National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-27

and the politicians of your party answered for
"the hammer of the blacksmith" just as the
Southern heart was fired" before the war by
painting the South as the helpless victim of
Federal expressions, so has it been done ever
since 1865 by the orators and newspapers of
your party by the most exnggcratory and in
flammatory TRADES Every act of the Federal
Government has been artfuly misreprcsented
and unscrupulously exaggerated.
The United States courts have been ridiculed,
revilod and denounced. Tho arrest of Illicit
distilcrs has been painted as mighty oppres-
5ion, springing from the unappeasabe hatred
of tho Northern people. You yourself were
represented as urging, in your Huntsville
speech, that by voting for Mr.. Garth the people
would be freed from arrest by United States
marshals, by which you insinuated these ar
rests were wholly veXatious and unauthorized.
In 1874 this State was kept In wild fcrmcnt
by the acts and artiices of your party. You
yourself were not ashamed to become an tin-
Grating orator and political tramp, waving
the Southern bloody shirt" of negro equality.
Negro risngs were improvised in every county
In order to afford colorado proiense for in
timidaton, and to excite and infame the
whites against the negroes. Assassination be-
came n means Of Democratic propagandisn.
Billings, Ivcy, aud others were assassinated by
members of your party for partisan purposes.
Still you boust Of tho freedom of opinion that
exists in the South and Of the protection nc.
corded to the negroes us if your boast was really
founded in fact
Having completely sectionalizcd the South
and embittcrcd her white population against
tie United States by painting it in the odiOus
light of an heartless oppressOr, You very de-
murely charge the Republicans of the North
with sectional hate, aud protest against IL
united North as II sort of outrage. You say
"GentGmon proclaim that they will have
solid North to meet solid South We are
met with this threat continually, aud yet we
have done nothing to soldify the Northern
States that know of
II is right and praiscworthy in your party to
solidify the South; but it is q threat for
Northern men to talk about uniting the North
to repel sectionalism. 1t would be folly in
Northern men, loyal in their feelings, to forget
that the Seccssionists of 1861 and the Southern
Democrats of ISIS are the same men that
they have possessed themselves of the govern
ment of every Southern State. and hope to ac-
quirc control of the Federal Government in
1880. Nor should Northern men forget that
in order to obtain this end your party in the
South will resort to Wholesale intimidation
and fraud.
II is extremely impudcnt in the men lately
in arms against the Union aud who still justify
their rebellion to expect Northern men to ac-
quicsce in their assuming the control of the
Federal Government. For u pitiful and abor-
trated by II squad of constablcs, the English
government banishc1 Smith O'Bricn, John
Mitchell, &c. Did the United States Danish
any of the men who waged war on it for five
years? No! In 1876 john Mitchell returned
to Ireland and was elected tn Parliament, but
he was not Suffered to take his seat because Of
his participation in the abOrtive and ludiCrous
rising in -is I hc Congress of the United States
is filed with persons who bore arms against
the United States for five years and who still
assert they were justified in bearing arms
against it. Notwithstanding these facts, you
and your party constantly paint the United
States rs the Opprcsspr of the south and her
people, aud even make the charge on the
floor of Congress, accompanying it with
the assertion that the South has been solidifed
by the expressions and outragcs of the Federal
Government. The proposition to meet tho
solid South by Il united North is stigmatized
by You rs n threat and rs being sectional.
Sir, fear every movement 10 prevent the old
Secessiouists NOW DemOcrats) from grasping
the reins of Federal power, is looked on by
your party as intensely sectional and vindc-
tive. You seeded in 1861 because the North
crn people had the assurance to elect Mr. Lin
coin President and eXpcl your party from
power.
The whole history of the world shows no
instance of the loyal majority of a people
having abdicated power and put rebels in con-
| troll of the government which they had labored
| to destroy. The very solidity and compactncss
OF the old Secession party is a reason. why loyal
| men should unite to prevent Southern Demo-
| Gratis from getting the Federal Government
| into their hands, and no doubt it Will have
| precisely suCn an effect. As u native born
Southern man regard the asccndency of your
| party In the South as dire cause to the Union
and a clog upon Southern prosperity, for the
| reason that your party Is sectional, ntolerant,
proscriptive, and over-bearing, aud maintains
itself in power by infaming the white people
against the United States.
Whenever you shall make conservative
| speeches at your home cease to inveigh against
the United States rs the cruel opprcssor Of the
| South and boldly deuounce intimidation and
| fraud, may give you credit for wishing TO put
| an end to sectional animositics. Your party
cxcels in political hypocrisy, aud is affecting
moderation on the floor of Congress in order 10
| lull the North into false security and enable
| the old Secessionists to acquire power ;.but the
| home speeches, where no reporter is III hand,
are pitched on II different key.
You are disposed to parade your vote for the
! confirmation of Mr.. Frederick Douglass as Il
| proof of your not being antagOniHed to the
negro, but have heard that you took an ac-
tive part in 1874 i'll abolishing the City Court
of Selma, in order to get rid of Mr. RhoderiC
Thomas, II colored lawyer, that had been
elected judge of that court and was deemed
competent to fill it.
Your rhetorical flourish about your party
having educated the negroes is absolutely
| laughablc. Why, sir, your party has said, and
still says, the negro is not susceptible of being
educated that he is but degree above mon.
key, aud was created TO be the slave of the
white man. | think the school fund which
supports the cOlorcd schools is derived from
the sale of the sixteenth sections of land do
| mated 10y Congress many years past | wei
IccollcGt that in 1866, 1867, 1865, and 1863 botl
men aud women from the North came SOutl
and engaged in teaching negro schools anf
that your party forced them to leave, aud, IL
ia many instances, burned the school.housc
erected by the negroes. Southern men VIII,
taught negro schools were disratrd and pro
| scribcd socially. You may say negro school
were broken up by Ku-KluN and other lawlcs
men, and that your party is, therefore, not re
spomsiblc; but yOu Will pardon me for remind
ing you that every Ku-klux was a rampan
Democrat and that no platform of your part,
condemned Ku.KluX Outages or advncatoC
the education OF the negroes, This Outburs
of gushing " ilap.dOodlc" in your speech act
ually threw me into fit Of hearty laughter.
You say, in regard to the election in th
eighth Alabama district and to Attorney Gen
erll Devens' circular TO Federal officers in tn,
interest Of fair aud honest elections;
The President of the United states and his Cabi
net cJiuuding with large portion OF the k9puh
iGan party In the Northern States in their advO
cacy Of what i called sound money, In which Hd
| NOCupy very many of die southern Democrats hon