Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-25


stitution, and the legislation necessary to give
them effect Who are those who demand to be
made the sole custodians Of the national faith?
A party which. on its dismissal from power in
1861, left the credit of the Government dishon-
ored; which, during the war, flooded the South
with it's Confederate promises, until they BE-
came as plenty as the drifting leaves of autumn,
and as worthless as the waste parchment
signed at Montgomery; which, since the war,
has been engaged in the South in the open work
Of scaling down mn, and repudiatng it's State and
sale; which has w.ged uncessing war
upon the obligations Of the nation; which,
in National Convention and Congress-
has resisted to the last the great measure Of re-
sumptoa-the GROWING achievement of the
worlds history in which = nation has redeemed
it's forced loans on demand, without discount
and in tho money of the world, and under the
influence Of which every PROSTATE industry in
the land is throbbing with new life, and the
whole country entering upon career Of un-
P5eSedented prosperity This ha sold souh to
ity, now demands that II shall be invested
with the sole power Of regulating, collecting
and disbursing the revenues Of the country,
upon which its faith rests, through which
we saved the Government and which,
perverted or abused, would cripple and
or even its own existence. Who are these
Who. to intlame the partisan ignorant, conjure
up the use Of the army as an instrument to
o7erawe State authority, and shout themselves
hoarse over the phantom? It is the party Of
Jefferson Davis, under whose order, as Secre-
tary Of War, in 1856, United States dragons
rode down and dispersed the free-State Legis-
lature Of Kansas. Who are those who prate of
the freedom Of elections and the sanctity of the
ballot? 1t is the party which, by the denial Of
free discussion, by 1awlessness, violence and
assassination, ballot-box stufing and the in
Of armed ruf6ans, has Knocked the sanctiy Of
the ballot. and has made, in the South, the re-
publican form of Government guaranteed by
the constitution by-word and farce
REPUBLICAN RIGHTS AND DEMANDS.
To these demands the Republicans Of New
York make this answer: We love honorable
peace and hate contention; but We put the sr,-
tice and our own equality in the Government
before cowardly peace and craven submission.
We acknowledge the sovereignty of the people
within the rule of the constitution. The war
of the rebellion was fought in vain il it failed
to establish the doctrine that the will of the
majority fairly s expressed shsll be the su
successfully asserted their fidelity to the Union
the Democratic party, will again maintain their
rights to govern, under the constitution, their
own Union, rescued by war from the tolls of
treason, in their own way. As Winter Davis
said at the close of the war: "We
who have laid down our 100000 men under
the soil have ; q right to say
who ehau triumph above it." The
question is DO longer the equality Of the freed
men in the Government, but that Of our own
equality. We will no longer be deluded by
fluent promises and Punic professions We,
too, make our demands, and will exhaust ali
constitutional and legal methods to enforce
them. We will have the equality in the Gov
eminent to which We are entitled under the
constitution, and will not submit to the ex-
cessive power usurped by the South in the sub
version Of law and citizenship We aesertthe
right of the Government to control national
elections, 80 that every man entitled to suffrage
may cast, in peace and security, one free vote
and no more. We demand ono law-justly en-
acted-equally binding upon every citizen of
the land, to be respected and obeyed alike by
all, and, when all other means fail, to be en-.
forced by the strong arm which subdued tho
rebellion. We make no secret Of our partialitv
for the regulated bayonet In the hands Of men
wearing the blue of the Government as against
the shotgun in the hands OF the red-shirted
of the South. We demand that this
land
She that lifts up the manhood of the DOOR,
She of the open soul and open door,
With room about her hearth for all mankind
shall be made the land Of supreme, ,onstitu-
tlopal liberty, as Interchangeable as the stars
symbolized upon her banner. We demand
that the faith Of this nation to its creditors shall
be maintained upon the basis upon which We
placed 1t in the hour Of it's peril, and have
steadily upheld it through weary years Of pri-
Va fiOna