New-York tribune., 1880-09-27

easily ACCOMPLISH IL they succeed in cecting their
nominee for President. Their bin has already been
introduced into the House of Representatives; the
Senate ia in their hands; and they have Only 10
conauer the Presidency, to insure it's becoming
law.
The Constitution and the practice under IT, mas
always been. to give to the people, through
their members Of Congress, the right 10
control the legislation of the country :
but this right the Democratic majority
in the present Congress, two-thrds oi
whom were rebel officers in the late rebellion have
already set aside, by determining with the full
sanction of their sympathizng allies of the North
that hereafter the legislation of the country as
well as the government of parties shall be directed
and controlled by party caucus. At the iast ses
siOn of Congress, the "Solid South" compeiled
Northern Democratic members, to go into caucus :
and there, numbering .hree-fourths oil the DEMO
cratic majority. they succeeded in coinpelihs 'ne
Northern Democrats. to pledge themselves 10 enact
into laws, whatever Legislation the majority I'D
caucus might dictate! This in itself, IS not ohy
unconstitutional. but is revolutionary; ana tue
country has witnessed the melancholy spectacle Oh
Northern members of Congress giving their votes
for measures which they did not approve; and
then. iustifying such votesby the action OF Demo-
cratic caucus
HANCoCK's ELECTION WILL MEAN COMPLETE SUR
RENDER To THE SOUTH.
II is quite impossible to depict all the conse-
ouenccs certain to flow from this revolutionary
measure if the representative OF the principles ana
intentions of the South, should be elected TO the
Presidency. The Democratic caucus, has only TO
determine what measures shall become laws 10 IN
sure their enactment by Congress and approval by
their Executive. And then. with both houses OF
Congress and an Executive and Supreme Court OF
their own creation who shall stay their mana
Who shall prevent the payment to them OF the luii
value of their manumtted slaves after their supreme
Court has declared that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitu-
ton were irregularly adopted. as they Already
allege7 And who shall prevent their voting the
immediate payment of then war debt and oil ths
untold millions of their war claims, of which up
ward of thousand millions have already been
fled in committees and in the United States Treas
ury But how pay these untold millions, inquiries
the honest readerY The outs oxen members OF the
Southern press answeI--by the issue at once, OF
hundreds of millions Of greenbacks! And only give
them the power and this they, will do without any
DELAY and this once accomplished, under all the
forms which the Constitution and the laws pre-
scribe-the honest law-abiding rich, anu prosper
ous North would not repudlatc such national ODll'
cations. No matter how onorous such Obj cations
might be- they would be binding upon the Nation
They would be the act of the people through thel
representatives, legally and constitutlonally
elected; and for the next half century at least
| our people, burdened with this enormous debt
and without credit at home or abroad, would bt
inst objects of both pity and contempt.
Ihave much, very much more to say to those who
are drifting into immediate danger; and especially
TO those who for nearly half century, were wont
to listen to my teachings but am physically un
eoual to the task NV work is well-nigh finished
In all human probability, / shall not see Tho
results of the pending struggle, and The gooC
OF evil to flow from it but appeal to the intel
lgence and patriotism of the people, to aver
from our country the fearful consequences, o
permitting the Government to pass into the hands
of the ex-rebels: who Tor four years wagcd, most
sanguinary war for its destruction.
j. WATSON WEBB.
Bay Shore, Long Island, Sept. o, 1880.