New-York tribune., 1879-04-21

should enjoy the suffrage. General Wade
HAMPTON was III NewlOrk at the time oi the
Tammany Convention which nominated Sry-
mour and Blair. On his return TO South Car
olina he gave an account in speech nj
Charleston of what he had observed ot the
spirit of the Northern Democrats. lie told
his friends that the leaders declared Their
Greatness to give us 1.-THE rebesI every
ching we could desire, but they begged
Gus to remember that they had great
" iicht to make at the North and therefore
thew wished TO be cautious in the platform
Let the south only help them to gam power
and they would do Their utmost to satisfy II
artcrward. At the Seymour and Blair ratlh-
cation meetings all through the South, the
bittcrest enemies of the Union, the most noto-
rous Of the political plotters who organized
the pro-slayery rebellion, came once more into
public life, and the places of assembly re-
sounded with their curses of "nigcef sur
d" fragc," and their procamationS ol the Whlle
mans revolution. Here is choice extract
from a speech of Robert TOOmbs. at Atlanta
Is there anyman going to accept terms tha' deErale
him and his children forcvcrl what these people can
reconstruction measures are null and void, ana mol
inig,t, his measure that compels yoU 10 dtm me negro
I, t,DcrDCi ot Su rage tcim yourselves General Grant
wants peace let him Join the Democratic party say
by Cod that neither desposm nor tyranny nor MUS
tice meets with peace in TINS world or the next VIC
want no peace IN chains
And the present Senator from Georgia d.
II. Hill, said to an accompaniment OF Wlld
"cheersn:
This shall be forever Union OF equal States or no
Union at all. Men ofprde, men OF character women
thank God-without dissenting voice. and even chill
dren in their plsy grounds proclaimins ON hilltop
and in the valley, that those rhom God made superior
shall nerer be degrddcd
Now let us not forget the meaning of all
this menace and fustian. The threatened re-
volt was rcroH against equal suffrage. The
proposal of Frank Blair to disperse the State
Governments by military force, the pledge
of Robert Toom6s to "resist to the
death = measure which protects the
black man i'll lis right TO vote, the declar-
alton of Ben Hill that the South did not
want and would not have Union which
" degraded those whom Sod made superior
these were plain avowals that the rebel States
would tolerate none but "white mans govern
"ments," would recognize the validity Of no
laws that established any others, and would
never rest till they had overturned the system
of free and impartial suffrage upon which mt
the close Of the war the loyal Union party
reconstructed the shattered Nation. How
rcsolutcy the Democracy have followed up
the purpose they ayoWCd in 1SGS the conn
try well knows. Their signal defeat in the
Presidential contest of that year warned them
that they had been too free in their ayowals;
but if their speeches and public resolutions
were more guarded afterward their policy was
never changed. By degrees negro suffrage
was practically OycrtHrOVn i'm every Southern
State. Ii was not q revolutionary President
who dispersed the Radical governments at
the point of the bayonet; but Hhe-clubs and
buildozcrs and the manipulatoTs of tissue-bal-
lots, supported by an overwhelming public
" sentiment" speedily accomplished the same
result To-day free and impartial suffrage is
at an end in all the States of the late COnied-
cracy. "white mans government has been
rcCstablishcd by the aid Of the shotgun and
pistol, and chose whom God made suUerior0
are at present engaged in the last act of their
revolution, attempting by forcible means TO
change the statutes Of the United States, SO
that their ili-eotten supremacy may never be
endangered 10y the lawful votes of their Re
publican fcliow-ciizcns. Disguise the case
as they may, the Nation pcrccives that this is
the same revolt against impartial suffrage
which was hagrant in 1868, and if we are not
greatly mistaken in the temper OF the Amer
lean people it will be suppressed this time just
as it was before.