Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-23
1W HAVEN, CONN. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER
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Tuesday Morning, Nov. 9s. 1880.
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| LICAN PARTY.
 The leading article in the December num- I Der of the North American Reoieao by Hon. 1 George S. Boutwell,, will attract general at tention. In it Mir. Boutwell, points out clear ly and forcibly what he considers some of the
 duties of the victorious Republicans. One
 of these duties is to perfect the tariff system
 To this system, or any system of protection, the South-that is, the dominant party in the South-is opposed upon two grounds. First,
 the ancient doctrine of State rights is deni-
 al to the general government of any power
 under the Constitution to promote industry,
 encourage development, or stimulate pros-
 perity in the States. Second, the advanced
 industries of the country are in the North,
 and to the ancient sectional hostility existing
 in the South is added the bitter recollection
 of the recent contest and its disastrous re- suits. The prosperity of the North, its rap idly increasing numbers, it's wealth augment ing beyond the dreams of avarice, are but so many evidences to them of northern great ness and of southern inferiority. It is not enough, then, says MT. Boutwell,, to perfect the system of protection. for as long as the South remains solid this system will be men, aced by uplifted, hostile hands. We must, therefore, break up the solid South.
 Whatever is undertaken in this direction MT. Boutwell, thinks should be party meas ure, and there should be no talk of policy of concession, of compromise, of concilia- tion. "The South respects power and it re- spects those who possess power and exhibit courage We demand a full, free vote and an honest count. Upon this demand is the issue, and the duty resting upon the Repubi- can party is to extort from the Constitution every legitimate power for the enforcement of this demand.
 The southern ballot question, Mir. Bout well argues, should be taken in hand by Con- gress. Each House of Congress is the judge of the election of it's own members, and 8 practicable and not unlikely a sufficient rem edy for the outrages upon the ballot box in the South may be found in the consistent, speedy and resolute rejection of claimants to seats whose record is tainted with fraud or stained with crime ''Whenever," says MT. Boutwell,, ''it is understood that no person can be admitted to a seat in the Senate House unless the record of his election is clear, the character of the canvasses in the Gulf States will undergo change. It is too much to anticipate free vote and an honest count at once, but new methods would be substituted for the existing ones, and the change could not be for the worse."
 MT. Boutwell, would also have new laws passed for the supervision and protection of the ballots in the elections of members of the House of Representatives and Presiden- tial electors. He would have bayonets at the polls if necessary. Upon this point he for cibly says: ''The bayonet is not the best in- strument for collecting ballots, it may not be even proper instrument; but when the case arises, and the case has arisen in nearly half of the States of the Union, that the bayonet must be employed to protect the ballot or republican institutions must disap- pear, there ought to be no hesitancy in using the bayonet to protect the ballot. With the ballot free we can control the bayonet, but when the ballot is suppressed the bayonet is supreme" He would have the United States Republican form of government, in accord ance with section of Article ". of the Constitution, which provides that stthe Uni ted States shall guarantee to every State in this Union republican form of government, and shall protect each of them from inva- sion" And he would not have grants made for internal improvements in any Southern State where the equality of all men before the law is not a living practical fact.