New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-01

WautOnness lmpuUeuCe, ] u JOKt,
tered with a wink and grin, in the face of the
worlds Certainly no such false pretence has ever
been put forth by American party. Its falsehood
is written IN letters of blood In every election re-
turn which has in recent years from the States
where the Democrats have seized control OF affairs
HUMIIATING CONFESSION.
| do not wish TO be mistaken. do not mean that
the Republican party is destroyed in all the South
ern States. On the contrary it's vitality is still
something to admire and applaud and it deserves
our most active sympathy and material aid. Even
in the midst of the eppessiOn under which they SUI
fer, the Republicans will make in some regions
gallant fight; they will cast more votes in many
places than they did four years ago and VIII wrest
several seats IN Congress from the bull-dozers IN
or two States they will cast majority OF votes,
but they frankly admit they do not expect them 10
free people to make. but truth compels ~ 10 be
made If 1t were to last forever it would disgrace
all. IL would be as infamous TO us here 10 North
ern Ohio to the States where the wrong IS prac-
tised. But 1t will only disgrace us II we submit 10
it.
think nothing is to be gained just now by at
tempting investigate the origin OF this monstrous
state of things. The evil exists, and the question
is not so mucn how it came about as how II IS TO ne
remedied. 1t is clear that nothing is to be done Dy
Government interference, for very good reasons
In the first place have DO force TO employ our
Over-wOrked and ill-treated little army Is Gil EN-
plOyed on the frontier. and even II II were large
enough TO use for the keeping OF the peace Ia the
South so long as the Democrats have mai orlty III
both houses of Congress 1t VIII De impossiDe even
nose. So the evil must continue for the present
without let or hlndrance. constitutional govern
ment sometimes has such limitations. You cannot
prevent FRAUDS on the suffrage South Caroina YOU
cannot prevent independent candidates from Oelng
shot in the back in Mississippi any more tnan you
can prevent Texas jury from bringing IN Verulcb
of acGuttaI when lively and genial rufhan Kills
Northern man. These evils which can only De
reached aud cured from distance. But our sYs
TEN of government is not absolutely poweriess 70
reach them, even from distance. Inc Dano1 Is
free here if il is not there: Pubic OPINION Is guuu
by private conscience here at least, ana II III
every State in the North the merits or inns
great issue made TO appear plainly, tnere VIII ne
an end of this barbarsm as soop "a the proper con
stitutiOnal processes can be gone through. Many
individual crimes must go forever unwnlpt Oh
Justice and even these misguided communities can
only be punished at last by bringing them out OF
their nsera bic condition of violence and darkness,
and making them share with us in peaceful ana
| orderly government.
TIE REMEDY RESTS WITH THE NORTH.
| So that, finally, the remedy rests with u.s. win
the Republicans of the North. We must and
trust in Heaven we shall. win this one fight in adj
| dition 70 the manv which have gone before It, and
| then perhaps there may he laying OFT of battered
| arnor and period OF rest from partisan strife
| Bur not yet we indulge IN the luxury OF l1diI-
ference or repose If the cause of freedom and ma
! tionalitv for which so many thousands of our
| brethren died worth their blood ana tner
mothers tears, 1t Is worth our serious EFFORTS
If there was any moral obligation resting upon good
| citizens in 1854 10 vote for Lincoln rather IMAM
Mcclellan the same obligation rests upon them
TO vote for Garfield ana nOt lOI tuc ttuNiud'o
! whose party threaten the destruction or I-hcoiS
work A victory this year Will confirm the results
| of twenty years of labor and sacrifice. and we are
| unworthy of our privileges If we fall 10 win H. -,
| When we have won this election. the Work Will
never again be so difficult. The Democrats sometimes
accuse the Republicans of being IN a conspiracy 10
| retain the Government indefinitely. am inclined
TO think there s grain Of truth III the story, ana
can name of toe parties 20 the conspiracy II II
! a conspiracy between the multiplication tanle, the
almanac and the Constitution of the United states;
| Ii Is based the principle that lght VIII
conquer darkness. truth will overcome error Tree
| dom VIII eteruaiy get the better OF slaVeEN lHe
communities winch respect the law viii thrive ana
prosper better than those which habitualy violate IT,
Jhls is the wear IF the the people are being
! numbered there will be results from this enumeTa-
ton which will convince the waytarng man, tnOugh
lie be Democratic Congressman, tnat power IN tns
| country must go bencefOTth with honesty ana JUS
| tice 1t will pass forever away from the haDItatOns
of cruelty and ignorance. The sceDtre Is 20 go 10
the great free States of the Northwest, where, I'M
der bountful skv, a free orderly law abiding pe0-
ple who labor their living aud honor their COD
and their country. are quiety WORKING OUT tne t
| high destiny. The South Will no longer nave the
mower 10 control the fare Of this nation she VIII
hereafter have only the influence which leg 9lti
mately belongs to her, and then, ana only tneh Will
| our politics cease to be sectional.
WHY The SOUTH Is SOLID.
| The South has been made solid by the hope of re-
gaining the control of the Government through the
aid of the Democrats of the North Destroy that
hope this year. and the sodity Of the South cannot
endure in the face of the great social and industrial
changes now going on. Their politicians Will learn
that If they want to take part in the serious WOrk
| Of Goyeruinent they must drop their antlquated
| habits and methods only suited Tor state OF
slavery and join with the enterprlsng ana enllght-
ened people of the North III the pursuit OF reason
! able objects of legislation and administration Ana
the people Will learn that II Is not to their interest
! TO remain forever the tool and the cats paws OF
their proud and poor dcma aogues who have nothing
70 boast of out the slaves they used 70 ron ana thc
commissions they pore IN the Ieoel army hes US
| majority, and section Will prOnt by IL so ulucn
| As fhe south They have great rich, magnihcent
| country. They need law and order ana ciVlnLed
| public opinion 10 insure capital Jus que
| protection and labor lts Just reward linen
the capital will come and the labor VIII stay. me
vast and varied manufactures which they need ana
! can sustain when they have little sense beaten
into them, will like exhalations all over the
land as soon as the outside world Is convinced that
the light to work aud get paid for H. and the rgIt
10 think and not get shot for II, exists tnere a. IL
does here Ii TO me that there eau be no stu
pldtv so dense as not to understand the lessons
when this wears will cry aloud 10 those ms
Guided people Why are the distant wlldernesses OF
Minnesota and Iowa made TO blossom as the rose
under the busy hands Of srOug. honest and thrifty
immigrants while the rich fields of MISSISSIPPI
and Aahama lie barren and deserted under the
bright Southern sun Why Is every brook and rver
this side of the OHIO tOrmented by the ingenious
hands OF skilled labor to contribute what power 1T
NAV have to mechanical enterprises while the
streams of the South gush from their mountains ana
sport down to the IDLE and useless as lne ong-
haired chlvalry who are too proud and too lazy TO
| 30 anything but hunt and nsh ana n@uU along
| their banks II is because capital VIII not
trust itself where law is despised because labor
cannot thrive where II is not honored. No part OF
the country more needs the behetits OF Republican
government than this same bind ana preJudlced
SOUTH The protection offer to their industries
the stability insure to their currency; tile fos-
terlng care we, party, have gwen To aRrcuI-
ture; the great lines of Inter-Oceanlc c0mmunlca-
lion which we have initiated aud carried through
the national support and assistance which 1t has
been our traditional policy 10 give To the improve
meut of rivers and haTbOrs-ail these consideration
must commend Themselves TO the minds Of lntelli-
gent southeTuers when they come to understand
lie Things that belong 10 their peace. lhis they
will begin 10 learn 80 soon as we have beaten down
3 once this corrupt ana corruptlhg DemOcfdtlC
nartv of the North and the next apportiOnmeni
snail have demonstrated the fact that new balance
OF power is revealed IN the Northwest and that the
sectional conflict is ended by the death OF slavery