Daily Republican., 1879-09-05
VINO AsPyaE TO RUI.E.
Extract from Vice President
wheeler 1t tho New York Repub :
lican Convention, September 3d.,
1879.


craftsmanship and patriotism shall
shape and control the destinies Of this
Nation In the knowledge Of every
man Of ordinary intelligence In the LAND, !,
they are q minority Of the legal voters
Of the United States, making up in
force what they lack in numbers, sup
pressing by fraud and oppression the
vote Of the emancipated citizens Of the
South; standing always across the path
way Of the progress Of the Masses; de.
spisipg the rule Of the majority; educa-
ted to despotism and violence, and i'm
PEELED by one controlling purpose born
Of their barbaric institution-to rule
their section in their own way.
They are = party led and dominated
by those whose violated constitutional
oaths and forsworn allegiance to the
Government are the only testimonials OF
their fidelity to the Union, and whose
contempt for the Government and law
defying spirit are shown by the ne
glect Of their entire domains, to bring
TO justice even one of the numerous
foul assassins of United States officials,
guilty only Of attempting to discharge
their duty in executing the laws Of the
United States--a rarty whose leaders
launched the spurious Confederacy,
with negro slavery as its cornerstone,
and which was buried in the abysmal
depths Of that outgrowth of treason
but which resurrected by the bene6-
cencs Of the Government rewarded its
olemency by resisting at every step tae
work of reconstruction, the amend
ments to the constitution and the legis.
lation necessary to give them effect.
Who are those who demand to be made
the sole custodians Of the National
faith u
A party which on its demise from
power in 1861, left the credit Of the
Government dishonored; which, during
the war, flooded the South with its
Confederate promises until they became
as plenty as the drifting leaves OF Au-
tumn, and as worthless as the wasted
parchment signed at Montgomery;which
since the war has been engaged in the
South in the open work Of scaling down
and repudiating its State and munici.
pal obligations by the wholesale; which
has waged unceasing war upon the OBJ
legations of the Nation: which, in Ma
tional Convention and Congress, has
resisted to the last the great measure
of resumption-the browning achieve
ment of the Republican party, and the
first instance in the worlds history in
which nation has redeemed its forced
loans on demand without discount and
in the 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 entef-
ing upon a career Of unprecedented
This Solid South, to whom our sbli-
cations irritating token of their subju-
CATION to the National authority, now
demands that it shall be invested with
the sole power of regulating, collecting
and disbursing the revenues OF the
upon which its faith rests,
which we saved the Govern
ment, and which, perverted or abused,
would cripple and destroy its ability to
maintain resumption or even its own
existence. Who are these who, to in.
lame the partisan ignorant, conjure up
the use of the Army as an instrument
TO overawe State authority, and shout
hoarse over the phantom? 1t
Is the party Of Jefferson Davis, under
whose order, as Secretary of War, in
1856, United States dragons rode down
and dispersed the Free State Legisla-
ture Of Kansas. Who are these who
prate of the freedom Of elections and the
sanctity of the ballot? 1t is the party
which, by denial Of free discussion, by
law lessness, violence and assassina.
tions, ballot-box stufting and the inva-
sion of meetings and polling places by
bands of armed rutiians, has mocked
the sanctity of the ballot, and has made,
in the South, the republican form OF
guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition by word and farce.
To these demands the Republicans of
New York make this answer: We
love honorable peace and hate con.
Lention. But We pat the supremacy
Of .he Constitution and the law, justice
and our own equality in the Govern
nent, before cowardly peace and craven
III omission. We acknowledge the
,overeignty of the people within the
.ule of the Constitution. The war of
he rebellion was fought in vain if it
allied to establish the doctrine that the
will of the majority, fairly expressed,
hall be the supreme law of the land.
We, too, make our demands, and
will exhaust all Constitutional and
egal methods to enforce them. We
will have the equality in the Govern
nent to which we are entitled under
he Constitution, and will not submit
o the excessive power usurped ty the
south in the subversion of law and