National Republican., 1881-09-02
\ Mississippi war-Horse Demands
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those who refuse to be comforted because
the confederacy is not. They are ene-
mics of the North in peace as they were
in war. They refuse to allow the dead
past to bury its dead. They hate the
spirit of conciliation, and want no settle
ment between the sections that is not
based on undying hostility to the changes
wrought by the war. They seek reprisal
and revenge for the defeat they encoun-
tered in fair fight, in which they were
the challenging party. They are unwill-
ing to travel under their real colors,
but affect to warmly favor the poll
cies of their opponents. They fiercely
denounce negro suffrage, and aus iiercely
deny that they are opposed to it. They
say they recognize the negro's right to a
share in the political power, and then
rail at such men as Malone, Cameron,
and Riddcberger in Virginia and King
in Mississippi for simply doing the same
thing. They exist as party only by
protesting loudly what they privately alb
hor. Any man who cares to make even
slight inquiry can learn from them that
NhtN navy NdIlOuS NOliIlNullNtN lOl hth-
tralizing the votes of the blacks. They
smooth and hasten the way for their own
voters to the ballot-box, while they
harass and obstruct their opponents by
hundred tricks and devices. Violence
was used to carry elections Mt first, but
once in possession of the power to manip-
ulate the votes, stuff the ballot-boxes, and
falsify the returns, they are as kind to the
negroes whose votes they do not count as
east as they would be to the same num-
Der of sheep or cattle.
These men will learn in time that they
are not the Southern people. They will
gradually awaken to the fact that they are
losing their hold upon the white people of
the South. Many of the most spirited
and unselfish of the leaders of the South
ern army are against them. Thousands
of confederate soldiers are against them.
1t is going to become the fashion very
rapidly for the young Southerncrs to
laugh at the fogy disposition of the Bour-
bons, which insists on cherishing spirit
of resentment toward the stone wall
against which they butted their heads
more than half a generation ago. The
narrow bigots of the Bourbon faith can
no more restrain the onward march of
the Southern people toward their fair
share in national patriotism, pride, and
political control than can two weeks
chicken be crowded back into the shell
from which it came.
We find in the Natchez NIissA IN, 1757,,1Gi 7,51sGi
of August Is 4 d65ieful protest against
some claim hade by Republican paper
10 tne EJECT that the present government
OF Mississippi is merely usurpation.
We do not know to what extent the Re-
publican editor had gone, but the Natchez
man seemed in terrible way about it, |
OF course the legitimacy ofthe State gov
ernment of Mississippi is as we'll estab-
lished in law as that of the State of Yer
mont. Whatever crimes were committed
in 1874 under the Mississippi PLAN
and they were many-the admission of
Senators and members from that State to
their seats in Congress was recognition
of the State government by which they
were accredited, and, in the language
of the United States Supreme Court
in the Rhode Island case, this
decision is binding upon every other De-
partment of the Government. The editor
of the Natchez Democrat ought to know
that if rebellion were to be inaugurated !
against the present authorities of the
State of Mississippi the President would |
be obliged to aid in its suppression, as
required to do by the fourth section of
the fourth article of the Constitution ofthe
United States, upon being called upon by
the Legislature, or by the Governor, if
the Legislature could not be convened in
time for the emergency. The fact that
Bourbons at the South have whined be-
cause of Federal interference against do
mestic violence in the States would not
be remembered in such case. The
simple duty imposed upon the President
by the Constitution in such cases was
formerly known as Grantism; but even
those alleged Republicans who always
justified rebellion against Republican State
governments at the South would heartily
approve the strongest measures Presi-
dent might adopt for striking down revo-
lutiOnary resistance to Bourbon State
government.
1t is therefore wholly unnecessary for
the Natchez Democrat to "whoop up"
the people of Mississippi to the point of
whipping the people of Mississippi be-
cause of fancied danger of an infamous
policy" being inaugurated by the people
of Mississippi who may prevail at the
polls against the people of Mississippi
who would he by them beaten at the
polls
The Democrat gays:
Rather than submit to such Infamous policy ns
that outlined by this Republican organ 1t would be
better far better to risk the arbitrament of BLOOD
SIZED to declare WAR TO THE DEATH upon those
who would commit such treason to the State and
SETTLE once for d the question to WhO saR control
he State gOrcriRent-thoSe who have derived their
right from birth and the honest acquisition of the
real and personal property of the State or those
who have been accidentally placed meaning by
emancipation in the condition OF citizens without
the first claim of any kind to the control of the
governmental affairs Of the State'
This seems to us an Objectionable prop
osition. The utterance of u single indi-
vidual as to the respect he thinks is due
to the present State government would
hardly be considered sufficient justifi-
cation for resorting to " the arbitrament
| of bloodshed," nor would the most liberal
advocate of Red Republicanism find in it