Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-17

| n itouihk otfubn DtuioOihbic oiB6h VI
New Orleans makes the following uublushine
declaration as TO the intentions Of thesouthern
Democracy In the approaching presidential
election. Northern people will do well te
consider whether they can afford to aid OF
abet, directly or indirectly, in carrying GU,
such designs.
at is Of no Importance at all whether
this or that Republican is popular in the
south or not, and whether one Republican
may be able to get a larger popular vote
than another. And II even the name of our
Saviour Jesus Christ should adorn the head
of the Republican presidential ticket, and
If, moreover, an undoubted majority Of the
citizens, without distinction of race or color,
should vote for that Republican ticket, it,
nevertheless, would not receive single one
of the one hundred and thirty-eight electoral
votes Of the south. A glance into
any paper issued in the south, or review
Of the occurrences at the elections of the
last three years in all the southern states
will show that no Republican candidate for
the presidency, whatever be his name, can
receive the electoral vote of even single
southern state, even if the Republican elect
majority in one state or the other. For in
the south, you know, they indulge in an
election practice quite different from that
in the west or north.
"The Democratic party in this presiden-
tial election year will fight the last battle
for its existence. Its highest trump is the
solid electoral vote of the south, lacking
only forty-seven votes from the north to
play the reins of national power into the
hands of the Democracy. II it should be
beaten in that electoral contest, the one hun.
dred aud thirty-eight electoral votes Of the
south will be virtually useless to it in the
future presidential elections. Then the Re-
pubicans west and northwest will have
gained such preponderance of congress
sionsl seats and electoral votes in conse.
quence of the new census, that the Demo
cratic party will find itself forever in
hopeless minority.
"And do you think it possible that the
engineers Of the Democratic party, south or
north, would not play out that trump card
the solid electoral vote Of the south, in this
year, but give it up? Not if they can help
it. Only imagine what is at stake for the
leading Democratic politicians in the south
alone. They will, of course, gladly leave to
their northern party comrades the presi-
dency, the cabinet, the principal diplomatic
and consular offices--if only the patronage
Of the federal government in the south be
given to the southern senators and repre-.
Only think of the many fat
places in the custom houses of New Orleans,
Galveston, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston,
Norfolk, and so forth, and how
many hundreds of hungry patriots have for
years extended their long fingers after them
"And the possible realization OF such hopes
by the election of Democratic president
should be allowed to be prevented by
popular vote, by a majority of the peoples
votes for popular Republican in one, two
or three southern states Ridiculous, for
sooth ! For what purpose should we have
the control of the whole machinery of the
registration of voters, of the ballot-boxes
and of the counting of the ballots, if we
were not to utilize it for ourselves es.
pecially in this years presidential election,
where the whole pot is at stake"
Can it be doubted that the above de-
fantly frank announcement of southern
organ expresses the real object and purpose
Of the southern Democracy? If not, let the
honest north answer it by solid vote for
Republican candidate who can unite the
northern Republicans.