Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-07

AHces. In this they will fail la
They are doomed to q
rebuke.
The fact IL that the Republican
party to-dsy presents the aspect of
} threatening aud imminent dam
fer to the whole people Of the
United States. Should its power
be perpetuated, considering Its Pc
culiar methods, it would sit for
ever, like an incubus, upon
the breast of what would then
be- but a Republic in name.
1t would be impossible ever
to shake 1t off, short Of revolution,
If 1t is not overthrown next No
vember. 1t would set up q perpet-
ual plea that its continuance in
power was necessary to the welfare
of the nation. The necessity
which led to the unlawful meth
DDS Of 1875, and TO this tentative
and artificial cry of danger and
crisis In 1850, would increase every
four years. Should the people fail
to rebuke the startling, sensational
and conspicuous infamy of 1876 in
1880, 1t would be formal procla-
nation that the Republican lead.
ers can hereafter do as they please,
with no fear OF after consequences
to make them afraid.
Against this real, existing incu-
bus, which presses the country to
the death throes, We have several
bug-bears set up as feature of a
return of the Democratic party to
power. We are told that if the
party, which has made the coun-
try what it is, and whose tempo.
rary division into two fragments
enabled the Republicans, while
nominally freeing the blacks, TO
snslave whites and blacks alike, re-
turns to power, the rebel debt and
the cotton and other claims will be
paid. This is a phase of partizan
faulty which presents all the as
poets of downright idiotcy. 1t Ia
worse than lunacy, which is often
but temporary in its effects; 1t is
outright, gibbering inanity. One
Of the amendments to the Consti-
tuition OF the United States explic.
lily provides that, under no cir.
cumstances, shall a single obliga.
ton founded upon the war against
the Union ever be recognized. To
admit of the assumption of any Of
this Indebtedness, contracted by
the Confederate States during Its
brief existence, or of any cotton OIL
other claims, except those held by
loyal citizens of the United States,
this Constitutional amendment
would have TO be repealed. To eff.
feet its repeal three .fourths Of the
States would have to vote in the
affirmative. Thus, in an instant
by mere recital of the facts, II
this thin, ghostly and unsubstan
tial bug-bear, disposed of.
But the fact is that the South
era people have never for an in
slant breathed hope OF fastening
any claim upon the government O
the United States. They have &C
cepted the situation with resigna
ten which has never been neral
leled in the history of any othel
race. They threw for d great stake
lost and submitted to the inevita.
BILE with manly and uncomplain.
ing patriotism which has redeemed
their original error. They have or
dered all their affairs on the new
basis with spontaniety, complete.
ness and public spirit which ought
to shame forever into silence The
prosecutors, pseudo patriots, who
have prodded and gibed them un
til manly spirits in the North hav,
become outraged at the cowardly
and atrocious programme. The
South, like Cesar, wrapped it,
cloak around it, and accepted it,
fate without a murmur. Tht
South, unlike Cesar, has gone
through the process of resurrec'
ton. All it asks now is for re.
established Union, and the right &c
reconstruct its own prosperity, &C.
cepting, with cheerful alacrity. the
heavy handicap under which il
starts out. And the American PEG.
pie, in the triumphant election o.
Hancock, will tender this much
su Hering section an olive branch
which will invite TO q cordial res
toratlon Of the "brave days of DID,
with carpet.baggism, Returning
Boards, bayonet rule and packed
juries drear and CHASTITY tradition
of the past, never to be revived ant
to be forgotten, If possible.
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