Daily Republican., 1879-05-30
last Saturday,
Issues 10 be NJ ct.

Republicans Will make ahy euort to|
avoid the issue which they have made
u tie nse'ves, they will be very much
mist ken; aud in accepting it they do
not intend to mince matters in the
least, but will meet them fairly and
squarely. There is no need to handy |
worls when the Southern Democracy |
demand the abdicstion Of Federal SOW
ereignty and the concession Of absolute
control to the States. The Democrats
complain OF the hardships of the Eede-
erll election laws, and say that there
were no such things needed until the
Republicans came into power. This
may or may not be true; but admitting
it to be true, We wouli ask whose fault
is itl 1t was they who made mill
tary interference necessary by their re-
bellion. By their cruel treatment of
their former slaves they made negro
suffrage necessity as the negroes only
We. pom of defence; but after this right
wa' conferred upon them, the South un
derSook hy violence and intimidation to
deprive them of it. 1t was necessary,
in orler for the freedmen to exercise
the rights Of citizens, and to be pro
tected in doing so, that these laws
should have been enacted but there
is not siRg'e controversy that was
supposed by every one to have been
settl ID by the long bloody war through
which the nation passed, but has been
reopened by the first appearance of a
Democratic Congress, and every aggres.
sion has been on the side Of those who
were rebels during the war, and who
nov are in lebtel to the Republican
parry for the rights which they enjoy.
Every threat against the government,
every violent demonstration, all the
bullying and the boodshed, have had
the OIL in IN the SOuta, while the
Nor l. h rs always been either a passive
special r or a victim of their violence,
and vhatevec If hardships they have
sutfere they brought upon themselves.
The history of nations furnishes nopar-
allel for the kin treatment the rebels
have received from the Northern peo-
Pile. As proof of this it is but neces-
sary to i0ok in upon thA present Con-
gres and see the majority compos d Of
those WHO were the leaders of tie arm
ed forces tLat wee trying to destroy
the natiol. Tney ara the controlling
el5ment, and Will they and their
more than cowardiy allies OF the
Moth cry out agai 1T h alleged cruel
ty and in justice of rev,ving the past,
they revive it themselv S. If it is the
old fgh they have Lems4lves to blame
for i, f r when the Sou hcin Democra
cy erie quits the North forgave all
and would have forgotten all had tke
south aliowed them to do so. The Re
publican party though by its leniency it
has allowed ,e Southern rebels to gain
possession of Congress, can look back
over its past record without blush of
shame, anl while it points to its
achievements of the past, it might as
we be fully understood that it will
not lit Gown supinely with fOlhed arms
an see its oil atversaries come up to
Couare:S with W WhOlesale denunciation
of the work t did, in suppress NJ chem
while they were in rebellion anl in the
demsn they now make that the legiS
1t on Of that party shall! b: swept from
ou ,atute b ols,
1t might $ well be fully un lerstooi
as not that the Republican party will
not shri from any inquiry into its
mari s, Hut woul ratl4~r court the most
strin, It inquiry. /. matters not
that the Democratic party com.s chars-
ing dom upon the Rrtubli;aus with
the accusa ion that in the suppression
of i'emocr tic rebellion and the main
ten nee Of t Union, the rights OF the
State have be trauplei down, the
Co ,sttution been violated, and the
freedom Of the elections endangered if
not entirely destroyed. And they say,
too, hat the Republicans have perpe
trate |, reat wrong and injustice il
their i,rts to revent frauds upon the
ballot bCx. They have made all these
charges vita POINTS in the contest, an
they take fast hol upon the past As
well as reacA forward away into the
future. The volve an appeal to his
tory, an the re rscitation OF bygones
tn t will no. be pyo table to those who
hive force | them on, but the Democra
cy having chosen their weapons, and
their owl grounds Of de'ence, the Ee-
publican will meet them fully and
frankly at every point Of the controver-
sy. The shaking Of the bloody garment
is no work of the Republ cans this
time.