Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-12
SHALL THE REMEDY BE APPLIED


Who IS to blame that the South is to-day
practically a unit for one political party?
1t is not possible to be shown that the Re
publican party, or any of its administra-
tions, have been blameworthy in the mat.
ter. Al the Republican Administrations
have treated the South with especial con-
siderauon. They have done all that is pos
sible 10 man to heal the wounds and efface
the scars Of rebellion by the South against
the authority of the United States Their
tolerance, forbearance and forgiving spirit
have amazed the world, and history bears
no record of a rebellion being succeeded by
such a kindly disposition on the part of the
assailed authority.
Here were several millions of people who
rose up to destroy the noblest work of gov
eminent against the fairest republic of
recorded time they raised the mailed hand
of revolt. They were subdued, the REBEL
ion crushed out, the rebels forgiven, and
with bat meager exception the men so
lately in arms agair st constituted authority
were restored to all the privileges hey had
forfeited in the eyes Of the world it was
magnificent spectacle; in its presence the
nations of the earth stood in wondering
amaze Millions of rebels and not one met
his fate at the hands of the law, but the
palm Of brotherly love was extended. and
the erring member was restored to his full
place and rank in the family of States
Yet we find the South arrayed in one
party, The chief end and aim of which is
opposition to and destruction of the party
under whom national unity was preserved
Had the policy of punishment and retrib-
utiye justice been pursued the South could
not have been more sohdly Democratic
than il Is to-day. 1t could not have spurned
with greater contempt than il has the ef-
forts made TO blot ont all sectional distinc-
tons.
There is a North to-day. not because GER
tain States occupy a historical situation
relatively to the Rebellion, but because GER
tain other States insist upon being a
South, as ntra-distinguished from the
sisterhood of States There Is a North to-
day, not because some States north of a
fctional line are Republican, and some
Democratic, but because certain States
south of that line are all Democratic, Just
rs they were before they sought TO destroy
the Union. They hate the Republican
party to-day, because it was in power when
ii became the duty Of the Government to
crush out an infamous scheme to disrupt
and destroy the best political system on
earth. They are Democratic to-day, be-
cause through the medium of that party re-
bellion became possible, and revenge is
most likely to be reapcd.
When the Chicago Convention OF June
therefore declared in condemnation of
Southern outrages, the assaults upon
human rights, the cocrcive methods used
TO further political ends. the schemes 10 in
tirnidate and overawe, 10 suppress public
expression and throttle the voter at the
polls, it simply protested against lawloss-
ness, the still surviving spirit of revolt, and
The aid and comfort it receives from the
Democratic party, which this week at Chi
cago viii fail to utter word Of condemna-
ton Of Southern ouuages. The ConYen-
ton Of June declared for the Republican
party what no honest man viii dare 70 CON
trovcrt that in every part of the whole
country, in the metropolitan ward or the
remotest precinct of the everglades, on the
prairies of the West, and in the bayous
OF the far South. there shall be
enjoyed by the citizens of the United States
the same rights, privileges and immuni-
ties, and that there shall be afforded
to every American citizen the same
protection under the law. That there
shall be on every quarter section of
the whole area of the Union the
same freedom of conscience, speech, person
and press; the same freedom in campaign
and in election. Yet for this there is ar
raycd against the Republican party solid
South, which is the synonym for solid
SHAME. since no section Of the country can