New-York tribune., 1879-10-04
TIE SnrIn ~ C0YGRESS.

Every intelligent citizen knows, IN generN
way. what The tendencies of the Confederate
majority in CONGRESS are. Their hostility to
all election safeguards and TO all Revenue
laws which tax the South their determine
ton. as expressed in the words of one
of their leaders. TO sweep "evely vcs-
tige of the wsr measures" from the
statute book, and their persistent reasser-
;ion of the State Rights heresios, which
were supposed to have surrendered when
Lee did-these are matters Of current history.
But few know what the record Of the South
IN Congress is in detail, and few indeed viii
be prepared for such n showing Of Che acts
and purposes Of the leaders Of the late rebel
lion as is made on another page. The state
monts set forth there are compiled from official
documents, and carry their own conviction.
They disclose not only what the Rebel Briga-
diers have accomplished, bat also what they plO-
pose--those vast possibilities which seem already
to threaten the credit and prosperity, and even
the life of she country.
More than one hundred bills are pend
ing In Congress, offered almost without
exception by ex-Confederates, which
seek to magnify the South at the ex-
pense of the North, the State at the
expense of the Nation, the eX-Rebel at
the expense OF the exUniOnist. This list
would be q curiosity under any circum-
stances, but it has a solemn interest
for us when we see that these bills are delib-
erately urged by representatives. of the dOmi-
nant party in Congress, who hope to capture
the rest of the Government next year. 1t is
like seeing the label" Be it enacted "-On
the lid of Pandoras box. Bills to enable
cities, towns and villages in the South to repu-
dia,e their debts as the States have done; TO
violate the solemn promise Of the United
States that its bonds shall not be taxed to
make It easy for the State Courts to convict
any revenue officer who may, in the discharge
of his duty, kill or shoot moonshner."
and to make it impossible to convict a
"moonshiner" who may have murdered n
revenue officer to protect timber thieves in
the discharge of their duty, and again to
harass and Obstruct revenue officers in the
discharge of theirs to confer peculiar priyi-
leges upon all offenders against the revenue
laws, and to defeat all prosecutions for such
offences by requiring them to be made upon
indictment-an impossible thing to obtain in
many portions of the South; to scuttle the
Treasury by reducing the revenues, III one way
and another, by $50,000.00O; to let down
the bars that keep out disloyal claimants
these are some Of the purposes of the Con-
federate COngressmen. Some OF these bills
are close OH to their final passage; and all OF
them taken together, present an extraoidi-
nary spectacle. 1t would seem that the whole
South WAS laborng in the interest OF thieves.
and trying, 10y reducing revenues. by nulii-
flying revenue laws, and by opening the door
TO disloyal claims, to fertilize the late Rebel
States with the money which ought to go
into, and stay in, the National Treasury.
No doubt it will be said that we are not
trying tins question this Fall; that We are
not electing Congressman. But we are elect
ing Congressman. Upon the result OF the
coming election will depend very largely the po-
htical complexion of the next Congress, as well
as the Presidency. A Democratic victory III
this State this Fall viii give great encour-
agement to these men. . Let every citizen
read the record and see whether he wants to
trust i'm the hands of ex-RebeS his nights as
"A citizen and his interests as a taxpayer.