Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-15
The Firing Ont Process.

ali CIRCUMSTANCES. MI SoutcAt VIII
hsviug outrsgeously and arbitrarily
ousted Mr.. Dibble Of South Csrolins.
General Finley of Florida. and General
Wheeler Of Alabama, 20 make way for
their minions. and with having declared
the seat OF Mr.. Shelley, of Alabama, va
cant. they now propose TO continue their
work Of arbitrarily increasing their vot-
ing power in the House by giving to one
Smzlls, Of South Carolina, the seat to
which the people Of the Fifth Con
Eressional District of that State have
elected Hon. George D. Tillman. Thus
the infsmy goes on, and if the seats
already stolen, added to those the theft
Of which is yet contemplated, aye not
sufficient 10 accomplish the purposes of
the inss'iaie monster of R4dicalism,
others will be seized upon. until the
country. and more especially the United
States Treasury, are completely in the
clutches Of the INSCRIPTIONS par y which
seems to never tire of adding fraud,
eruption and outrage TO its already
long record Of crime and injustice.
TIE excuse given for this line Of con.
duct BY the Radical majority in Con
eress is a Characteristic one. It is that
their seton Is good politics, and will
not only give them full control of the
legislative department of the govern
ment. but will also encourage Radical
opposition to Democracy in the South.
inasmuch as it is a guarantee to every
Radical who viii run as Representative
for Congress in this section that-be he
defeated By a most overwhelming ma
i0rity st the polls he shall receive the
seat Of his successful opponent, provided
that the Republicans in the House are in
a majority of even one. This is a course
Of reasoning eminently Radical in its
nature. IL al once discards all reason,
al law, all equity and all justice, and
boldly declares that the doctrine that
the end justifies the means" is the only
doctrine by which a political party
should be governed. Virtue and cOur-
4 tesy are, in the opinion of the Radicals,
4 but relics Of 'Bourbonism very pretty
things 20 prate about, but wholly worth
less in practice.
If, however, the Radicals think that
By thus inducing opposition to the De
mocracy they can really gain anything in
this section other than being supplied by
such opposition with tool for whom they
may steal a seat in Congress, they are
T greatly mistaken. To the contrary,
/ their conduct can lut tend to heap accu-
mulated odium upon their party in the
+ South, since il only shows that they still
look upon the Southern people as having
10 rights which they the Radicals are
bound to respect, and that they regard
/ the South still only as a section to be
whenever deemed necessary. 1t is just
such a spirit as they now display, and
have ever displayed, towards our
section, which has made US solid
in opposition to Radicalism, and
which will most assuredly keep
Us so. So far from using their in
Euence towards healing the wounds of
the war, and restoring peace, harmony
Snd prosperity TO the entire country, their
great object is still to foment sectional
hate, and degrade and humiliate the
South 10 the utmost. No wonder the
southern people regard the Republicans
as their natural enemies, and that the
! progressive % influences of Radicalism
/ have no effect in this section. And this
condition of affairs will be cOexistent
with RAdicalism, for that party can no
more change its inherent hostility to the
South than the negro can change his
skin or the leopard his spots There
will be no ''natiOnalism" in politics in
this country until the people in their
might hurl from power the sectional
party which for nearly two decades has
dsgraced aud dishonored the Republic.
Il is to BE hoped, however, that the
lessons which the Republicans have
taught the Democrats by their recent and
contemplated Outrages will not be lost
upon the latter. Heretofore the Democ-
racy has been inclined. no matter al
what cost to themselves as party, TO be
/ governed in its actions wholly by princi-
pies Of right, justice and courtesy. This
has been exempliied in numerous in.
stances, but more eonspicuouslY than
any other in the case of Kellogg, of Lou
isiana. He is an alleged United States
Senator, whose election was by So
called Legislature which even a Repub
licsn incumbent of the White House,
who had himself secured his position by
srrant fraud, did not dare to recognize;
but who was seated by an INSCRIPTIONS
Republican majority, because his vote
vas absolutely necessary TO them. Yet
when the Democrats came in power, and
the question of Kellogg's illegal title to
his seat was reOpened, Democratic Sena.
ators refused to turn him out on the Aim
81 plea that his case was res 0djUdicatd.
/ How long, had the circumstances in this
/ case been reversed, would the Republi-
cans have hesitated about disregarding
such pleal The party which could set
sside al principles of justice. and, to
carry their ends, deliberately violate
rules they themselves had helped to es-
tsblish, would not have allowed ''reS
0CliEd. odtl" to hsve stood in their way
for an instant, and Kellogg would have
been turned sdrift without a second
thought The Democrats now realize
the mistake they made in this matter,
for, had they not been so super jealous
in treating the revolutionary aud most
unjust fable act of a reckless majority
in seating the Louisiana usurper with
courtesy. they would today have had
i control Of the United States Senate, and
been in a position to hold a whole
some check upon Radical legislation
and a Radical administration. The next
House viii probably be Democratic, and
il is to be hoped the majority will pay
the Radicals back in their own coin