New-York tribune., 1886-05-16

relics of the cruol and devastating war wnicn the
| spoke again. The early beams OF the morrows su
| touched, but failed to warn the lifcess remains
the great War President and Liberator as the
were borne in mournful silence. back to the Whit
| House, muto and CHASTITY witness OF the shee
desperation Of those who though armed rebellion
in the open field. by the lair and legitimate mode
of military warfare, had ceased were. determine!
| still TO keep up that cowardly I" fire In the rear
which had been promised to the rebel Leaders by
their Northern henchmen and sympathizers.
The latter part of General Logan's book, only
two chapters of twenty-thrcc pages in all, are de
voted to the history of the country since the War
and to the present situation. Tho thirty-second
chapter begins thus (pagci651l:
And now the war having ended, in the defeat
conquest, and capture, OF those who, inspired by
the false teachings of the Southern leaders had ar
raycd themselves in arms beneath tho standard OF
rebellion and fought for sectional independence
against National union. for slavery against fIee-
dom, and for free trade against a tart protective
alike to manufacturer, mechanic aud laborer, u
might naturally be supposed that. witb the col
lapse of this rebellion. all the issues which made
up tho cause" the lost cause as those leaders
would term it-would be lost with 1t. and dlsap-
pear from political sight and we would never
again hear or n section Of the Nation and last of
all the southern section, organized, banded to;
ideas as against the National ideas prevailing else
whcro through tho Union; that free trade, con-
scous Of the ruin and dcsolation which IT had
wrought, and of its awful sacrifices in blood, and
treasure. which had been made in its behalf
by the conquered South would slink from sight
and hide its famine breeding front forever; and
that slavery in all its various dsguises, was ban
ished moro to protrude its hateful form upon
our liberty loving land. That was indeed the
supposition and belief which everywhere peryaded
the Nation. when Rebellion was conquered by the
leglons of tho Union-and which especially per-
valed the Sonth.
But the old leaders soon began to recover their
power and wero " Unfortunately too well aidod by
the mistaken cemency and magnanmty of the
Republican party in hastily removing the political
disabilities of those leaders," Resistance to recon-
structior aud to tho constitutional amendments
intended 10 garner tho fruits of the war, continued
without hesitation, until tho Mississippi plan
at last succeeded in making the South solid, thus:
The plan was this By the use of shotguns and
rifles and cayalcales of armod white Democrats in
red shirts, riding around the country in dead of
night, whipping prominent Republican whites
and negroes to death. or shooting or hanging
fall upon the Republican colored voters that they
would keep away from the polls. and consequently
the white Democrats, undeterred by such intu-
ences, and tue contrary eager to take advantage
of them. would poll not only a full vote but ma
jority vote. on all questions, whether involving
the mere election of Democratic officials or other
Wise; and where intimidation of this any other
kind should fail, then a resort to be had to what
ever devices would be found necessary to make a
fraudulent count and return and thus secure a DEM
ocratc triumph and furthermore. hen evidences
OF these intmi datons ana frauds should he pres
entad to those people of the Union who believe in
every citizen of this free Republic having one free
vote. and that vote fairly counted, then TO langh
the complaints out of court with the cry that such
storios are not true; are campaign lies " devised
solely for political effect and are merely the pro-
duction OF Republican outrage mills ground ont
to order.
THIS plan was first thoroughly tried in Mississippi
and has hence been called the Mississippi PLAN
SO mayicay encctual was it, that with val iations
adapted to locality and circumstances this Mis-
sssippi plan" soon enveloped the entlrc South in
its mesh work Of fraud barbarity. and blood. Tic
massacres. and other ontrag 8. while methodicaI
were remittcnt. wave-Se. some times in one South
crn State. sometimes another and occurring IN
years of hot political conflict. until one after
another of those States had by these crimes, been
again brought under the absolute control of the old
rebel leaders.
Briefly touching on the attempt to buy the Presi-
lency in 1876, and upon the potency of tariff ag-
tation in securing Democratic defoat in $50, the
author mentions the result in 1884 il these words
At last after an exciting campaign. the Prcsiden-
tial election OF was held; and for the first time
since 1885 the old froe-trade Democracy of the |
south could rejoice over tho trIupmh of their |
Presidential candidate
Great was the JOY of the Solid South At last. its
crimes against personal freedom and |
political liberty would reap n generous harvest |
AZ last participation in rebellion would moro
ne regarded as blot on tho political escutchecn.
last, commensurate rewards for all the long
# dishonorable waiting, and of hard work in night
'ilngs and house burnngs, and Niger" whip |
langngs and ballot-box stufings and all the other
lreadful doings TO which these old leaders were
mpeiled by sense OF solid Southern patriotism.
md pride of race. and lust for power, would come.
and come in prOfusiOn.
Grand places in the Cabinet. and foreign missions |
or the Old rebels Of distinction, now chiefs of the
Solid Southern Conspiracy, and for those other
bile Northern Democrats who had helped them.
Turing or since the Rebellion: fat cOnsulates
broad for others of less degree pOst-oiiiccs with
ut stint for the lesser lights; all this. and more,
must now come. The long hidden light of glOri-
us day about to break
In the closing CHAPTER it is shown that the
;orthern people, because their State Govern
lents yet arc free, fail to see that a republican
orm of government has ceased to exist in part
the States; that there can be no Republic where
art of the people mold all the power and the rest
re kept in subsection by terrorism that all rights
yhich the Constitution intended to guarantee to
he people are and for years have been persis-
,ntly denied in certain States aud that the Con-
.ituton makes it the duty of Congress to guaran-
20 to every State republican form of govern
tent, which 1t has not done. The closing thoughts
lay best be wen in General Logans own words:
Were Abraham Lincoln able bodily to revisit the {
iel States tO-dly, how his keen gray eyes ,
ould open in amazemcnt. TO find that many legti-
ate fruits of Union victories had been hlched
ON us, that-save the honorable few who, !
,cepting the legitimate results of the War; were :
MI honestly striving for the success of principles
II |
sneral wellare-thcy who strove with all their ,
light to wreck the Government were now
trough the fraudulent and forcbe restriction d
voters in their right to yote-at the helm Of the c
ate; that those who sought to ruin the Nation l.
I'd thus wrongiully uourped it's. rule; that rec i
rade-aiter running amuck y of panic and
saster, from the birth of the Republic to the out
eak OF the Rebellion. with whose failure it should {
ituraly have eXpired-was now terminated and -
ood dcfantly threatening all the industries of
nd that all of his painstaking efforts ana those p
the band of devoted patriots who stood by him 4
free the Southern slaves, had mainly resulted 81
hiding from sight the replisiye chains of ~
forced servtudc. under the outward garb of G
cedom; that tho old Black codes had simply been Il
placed by enactmcnts adapted to the new con- +
tons that the old system Of African slavery had Il
erey been succeeded by the heartless and calling II
stem of African peOnaee; that the sacrifices n
adc by hlm-Including that Of his martyrdom - il
ld to 70 certain extent been made in vain that all e
e sacrifices the sorrows. the suiicrlngs of this al
alton, made in blood in tears and in vast expeld- n
are of time and treasure, had in some degree and +