Louisiana capitolian., 1880-08-28
on TO R1oHKo1Dl
"Ifwe Cannot Vote You DorM, ,re
Shall Have 10 NkO0f You Dom. y
THE KEY NOTE OF THE GARFIELD CAM.
PAIGN.

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pie who might be inclined to believe
that the election Of Garfield is Of lit
tic consequence to the South, since
her State governments are under the
control Of the Democratic party, we
reproduce q few paragraphs which We
culled from tho Sun Francisco City
Argus, showing the spirit that AMI
mates the Radical hosts that are sup.
porting Garfield and Arthur:
Now you have the frank avowal
that these men, tyrants in heart,
blood, brain, hereditary slave holders,
despiscrs Of all justice and equality,
have set themselves up to rule one
half Of this free country. They are
going to roll it back to the palmy days
Of "Home Rule" State Rights, and
bonds and stripes for the colored citi-
zen, and in the name Of the free North,
Of tho Great Republic Of tho enianci-
pated and franchised slave, and Of
every free American citizen, We pro-
test against it. We say itshall never
be. Come veal, come woe, come war
or peace, come what will, this inta.
nous scheme shall not succeed.
And it must come to That ut last.
Either we must have freedom through
out the land, and for all the inhabi-
tants thereof, or these hereditary
slave-drivers must take the country.
The South must give up this chimer,l
of maintaining kingdom Of Dahomy
in Dixie. 1t must throw down the
fence, admit the Northern newspaper,
stnmp-speakcr and lecturer, accept
the decisions Of IN honest ballot-box
and progress with the balance Of the
nation. II it will not, the bayonet and
the swamp-angels must again open
its ears to reason, and clean out the
last remnant Of slavery, secession,
bulldozing and kukluxism. There is
no room in the United States for any
but freemen, who accept the Consti-
tuition of the whole country, with lib
crty Of speech and ballot for all.
This is the true issue Of this elec.
ton. Shall VIC have II whole country,
in which the Constitution is respected
and every citizen free in every part,
or sllal! men who were born and etlu-
Gated slave.masters dictate in the
fairest portion Of III For our part,
We have but one answer for these in
solont traitors, "If We cannot vote
you down, we shall shoot you
down. This country must be free.
Garfield, in his recent tour through
New Jersey, has sounded the key
note of the campaign, in exact accor-
dance with the sentiments expressed
by the Argus.
| Southern mon cannot, If they would
be true to those honorable instincts
which animated them on the battle
fields immortalized by their knightly
valor accept the base insults Of the
cowardly Radical partizans whose
breasts are yet filled with hate to-
wards everything that is Southern.
Tho rain inflicted upon the South
by the torch and the rife and tht
Wholesale plunder to which the cotn'
try was subjected during the reign O
the vulturcs who came among us un'
der the shadow Of Slieridan's bay0
nets, have not yet satiated tho Gar
fields of the North.
There can bc no compromise will
a party whose policy lisa disgrace t.
humanity and civilization, and we fee
that the patriotic SONS Of the South
by their unanimous votes, will show
General Hancock and the gener0u'
| Northerncrs whose banners arc en-
twincd with tho olive branch o
peace, that they arc ready to take then
by the hand as brethren and co.opc
rate with them in establishing Unio1
Of co-equal States, striving alike 70
its greatness and com mon prosperity
The Brownsville, Texas, Cosmopol