The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-24
KENosHA WISCONSIN FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2a1sso

AotS IN south carolina. 1t was teSt1led before
committee Of the Senate. that one man put,
ibout 700 votes into the ballot box This makes
politics one of the exact sciences. much more
certain than the dice or.lots with which offices
day. Af'@s'1A 3
in tissis sifppf more than half e.pOpulatiioon
is cplored. Every year until 1874 The Republi-
cans had q majority IN ali elections Z In 1876
the Republican vote Teturned was 52s605. Next
yer It, was but 1.168, and the year after q 085.
In all these States the Republican vote, and
even the Republican committees and Ihewspa-l
pers, have been utterly suppressed. ni aig6aS
y Alabama has i1st held an election. n The
Greenback candidate for President went there,
and realized the en1barras Of the bull who
Quilted against a locomotive. The whole pro-
fceedmg was 70 shameful wrong, and Mr. Weav-l
er says the enforcement. of the national cleo
uon law is the only thing which will make a fair
Arkansas, where, antilirecently, the Repub-
tlicans always elected members Of Congress and
the Legislature, Eherea the last Presidential
election 81, $50 sRepubi votes were cast, and
where ppws in no part Of the State does the Re
PUBLICAN vote appear, reputation and Dennoc-
racy prevail nightly. fsf G Dff8 ,ssfi3 q Bio
repeat here,as said in the Senate, when
the Government was taken by the throat land
threatened with strangulation, unless, the cleo
non laws were stricken down. that the Demo-
cratic party would have no majority IN either
house Of Congress, except for elections do1ni-
.snAtedand decided by violence andsfraud.s
\ What use Is made of all this ilI-e often power?.
( One OF ats chief uses has been therepudiation
OF honest debtssg Every Southern State but
Texas has lately EepTldiated its obligations.
The aggregate repudiationof State and munich
pal debts amounts to about $500, G0O. 600 In
\ 1872 the Tdebts Sof the Southern States were
$242, 100000. Now these States recognize and
pay interest on only $50, 978 945. A. large, part
even OF this is unpaid and funded interest; : On
s0,O0D, 900 interest has been scaled down to q
per cent Whether, the residue of the debts are
also to be, foresworn is now an open issue. Is
there excuse or palliation for this i? we are
told so.s' What is 1t 2? It is that carpet-bae
governments contracted these Obligations.
One difficulty with this, excuse, and not the,
only one, is that At is not true. .Ghe ,anti-war
udet Contracted before the carpet-bagger
ever visited the South, either with knapsacE or
without. it was 800, 900,000s No part of this
dett has been paid; largo part has, been, re-
puclated. The scarpet-bag governments paid
the interest on. it regularly. The increase of
debt since the war was largely for public i'm
proFments. But the most damaging factIfor
this excuse is thatialh the alleged Illegal issues
OF bonds charged upon the carpet-bag govern
pudated by Georgia alone What are we to
Z think of mem and communities who 20 into
Wholesaler padiations as ffgayly as the trouba-r
dolT touched l1is guitar " When Mr. Weaver
brought forward in the Housa of Representatives
20 bill to issue fiat money and make it a legal
tender forall debts, public and private, man after
man FROM the South openly declared that if the
word private were, stricken out he would vote
for the bill They had no, objection to paving
off public debts with chat, but private debts
they thought should be paid in money. State
debts are sacredabose national obligations. In
Southern ethics Il sovereign State is, of higher,
.gessehce than the nation, and this was the
standing defense in rebellion for going with
their States. Moreover States and municipal
obligations are for home purposes. If their own
States faith yand credit is not iaviolate with
Southern Leaders; what9in their hands would be
the fate of, obligations whichcwere the means,
the cause, the memorials of their defeat2
But we are told Gen. Hancock would watch
them. An angel might watch a tiger; a child
might attempt to- divide "a beefsteak with a
bloodhound; a lamb might lie down with a.
ion-but the lamb would be inside. The peril
of Democratic ascendency in all the branches
Of the Government is deeper rooted than any
measure within the scope of existing public
questions. Statesmen abroad talk of g the bal
ance of power" and Of Changing the map of
Europe. These sayings mean not much moro
than might easily occur here!%A alJ Sl83t 2iI
IS Theresolltion admitting Texas to the Union
in 1916 provided for erecting out of Texas four
additional States. The area and population
are both sufficient. The area is 274, 900 square
miles; the population 100000. Such a pro-
eeeding would add eight to-. the number of
Southern Senators and add to Southern power
in the Electoral College. From New Mexico
and other Territories whose traditions and DIT iu-
dices have descended from sIaYeholding infiu
ences, several new, States may also 6e made.
Schemes exist not in embryo, but far advanced,
4 to obtain g a slice of Mexico Cattle-stealing
on the Rio Grande border has been and is a.
fruitful occasion for incursions into Mexico.
Special cavalry regiments ofIunusual size have
been raised and stationed on the Texan frontier.
It is an open secret that not long ago much ex-
ertion and alertness were needed to keep us out
iof another Mexican war. Withc II violating the
constitution or Itranscendipg the usages of the
republic, at, least, seven new States could be
brought in, and in the case of some of them
very plausible case could be made. The project
would become high party measure its sue
cess would assure complete Democratic ascend.
ency in5he patton for a generation at least.o It
would put the Government not in the hands of
the. Democratic party, but of the Southern
Democratic party Why should not this be
done fAVho and WHAT'S tojpfeNentit? jIfthe
Democratic party is elected, the Northern wing
could never resist the Southern wing in Con-
gress were these States Brought forward for
admissions The Northern wing neverFcould,
never will and never can Withstand the pressure
Of the far Stronger Southern wing. Gravita-,
ton and arithmetic make such resistance i'm
possiblesjust ass pound cannot outweigh a.
ton, just as one, man cannot outnumber
a.reSiment. The pastis pitiful in its warnings
in this behalf. Despite pledges and Northern
indignation; Northern Democrats in Congress
united in voting down the ,Wilmot proviso in Or
der to make California slave State united in
voting for the Fugitive Slave law United in the
mighty perfdy which overthrow the Missouri
compromise in order tofasten slavery on Kan
sasE and other States and united in defeating
the Homestead law, all at tie behest of the
Southern maj oritys Mr.. Van Buren, at last, like.
Macbeth, would Hgo no further IN this bloody
business" and political destruction was his
reward. Mr.. Douglas at last made brave
stand against sectional aggression, and
he vase hunted to hisngraYe.l Caucus is.
King and the ayenging angel IFS hardly more
inexorahle IN decree, Or more unerring
OF the republic is the judieiafv! The courts Of
Justice are umpire, 7coiserEator, citadelad The
supreme Court is the final arbiter of many no-
mentous contro versies This great tribunal is
very obnoxious to the Southern leaders IN Con-s
gress and out 1t is in their way. Itdoes not
always decide as they think. The halls of Con-
Sgress lrung last year with assertions uttered
with passionate vehemence that the laws for
projecting elections are Hnc6nstituti6hal. Soon
safterward case ON the docketso of the Supreme
Court involving. he validity Of these laws, was
reaehed, esandn the court decided them
Valid A Register in Bankruptcy, not long
age, ovelTuled e Chief Justice on the con-,
strhedoi of q statute, and SO it often happens
that the court is not able or recondite enough to
get at the 4 true einwardness'' and profound
depths Of The law as understood on the hustings,
where the moons sinners, thieves, and the fire.
seater reigns.l Matterings deep and loud breath
ingsof hrel ongings to hgofor7theeourt have,
for years been gathering in volume In the
House of REPRESENTATIVES for twoio three years
this feeling has now and again found harsh
voice in unseeIhly, Sinister words Not only III
Kentucky through the Chairman of the Judi
cisry Committee, Mr.. Knett, but MISSOURI North
Carolina and other States. assisted. IIegret to
say, by a RepreseiiLs I've from this civ. have
uttered language gross and tca1unfrious Of the
court aspersing its integrity and Its decisiohs,as
mere drlyel, plausible sophistry. ~ packed,
partisan and dempralized ~ +. packed TRIBUNAL
!. deOisiohs to be observed pro tempore ; only,
stdnty Work Of It's masters 'sfs' made political
deefddDtg brdei,s' TferE Indignation OF an ill.,
famed peeple3 THESE are sofnelof the Euffetr
mgs to pc found in the. ConsrRssioiaal Record
delivered sometimes from carefully-lwvllitte ten
speeches and sometimes received, the Record
saws, WITH ss7loud platEepD 10 what does all
this pave the Eay 4 THE Congressional Record,
will inform you: On the 26th of January