The Phoenix herald., 1880-08-20
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

tn some facts and figures which arc of vital importance 10 our Nation. and in which every lover of his country, be he Republican or Dem ocrat, cannot fail to have deep in- tercst. Buth branches of Congress are now controlled by the Solid
 South" Of the 293 members of the House, the Democracy have
 155, only 55 from the North; the Republicans have 1s7, only 6 from
 the South. Thus the South, the old Confederat,. enemies of the Re public, are solid against the Nation solid in conspiracy to subvert the constitutional rule of tie ma. jority-to force the loyal masses, as of old, to pay them tribute, to . remunerate the Confcderacy and its leaders for their losses in the rebellion which they foncenfed for the destruction of the nation and it's liberties. They have suppress ed, violently and fraudulently. the Republican vote in all the Southern States. Although in 1876, the Re publicans boiled, even by Confeder- ate count, l,O96.62 votes; although on the colol line alone, 27 Congress sional districts South are Republi- cur. yet only six Republicans are returned from that section to the present Hcuse. Undoubtedly other districts of the Confederacy would, upon a free and fair vote, return Republicans, but merely strike from the Democratic vote in the House, the 2l districts notoriously seized through violence and fraud by the Democracy. and the present House would be Republican by 2l majority. A like result follows in the Senate. Strike from the Dem ocratic vote in that body the 12 usurpcd through violence and fraud -Alabama. ?; Arkansas, ?; Georgia, 2; Lou siana, l; Mississippi, l; North Carolina, 2; South Carolina 2-and the Senate would have Republican majority of l5. Through blood, ;terrorism and fraud, it is Democratic by a majoaity of g. And in the organization of the two Houses, the power thus usurped has been recognized and enlarged. Of the 2s standing committees of the Senate, the Confedcrates have the chairmanship of IT of the most Important, viz: those on I rivileges and Elections, Finance, Appr;r~ria- lions, Commerce, Agriculture, Post offices, and Post Rolds, Indian Al fairs, Pension, Claims, District of Columbia, Territories, Education and Labor. Railroads, Civil Service and Retrenchment, etc And they have not cnly the chairmanship of these important committees, but all the committees of the Senate are so constituted as to give the control of them to the Confederates. In every case the majority of the committee js Democratic, and the majority of that majority is Confederate, which gives the latter a control of the by controlling the major ity. In the House the same rule governs ill the distribution and composition of its committees. o: its standing committees, 42 in mum Der, 22 nf the most important ones have Confederate chairinon; and. as in the Scnlte, all the committees are so constituted as to give the control of them to tiie CoIftderates. As part of the great usurpatiou, the committees on the Ascertain ,nent and Declaration of inc Elcc- ton or President and Vice Presi- l ,ient are in the hands of the Con federal S in both Houses In the Scnat- the committee IS composed If Confederates. Northern Dam- ccrat. and 2 Republicans; in the House it is composed of 7 Demo crats and i Republicans, of the Democrats b9ing CoHfede- ates. Let there Dc no mistake as to the ends and purposes of the oligarchial If they succeed in gain ] ing the Presidency, and in rrtai.ling i t majority ill both Houses of Con ':rcss, woe be to the Nation and i the people. Neither fear, nor mercy, l i.o.. pity, will deier or induce them To modify on= iota their programme of rain. actuated, as they are. by 4n ibeztiuguishable hatrel. a cray ag for revenge upon those who re- listed and defeated their attempts .o destroy the Nation They will -eorganize the United States Su- ,r"me Court. and by decisions of courts thus reconstructed they will