National Republican., 1883-12-21
Tn. southern Insurr,c,lon.

The Southern InsurrectIon.
Every citizen of the United States resident
in q state is also citizen of the state in
which he resides. Ho is the subject of two
governments. The government of the United
States can compel him TO oboy its laws, al
though his state may by law forbid him.
The nation can send its armies into any state
to rcome resistance to federal laws, and IL
the state government takes the part of the
offenders tho federal government can
sweep IL rom existence exclude it from
representation in congress and in
the presidential electoral college, and
can itsolf rule within tho state by mill
tary power, until the people shall have
formed a now state government approved by
congress. All these things have been done
within the past twenty-threo years. State
sovereignty so.called reared its rebellious
head against federal authority and was
stricken down. 1t is the law Of the land, as
we'll rs its history, that state organi-
zation which doGes the laws of the
nation, or which ever invades fort
or other public property Of the United States
with unfriondly purpose, may be and has
been consumed in the hot fires of military
property seized by lawless persons under tho
sanction of state governments that Abraham
Lincoln called upon tho loyal states for an
army and obtained 1t. He proclaimed tho
states and districts whore federal authority
was defied in instruction, and tho represent
atives of tho insurgents were stricken from
the rolls of congress.
These were the heroic remedies which pa
triotism, craftsmanship, and power were
forced to prescribe and administer for the
hurts inflicted on the nation by state sover-
eighty in 1860.
But the unreconstructed portion of tho in
surgents of 1S61'65 arc no more reconciled to
their defeat than the nihilists are to the
Russian government Every consequence of
their defeat is hateful to them. They bitterly
hate the government in republican hands.
They are for it if they can seize it for
themselves, but not otherwise. They
hate every man in the south, black or white,
union or confederate who feels differently
from themselves. Ex-confederates who have
relentcd and become willing and law-abiding
citizens, reconciling themselves to the fate of
war; they hate with ferocity far exceeding
even race hatred. Taking advantage of our
dual form of government, they have, by
tramplng down the right of their opponents
to vote, seized the state governments, and
now administer them for the destruction of
the unalienable rights of men. Every demo-
cratic state of the late southern confederacy
is an organized instruction against tho
United States, and therefore public enemy.
The bourbon despotism thus created can no
moro be displaced by voting than Louis
Napoleon could hav Q been beaten at the polls
in France after the coup detat.
Not only do these usurpers deny to all
opponents under their rule security for the
rights of life, liberty, and tho pursuit of
happiness, but they extend their rod to the
backs of the northern people, and control
the house of representatives, and sometimes
the senate. Not only this, but by the aid of
republican folly at the north they hope to
carry one-ffth of the electoral votes of
northern states which, added to their blood
stained 1853 votes of the solid south, would give
Al. IT.
national pusillanimty and confederate pluck.
This would be more desirable than that any
pretended republican should be elected who
would, after election, be their creature; but
it would be the beginning of tho end of re-
publican institutions. The northern democ-
racy would be as wax in the fire of southern
hate of the north, And the decent portion of
them would, when too late, be found in the
republican ranks.
Tho remedy for tho southern instruction
against law lies in the protection of the ballot
box. If this is not applied the insurrecton
will become the government. No clamor
about minor reforms in administration nor of
upholding or overthowing the tariff can save
this nation from ruin if it wickedly dares to
stop its ears to the dying groans Of white and
black citizens on southern political battle.
fields. Man is above property. The abo-
litionists were not heard for some years. But
slavery forced the fight. Human rights may
plead in vain for time, but tho bourbon, il
given license by northern indifference and
sympathy, will extend his jurisdiction until
each northern republican will feol The weight
of his iron heel.
That good man, Senator Bayard, the can.