Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02

telling his audience at Portsmouth, Vir-
ginia, that " if they desired that the Con-
"federate heroes should not have died in
"vain, they must vote the Demo
"cratic ticket and vindicate the principles
g for which they sacrificed their lives"
Thus We find Blackburn of Kentucky
saying, "The South is solid, thank God
She was solid for JEFF Davis in 1860, and
she will be solid for Hancock in 1880"
Thus we find the same Blackburn declar-
ing in his place in Congress that it was the
purpose of his party to sweep every YES
tige of the war legislation from the
''statute books" Thus we find an Ar
kansas editor publishing the stars and
bars in his paper at the head of an
account of Democratic procession, and
Democratic mobs, one at Fort Wayne,
Ind, and another at Georgetown, D. c.,
boldly hosting the same flag, and rejoicing
over its Haunting. All these and number
less other incidents of the same character
render it impossible to evade the conclu-
sion that the solid South means revival
of the old issues, and that the triumph Of
the party that relies on the solid South
would be calamitous and disgraceful.
And with these indisputable evidences of
the survival of the old sectional spirit at the
South come other and not less serious ap-
prehensions. For there is in truth no
ground whatever for confidence in either
Northern or Southern Democratic modera-
ton or honesty. The South is made and
kept solid by force and fraud, and the
Northern Democracy accepts and indorses
these methods, and builds its hopes upon
them. 1t would be silly to believe that a
party thus VIGOROUSLY endeavoring to So
cure the control of the Government by ille-
gal and lawless methods, can be trusted to
keep any pledge it may make, should it
succeed. 1t has declared that it accepts
the constitutional amendments. That is in
it's platform, but every schoolboy knows
that the amendments are being nullified in
fact all over the South. 1t has alleged that
it will not sanction Southern claims. This
General Hancock puts his hand to, and as
if to emphasize the untrustworthiness of
the assurance, the Alabama Democrats,
fresh from stufing the ballot boxes, SOL
EMMY approve his letter, and declare
that they are pledged to this-along
with profound regard for the free
dom of the franchise. Can any
thing demonstrate the utter insincer-
ity of the Democracy more clearly? Nor
is this all the proof we have of their du-
plicity. They have already introduced a
bill into Congress to increase the number
of Judges in the Supreme Court by twelve.
These new Judges are to be appointed by
the President, by and with the advice Of
the Senate. 1t is intended that they
should be taken from the South. With
twelve Southern Judges in the Supreme
Court nothing would be easier than the
notification of the Constitutional Amend
ments, and that effected the door would
be thrown wide open for the admission of
the Southern claims which to the amount
of fifteen hundred millions are already
prepared and IN the hands of Washington
claim agents. There is no speculation and
conjecture about all this. We are reason
ing logically from actual facts, and the
man who, perceiving these facts, refuses to
recognize their legitimate consequences, or
pretends that there is nothing to appre-
bend, must either be incapable of rational
reflection, or must be friend to the legis-
lation which is being brought forward in the
interest of the Confederate claimants.