The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-09
(,errvmanderiag. North and South.

3errvmandering, Nortn anu ooueA'
The New York Tribune, forgetting the
heathen at It's own door, goes down 10
south Carolina 10 preach to the abandoned
Democrats Of the latter State. 1t declares
that il war issues are kept alive, II Is the
fau,t Of the southern Democrats. The
Tribune Is a true representative OF the
Radicals Of the North, who ignore the
South and her rights on all occasions, ana,
whilst claiming the southern states rs
members OF the Union, tax them wrong
fullv and take the money thus wrrng from
a reluctant people to enrich the North.
They collect millions Of dollars in this sec
t,on and pay It out to persons residing In
their section, well knowing that it Is I'M
possible for the South to be anything but
an Ireland under such system OF SAB
senteeism.'
In the bills recently adopted in several
Republican States for reapportioning rep
reseniation in Congress the Repubican
Legislatures have defied the American peo-
nile and set at naught the first principles OF
republican government. We need only 70
use the words employed by the New YORK
Tribune in speaking Of the "disfranch'sed "
negroes OF South Carolina in order 10 de-
scribe the condition OF the DISTINGUISHED
whites of the North. In the North hume
rcus white Democrats are denied represeh-
tation in Congress; whereas in South caro-
lima the votes OF only comparatively ie"
Ignorant negroes are "suppressed "--'ia'
is. II any are suppressed.
Look at the respective votes received ny
HANCOCK and by GARFIELD in 1880, say IN
PENNSYLVANIA, and then look mt the relatNe
strength of the Republican and the Demo-
cratic members from that State IN the
National House OF Representatives. HAN
COCK received % votes for every % cast LOT
GARFIELD. How stands Pennsylvania
DELEGATION? Does that stand IL 10 I'D
Nav verify. IL stands 10 Republicans 10
Democrats. II the votes OF the negroes
arc suppressed in South Carolina because
fbe Democrats carry too many dlstflc's'
what shall be said Of the wrongs OF the
penpsylyania white Democrats, who instead
OF having 12-27ths Of the congressman, nave
less than one third OF them? Or IS that
crime i'm South Carolina-a reyivinS OF
dead issues-a keeping UP OF war cries
which i'm Pennsylvania is deed to be com
mepded? What here follows is the Tn
6upe's own language, 1utatiS mutandts
In the bill Just adopted by the Legisla
turc tof any Republican State you choose foi
redistrieting the State they have openly vi
olated custom, usage, and precedent, anc
disregarded every consideration excepting
how 10 secure Republican congressman
There probably never was so shameless
yerrymandcr rs the one they have JUS
adopted. There is no pretence OF justice
or fairness in il. The intention OF making
a division under which the Democratic
voters should lie reduced to the lowest pos
sible minimum OF influence was openly
ayowcd and unblushingly carried out.
And II we rightly apprehend the posi-
ton of the party through the utterances o.
It's new spapers and public men, the Repub
lican party, by their political conduct ant
policy generally for the past five or sly
wears. arein open revolt against the RICH
of suffrage. They cut the argument verl
short. They say: "liere in Kansas tn
Democrats. ii they voted and their vote
were counted, would rule the State ant
they are not fit for it. We cannot and VII
not live under them. We have the powe
now, and 10y all means, peaceablc or violent
honest or dishonest, shall keep it. " Tha
is the challenge and defiance which nortl
ern Radicals throw down to-day. 1t rais'
question which has to be met. 1t cannC
be avoided without dishonor. The PEN
sylyania Republicans say in effect TO u
peopIe Of the country: 1--WE demand el
emption from the principle OF malorii
rule, because the majority i'll this State Al
ignorant and unfit. We do not like
cheat at the polls, but we are obliged to
self-defence, and we ask you to vindia
and justify us"
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