubted,
lust by going in among them, rather sur
prIscd us.
But they are singularly sensitive lot Of
people. They want to repeal all the leg
islltIon Of the past eighteen years, but
if anybody says anything about the cir
cumstances tat made that legislation neccs-
sary, they feel hurt. and say, "Oh. don't
"make such illusions; you really revive the
"animosIties of the WARP And then the
other day in the Senate, afler Nj.
Salisbury had INDUCED in his little
Joke at the expense Of the minority,
and the limber-tongued Bocl, had announced
that the Democratic caucus would arrange the
order of business; because Senator Anthony
made playful aIlusion TO the altered
position of affairs, they felt insulted
and adjourned Indignantly. And for
being "overawed y they never had
their equals. Down in Louisiana, when they
had White Leagues and armed bands OF
roucl-riders, who made a business of beating,
buIldozng, shooting and killing poli-
zeal opponents, they protested against
the presence Of few United States
troops in the State because they
overawed them and put their liberties in dan
ger. IN South Caroins, where they went to the
polls in squads with rifles, shooting negroes
on the way for amusement, and stufiing the
boxes with tissue ballots after they arrived, they
could not bear the presence of United States
marshal or supervisor Of elections. because the
effect was to Oycrawe and intmidate them.
so whenever Il marshal or supervisor an.
peare1. they took him by tho scrIif Of the
neck md seat of the trousers and fired mm
into tho street, and then if he did not 20
away they shot him. Very sensitive people.
all of them Can't bear anything like
intimidation Whole regiments of them.
sooner than be oyerawcd by colored man,
will assemble at the dad Of night and drag
the colored man out into a swamp aud shoot
lin.
Right here in Ncw-York We find the same
feeling. There's the same dread of being
overawcd in this city that prevails in the
party elsewhere. 1t is principally because
John /. Davenport has intimidated, OvcTawed
and browbcaten some $4,000 Democrats in
this city that the repeal of the election
laws has been so stoutly insisted on by thu
champion of the oyerawcd, Nh. Fernando
Wood There are many election districts in
this city in which the Democratic ticket is
about the only one in circulation. and is voted
with frequency and freedom. where the
voters will not tolerate the presence Of
supervisor because Of his Overawing
effect upon the citizen. great many
Of those who in 1868 voted the Democratic
ticket freely and frequently. have complained
bitterly that during the past few years they
have been so overawed by John |. Davenport
that much Of their influence has been de-
strOyed. Ii is to restore 10 these valued and
influential citizens the prestige and power