Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-07
Ole RepubIicau,
WATERFOWL. WIS, OCTOBER I, 1859.
MINORITY RTL T..

Convention on Wednesday, among other
things. sal il:
We stand upon four prone sitlons two
of fact aul Iwn ui principle We coal
leuge our opponents to encounter eilher so
tn m, otherwise than 10y sneering, by
shouting "bloodv shirt" or by saying I'VE
have heard all that before; tell us some
thing new"
First-Tn many states of the South,
enough in number 20 change the result
of the election of the President and TO
change the majority in the House OF
Representatives, the Republican majority
has been deprived by the Democratic
minority of its right to voc
and its right to free discussion. This has
been accomplished in states where The
Republican majorities were largest by
violence and crime, until the minority
got control of the officers and machinery
OF elections and thereafte- by the method
of fraud in counting the returns. This
violence has not been repeated in every
state in every particular year. But it
has been repeated whenever an attempt
has been ma e by the majority to reassert
its rights, and everywhere often enough
to show that it would be repeated when
ever necessary, as in the case of CopiaD
and Danvlle
SecOnd-These facts are fully and
incontestabiy proven by great mass OF
public testimony taken by order OF
Congress, bv abundant admissions of the
Southern Democratic press and private
acknowledgement # Southern Democrats
of
Republicans in the States concerned.
Third-This condition of things con-
stitutes great evil and still greater
danger more important than any other
matter now demanding public attention.
Fourth-The true remedy for this evil
is the Republican remedy, viz:
Take away the great motives to it by
preventing he election of any candidate
for the Presidency willing to accept office
gained bv these means;
Have House of Representatives who
will allow no man illegally chosen to
retain his seat;
Refuse political utilization with men
who do these things;
Treat a IA an VINO would accept an
office so gained as urit to be voted for,
as YOU would treat man at the North
who accepted an Office gained by corrup-
ton;
Have Congress who will pass effect
i've laws for the restraint OF these things,
and who will make appropriations for the
enforcement of such laws;
Have an Executive who will do his
best to enforce such laws, who will
not reward criminals against the purity
of election with high public Office, and
who will not interpose to prevent such
criminals. when convicted, from receiv-
ing their lawful punishment;
Promote by every private and public
fundamentally education all over the
country;
Keep aroused ana alive public senti-
ment, stronger thar laws or than armies
that public sentiment with which Dan
lei Webster threatened to shake the Gar
of Russia from the throne if he dared C
NEEDLE with Kossuth;
Appeal earnestly and kindly to the
men of the South themselves to desist
from doing these things, and from train
ing their young men in these processes =
All appeal never yet heard from Demo
cratic lips;
Satisfy the white men of the South
that we are their truest friends. by emul'
ating their own leaders in heartiest sup
port of every interest of theirs, material
or moral;
Above all, remember that the remedy
for this evil must be, very largely, with
the negro race itself, | verify belieye
that, in spite of all discouragemepts
there is an opportunity for the colored
man in this country at this hour greater
than ever offered to human being in the
world before. Let BIN cease to be a
ward and take his place among the guar
dams. Let him exhibit by individual
example, the. qualities, of honesty, o.
Industry, of chaste family life, let him
educate his children and cultivate his
land, and the race which has produced
Toussaint, and Christophe ana Douglass
will yet produce its own leader, its own
Lincoln or Washington, who will assert
fer it its true place on the lofty plane
of American citizenship. To a race
exhibiting such qualities the generosity
OF American manhood will not long re-
fuse justice.
Some of cur friends who differ with us
tell us, doubt not sincerely, that they
dislike these things as much as we dc
but they differ with US only as to the
methods of redress. They counsel sub
mission and silence, means by which nc
political wrong was ever yet righted on
the face of the earth. Ours are Ameri-
can methods, What American can
doubt their success? There is no alter
native but submission and dishonor.
The last spark of American manhood
must have died out in the breast of the
son of Massachusetts, who can read
without indignation the declaration Of
the Mobile Register, declaration well
warranted by the attitude of Northern
submissionists: eve do not deny that
superior intelligence of the whites mas
led them, in localities where the negroes
predominant, to resort to various devices
to avoid the rule of ignorance and dis
honesty. The country is satisfied with
the present state of affairs. If Judge
Foraker is not he will have to do the best
he can about it.
The Mobile Register is right 1t has
the right to draw the inference that you
are satisfied that they should rule you. il
Al ,,+toronooc of the SuhmiSSiOniStS are