Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-01
THE POLITICAL PERIL.
What Might Result fro m Democratic Victory This
Fa'I'..Someth;ns which Every Voter Should Read
and Ponder.


night, August 21st, which attracted
much attention, the following portion of
which is worthy of wide reading and
consideration. After describing the COIL
! dition of the southern states, and reading
/ from the reports Of Gems. Thomas, How
ard and Sheridan, and President Grant,
he concludes as follows:
"In the light of the testimony sub
mitted, it would be useless for any one
to attempt to disguise the fact that there
is now a struggle between sections,-
another phase Of that conflict which took
place from 1861 to 1866, founded upon
the same general ideas, promoted by the
same prcjudiccs and passions, and car
ried forward in the south substantially
by the same methods. It is asolid south
versus solid north. The south is
stronger to-day, politically, than it was
before the war. The white people of
that section have lost their slaves, in
deed; but they have gained by that loss
thirty additional votes in the national
congress, and the same number in the
electoral college; and, although they
have DISTINGUISHED the freedman, they
yet cling to their increased representa-
tion With full control of congress and
the executive, what would they do?
"First-Cut up Texas into five states,
and thus gain eight additional senators,
and virtually secure to the south for all
time, full control of the United States
senate.
"Second-Thcy would reorganize the
Supreme Court, and then sweep away
the later amendments to the constitution.
"Third-They would put the Confed-
crate soldiers on the pensior-rolls, and
provide for payment Of rebel debt, and
of southern claims.
"Fourth-They would declare the
emancipation proclamation, and the re-
construction acts of congress, unconsti-
tutional, revolutionary, and void, and de-
mand payment for lost slaves.
| g But some Democratic friend thinks
this would be impossible; that, if a
Democratic administration were to do
all this, the Democratic party, so called,
would be hurled from power at the next
election. How, my friends? If you
trust the Democratic party now, you
will trust it once too often. The joint
resolution by which Texas was annexed
provides that congress may divide the
territory embraced within its present
limits into five states; it would make
five states as large territorially as Penn
sylvania. This division-alld congress
and the president have the power and the
right to make it at any time-would, as I
have before stated, give the south eight
more senators, forty in all, and only
making it necessary to obtain the votes
of one Democratic state in the north to
secure absolute control of the senate.
No obnoxious law could be repealed
without the consent of this senate.
No law could be passed without it's
concurrence. It would be in posi-
tion to dictate both as to legislation and
appointments. No new state could be
admitted, no treaty made, no postmaster
OF revenue officer appointed, without its
permission. The negro might be re-en-
shaved by the states, and there would he
no remedy save in revolution. "A system
OF peonage might be established, worse
than slavery, under which the freedmen
would be guarded by shot-guns while
they worked, and hunted by bloodhounds
when they ran away, and the north, I'LL
less absolutely solid, would be utterly
powcrless to protect.
"Wlth the senate in possession OF the
south, what can the north do ?? The
president may be Republican; the
south may have two-thirds Republican
majority; the popular vote may be over
whelmingly Republican, but there
stands the southern senate to dictate to
all, to revise every law, to bargain about
every appointment, to pass upon every
appropriation, to demand what it wants
for the south, and obtain it, OF obstruct
all legislation.
"This, fellow-citizens, is the Lost
Cause revived; it is better to the south
than the Lost Cause could have been,
because it affords greater advantages.
1t comprelen(s all that did and reaches
far beyond. It puts the purse of the
north within easy reach Of the indo]ent
and impoverished south. It indemnifies
the south for the past and gives it secrr-
ity for the future. It places the south
in position to say to US: yield to our
demands, or rebel; take this, OF nothing;
submit to our dictation, or the machinery
Of the government shall stop. You have
much to lose by war,-we have little;
break the peace il you dare
"This would be the end Of free govern
ment on this continent, and the begin
ming of llfe-tenures of office for southern
senators and Democratic appointees.
This is what Wade Hampton meant when
he assured the Virginians, the other LAY,
at Sta,lnton, that the Democratic party
was struggling for the same principles
for which Lee and Stonewall jackson
fought.
cit is for this great end that the
south has been solidifed Stimulated
by the hope of grasping this prize, and
achieving this great victory over the
north, the Confederate army is marching
to the polls i'll solid column, followed by
every man who lost cotton bale, by
every master who lost slave, by every
planter who lost mule, by every gamb-
Ter, pimp, and thief who prides himself
on being better than a negro, by every
rufian whose business it was to make
merchandise of men; by every brutal
overseer who cut and slashed the labor
ing poor; by every canting hypocrite who
taught that slavery was sanctioned by
God; by every cowardly assassin who has
raised his murderous hand to strike
down free speech; by every sneaking
scoundrel who has cheated the popular
will by tissue-ballots.
"Men Of the north, will you meet
them? Will you defeat them? I be-
lieve you will. Whatever your party ties
may have been, you should forget them
now. You have no interest that the sue
cess Of the Republican party will not
further. Stand for the civilization of
the north; for its free schools, free
speech, free ballot and free men! Stand
by the party whose record is full Of gen.
erous deeds and magnificent achieve
ments, whose aim has ever been to ele-
vate the poor and secure equality Of
rights to ALL
Fraudulent Census Returns in the South.
dispatch to the N. Y. Tribune.]
WASHINGTON, August 19.-The Demo
Gratis of South Carolina have done even
better than was claimed for them last
week by the Democratic papers Of state.
At that time only IS per cent. increase
in the population was insisted upon as
| tho rosu1t If fhe ceiIs11s ret11rnS HIT