Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-28

CONFEDERATE INTENTIONS.
Tho Way In Which They Intend 10 Get
Even With tho North.
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Wy ." "nscn Iney lntend 70 Get
Even With tho North.
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The systematically interruptions efforis
to make the south "solld" for the demOcra.
cy have not regarded that oppressive accom-.
plisbment as an end, but merely "a the
means To an end. 1t was but one step in .
series Of ascending advances toward an nj
timste ohject-the Furnishing of the north
for whipping the south back into the union.
and the reimbursement OF all the peculiarly
losses sustained by the south In the war.
This theory affords Q consistent explanation
OF every act done, and of every threat made,
with political design, In the south, since
the close Of the rebellion. Let US enumer.
ate. then. the various schemes which appear
to make up the democratic programme
]. The repeal of the election laws which
secure the ballot box against the practice
OF wholesale frauds, 80 that corruption and
force may have understandable scope In the
presidential contest of 1880.
2. The choice of a democratic president
next year, with confirmation land enlarge.
ment of democratic power in the house Of
representatives and the senate giving every
department of the government into the
hands Of the bourbon democracy.
3. The nnllification of the constitutional
amendments, either by decisions Of re.
organized supreme court, or else by recon-
sidering and Withdrawing the action of
three-f0urths of the state legislatures.
4. The abolition of the political franchises
now accorded to the colored people in state
constitutions and state laws throughout the
south, and the practical reinstatement of
the race under the operation of degraded
political condition, falsely digni6ed with
the name of freedom.
B. The repayment of the cotton tax, with
interest to date, out Of the public treasury,
or by using the national credit to issue
bonds to be applied to the same purpose.
6. The reimbursement of the former own.
ers for the loss of their slaves by emanci-
patton, for which purpose an accurate and
thorough record Of proofs of title has long
been made for preservation against the day
of fruitiop.
Z. The liquidation, at a,ional cost, of the
great macs of southern claims arising out of
the war.
8. The granting of pension to every
confederate soldier. or to his heirs, who
would have been entitled to pension had
he served, instead, IN the union armies.
8. The assumption Of the rebel war debt
both state and confederate, by the general
government, to be provided for by new
issue Of national bonds, for which purpose
the evidences of the southern Indebtedness
have been carefully preserved.
10. The reorganization and increase OF
the army, go as to place it completely unde.
the control of southern officers, with view
10 efficient use in contemplated emergencies
il. The appropriation Of large sums OF
money for the Mississippi levees, for eouth.
ern harbors, and, generally for internal i'm
provements throughout the south, for the
benefit of that section to the neglect of the
north.
We do not presume to name these pur-
poses in the order Of their intended accom-
plishment; but the circumstances aud threats
Of both past and present, with the move
ments in CESSATION, cast an appearance Of
much probability upon the programme We
have outlined. Every successive develop
ment seems to be tending toward the des-
ignated end. The ayowal that the south
lntebded to "get even" with the north has
long been common among the speakers aud
writer's Of the south. Ben Hill has said 10
Atlanta that the next rebels would be in
the north. he knew that the 6uding of
1.-THE los. cause" and it's rehabilitation un.
der the 9 1is of the national colors, perhaps
then transformed from the 'slars and
stripes" into the 'stars and bars" would be
exceedingly exasperating, and even unin.
durable by the people Of this section. A
reorganized army, under southern control,
would be handy instrument to employ In
quelling any active spirit of discontent.
II even hundredth part of the above
programme be in the designs of the south.
ern democracy, 1t behooves the president
and the republicans in congress to reject
all compromises about legislation on the
election laws, and to stand, with Jackson
ian firmness and patriotism, an unbroken
and unfinching unit of opposition to con-
cesston of any kind. The loyal sentiment
unsnimnity such an attitude of stead dfastness
on the part Of the public servants. Not
the breadth Of hair should be yielded.